Reception
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| Entertainment Weekly | A |
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| Rolling Stone | (favorable) |
| The Rolling Stone Album Guide | |
The album debuted at #1 in the Billboard 200 with 350,000 copies sold. It spent a total of five weeks at #1 and was the third best-selling album in 1995 in the United States and sold 12 million copies in the United States.
It did not make a huge impact in the UK, where it only made #17 on the UK Albums Chart. A Spanish language version, II: Yo Te Voy a Amar, was also issued. The album also won Best R&B Album at the 37th Grammy Awards.
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