Love & Life (Mary J. Blige Album)

Love & Life (Mary J. Blige Album)

Love & Life is the sixth studio album by American R&B singer-songwriter Mary J. Blige, released on August 26, 2003 by Geffen Records. This album marks the first collaboration with former one-time producer Sean "Diddy" Combs since he produced her groundbreaking debut, What's the 411? (1992) and her critically acclaimed second album My Life (1994), which both went on to sell more than three million copies worldwide, going 3x Plantium by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). The album received mixed to positive reviews from most music critics, feeling that Blige and Combs failed to recreate the "magic" and the essence that was shown in her first and second album.

However, the album was commercially successful worldwide. It became Blige's second number-one album on the US Billboard 200, selling 285,298 copies in its first week sales. The album also debuted in the top ten on the charts in countries such as Canada, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, with similar charting in France and Germany, where it charted in top twenty. It also opened at the top spot on the R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart respectively, making this Blige's sixth album to top the latter chart. The album earned Blige two Grammy nominations at the 46th Grammy Awards for Best Contemporary R&B Album and Best Female R&B Vocal Performance for "Ooh!". The album was eventually certified Platinum by the RIAA for shipping one million copies, and more than two million copies worldwide.

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