Get Lifted

Get Lifted is the debut studio album of American singer John Legend, released via Kanye West's GOOD Music label on December 28, 2004 in the United States. Featuring production by West, John Legend, Dave Tozer and will.i.am, the album sold over three million units worldwide, with a total of 2.1 million copies in the U.S., where it was certified platinum. The album won the 2006 Grammy Award for Best R&B Album, and earned Legend another two awards, for Best New Artist and Best Male R&B Vocal Performance for his single "Ordinary People".

Background

John Legend’s has the first album released on Kanye West’s Label. Kanye West met John Legend in 2001 in New York City while Mr. Legend was attending the University of Pennsylvania. John Legend couldn’t have met Mr. West at a better time. Kanye just got in the production business with Jay-z. John Legend was in turn able to work with Jay-z and benefeited from Kanye’s first album “The College Dropout” being a major success. After John Legend’s “Get Lifted CD was initially rejected by major Label companies, Kanye West signed him and has been signed with G.O.O.D Music since 2004. 

Get Lifted (song)

"Get Lifted" is the second single released from Keith Murray's debut album, The Most Beautifullest Thing in This World. Like Murray's previous single, "Get Lifted" was prouduced and featuring backing vocals from Erick Sermon. It peaked at 71 on the Billboard 200 and 7 on the Hot Rap Singles. The song samples "I Get Lifted" by George McCrae which was used.

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Charts

I Get Lifted

"I Get Lifted" is a 1994 song recorded by the American singer Barbara Tucker, who co-wrote the single with "Little" Louie Vega, who produced the track. This was Tucker's second of seven number-one singles on the Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart, reaching the top spot on January 28, 1995. On the UK Chart, the single peaked at 33 in 1995.

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