On top of this, Babyface wrote eight more Top 10 pop hits for himself as the artist. Here’s the video of Boyz II Men’s #1 hit “End of the Road,” which was Blige), “Sittin’ Up In My Room” (Brandy) and “Count on Me” (Whitney Houston & CeCe Winans).īesides the hit songs mentioned above, here’s a list of the other Top 10 pop hits that Babyface wrote or co-wrote for other artists: “Water Runs Dry” and “A Song for Mama” (Boyz II Men) “Another Sad Love Song,” “Breathe Again” and “You Mean The World To Me” (Toni Braxton) “Miracle” (Whitney Houston) “Don’t Be Cruel,” “Roni,” “Every Little Step,” “Rock Wit’cha,” “On Our Own,” “Humpin’ Around” and “Good Enough” (Bobby Brown) “The Way You Love Me,” “Superwoman” and “Secret Rendezvous” (Karyn White) “Baby-Baby-Baby” and “Diggin’ On You” (TLC) “Never Forget You” (Mariah Carey) “Girlfriend” and “Giving You the Benefit” (Pebbles) “Most Girls” (Pink) “Can We Talk” and “I’m Ready” (Tevin Campbell) “Rock Steady” (the Whispers) “The Lover In Me” (Sheena Easton) “My, My, My” (Johnny Gill) “Can’t Stop” and “Ready Or Not” (After 7) and “Last Night” (Az Yet). This album included the hits “Exhale (Shoop Shoop)” (Whitney Houston), “Not Gon’ Cry” (Mary J. For instance, in 1995 he wrote and produced all the songs on the multi-platinum soundtrack album, Waiting to Exhale. In addition, Babyface occasionally undertook major projects as the sole songwriter and producer. The duo dominated the pop & R&B charts, and were the worthy successors to such renowned, hit-making teams as Holland-Dozier-Holland, Kenny Gamble & Leon Huff, and Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis.
From the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s, he partnered with Antonio “L.A.” Reid to become the hit-making, writing/producing team L.A. Notably, Babyface was also the producer or co-producer of these hit songs. Here’s an excerpt of our interview with Babyface, who tells how he wrote his classic hit songs for Boyz II Men: “End of the Road” and “I’ll Make Love To You.”
Other #1 pop hits written by Babyface are “I’m Your Baby Tonight” and “Exhale (Shoop Shoop)” (Whitney Houston), “You’re Makin’ Me High” and “Let It Flow” (Toni Braxton) and “Take A Bow” (Madonna & Babyface). This includes two singles recorded by Boyz II Men which set chart records at the time-“End of the Road” was #1 for 13 consecutive weeks and “I’ll Make Love to You” was #1 for 14 consecutive weeks.
Of the hits that Babyface wrote or co-wrote, seven singles went to number one. He’s also written 16 additional songs that reached the Top 40 chart, for a total of 63 Top 40 hit singles. He is truly one of the giants of pop songwriting, having written a remarkable 47 Top 10 pop hit singles on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, that ranks him with the most celebrated songwriters in pop music history. Notwithstanding his success as an artist and producer, Babyface’s greatest achievement is probably his tremendous career as a songwriter.
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As an artist, he’s released 10 studio albums, three which have been certified multi-platinum, plus another platinum album and a gold album. He has won 11 Grammy Awards-four times for Producer of the Year, three times for Best R&B Song, and for Record of the Year, Album of the Year and Best R&B Album. Recently named by the Songwriters Hall of Fame as a new inductee, Kenneth “Babyface” Edmonds has had a legendary career as a songwriter, artist and producer.
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