NEW YORK (Island Def Jam
Music Group) - IDJ on Winning Streak - Beanie Sigel's THE B. COMING Debuts at No 3, The Killers' HOT FUSS Goes to No 11, THE BRAVERY Debuts at No 18 with 34,000 Sales, And
Thrice Long-Form DVD/CD Ships RIAA Gold
- 112 Single, "U Already Know" Streaks Inside Top 20 on Urban Chart and R&B/Hip-Hop Monitor, as Video is Most Requested on 106th & Park
Island Def Jam/Def Soul recording group 112's eagerly-anticipated fifth album, PLEASURE & PAIN, explodes onto the Billboard 200 albums chart at No 4, and hits the Top R&B/Hip-Hop chart at No 3, with 117,347 units sold.
With the long-awaited third album by Beanie Sigel, THE B. COMING, debuting this week on the Billboard 200 albums chart at No 3 and on the R&B chart at No 2 (with 130,714 units scanned), and The Killers' RIAA platinum HOT FUSS holding strong at No 11 in its 42nd week on the Billboard 200 - the Island Def Jam Music Group is working on its hottest streak of 2005. This all coupled with impressive first week Soundscans for the self-titled debut album by The Bravery (34,000 units) and the first long-form DVD/CD 2-disc set from Thrice, If We Could Only See Us Now (16,000 units for the package, which shipped RIAA gold).
PLEASURE & PAIN arrives on the wings of "U Already Know," this year's hottest blue-light-in-the-basement hit, co-written by 112 and co-produced by Sean Garrett and Focus. The song rises to No 16-bullet on R&R's Urban chart and No 17-bullet on Billboard's R&B/Hip-Hop Monitor; and also jumps to No 37-bullet on the R&R Rhythmic chart. The video, after 18 plays on BET last week, is the Most Requested clip on 106 & Park.
"Today, there is so much negativity in music," says 112's Mike Keith. "People are talking about killing, violence and pain; with all of that in the world, 112 is still all about love."
The follow up to Hot & Wet, 112's Def Soul debut of 2003, PLEASURE & PAIN features guest appearances by Jermaine Dupri (on "The Way," which he co-produced and co-wrote); T.I. ("If I Hit," produced by Mario Winans), and Three 6 Mafia ("Closing The Club"). In addition to Dupri (who also worked on "Nowhere") and Winans (who also worked on "Last To Know"), other guest producer/writers include the Trackboys ("My Mistakes"), Ken 'K-Fam' Fambro ("Why Can't We Get Along"), and the team of Warryn 'Baby Dubb' Campbell and Harold Lilly ("That's How Close We Are"). The bulk of the album's 15 tracks were co-written and produced by 112's Daron Jones ("Intro," "Let This Go," "Damn," "I'm Sorry," "We Goin' Be Alright," "What the Hell Do You Want," and "God Knows."
"The main thing was to get our focus back," Daron says of 112's triumphant new album. "The four of us got together and you could feel our competitive edge coming back. 112 is not like any other R&B group, and we shed blood, sweat and tears making PLEASURE & PAIN to prove it."
