NEW YORK, NY. (Top40 Charts/ Geffen Records) - R&B sensation Keyshia Cole's sophomore CD, Just Like You (Imani/Geffen Records) is the 2nd best-selling CD in the nation debuting at No 2 on the "Billboard 200" chart and is the No 1 R&B CD in the country on Billboard's "Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums" chart selling close to 300 thousand copies in its first week of release. The CD is executive produced by Keyshia Cole, her manager Manny Halley, and Geffen Chairman Ron Fair.
Just Like You makes for the best sales week of Keyshia Cole's career following her 2005 debut album The Way It Is which sold over 1.5 million copies.
Just Like You includes her No 1 single "Let It Go" produced by Missy Elliot and featuring Missy and Lil' Kim. Keyshia recently shot the video for her second single "Shoulda Let You Go," introducing Amina, her new artist on Imani Entertainment, the label she co-owns with her manager Manny Halley which is distributed by Geffen Records.
Just Like You has received rave reviews in the press. Here is what some outlets have to say:
"['Just Like You'] is a well sung album. Ms. Cole may be incapable of making any other kind."
- The New York Times
"Keyshia Cole seems to have her [stuff] together. [Just Like You] is a work of engaging pop-wise R&B."
- Rolling Stone
"Call Ms. Cole a triple threat. Her voice has the flexible range of pop, the muscular punch of soul, and the hard character of Hip-Hop."
- New York Daily News
"Between signing a record deal at 21, and this, her second CD, the rugged-but righteous soprano, whose silken voice never lost its feel for the real, conquers the R&B/Hip-Hop world."
- Philadelphia Inquirer
"With a voice like raw honey, R&B singer Keyshia Cole taps the pain of her past to script songs that are beautiful, honest and unflinching."
- Essence
Season 2 of her highly-watched reality series on BET, "The Way It Is" (which Cole and Halley executive produced) begins airing on October 30th. She will also make her movie debut in the upcoming MTV film "How She Moves" due to be released in 2008.
Keyshia, who is currently on the cover of the October issue of Essence magazine, headlined her own 20-city House of Blues tour in the summer, and she performed the National Anthem at the kickoff of the 2007 NFL season as the Super Bowl champion Indianapolis Colts hosted the New Orleans Saints on September 6th.
The Oakland native established herself as a fan and critic favorite with one of the biggest hits of 2005, "I Should Have Cheated," followed by one of the most played songs of 2006, "Love" - both from The Way It Is. Keyshia earned the Vibe Next Award and a 2007 ASCAP Award for R&B/Hip-Hop Song for "Love." She also received numerous nominations at the BET Awards, Soul Train Music Awards, American Music Awards, NAACP Image Awards, and Teen Choice Awards. She recently made history as she became the first female ever to land three consecutive number one chart positions on the 14-year-old Nielsen BDS-based urban chart: "Let It Go," and hits from her first CD, "I Should Have Cheated," and "Love."
