Tag: TLC

Thursday, April 25, 2024: 4pm ET: Feature Artist: TLC

TLC is an American girl group formed in 1990 in Atlanta, Georgia. The group’s best-known line-up was composed of Tionne “T-Boz” Watkins, Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes, and Rozonda “Chilli” Thomas. The group enjoyed success during the 1990s, with nine top-ten hits on the Billboard Hot 100, including four number-one singles: “Creep”, “Waterfalls”, “No Scrubs”, and “Unpretty”. The group also recorded four multi-platinum albums, including CrazySexyCool (1994), which received a diamond certification from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). TLC became the first R&B group in history to receive the million certification from the Recording Industry Association of Japan (RIAJ) for FanMail (1999).

Having sold over 65 million records worldwide, TLC is the best-selling American girl group of all time. VH1 ranked TLC as the greatest female group, placing them at number 12 on the list of 100 Greatest Women in Music. Billboard magazine ranked TLC as one of the greatest musical trios,[8] as well as the seventh-most-successful act of the 1990s. The group’s accolades include four career Grammy Awards, five MTV Video Music Awards, and five Soul Train Music Awards.

Twenty years after their debut, TLC received the Outstanding Contribution to Music award at the 17th MOBO Awards and the Legend Award at the 2013 MTV Video Music Awards Japan. Following Lopes’ death in 2002, instead of replacing her, the remaining members chose to continue as a duo. In 2017, they released their eponymous fifth album TLC. In 2022, the group was inducted into the Black Music & Entertainment Walk of Fame.

Tionne “T-Boz” Watkins (1990–present) – primary lead vocals, dancing, background vocals
Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes (1990–2002; died 2002) – rapping, dancing, background vocals
Crystal Jones (1990–1991) – secondary lead vocals, dancing, background vocals
Rozonda “Chilli” Thomas (1991–present) – secondary lead vocals, dancing, background vocals

Wednesday, April 26, 2023 9pm ET: Feature LP: TLC – 3D (2002)

3D is the fourth studio album by American girl group TLC, released on October 10, 2002, by Arista Records. Recorded from May 2001 to July 2002, much of the album was finalized after the death of member Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes, with her unreleased material that she had recorded for her solo albums Supernova and N.I.N.A. being reworked into new songs. Remaining group members Rozonda Thomas and Tionne Watkins enlisted Dallas Austin, Babyface, Rodney Jerkins, the Neptunes, Raphael Saadiq, Missy Elliott and Timbaland to work with them on 3D.

The album debuted at number six on the US Billboard 200 and at number four on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart, selling 143,000 copies in its first week of release, and was met with positive reviews from critics. It has been certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). 3D earned TLC two Grammy Award nominations and spawned three singles, including “Girl Talk”, peaking at number 23 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart; “Hands Up”, which peaked at number seven on the Bubbling Under R&B/Hip-Hop Singles chart and “Damaged”, which managed to peak at number 19 on the US Mainstream Top 40 chart.

  1. “3D” (intro) 2:25
  2. “Quickie” 4:19
  3. “Girl Talk” 3:34
  4. “Turntable” 3:25
  5. “In Your Arms Tonight” 4:24
  6. “Over Me” 4:17
  7. “Hands Up” 3:48
  8. “Damaged” 3:51
  9. “Dirty Dirty” 3:40
  10. “So So Dumb” 4:05
  11. “Good Love” 4:12
  12. “Hey Hey Hey Hey” 4:05
  13. “Give It to Me While It’s Hot” 3:28

Dallas Austin – arrangements (tracks 1, 2, 8)
Rick Sheppard – MIDI, sound design (tracks 1, 8)
Chilli – background vocals (tracks 1–5, 7–13)
Tionne “T-Boz” Watkins – background vocals (tracks 1–5, 7–13)
Debra Killings – background vocals (tracks 1–4, 6–8, 10, 12, 13); bass (track 4)
Marde Johnson – additional vocals (track 1); background vocals (track 9)
Tierra Johnson – additional vocals (track 1)
Sharliss Asbury – additional vocals (track 1)
Jasper Cameron – additional vocals (track 1)
Cindy Pace – additional background vocals (track 2)
Eddie Hustle – all instruments (tracks 3, 11)
Rodney Jerkins – all music (tracks 4, 6, 12); drum overdubs (track 4); intro vocals (track 6); intro (track 12)
Tomi Martin – guitar (track 4)
Danny O’Donoghue – guitar (track 4)
Alex Greggs – drum overdubs (track 4)
Riprock n Alex G – digital programming (track 4)
Pharrell Williams – all instruments (track 5)
Chad Hugo – all instruments (track 5)
Tron Austin – intro vocals (track 6)
Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes – rap (track 6)
Babyface – all keyboards, drum programming, electric guitar, acoustic guitar (track 7)
Tavia Ivey – background vocals (track 7)
Tony Reyes – guitar (track 8)
Colin Wolfe – bass (track 8)
Sigurdur Birkis – drums (track 8)
Tom Knight – drums (track 8)
DJ Ruckus – scratches (track 8)
Missy Elliott – background vocals (track 9)
Chase Rollison – background vocals (track 9)
Lester Finnel – background vocals (track 9)
Bill Diggins – background vocals (track 9)
Mark Pitts – background vocals (track 9)
Shawn Beasley – background vocals (track 9)
Raphael Saadiq – guitar, bass (track 10)
Jake and the Phatman – drum programming (track 10)
Kelvin Wooten – keyboards (track 10)
Organized Noize – arrangements, drum programming, music programming (track 13)
Shorty B – bass (track 13)
Marqueze Ethridge – vocal arrangement (track 13)
Chanz Parkman – vocal arrangement (track 13)

Wednesday 3/10/21 1am ET: Feature LP: TLC – Fanmail (1999)

FanMail is the third studio album by American girl group TLC. It was released on February 23, 1999, by LaFace and Arista Records. The title of the album is a tribute to their fans who sent them fan mail during their hiatus. FanMail debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200, selling 318,000 copies in its first week of release, and spent five weeks at number one.

The album received eight nominations at the 42nd Annual Grammy Awards, including one for Album of the Year, winning three. It has been certified six-times platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), and has sold 10 million copies worldwide. FanMail is TLC’s second best-selling album after their 1994 studio album CrazySexyCool. To promote the album, TLC embarked on their first concert tour, the FanMail Tour. It was the group’s final album released in Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes’ lifetime before she died on April 25, 2002, as she was killed in a car crash prior to the release of their fourth studio album 3D (2002).

1. “FanMail” 3:59
2. “The Vic-E Interpretation – Interlude” 0:19
3. “Silly Ho” 4:15
4. “Whispering Playa – Interlude” 0:52
5. “No Scrubs” 3:34
6. “I’m Good at Being Bad” 5:39
7. “If They Knew” 4:04
8. “I Miss You So Much” 4:56
9. “Unpretty” 4:38
10. “My Life” 4:01
11. “Shout” 3:57
12. “Come On Down” 4:17
13. “Dear Lie” 5:10
14. “Communicate – Interlude” 0:51
15. “Lovesick” 3:52
16. “Automatic” 4:31
17. “Don’t Pull Out on Me Yet” 4:33

Dallas Austin – arrangements (tracks 1, 3, 7, 9, 11, 12, 15–17); gang vocals (tracks 3, 11)
T-Boz – background vocals (tracks 1, 11, 13, 16); gang vocals (track 3)
Chilli – background vocals (tracks 1, 5, 8, 11, 16)
Debra Killings – background vocals (tracks 1, 3, 5, 7–13, 15–17); bass (tracks 9, 12, 17)
Rick Sheppard – MIDI, sound design (tracks 1, 3, 9, 11, 15, 17)
Vic-E – speech (track 2); rap (track 3)
Leslie Brathwaite – gang vocals (tracks 3, 11)
Ty Hudson – gang vocals (tracks 3, 11)
Joi Gilliam – gang vocals (track 3)
Peach – gang vocals (track 3)
Sonji – gang vocals (track 3)
Carolyn Paige – gang vocals (track 3)
Kevin Wales – gang vocals (track 3)
“Big” Stan Smith – gang vocals (track 3)
Papi – playa (track 4)
Kandi Burruss – background vocals (track 5)
Tameka “Tiny” Cottle – background vocals (track 5)
She’kspere – MIDI, sound design (track 5)
Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis – arrangements, all other musical instruments (track 6)
Mike Scott – guitar (track 6)
Alex Richbourg – drum programming (track 6)
Jerry Lumpkins – additional keyboards (track 7)
Babyface – drum programming, acoustic guitar (tracks 8, 13); keyboards, electric guitar (track 13)
Greg Phillinganes – piano (track 8); Wurlitzer (track 13)
Michael Thompson – acoustic guitar (track 8); electric guitar (track 13)
C.C. Thomas – bass (track 8)
Necia Bray – background vocals (track 8)
Tomi Martin – guitar (tracks 9, 17)
Tom Knight – drums (track 9)
LaMarquis Jefferson – bass (track 10)
Marde Johnson – gang vocals (track 11)
Koko Watkins – gang vocals (track 11)
Solomon Jackson – gang vocals (track 11)
James Killings – guitar (track 12)
Nathan East – bass (track 13)
Paulinho da Costa – percussion (track 13)
Colin Wolfe – bass (track 15)
Melvin M. Jones – trumpet (track 17)
Gregory Hudspeth – saxophone (track 17)
Anthony Roberson – trombone (track 17)

Artist Countdown: TLC Top 20 Hits 6pm ET

TLCTLC is an American girl group whose repertoire spans R&B, hip hop, soul, funk and new jack swing. TLC originally comprised singer Tionne “T-Boz” Watkins, rapper Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes and singer Rozonda “Chilli” Thomas. The group was very successful in the 1990s and early 2000s in spite of numerous spats with the law, each other, and the group’s record label.

TLCs debut album, Ooooooohhh… On the TLC Tip, sold 6 million copies worldwide and spawned the hit singles “Ain’t 2 Proud 2 Beg”, “Baby-Baby-Baby” and “What About Your Friends”. This success was surpassed by their second album, CrazySexyCool, which was certified diamond by the RIAA — a first for a female group. Buoyed by the top 5 singles “Creep”, “Red Light Special”, “Diggin’ on You”, and ‘”Waterfalls”, it eventually sold 23 million copies worldwide.[4] Five years later, in 1999, the group released their third album FanMail which debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 album chart and sold more than 11 million copies worldwide with the hit singles “No Scrubs” and “Unpretty”. The subsequent tour became the highest grossing tour of all time by a female band. In 2002, Lopes died in a car accident in Honduras. Seven months later, T-Boz and Chilli released the group’s fourth album 3D, which sold 2 million copies worldwide, scored the Top 20 hit “Girl Talk”, and earned two Grammy Awards nominations. It featured previously unreleased vocals from Left Eye.

Billboard magazine ranked TLC as one of the greatest musical trios. Between 1990 and 2002, the band had ten top ten singles, four number one singles, four multi-platinum albums, and won five Grammy Awards. – Wikipedia

1 No Scrubs
2 Waterfalls
3 Unpretty
4 Creep
5 Dear Lie
6 Diggin’ on You
7 Girl Talk
8 Ain’t 2 Proud 2 Beg
9 Red Light Special
10 What About Your Friends
11 Baby-Baby-Baby
12 Hat 2 da Back
13 Get It Up
14 Damaged
15 Come Get Some (featuring Lil Jon & Sean Paul)
16 Hands Up
17 Turntable
18 Das Da Way We Like Em
19 Kick Your Game
20 My Life

RadioMax Top 70 Chart – November 11, 2012

1 3 MAROON 5
One More Night
17 1
2 2 ALEX CLARE
Too Close
24 1
3 1 FUN.
Some Nights
21 1
4 7 ADELE
Skyfall
6 3
5 8 PHILLIP PHILLIPS
Home
22 2
6 22 P!NK
Try
3 6
7 4 BRUNO MARS
Locked Out of Heaven
6 3
8 5 RIHANNA
Diamonds
7 5
9 18 TAYLOR SWIFT
We Are Never Getting Back Together
13 1
10 28 MUSE
Madness
12 10
11 9 ONEREPUBLIC
Feel Again
11 4
12 12 SCRIPT Featuring WILL.I.AM
Hall Of Fame
14 6
13 21 FLO RIDA
I Cry
9 13
14 6 KE$Ha
Die Young
7 6
15 11 KELLY CLARKSON
Catch My Breath
4 11
16 14 LUMINEERS
Ho Hey
30 14
17 20 MUMFORD & SONS
I Will Wait
11 11
18 24 ROLLING STONES
Doom and Gloom
5 18
19 13 ENRIQUE IGLESIAS Featuring SAMMY ADAMS
Finally Found You
11 12
20 23 NICKI MINAJ
Va Va Voom
3 20
21 63 BRIDGIT MENDLER            BIGGEST MOVE
Ready Or Not
2 21
22 56 CARLY RAE JEPSEN
This Kiss
4 22
23 16 ED SHEERAN
The A Team
32 11
24 25 PSY
Gangnam Style
6 13
25 17 IMAGINE DRAGONS
It’s Time
9 14
26 19 OWL CITY & CARLY RAE JEPSEN
Good Time
20 3
27 15 TRAIN
50 Ways To Say Goodbye
23 4
28 27 HUNTER HAYES
Wanted
20 27
29 41 LUKE BRYAN
Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye
5 27
30 10 ONE DIRECTION
Live While Your Young
5 10
31 43 ELLIE GOULDING
Anything Could Happen
8 31
32 26 P!NK
Blow Me (One Last Kiss)
19 1
33 66 ALICIA KEYS & NICKI MINAJ
Girl On Fire
2 33
34 30 FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE
Cruise
4 30
35 39 TAYLOR SWIFT
Begin Again
7 31
36 40 GREEN DAY
Let Yourself Go
5 36
37 29 ZAC BROWN BAND
Goodbye In Her Eyes
7 29
38 55 CARRIE UNDERWOOD
Blown Away
21 13
39 33 THREE DAYS GRACE
Chalk Outline
7 29
40 35 COSMIC MOTHER FUNK
Walkin’ Blues
10 26
41 34 MIRANDA LAMBERT
Fastest Girl In Town
21 17
42 38 USHER
Numb
7 24
43 46 KIP MOORE
Beer Money
5 35
44 50 KID ROCK
Let’s Ride
7 36
45 36 CHRISTINA AGUILERA
Your Body
8 11
46 51 DEMI LOVATO         MOST WEEKS ON CHART
Give Your Heart A Break
37 3
47 54 OF MONSTERS AND MEN
Little Talks
18 30
48 45 JASON MRAZ
93 Million Miles
4 45
49 49 GARY CLARK JR.
Ain’t Messin’ ‘Round
3 49
50 68 GRACE POTTER AND THE NOCTURNALS
Stars
2 50
51 42 HEDLEY
Kiss You Inside Out
15 8
52 47 DARIUS RUCKER
True Believers
11 31
53 31 EASTON CORBIN
Lovin’ You Is Fun
5 31
54 37 NEON TREES
Everybody Talks
33 1
55 32 TRISTAN PRETTYMAN
My Oh My
9 12
56 60 DRAGONETTE
Live In This City
3 56
57 48 MATCHBOX TWENTY
Overjoyed
3 48
58 61 FAITH HILL
American Heart
3 58
59 64 GROUPLOVE
Itchin’ On A Photograph
2 59
60 65 FUN.
Carry On
2 60
61 70 READY SET
Give Me Your Hand
2 61
62 N LEE BRICE
Hard To Love
1 62
63 N NO DOUBT
Looking Hot
1 63
64 N KELLY CLARKSON Feat VINCE GILL
Don’t Rush
1 64
65 N AEROSMITH
Out Go The Lights
1 65
66 N LIFEHOUSE Feat NATASHA BEDINGFIELD
Between The Raindrops
1 66
67 N BAND PERRY
Better Dig Two
1 67
68 N 3 DOORS DOWN
One Light
1 68
69 N BRAD PAISLEY
Southern Comfort Zone
1 69
70 N KENDRICK LAMAR
Swimming Pools (Drank)
1 70