EXCLUSIVE: Usher Reflects On “Confessions” at 5th Anniversary
It’s been five years since Usher released Confessions, so TheUrbanDaily asked the R&B heart-throb what his thoughts are about the benchmark album in hindsight.
“Confessions stands today to be one of my greatest pieces of work ever,” says Usher in retrospect. “It was a product of my environment and one of the most conflicted times in my life.”
The top-selling album of 2004 sold slightly less than 8 million CDs in its debut year which also made it the best-selling CD of the previous three years.
That’s pretty major.
To put that into perspective for you further, Confessions tops the 2003 champ, 50 Cent’s Get Rich or Die Tryin’ which sold 6.5 million copies and 2002’s top-selling The Eminem Show which moved 7.6 million units.
“I think Confessions connected on a massive level because of the music. People of all nationalities were open to hear, and could relate to the stories that I told on that album. At the time, the lines between Urban and Pop music started to really blur and my album made an impact in multiple genres of music. I’m grateful that the Confessions album is apart of the landscape that represents that movement.”
Confessions went on to sell over 10 million copies in the United States, and has been certified diamond in sales by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). It has also gone platinum and gold in over twenty other countries, and has sold nearly 20 million copies worldwide.
What is your favorite song from Confessions?
Ours is “Bad Girl.” Peep this classic performance featuring Beyonce cast as the ‘bad girl’–Go figure!
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Comments (5)
The whole cd was fire…but
he did come out of left field with “Yeah” and that song realted to most of us dancers at a time when every one was into that motionless dirty south crunk
Personally, I didn’t like “Here I Stand” Im a Usher’s biggest fan!!! I hope he can understand and accept critisism from someone who knows he can do it. I was very disappointed with it..There are only 5 tracks I like. That’s totally not Usher’s style. Confessions was the bomb! He needs to re-do his current album, go back in the lab and get back to where he was..Ppl are saying he ain’t got it no more but that’s not true. He never lost it, just gotta search for it..*wink
-Ya #1
I’M STILL WAITING FOR HIM TO CONFESS HE LIKES MEN
Hard to believe its been 5 long years…mine is “Bad Girl” also followed by “Truth Hurts” and “Seduction”…yeah the whole CD is classic though It was one of those CD’s that literally had a song(or 2) for every mood. R&B now a days just doesnt get any sweeter than that.
Gotta be ‘Throwback’ for me (followed by ‘Confessions Pt. II’ an ‘Follow Me’). Thing about that album is there really are no bad songs, you can pick any song and it stands as one of his best. I still pop this album on every few weeks, truly one of the great R&B albums of all time, start to finish.