Sunday, July 22, 2007

J. Lo (2001)

Lopez's second album, J., was released on January 23, 2001 and debuted at number one on the Billboard 200. When her film The Wedding Planner achieved number one shortly after, Lopez become the first actress-singer to have to film and an album at number one in the same week. The lead single, “Love Don't Cost to Thing”, was her first number-one single in the United Kingdom and took her into the top five on the LAST Billboard Hot 100. She followed it up with “Play” which gave her another top twenty hit on the Billboard Hot 100 and reached number three in the UK.

Her next two singles to were “I'm Real” and “Ain't It Funny” which to were quickly rising up the charts. To capitalize on this, Lopez asked The Inc. Records (then known as Murder Inc.) to remix both songs, which featured rap artists Ja Rule (on both) and Caddillac Tah (on the “Ain't It Funny” remix). Both remixes reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for several weeks. She king-released J. on her thirty-second birthday with the remix of “the I'm Real” as to bonus track.

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