"We Need a Resolution" ft. Timbaland (2001) Aaliyah
Hot 100 peak: #59
Overall score: 8.97 High score: 10 (7x)/Low score: 3 (1x)
Produced by Timbaland, this sultry trip-hop track, which incorporates a clarinet sample from the score to the 1998 film Incognito, served as the lead single to Aaliyah's self-titled final studio album. Given that it absolutely tanked on the charts, it is perhaps the most surprising entry in the top ten of our countdown. But voters were quite ardent in their response to the song, giving "We Need a Resolution" seven 10's and an additional eight scores in the 9 range. In fact, if not for that 3, it actually would have been a challenger for the top three of this rate.
Actually, considering how much ATRL loves to vote for the biggest hits in these rates, I would say that placing in the top ten was a huge victory for "We Need a Resolution."
"We Need a Resolution" ft. Timbaland (2001) Aaliyah
Hot 100 peak: #59
Overall score: 8.97 High score: 10 (7x)/Low score: 3 (1x)
Produced by Timbaland, this sultry trip-hop track, which incorporates a clarinet sample from the score to the 1998 film Incognito, served as the lead single to Aaliyah's self-titled final studio album. Given that it absolutely tanked on the charts, it is perhaps the most surprising entry in the top ten of our countdown. But voters were quite ardent in their response to the song, giving "We Need a Resolution" seven 10's and an additional eight scores in the 9 range. In fact, if not for that 3, it actually would have been a challenger for the top three of this rate.
Apparently, last October, NME included "We Need a Resolution" at #115 on their list of the 150 Best Tracks of the Past 15 Years. A surprising choice, but much deserved. Even a decade later, WNAR is still on another level.
"Sittin' Up in My Room" (1996) Waiting to Exhale soundtrack
Hot 100 peak: #2
Overall score: 8.97 High score: 10 (10x)/Low score: 5 (1x)
Playing with a slowed-down version of the bass riff from Sly & the Family Stone's #1 hit "Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Again)," this Babyface track was the second of seven singles released from the massive soundtrack for Waiting to Exhale. Brandy's most successful song to that point, it peaked at #2 on both the Hot 100, where it was blocked by Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men's "One Sweet Day," and the R&B chart, where Mary J. Blige's "Not Gon' Cry" (another Exhale single) kept it from the top spot. On this countdown, it was kept from the top by three 7's and a 5, which dragged down the spectacular ten 10's that it earned from voters.
First y'all vote out Brokenhearted then THIS!!!!??
This is an atrocity
#6 is an impressive placement for any song, don't you think? I feel like once you're up this high, it's a little difficult to complain about the exact placement of things (unless, of course, some utter trash somehow makes it through).