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| Love Inc. | |
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| Origin | Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Genres | Eurodance, House |
| Years active | 1997–2000 |
| Past members | |
| Chris Sheppard Brad Daymond Simone Denny |
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Love Inc. was Canadian Eurodance act from Toronto, Ontario. The group was formed by DJ/remixer/producers Chris Sheppard and Brad Daymond, with Simone Denny on vocals. The Sheppard and Denny combination previously worked together in the Quality Records dance outfit BKS, an acronym using the surname initials of Zambian born Hennie Bekker, Greg Kavanagh and Sheppard. At that time, Daymond was an emerging remixer/writer who had worked with The Nylons.
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[edit] Musical career
The group scored its first major hit on the Canadian pop chart with "Broken Bones", the music video for which won the Best Video award at the 1998 MuchMusic Video Awards.[1] "Broken Bones" peaked at number 6 in 1998 and was followed that same year by "You're a Superstar", which peaked at number 11. "You're a Superstar" also became the band's only hit in the United States, where it peaked at number 33 on the Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart in 1999. The singles "Who Do You Love" and "Homeless" followed in 1999.
In 1999, Daymond left the group to pursue a successful remix and production career with Alex Greggs as "Riprock & Alex G". After Love Inc.'s self-titled album was released, Sheppard and Denny continued as a duo and in 2000 released Into the Night, which included the title track, "Come On (It's Only Love)" and "Here Comes the Sunshine". It would also be their last album. Five singles in total reached the # 1 position on the Canadian Dance Charts published by the now-defunct publications The Record and RPM Magazine.
The group's debut album remains the only dance album created domestically in Canada to achieve platinum certification (sales over 100,000 units).
Aside the aforementioned Alex Greggs (who with Daymond moved on to work with 'nsync and others), Love Inc. were also aided by Frankfurt-based pop dance genius Peter Ries, who co-produced both albums with the band. Other participants included composer Vincent Degiorgio and Germany's Doug Laurent and award winning songwriter/artist Dan Hill.
A few years after their break up, they would achieve success overseas when "You're a Superstar" and "Broken Bones" became hits in the UK and Ireland. "You're a Superstar" spent four weeks at number 7 in the UK Singles Chart in December 2002, and "Broken Bones" reached number 8 in May 2003.[2] "Do Ya (Feel The Love)", co-written with Ms. Denny, was also featured on the initial Queer As Folk soundtrack, released on RCA Victor worldwide. You're a Superstar was featured on the Christmas special series finale of The Office as music in the background.
In 2003, Denny provided the vocals for Widelife's track "All Things (Just Keep Getting Better)", the theme from Queer Eye For The Straight Guy.[3][4]
[edit] Discography
[edit] Studio albums
| Title | Details | Peak chart positions | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CAN [5][6] |
Certifications | |||||||||||||
| Love Inc. |
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33 | ||||||||||||
| Into the Night |
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46 | ||||||||||||
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart | ||||||||||||||
[edit] Singles
| Year | Single | Peak chart positions | Album | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CAN [8][9][10][11][12] |
CAN Dance [13] |
NED [14] |
UK [2] |
U.S. Dance [15] |
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| 1997 | "Broken Bones" | 31 | 1 | — | 8 | — | Love Inc. | |||||||
| 1998 | "You're a Superstar" | 13 | 1 | 48 | 7 | 22 | ||||||||
| "Homeless" | 21 | 1 | — | — | — | |||||||||
| 1999 | "Who Do U Love" | 18 | 1 | — | — | — | ||||||||
| 2000 | "Come On (It's Only Love)" | — | — | — | — | — | Into the Night | |||||||
| "Here Comes the Sunshine" | 14 | 1 | — | — | — | |||||||||
| "Into the Night" | — | — | — | 39 | — | |||||||||
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart | ||||||||||||||
[edit] References
- ^ "Best Video Winners 1991-2003". MuchMusic. http://www.muchmusic.com/events/mmva04/rewind/bestvideo/. Retrieved 2010-05-21.
- ^ a b Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19th ed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. p. 331. ISBN 1-904994-10-5.
- ^ "Queer Eye For The Straight Guy Goes Into The Record Business". Chart. 25 November 2003. http://www.chartattack.com/news/35046/queer-eye-for-the-straight-guy-goes-into-the-record-business. Retrieved 2008-11-22.
- ^ "Duran Duran Debut New Song On Queer Eye Soundtrack". Chart. 14 January 2004. http://www.chartattack.com/news/35333/duran-duran-debut-new-song-on-queer-eye-soundtrack. Retrieved 2008-11-22.
- ^ Canadian peak position (1998)
- ^ Canadian peak position (2000)
- ^ Canada Platinum certification
- ^ Canada Top Singles peak for "Broken Bones"
- ^ Canada Top Singles peak for "You're a Superstar"
- ^ Canada Top Singles peak for "Homeless"
- ^ Canada Top Singles peak for "Who Do U Love"
- ^ Canada Top Singles peak for "Here Comes the Sunshine"
- ^ Canada Dance peaks
- ^ Intl. peaks Lescharts.com (Retrieved February 10, 2008)
- ^ "allmusic ((( Love Inc. > Charts & Awards > Billboard Singles )))". Allmusic. http://www.allmusic.com/artist/p173645/charts-awards/billboard-singles. Retrieved 27 July 2009.
