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* ''[[Entertainment Weekly]]'' (B+)<ref>[http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,287701,00.html link]</ref>
* ''[[Entertainment Weekly]]'' (B+)<ref>[http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,287701,00.html link]</ref>
* ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' {{Rating|3.5|5}} 1997<ref>Hardy. Ernest. [http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/rkelly/albums/album/118763/review/5944651/share_my_world Review: ''Share My World'']. ''[[Rolling Stone]]''. Retrieved on 2010-04-15.</ref>
* ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' {{Rating|3.5|5}} 1997<ref>Hardy. Ernest. [http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/rkelly/albums/album/118763/review/5944651/share_my_world Review: ''Share My World'']. ''[[Rolling Stone]]''. Retrieved on 2010-04-15.</ref>
* ''Rolling Stone'' {{Rating|2|5}} 2004<ref>Hoard, Christian. "[http://books.google.com/books?id=lRgtYCC6OUwC&pg=PA83&dq= Review: ''Share My World'']". ''Rolling Stone'': 83. November 2, 2004.</ref>
* ''Rolling Stone'' {{Rating|4|5}} 2004<ref>Hoard, Christian. "[http://books.google.com/books?id=lRgtYCC6OUwC&pg=PA83&dq= Review: ''Share My World'']". ''Rolling Stone'': 83. November 2, 2004.</ref>
* ''[[USA Today]]'' {{Rating|3.5|4}}<ref>[http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/USAToday/access/11510283.html?dids=11510283:11510283&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Apr+22%2C+1997&author=Edna+Gundersen%3B+Steve+Jones%3B+David+Patrick+Stearns%3B+David+Zimmerman&pub=USA+TODAY&desc=Blige%2C+Strait+turn+out+sure-fire+hits&pqatl=google link]</ref>
* ''[[USA Today]]'' {{Rating|3.5|4}}<ref>[http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/USAToday/access/11510283.html?dids=11510283:11510283&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Apr+22%2C+1997&author=Edna+Gundersen%3B+Steve+Jones%3B+David+Patrick+Stearns%3B+David+Zimmerman&pub=USA+TODAY&desc=Blige%2C+Strait+turn+out+sure-fire+hits&pqatl=google link]</ref>
| Last album = ''[[My Life (Mary J. Blige album)|My Life]]'' <br />(1994)
| Last album = ''[[My Life (Mary J. Blige album)|My Life]]'' <br />(1994)

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Share My World is the third studio album by American recording artist Mary J. Blige. Released on April 22, 1997 (see 1997 in music), it became Blige’s first album to top the Billboard 200 the week of its release, selling 317,000 copies in its opening week, while remaining atop of the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart for four weeks. It was also Blige's first UK top 40 album, peaking inside the top ten. The album spawned six singles: "Not Gon' Cry", "Love Is All We Need," "I Can Love You," "Everything," "Missing You" and "Seven Days" ("I Can Love You" was only released in the U.S., whereas "Missing You" was only released in the UK).

The album earned Blige her third Grammy Award nomination, this time for Best R&B Album. Since its release, the album has received generally favorable reviews from music critics. And is considered to be one of her signature best-selling albums in her career, and released five singles that had attained moderate Billboard chart success.

Background

Overview

Share My World marked several personal and professional changes in Blige’s life and career. Following the departure of Andre Harrell the year before, Blige defected from Uptown Records in favour of its parent label MCA. Meanwhile, she severed professional ties with long-time producer and mentor Sean “Puff” Combs shortly before the production of Share My World began. His absence was filled with a bevy of high profile producers, such as: Rodney Jerkins, Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, Babyface, Bryce Wilson, and R. Kelly. The end result produced an album that was less entrenched in the Hip hop soul of her first two albums, and replaced with a style that was more aligned with Contemporary R&B.

During the making and run of the My Life album, Blige had reportedly experienced clinical depression, while also battling drug and alcohol addiction, and enduring an often turbulent relationship with K-Ci Hailey—all of which heavily influenced the dark mood of that album. In 1996, however, Blige reportedly made a concerted effort to clean up her life, and subsequently found herself in more positive frame of mind while recording Share My World, which influenced the albums noticeably lighter mood.

Awards and Accolades

In early 1998, Share My World won Blige an American Music Award for Favorite Soul/R&B Album, and a nomination for Favorite Female Soul/R&B Artist She also garnered a Grammy Award nomination for Best R&B Album a Soul Train Music Award nominations for ‘Best R&B/Soul Album,’ and won a Soul Train Lady of Soul Award for ‘R&B/Soul Album of the Year (Solo).’

Upon its initial release, the album contained a bonus disc at Best Buy stores reported to contain previously unreleased remixes.

Tracklisting

# Title Time
1. Intro
Writer(s): Poke, Tone, R. Nice
Producer(s): Poke, Tone, and Rich Nice		 1:21
2. “I Can Love You” (Featuring Lil’ Kim)
Writer(s): M. J. Blige, L. Blige-DaCosta, R. Jerkins, K. Jones, C. Brody, N. Myrick
Producer(s): Rodney Jerkins		 4:54
3. “Love Is All We Need” (Featuring Nas)
Writer(s): J. Harris, T. Lewis, M. Blige, R. James
Producer(s): Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis		 4:16
4. “Round and Round”
Writer(s): Poke, DJ Premier, S. Carter, M. Blige
Producer(s): Poke and Tone; Co-produced by George “Golden Fingers” Pearson		 4:27
5. Share My World (Interlude)
Producer(s): Poke, Tone, and Rich Nice		 0:32
6. “Share My World”
Writer(s): M. Blige, R. Jerkins
Producer(s): Rodney Jerkins		 4:49
7. “Seven Days” (featuring George Benson)
Writer(s): M. Pendleton
Producer(s): Malik Pendleton		 5:09
8. “It’s On” (Duet with R. Kelly)
Writer(s): R. Kelly
Producer(s): R. Kelly		 4:44
9. Thank You Lord (Interlude)
Writer(s): K. Price, R. Jerkins
Producer(s): Rodney Jerkins		 0:45
10. “Missing You”
Writer(s): Babyface
Producer(s): Babyface		 4:19
11. “Everything”
Writer(s): J. Harris and T. Lewis
Producer(s): Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis		 4:55
12. “Keep Your Head”
Writer(s): M. Blige, L. Blige-DaCosta
Producer(s): Poke, Tone, and George “Golden Fingers” Pearson		 3:51
13. “Can’t Get You Off My Mind” (featuring The LOX)
Writer(s): M. Blige, R. Jerkins, J. Phillips, S. Jacobs, D. Styles
Producer(s): Rodney Jerkins		 4:45
14. “Get to Know You Better”
Writer(s): B. Wilson
Producer(s): Bryce Wilson		 4:34
15. “Searching” (featuring Roy Ayers)
Writer(s): M. Blige, L. Blige-DaCosta, X. DaCosta, R. Jerkins, F. Jerkins, R. Ayers
Producer(s): Rodney Jerkins and Fred Jerkins		 4:52
16. “Our Love”
Writer(s): C. Jackson, M. Yancy
Producer(s): James Mtune		 5:22
17. “Not Gon’ Cry”
Writer(s): Babyface
Producer(s): Babyface		 4:54

Charts

Chart (1997) Peak
position
U.S. Billboard 200 1
U.S. Billboard Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums 1
Canadian Albums Chart 4[6]
German Albums Chart 37[7]

Personnel

  • Mary J. Blige - Executive Producer, Main Performer, Vocals (Background)
  • Steve Stoute - Executive Producer
  • Ivy Skoff - Production Coordination, Production Assistant
  • Herb Powers - Mastering[8]

Mixing

  • Angela Piva
  • Bob "Bassy" Brackmann
  • Dexter Simmons
  • Fred Jerkins III
  • Jon Gass
  • Ken Lewis
  • Malik Pendleton
  • R. Kelly
  • Richard Travali
  • Stephen George
  • Steve Hodge
  • Tizone
  • Tom Vercillo
  • Tony Maserati
  • Kyle Bess - Mixing Assistant
  • Xavier Smith - Mixing Assistant

Programming

  • Mr. Lee - Programming
  • Randy Walker - MIDI Programming
  • Stephen George - Programming

Vocals

  • LaTonya Blige-DaCosta - Vocals (Background)
  • Lil' Kim - Rap
  • LOX - Rap
  • Malik Pendleton - Vocal Arrangement, Vocals (Background)
  • Mary Brown - Vocals (Background)
  • Nas - Rap
  • R. Kelly - Vocals, Vocals (Background)
  • Rich Nice - Narrator
  • Rodney Jerkins - Rap
  • Shanice - Vocals (Background)

Instruments

  • Basil Fearrington - Bass
  • Darryl Brown - Bass
  • Nathan East - Bass
  • James Mussen - Drums
  • One Drop Scott - Drum Programming
  • Poke & Tone - Drum Programming
  • Rodney Jerkins - Drum Arrangements, Drum Programming, Multi Instruments
  • Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds - Drum Programming, Keyboards
  • Abdulhameed Zuhri - Guitar
  • Ed Moore - Guitar
  • George Benson - Guitar
  • Michael Jordan - Guitar
  • Michael "Dino" Campbell - Guitar
  • Mike Campbell - Guitar
  • Ed Tree Moore - Guitar
  • Mike Scott - Guitar
  • George R. Pearson - Keyboards
  • Josh Milan - Keyboards
  • James Mtume - Keyboards
  • Lafayette Carthon, Jr. - Keyboards
  • Bryce Wilson - Keyboards
  • Dunn Pearson, Jr. - Keyboards
  • Bruce Wilson Keyboards
  • Jimmy Jam - Multi Instruments
  • Terry Lewis - Multi Instruments
  • Malik Pendleton - Multi Instruments
  • R. Kelly - Multi Instruments
  • DJ Do It All - Scratching
  • Gene Bianco - String Arrangements, String Conductor
  • Roy Ayers - Vibraphone

Arrangers

  • Jimmy Jam
  • Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds
  • One Drop Scott
  • Poke & Tone
  • Rich Nice
  • Rodney Jerkins
  • Terry Lewis

Sequencing

  • Bilal Allah
  • David Radin
  • Steve Stoute

Engineers

  • Ben Garrison
  • Brad Gilderman
  • Chris Brickley
  • Dexter Simmons
  • Rick Behrens
  • Stephen George
  • Ken Lewis
  • Richard Travali
  • Tony Maserati
  • Steve Hodge
  • Tom Vercillo
  • Kyle Bess - Assistant Engineer
  • Ron Lowe - Assistant Engineer
  • Jeff Lane - Assistant Engineer
  • Appolon "Chap" Noel - Assistant Engineer
  • Trey Fratt - Assistant Engineer
  • Ed Tinley - Assistant Engineer
  • Greg Thompson - Assistant Engineer

References

  1. ^ link
  2. ^ link
  3. ^ Hardy. Ernest. Review: Share My World. Rolling Stone. Retrieved on 2010-04-15.
  4. ^ Hoard, Christian. "Review: Share My World". Rolling Stone: 83. November 2, 2004.
  5. ^ link
  6. ^ [1]
  7. ^ [2]
  8. ^ http://www.pmmastering.com
Preceded by Billboard 200 number-one album
May 10–16, 1997 		Succeeded by
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