The album continued its dominance on the chart. Again, it honored Usher being the first act to achieve the feat since 1964 with the Beatles' "I Want to Hold Your Hand" and "She Loves You".
"Yeah!" and "Burn" were 2004's top best-selling singles in the United States, placing at number one and two respectively on the Billboard Chart Year-Ender. With the three singles also, Usher became the first lead artist to simultaneously chart on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks chart during the Nielsen SoundScan/Broadcast Data Systems (BDS) era. "Burn" achieved only eight non-consecutive weeks on the Hot 100 after "Confessions Part II" topped the chart it became Usher's second time to replace own single at the top. Despite this, Usher became the first artist to top the Billboard Hot 100 Airplay with three consecutive number-one singles. As the album's third single, "Confessions Part II", was about to top the chart and Usher to join with English pop and rock group The Beatles as the only acts to achieve three consecutive number-one singles, American R&B singer Fantasia Barrino's debut single " I Believe" prevented it from happening. The first two released singles were competing on the Billboard Hot 100 the latter ended the twelve-week number-one chart run of the former, making Usher the second act to achieve such feat. With "Yeah!" propelling the album's debut atop the chart, "Burn", the second single off the album, facilitated Confessions's continuing dominance as well. Its early, and successive, progress on the chart was said to be partly sustained by its strong single releases and plenty of press appearances and promotions. Confessions also hit number-one on the Canadian Albums Chart and the US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums. The album debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200, becoming Usher's first number-one album. The success of the thirty-year old record label, however, was attributed to its merging with Zomba Records. The feat also carved history in Arista records having the first in any of their released albums to reach such sales. It also equates the combined first-week sales of his four previous album releases, including his live album called Live. It became the highest-ever first week sales by an R&B artist, the second-highest first week sales for a male artist, and the seventh-highest first week sales of the recorded album charts history by SoundScan.
I remember they used to play songs from this album to death 6 years ago and 2004 was definitly the year of usher, i think Confessions is truly an R&B masterpieceĬonfessions and yeah at MTv video Music awardsĬonfessions is the fourth studio album by American R&B singer-songwriter Usher, released Maon Arista-imprint label LaFace Records.Ĭonfessions was commercially successful, selling nearly 1.096 million copies in the United States in its first week of release.
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