Another Level (Blackstreet album)

Another Level is the second studio album by American R&B group Blackstreet. Released on September 10, 1996, it was the first album with new members Eric Williams and Mark Middleton. They joined the group after replacing departed members Dave Hollister and Levi Little. Another Level was also the first Blackstreet album released under Interscope Records' new distribution deal with MCA Music Entertainment, Inc. after the company was dropped by Time Warner several months before the release of the album.

Another Level was Blackstreet's most commercially successful album, reaching No. 3 on the Billboard 200 albums chart, and No. 1 on the Top R&B Albums chart for five weeks and selling over 4 million copies. It contains the group's biggest hit to date, the Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 single "No Diggity".

Despite Another Level being their most successful recording and the huge success of the single "No Diggity", member/producer Teddy Riley stated in a 2013 interview with BBC Radio 1Xtra host Ronnie Herel that the album did not have a signature song.

In 2023, the album track "Never Gonna Let You Go" appeared in the Sam Esmail film, Leave the World Behind.

Track listing

Sample credits

• "No Diggity" contains portions of "Grandma's Hands", written and performed by Bill Withers.
• "Fix" contains a portion of "The Message", written by Edward Fletcher, Melvin Glover, and Clifton Chase.
• "Good Lovin'" contains portions of "Say It Loud – I'm Black and I'm Proud", written by James Brown and Alfred Ellis, and performed by James Brown.
• "Don't Leave Me" contains a sample from "A Dream" written by Bunny DeBarge, and performed by DeBarge.
• "I Wanna Be Your Man" contains portions of "Float On", written by James Mitchell, Arnold Ingram, and Marvin Willis.
• "Can't Get You (Out of My Mind)" contains a sample from "Maracas Beach", written by James Simmons, and performed by Grover Washington Jr.
• "The Lord Is Real (Time Will Reveal)" contains elements from "Time Will Reveal", written by Bunny DeBarge and El DeBarge.

Personnel

Blackstreet

• Teddy Riley – vocals; arrangements, programming, and instruments ; mixing, executive producer
• Chauncey "Black" Hannibal – vocals, arrangements , executive producer
• Mark L. Middleton – vocals
• Eric "E" Williams – vocals; arrangements, programming, and instruments

Additional personnel

• Darryl Adams – additional vocals
• Karen Anderson – additional vocals
• Tony Brown – assistant engineer
• Shannon Cooper – additional vocals
• Beverly Crowder – rap , additional vocals
• Shaquanna Elam – additional vocals
• ELAN – additional vocals
• Lamenga Ford – additional vocals
• Serban Ghenea – engineer, mixing, instruments , strings engineer
• John Hanes – engineer, mixing
• Roosevelt "Bink" Harrell – programming
• Wesley Hogges – arrangements, programming, and instruments

• Jeremy Lubbock – string arrangements
• Julius McKelvey – assistant engineer
• George Meyers – engineer, mixing
• Charlie Paakkari – assistant strings engineer
• Frank "Nitty" Pimentel – arrangements and programming
• Herb Powers – mastering
• David Reitzas – strings engineer
• Tommy Sims – arrangements, programming, and instruments
• Tim Smith – assistant engineer
• William "Skylz" Stewart – arrangements, programming, and instruments
• Earl Thomas – assistant engineer
• Sprague Williams – arrangements, programming, and instruments , assistant engineer

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Certifications

See also

• List of number-one R&B albums of 1996 (U.S.)

References