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Article: Sex drives R. Kelly to the top of the charts. (Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
- Article date:
- May 25, 1994
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R. Kelly will be the first one to acknowledge that sex sells.
The multifaceted musician from Chicago has spent the year riding the charts with come-hither hits such as ``Sex Me'' and the No. 1 ``Bump N' Grind.'' The latter is still in the Billboard Top 5, and it set a 12-week record for longest consecutive run at No. 1 on the R&B charts.
Kelly's album, ``12 Play,'' has sold 2.6 million copies and has been in the top 10 of Billboard's album charts for almost five months.
So Kelly has done well by sex; it's made him the hottest R&B artist of the year so far. ``I always wanted to do sexual songs dealing with a number; `12 Play' is a notch up from foreplay, right? Once ...
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