“Dilemma” is formally the most important streaming hit of Nelly’s profession. The 2002 R&B ballad has joined the Spotify Billions Membership, changing into the St. Louis hit-maker’s first track to document 1 billion streams on the platform. “Dilemma” matches Nelly with Kelly Rowland, who additionally joins the Billions Membership for the primary time, both as a solo artist or a member of Future’s Baby.
Launched because the second single from Nelly’s blockbuster album Nellyville, “Dilemma” spent 10 nonconsecutive weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Sizzling 100, changing the album’s earlier single “Hot In Herre” on the prime of the chart. Nelly wrote the track with producers Ryan Bowser and Antoine “Bam” Macon, who constructed the beat from a pattern of Patti LaBelle’s 1983 hit “Love, Need and Want You.” “Dilemma” additionally appeared on Rowland’s solo album Merely Deep.
Nellyville discovered Nelly on the prime of the music trade. The album offered 715,000 items in its first week, debuting at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart, the place it finally spent 4 weeks. It’s now licensed six occasions Platinum by the Recording Trade Affiliation of America. “Dilemma” was a significant driver for the album’s recognition. Along with its large chart success, the track was nominated for File of the Yr on the forty fifth Annual Grammy Awards and received the award for Greatest Rap/Sung Efficiency. It was the final track added to the album, simply days earlier than CDs went into manufacturing.
As evidenced by the billion Spotify streams, “Dilemma” has stood the take a look at of time. Vice critic Ryan Bassil as soon as referred to as it “the best R&B duet of the modern age.” The track’s hit music video—which options Nelly and Rowland as neighbors drawn to a bootleg romance, mirroring the lyrical narrative—has additionally endured in popular culture.
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