Jody Watley Instagram – 🎉🎶 Happy 35th!! 🔥💛🎶💃🏾Reposting from @the_rnb_talk_show • “Larger Than Life” 35th – March 27 1989 , Grammy Award Icon @jodywatley 2nd album. “Real Love” – The single reached the number-one spot on the US Billboard Hot Black Singles and Dance Club Play charts. On the US Billboard Hot 100, “Real Love” peaked at number two for two weeks in May 1989 and The song was also nominated for a Soul Train Music Award for Best Female Single. “Real Love” – The music video premiered in March 1989. During mid-1989, Watley’s “Real Love” video, directed by David Fincher, was nominated for six MTV Video Music Awards including Breakthrough Video, Best Art Direction, Best Dance Video, and Best Female Video at the 1989 award show. “Friends” – like her previous single “Real Love”, became a multi-format top-10 smash, reaching the top ten of the pop, R&B and dance charts in the U.S., as well as being her biggest single in the UK since her debut, “Looking for a New Love”. The song was one of the first ever to feature a rap artist (Eric B. & Rakim) and a singer.appeared in the Top 10, peaking at number nine for one week on the Billboard Hot 100. It peaked at number three on the Hot Black Singles chart and number seven on the Hot Dance Club Play chart. “Everything” was the third consecutive top-ten Pop and R&B single from that album in the U.S., peaking at #4 and #3, respectively. The ballad “Everything” debuted on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 singles chart at #92 the week of October 14, 1989, and advanced to its peak position of #4 the week of January 20, 1990, where it remained for two weeks. Overall, the single spent ten weeks in the Top 20 of the chart. “Precious Love” is the fourth and the final single from Jody Watley’s second album, Larger Than Life. the hit single had success on the billboard hot r&b charts land at number #51 . Following the success of her Billboard chart hit pop singles, “Real Love” and “Friends”, Watley embarked on her first USA solo tour, the Larger than Life Tour to support the platinum selling album. #jodywatley #largerthanlife #rnbmusic #dancepop #newjackswing #contemporaryrnb #quietstorm #hiphop #legacy #mcarecords #thernbtalkshow