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After 7 volumes comes Chilled R&B - The Very Best Of, perfectly bringing together the most popular laid back R&B tracks to create the definitive album. The 8th in the compilation series and following on from last year's Chilled R&B - The Gold Edition, this year's volume follows consecutive Top 5 albums, including 2013's No. 1 smash, that have collectively sold an impressive 500k copies in the UK. This triple album - housed in a stunning glittery metallic digipack, contains the biggest laid back R&B hits of all time. The new 57 track collection will be led by tracks that perfectly encapsulate this chilled vibe including huge hits from Justin Timberlake 'Cry Me A River', Beyoncé 'If I Were A Boy', and John Legend 'All Of Me'. Other massive tracks come from Emeli Sandé with 'Read All About It (Part III)', Alicia Keys 'Empire State Of Mind' Part II' and R. Kelly 'I Believe I Can Fly'. Plus classics from Michael Jackson with 'Man In The Mirror', Fugees 'Killing Me Softly', Boyz II Men 'I'll Make Love To You', 'So Amazing' from Luther Vandross and Whitney Houston's 'My Love Is Your Love'.

Hitting shelves across the UK on the 4th of August, NOW have once again come up with the goods with their new release, NOW That's What I Call Old Skool. Featuring 60 of the very best Hip Hop and R'n'B tracks from the 80's onwards, this is an essential buy for anyone who grew up in the age of Old Skool. From Biggie to the Beastie Boys, Fugees to LL Cool J, all the icons of an era-defining genre are here. It's the perfect compilation for the end of the summer, enough to persuade any 90's kid to dust off that boombox and crack out a snapback.

Wallen qui est l’anagramme de Nawell : née le 23 janvier 1978 à Saint-Denis de parents originaires d’Oujda au Maroc, elle grandit dans la banlieue de Bobigny. Avec huit enfants, la famille ne vit pas dans le luxe, mais malgré tout, les parents de Wallen leur inculquent de vraies valeurs et font tout ce qu’ils peuvent pour permettre à leurs enfants de concrétiser leurs rêves et de réussir dans la vie.

Caiti Baker, a vocalist and front woman raised on the sounds that birthed popular music, is now ready to release her new music onto the masses. Born into a household filled with vinyl, CDs and tapes of blues, soul, gospel, jazz, big band and rock & roll, Caiti’s father, a blues musician himself, made sure that she was raised amongst music. Whether it was playing on the stereo, in the car, at a concert or attending week long festivals – music was everywhere.

One could say that no quiet storm compilation lacking Minnie Riperton's "Inside My Love," Rick James and Teena Marie's "Fire and Desire," or Patti Austin and James Ingram's "Baby, Come to Me" is complete. But there's simply no way to make a definitive two-disc compilation of '70s and early-'80s R&B ballads. When it comes to being representative of the quiet storm format, however, this set from Hip-O hits just about all the right spots. It covers chart-toppers and cult favorites alike, with no song undeserving of inclusion. Like most of the other titles in the Gold series, it's put together thoughtfully – two classics written by Michael Henderson (Norman Connors' MH-fronted "You Are My Starship" and the Dramatics' "Be My Girl") are placed back-to-back, for instance, and there's a smooth transition from the material featuring full-band arrangements with strings to drum machines and synthesizers.

Clearly there are two standards for evaluating a hits collection such as "Ultimate Divas," which proclaims that it has assembled the greatest female vocalists of our time. The first and most important standard is whether or not these are indeed the greatest female vocalists that you could put together on one album (the second caveat seems to be that the singers are of child bearing age as of 1999, since the wunderkind of the bunch is either Toni Braxton or Mary J. Blige, but I am not looking up dates of birth). This album starts with Billie Holiday and ends with Aretha Franklin, it has Lena, Horne, Sarah Vaughn and Ella Fitzgerald, you get Tina Turner and Diana Ross, there is Annie Lennox and Toni Braxton, and you have Patti LaBelle and Whitney Houston and that still leaves four more.

While most of the compilation of Ministry of Sound move in the dance music area, the label always shows that it is also great in the R & B area. This time, we'll find tracks from Destiny's Child, Justin Timberlake, Chris Brown, Usher and Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston, Alicia Keys and many more. Since the Ministry of Sound R & B Mixtape is already on the market from January 2017, it is high time to look at the tracklist.