Kenny Lattimore has scored his second No. 1 single on Billboard’s Grownup R&B Airplay chart with “Take A Dose.”
Based on Billboard, the Grownup R&B Airplay chart is the “hottest songs by radio airplay detections as compiled by Luminate.”
Lattimore topped the Grownup R&B Airplay chart with “For You” greater than 25 years in the past. The Grammy-nominated tune, lifted from his self-titled debut album, reigned for 17 weeks.
“It was an genuine love tune,” Lattimore instructed Rated R&B of “For You” final February in honor of its twenty fifth anniversary.
Circling again to “Take A Dose,” the tune is just not solely No. 1 on Billboard this week but in addition tops R&B radio, in keeping with Mediabase.
“It’s been an unimaginable begin to the yr. My spouse, Religion, and I simply welcomed a child lady two weeks in the past, and now I’ve one other #1 tune,” Lattimore solely tells Rated R&B.
“I keep in mind when ‘For You’ was #1 for ten consecutive weeks and the way validating that felt. Now, after a profession spanning 25 plus years, to be again at #1, I’m really grateful. My album title really spoke fact to energy – I’m right here to remain.”
“Take A Dose” is the primary tune to chart on Billboard’s Grownup R&B Airplay chart from Lattimore’s tenth studio album, Right here To Keep, which arrived in late 2021.
The tune was co-produced by Lee Main and Dra-Kar “Madicin” Wesley. Lattimore lauded the latter as a “nice author and producer” in a Rated R&B interview final winter.
Right here To Keep surfaced after a number of pre-release singles, “Strain,” “Solely Lady” and “Lose You.”
“I hope folks uncover it or take away that love is right here to remain,” Lattimore instructed Rated R&B concerning the album. “I hope folks get this ardour that I’ve for singing a love tune, they usually say, ‘You realize what? This man is basically dedicated to this as a result of it’s genuine. It’s actual for him.’”
By way of new music, Lattimore plans to launch an album impressed by Frank Sinatra and Nat King Cole. That exact ardour venture was going to return forward of Right here To Keep; nonetheless, conversations with Wesley satisfied him to go in one other artistic route.
On a private notice, as Lattimore talked about above, he and his spouse, Choose Religion Jenkins, welcomed their first little one collectively, daughter Skylar Leigh Lattimore, in January.
“Welcome to the world Skylar Leigh Lattimore! Our candy, stunning child lady arrived final week and mother and child are doing effectively! I marvel at your power and resilience and am so comfortable our daughter has you as her guiding mild in life,” Lattimore wrote on Jan. 23.
Lattimore and Jenkins first introduced they have been increasing their household in August 2022.
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