Alicia Keys: Un-Thinkable (I'm Ready) No.1 on Billboard
"Un-Thinkable (I'm Ready)" from Alicia Keys become No.1 Billboard R&B/ Hip-Hop Song of this week (Week of June 05, 2010).
Alicia Keys was raised by a single mother in the Hell's Kitchen area of Manhattan in New York City. At age seven, Keys began to play classical music on the piano. Alicia Keys attended Professional Performing Arts School and graduated at 16 as valedictorian. Alicia Keys later attended Columbia University before dropping out to pursue her music career. Keys released her debut album with J Records, having had previous record deals first with Columbia and then Arista Records.
Alicia Keys released her fourth studio album, The Element of Freedom, in December 2009. It debuted at number two on the Billboard 200, selling 417,000 copies in its first week. As part of the promotional drive for the album, she performed at the Cayman Island Jazz Festival on December 5, the final night of the three day festival which will be broadcast on Black Entertainment Television (BET).
The album's lead single, "Doesn't Mean Anything", has peaked at number 60 on the Billboard Hot 100. Keys was ranked as the top R&B recording artist of the 2000–2009 decade by Billboard magazine and ranked at number five as artist of the decade, while her song, "No One", was ranked at number six on the magazine's songs of the decade. In the United Kingdom, The Element of Freedom became Keys' first album to top the UK Albums Chart. A representative of Keys and Swizz Beatz confirmed that the couple were engaged and expecting a child together. "Un-Thinkable (I'm Ready)" is a single on "The Element of Freedom" album.
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