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American recording artist Brandy Norwood, known mononymously as Brandy, entered the music business as a backing vocalist for R&B boy bands such as Immature, prior to launching her own career in 1994. Her discography, as a solo artist, includes six studio albums, one compilation album, one extended play, twenty-seven singles, twenty-eight album appearances and eighteen soundtrack appearances. Norwood has sold over 8.62 million albums in the United States, and more than 30 million records worldwide. Additionally, she has won over 100 awards as a recording artist. In 1999, ''Billboard'' ranked Norwood among the top twenty of the Top Pop Artists of the 1990s. Originally signed to Atlantic Records, Norwood's self-titled debut album, a collection of street-oriented R&B with a hip-hop edge, was released in September 1994, and sold over six million copies worldwide. It produced the three top ten singles "I Wanna Be Down", "Baby" and "Brokenhearted", of which two reached the top of the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart and were certified gold and platinum, respectively. A fourth single released from the album, "Best Friend", became another top ten hit on the US R&B chart. The following year, Norwood contributed songs to the soundtracks of the films ''Batman Forever'' (1995) and ''Waiting to Exhale'' (1995), with the single "Sittin' Up in My Room" becoming another top ten success in the US and first top thirty entry in the United Kingdom. In 1996, she collaborated with Tamia, Chaka Khan and Gladys Knight on the single "Missing You", released from the ''Set It Off'' soundtrack, which became her major success in New Zealand, reaching number two. Norwood's second album ''Never Say Never'' was released in 1998 and achieved international chart success, establishing her as one of the most successful of the new breed of R&B female vocalists to emerge during the mid-to late 1990s. It included the number-one singles "The Boy Is Mine", a duet with Monica, and "Have You Ever?". The album was certified five times platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), and sold more than 16 million copies worldwide, becoming Norwood's best-selling album to date. Her third studio album ''Full Moon'' was released in 2002 and was certified platinum by the RIAA. It spawned the top ten hit "What About Us?", alongside two other singles. Norwood's fourth studio album ''Afrodisiac'' was released in 2004 and was certified gold. The album failed to achieve success on international music markets. Following another hiatus and a label shift to Epic Records, her fifth studio album ''Human'' was released in December 2008. The album spawned two singles "Right Here (Departed)" and "Long Distance", of which both reached the top of the ''Billboard'' Hot Dance Club Play chart. Norwood's sixth album ''Two Eleven'' was released in October 2012 and debuted at number three on the US ''Billboard'' 200, and number one on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. Its lead single, "Put It Down", featuring Chris Brown and peaked reacher number three of the US Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart, becoming Norwood's tenth top 10 single on the chart and her first in a decade. A second single, "Wildest Dreams", was released in August 2012. ==Albums== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Brandy discography」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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