Angie Stone has reached a new milestone on multiple Billboard charts following her death on March 1.
Her debut solo single, “No More Rain (In This Cloud),” has stormed to No. 1 on the R&B Digital Song Sales chart. It’s her first No. 1 on this chart and her first of three entries.
According to Billboard, “No More Rain” received 2.1 million official on-demand streams in the U.S. during the week of her passing, up 538% from the previous week.
“No More Rain,” produced by Stone, samples Gladys Knight & The Pips’ 1973 classic “Neither One of Us (Wants to Be the First to Say Goodbye).”
Stone co-wrote the soul-stirring song with Gordon Chambers and Bert Williams. It appears on her debut album, Black Diamond. It’s Stone’s longest-running No. 1 on the Adult R&B Airplay chart, spending 10 weeks atop the chart.
Right behind “No More Rain” on the R&B Digital Song Sales chart is “Wish I Didn’t Miss You” at No. 2 and “Brotha” at No. 5. The latter two songs appear on Stone’s 2001 album, Mahogany Soul.
“Wish I Didn’t Miss You,” which samples The O’Jays’ “Back Stabbers,” was written and produced by the late Andrea Martin and Ivan Matias, with additional production by Swizz Beatz.
Meanwhile, the uplifting anthem “Brotha” was co-written by Stone, Harold Lilly, Jake and the Phatman (Glenn Standridge and Robert C. Ozuna), and Raphael Saadiq, who also produced it.
Elsewhere on Billboard, “No More Rain (In This Cloud)” debuts at No. 15 on the Digital Song Sales chart, while “Wish I Didn’t Miss You” opens at No. 20. It marks Stone’s first two entries on this chart.
The two songs plus “Brotha” also appear on the R&B/Hip-Hop Song Sales chart:
- “No More Rain (In This Cloud),” No. 4 debut
- “Wish I Didn’t Miss You,” No. 6 debut
- “Brotha,” No. 14 debut
Stone tragically passed away March 1 after a car crash in Montgomery, Alabama, at age 63.
Her children, Diamond Stone and Michael Archer II, released the following statement: “Never in a million years did we ever expect to get this horrible news. Our mom is and will always be our everything. We are still trying to process and are completely heartbroken.”
Stone will have two homegoing services, with the first on Friday (March 14) in Atlanta at Word of Faith Family Worship Cathedral. The second is on Saturday (March 15) in her hometown, Columbia, South Carolina, at First Nazareth Baptist Church.
Performers and guest speakers include Tyler Perry, Kirk Franklin, Angie Stone Memorial Choir, Anthony Hamilton, The Walls Group, Keke Wyatt, Tamela Mann, Musiq SoulChild, Y’Anna Crawley, Q. Parker, and Stout.
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