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She was now donning leather crop tops and wearing more makeup while keeping her signature sunglasses. Transitioning out of the baggy, sagging jeans and bandanas of her debut album, Aaliyah was forging a new image - a more clever blending of hip-hop edge and femininity. The way Timbaland uses phone tones and static as instrumental elements over his scattershot drums signaled a new dawn in R&B and pop production.įans got their first glimpse of the new Aaliyah with the lead single, “If Your Girl Only Knew,” a Missy/Timbaland production that went #1 on the R&B/Hip-Hop charts, ultimately selling over 600,000 singles.

The influence of Timbaland’s drum programming and quirky, futuristic arrangements can hardly be traced back to another era or genre.įrom the intro, “Beats 4 Da Streets,” where Missy calls out Aaliyah’s name telling her to wake up, you realize it’s the sign that she’s ready to break away from the confines of trending R&B to a new paradigm. It is safe to say that the two are among the last true originals is Black music. According to the official charts company "One In A Million" is Aaliyah's sixth best selling single in that region.A post shared by Aaliyah Haughton approach to producing and songwriting was unlike anything before it. Also in the UK the song peaked within the top 5 on the Official UK Dance singles chart at number 5 on May 25, 1997. Internationally the song was released as a double single with "If Your Girl Only Knew" in the UK and the song peaked within the top twenty at number 15 on the UK official charts. On Billboards dance club song charts the song peaked within the top 5 at number 2 on the week ending on March 1, 1997. It performed even better on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay chart, peaking at number one on the week ending on January 4, 1997. In the United States, "One in a Million" performed moderately well, peaking at number 25 on Billboards's Radio Songs chart on the week ending on March 22, 1997. In 1998, "One in a Million" was nominated for Best R&B/Soul Single, Female at the twelfth annual Soul Train Music Awards. Upon its release, it was met with generally positive reviews from critics, with many praising the song's innovative production.

Lyrically, it is about Aaliyah professing her love for a guy that she identifies as being her "one in a million." The song was released as the albums third single by Blackground and Atlantic Records on December 10, 1996. Musically, the song is an R&B club ballad with trip hop and drum and bass influences. It was written by both Missy Elliot and Timbaland with the latter producing the song. "One in a Million" is a song by American singer Aaliyah from her second studio album of the same name.