Brandy "Have You Ever"

[B-Boy]

Jan 5, 2009 13:03:10 GMT -5 JCMF3 said:

Jan 4, 2009 22:27:41 GMT -5 B-Boy said:

I don't remember this getting radio play at the time. It's one of her best songs.

Were you in GA at the time?

I remember on the old R&R boards there was a debate over why this song couldn't get to #1 (it was stuck behind Slide by the Goo Goo Dolls and then got jumped by ...Baby, One More Time). Those members who had access to spin data noted that pop stations in AL, MS, and GA weren't spinning this tune much. Maybe that's why you didn't hear it?

I wasn't in GA then. I think every single from NSN got played except this one and U Dont Know Me. If it did it was probably receiving overnight spins. The only times I've heard it was in Moesha and her movie Double Platinum. I did hear it a lot as a recurrent when I moved to GA.

EDIT TO ADD: It was actually a rhythmic station that played those singles except "Have U Ever" and "U Don't Know Me".

[crash46]

Wow, I never got to see that spin analysis, but that's pretty fascinating. Good for AL, MS, and GA; I did not like this song at all and her singing voice grated on my nerves. I preferred Brandy's hits to spend one week each on the charts, like "I Wanna Be Down" and "Baby".

[🇯🇲 lucy88 🇯🇲]

Dec 29, 2008 10:35:27 GMT -5 sdot23 said:

Love it. Never Say Never was a great album.

Same here. It's a classic Brandy ballad as "Angel of Mine" was to Monica.

[#LisaRinna]

Ghandy SANG the hell outta this.

[B-Boy]

Jan 5, 2009 13:25:34 GMT -5 B-Boy said:

I wasn't in GA then. I think every single from NSN got played except this one and U Dont Know Me. If it did it was probably receiving overnight spins. The only times I've heard it was in Moesha and her movie Double Platinum. I did hear it a lot as a recurrent when I moved to GA.

EDIT TO ADD: It was actually a rhythmic station that played those singles except ”Have U Ever" and "U Don't Know Me".

Sooo, the old R&R magazines proved me wrong.

[Sir Benji]

I loved this song when it was out but this is one of my least favorite Brandy singles now.

[Space Cowboy]

I read on Wikipedia that Diane Warren (who wrote this) said that she'd like to hear a country version of it. I'm not sure how that would work, as the song is structurally so R&B, but it would be interesting. I love this song.

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[Caviar]

This was towards the bottom tier as far as the NSN singles went. Vocally it’s one of her best.

[bjordan]

According to R&R this song was getting airplay on KJLH, The Beat and Power 106 back in 1998-99.

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[disman00911]

This was okay but I prefer several of her other hits.  In my market, this was played on B96 and WGCI.  I wondered if the AC stations played this song as it could easily pass as a type of power ballad that such stations would play.

[Private Dancer]

I love this song but her label needs to go ahead and certify this gold or platinum. NO way a song can sell 250k in a week and not have a certification in 1999 when songs were selling well.

[jenglisbe]

This is easily one of my least favorite Brandy singles. It kind of bores me, in the way a lot of Diane songs do.

Apr 14, 2022 0:50:07 GMT -5 Private Dancer said:

I love this song but her label needs to go ahead and certify this gold or platinum. NO way a song can sell 250k in a week and not have a certification in 1999 when songs were selling well.

When did it sell that much in a week? The week it rose to #1 I think there was a typo of sorts, but apparently it was a limited single (maybe limited to 400k, or maybe it had sold 400k as of that week). I think it sold 81,000 the week it rose to #1 (which was down 13% from its first week of sales I believe). It was #1 in airplay with 85 million impressions that week.

Regardless it should certainly at least be Gold at this point between its physical sales and then SPS.

[Private Dancer]

Apr 14, 2022 9:20:22 GMT -5 jenglisbe said:

This is easily one of my least favorite Brandy singles. It kind of bores me, in the way a lot of Diane songs do.

Apr 14, 2022 0:50:07 GMT -5 Private Dancer said:

I love this song but her label needs to go ahead and certify this gold or platinum. NO way a song can sell 250k in a week and not have a certification in 1999 when songs were selling well.

When did it sell that much in a week? The week it rose to #1 I think there was a typo of sorts, but apparently it was a limited single (maybe limited to 400k, or maybe it had sold 400k as of that week). I think it sold 81,000 the week it rose to #1 (which was down 13% from its first week of sales I believe). It was #1 in airplay with 85 million impressions that week.

Regardless it should certainly at least be Gold at this point between its physical sales and then SPS.

The week it rose to #3 it sold 250k which helped it get to that position

[jenglisbe]

Apr 14, 2022 12:12:39 GMT -5 Private Dancer said:

Apr 14, 2022 9:20:22 GMT -5 jenglisbe said:

This is easily one of my least favorite Brandy singles. It kind of bores me, in the way a lot of Diane songs do.

When did it sell that much in a week? The week it rose to #1 I think there was a typo of sorts, but apparently it was a limited single (maybe limited to 400k, or maybe it had sold 400k as of that week). I think it sold 81,000 the week it rose to #1 (which was down 13% from its first week of sales I believe). It was #1 in airplay with 85 million impressions that week.

Regardless it should certainly at least be Gold at this point between its physical sales and then SPS.

The week it rose to #3 it sold 250k which helped it get to that position

Where is that documented? The song rose 9-3 in the January 9, 1999 issue due to the commercial release. That Billboard issue sales totals were not given in the Hot 100 Spotlight column. The next week the column says the song sold 81,000 off a 13% drop in sales (which was a smaller drop than most). If it had sold 250k the week prior, that drop would have been much larger than 13%.

[bjordan]

I play this song from to time. Brandy’s second #1 hit. The video used to always get airplay on BET, MTV and The Box. According to R&R, this song got heavy airplay in LA on 99.1 KGGI(Rhythmic) Power 106(CHR/Urban), 92.3 The Beat(Mainstream Urban), 102.3 KJLH(Urban AC) and 102.7 KIIS FM(Top 40) during the course of late 1998/early 1999. Damn I wish I was in my teens or 20’s during that time. Just kidding.