MN8
MN8 | |
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Also known as | Da Jeuce |
Origin | United Kingdom |
Genres | R&B, pop, new jack swing |
Years active | 1992–1999 |
Labels | Sony/Columbia Records UK Sony/Work Group US First Avenue |
Past members | KG G-Man Kule T Dee Tails[1] |
MN8 are a British R&B-pop group. They consisted of KG (co-founder, lead vocals), G-Man (co-founder, lead vocals),[2][3] Kule T (vocals) and Dee Tails (rapper, backing vocalist, stylist and choreographer).
Career
MN8's 1995 debut
Their debut album, To The Next Level reached number 13 in the
MN8 have
In 1997, MN8 parted ways with Sony/Columbia & 1st Avenue. When the deal had expired, MN8 partnered with the French concert promoter Gerard Drouot to tour France in 1997 and 1998. After their last show at the end of 1998, MN8 decided to take a break indefinitely to pursue other opportunities.
In an interview with Digital Spy on 13 April 2009, lead singer KG said of the split and any prospects of a reunion: "Around 1998 and 1999 we did our last European shows. We were at the end of our deal with Sony and weren't really sure what we wanted to do. We decided to take a break and think things through. Quite a lot's happened in the past few months actually. We're in tentative talks about maybe putting MN8 back together and doing a tour. The thing about MN8 is that we never did the sort of music we should have done. We had the right aesthetic but the potential to do so much more. If you look at the commercial side of R&B these days, we would have fitted in better. We were kind of ahead of our time in some ways."[8]
In 2013 co-lead singer G-man was interviewed by Twin B on BBC
In media
- MN8 appeared on The Childliners record The Gift of Christmas alongside the Backstreet Boys, Boyzone, East 17, Peter Andre and Dannii Minogue.
- MN8 hosted Top of the Pops on 14 March 1996. [10]
Discography
Studio albums
Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | Certifications
| |||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
UK [11] |
UK R&B [12] |
AUS [13] |
BEL [14] |
FRA
[15] |
GER
[16] |
NED
[17] |
NZ [18] |
SCO [19] |
SWI [20] | |||||
To the Next Level | 13 | 4 | 25 | 43 | 26 | 61 | 50 | 46 | 49 | 27 | ||||
Freaky
|
|
114 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
"—" denotes items that did not chart or were not released in that territory. |
Singles
As lead artist
Year | Title | Peak chart positions | Certifications
|
Album | ||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
UK
[11] |
UK R&B [23] |
AUS [13] |
BEL [14] |
FRA
[24] |
GER
[25] |
IRE [26] |
NED
[17] |
NZ [18] |
SCO [27] | |||||
1995 | "I've Got a Little Something for You" | 2 | 1 | 7 | 11 | 3 | 30 | 2 | 13 | 3 | 9 | To the Next Level | ||
"If You Only Let Me In" | 6 | 1 | 30 | 47 | 23 | 64 | 7 | 18 | 3 | 13 | ||||
"Happy" | 8 | 2 | — | — | — | — | 23 | — | 11 | 18 | ||||
"Baby It's You" | 22 | 6 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 34 | 52 | ||||
1996 | "Pathway to the Moon" | 25 | 5 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 50 | |||
"Tuff Act to Follow" | 15 | 3 | — | — | 43 | — | — | — | — | 27 | Freaky
| |||
"Dreaming" | 21 | 7 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 35 | ||||
"—" denotes items that did not chart or were not released in that territory. |
As featured artist
Year | Title | Peak chart positions |
Album | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
UK
[31] |
IRE [32] |
SCO [33] | |||
1995 | "The Gift of Christmas" (As part of Childliners) |
9 | 10 | 7 | Non-album single |
References
MN8's chart history[34]
MN8 on Janet Jackson tour[35][36]
MN8 on Bad Boys Soundtrack[37]
- ^ Virgin Hit Singles volume 2 p. 324
- ^ Big Magazine – January 1995
- ^ Touch Magazine – February 1995
- ^ "Top 100 1995". UK music charts.
- ^ Source: M Magazine/ PRS MCPS, Issue 14, September 2004
- ^ Source: Smash Hits – June 1995
- ^ Dance.machine.free.fr
- ^ "Whatever Happened To MN8laccessdate=13 April 2009".
- ^ "BBC 1xtra Breakfast Show With Twin B". Retrieved 4 April 2013.
- ^ "Top of the Pops - The presenters". The drunkenness of things being various. 23 January 2011.
- ^ a b UK chart peaks:
- "Chart Log UK: M – My Vitriol". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 20 March 2011.
- "UK chart peaks". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 27 October 2016.
- ^ UK R&B studio album chart peaks:
- "To the Next Level". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 27 October 2016.
- ^ a b "Australian chart peaks". Hung Medien. Retrieved 20 March 2011.
- ^ a b "Belgian (Flanders) chart peaks". Hung Medien. Retrieved 27 October 2016.
- ^ "French chart peaks" (in French). infodisc.fr. Retrieved 27 October 2016.
- ^ German studio album peaks:
- "To the Next Level" (in German). Gfk. Retrieved 15 October 2016.
- "To the Next Level" (in German).
- ^ a b "Dutch chart peaks". Hung Medien. Retrieved 20 March 2011.
- ^ a b "New Zealand chart peaks". Hung Medien. Retrieved 20 March 2011.
- ^ Scottish studio album chart peaks:
- "To the Next Level". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 27 October 2016.
- ^ "Swiss chart peaks". Hung Medien. Retrieved 20 March 2011.
- ^ a b "BPI certification". British Phonographic Industry. Retrieved 28 October 2016.
- SNEP. Retrieved 28 October 2016.
- ^ UK R&B singles chart peaks:
- "I've Got a Little Something for You". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 27 October 2016.
- "If You Only Let Me In". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 27 October 2016.
- "Happy". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 27 October 2016.
- "Baby It's You". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 27 October 2016.
- "Pathway to the Moon". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 27 October 2016.
- "Tuff Act to Follow". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 27 October 2016.
- "Dreaming". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 27 October 2016.
- ^ "French chart peaks". Hung Medien. Retrieved 20 March 2011.
- ^ German singles peaks:
- "I've Got a Little Something for You" (in German). Gfk. Retrieved 27 October 2016.
- "If You Only Let Me In" (in German). Gfk. Retrieved 27 October 2016.
- "I've Got a Little Something for You" (in German).
- ^ "Irish chart peaks". Irish Recorded Music Association. Retrieved 27 October 2016.
- ^ Scottish singles chart peaks:
- "I've Got a Little Something for You". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 27 October 2016.
- "If You Only Let Me In". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 27 October 2016.
- "Happy". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 27 October 2016.
- "Baby It's You". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 27 October 2016.
- "Pathway to the Moon". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 27 October 2016.
- "Tuff Act to Follow". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 27 October 2016.
- "Dreaming". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 27 October 2016.
- ^ "The ARIA Australian Top 100 Singles 1995". Imgur.com (original document published by ARIA). Retrieved 1 June 2017.
- SNEP. Retrieved 28 October 2016.
- ^ "New Zealand certification - I've Got a Little Something For You". Recorded Music NZ. Retrieved 28 October 2016.
- ^ "Childliners UK chart peaks". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 22 October 2016.
- ^ "Childliners Irish chart peaks". Irish Recorded Music Association. Retrieved 28 October 2016.
- ^ Childliners Scottish chart peaks:
- "Childliners Scottish chart peaks". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 27 October 2016.
- ^ [Chart Positions, David Roberts – Managing Editor, Guinness British Hit Singles 13th Edition, 19 May 2000]
- ^ [Janet Jackson Tour, Miss Janet Official Magazine – Issue 4, Vol.1, December 1995]
- ^ [Janet Jackson Tour, Peter Loraine, Top of the Pops Magazine, June 1995]
- ^ [Bad Boys Soundtrack, Bad Boys Official Soundtrack CD, 10 January 2000]