"Games" is a song by American R&B singer
Chuckii Booker
Eugene Allen Booker, Jr. (born December 19, 1962), known professionally as Chuckii Booker, is an American producer, singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and bandleader.
Biography
Booker emerged in the late 1980s as a prominent urban conte ...
, from his second studio album ''
Niice 'n Wiild''. The single spent one week at number-one on the U.S. ''Billboard''
Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs
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chart and peaked at number sixty-eight on the U.S.
''Billboard'' Hot 100.
Until
Trey Songz
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's song "
I Invented Sex
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" from 2009 to 2010, "Games" was the most recent song to peak at number-one on the U.S. ''Billboard'' R&B chart while failing to reach the Top 40 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100.
In 1995,
The Luniz
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interpolated the song on the track "Playa Hater" from the album ''
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hit "
Can We Talk
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".
In 1996,
Mark Morrison
Mark Morrison (born 3 May 1972) is a British R&B singer. His single, " Return of the Mack", became a No. 1 or top 10 hit in several European countries in 1996. The song peaked at No. 2 in the United States the following year.
Career
Mark M ...
sampled Booker's "Games" in his 1996 hit song, "
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".
According to Chuckii Booker’s Instagram on September 8, 2018 the female on the song saying “Chuckii! Chuckii!” is
Janet Jackson.
Most recently, in 2022, R&B group Sentury interpolated the song on the track "Say That."
Charts
Weekly charts
Year-end charts
See also
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List of number-one R&B singles of 1992 (U.S.)
References
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1992 singles
1992 songs
Atlantic Records singles
Songs written by Chuckii Booker
Songs written by Gerald Levert
Chuckii Booker songs