''Much Love'' is the debut album by British singer

Shola Ama Shola Ama (born 8 March 1979) is a British singer from London, who scored her biggest hits with " You Might Need Somebody" (1997), a cover of Randy Crawford's 1981 hit, " You're the One I Love" and "Still Believe" (1999) which was one of the ...

. It was released by Freakstreet and

WEA The Wea were a Miami–Illinois-speaking Native American tribe originally located in western Indiana. Historically, they were described as being either closely related to the Miami tribe or a sub-tribe of Miami. Today, the descendants of th ...

on 1 September 1997 in the United Kingdom. Ama worked with songwriting collective D'Influence on the majority of the album, with Shaun LaBelle, Livio Harris, and Paul Waller providing additional production. ''Much Love'' was preceded by two top ten hit singles: a cover of " You Might Need Somebody", originally made famous by

Randy Crawford Veronica "Randy" Crawford (born February 18, 1952) is an American retired jazz and R&B singer. She has been more successful in Europe than in the United States, where she has not entered the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 as a solo artist. However, sh ...

, and follow-up "

You're the One I Love "You're the One I Love" is a song by English singer Shola Ama, released as the first single from her debut album, '' Much Love'' (1997), in 1996. On the first single release, it reached number 81 on the UK Singles Chart, but after her successful ...

". "Who's Loving My Baby" and "Much Love" were also released as singles, both reaching the UK top twenty. The album reached the top ten of the

UK Albums Chart The Official Albums Chart is the United Kingdom's industry-recognised national record chart for album, albums. Entries are ranked by sales and audio streaming. It was published for the first time on 22 July 1956 and is compiled every week by the O ...

, peaking at number six, and entered the top twenty in Germany and the top thirty in France, and the Netherlands. In the United Kingdom, it was eventually certified gold by the

British Phonographic Industry BPI (British Recorded Music Industry) Limited, trading as British Phonographic Industry (BPI), is the British recorded music industry's trade association. It runs the BRIT Awards; is home to the Mercury Prize; co-owns the Official Charts C ...

(BPI), indicating sales in excess of 100,000 copies. Following the success of the album, Ama won a Brit Award for Best British Female and two

MOBO Awards The MOBO Awards (Music of Black Origin, also known as the MOBOs) are an annual British music award presentation honouring achievements in " music of black origin", including hip hop, grime, UK Drill, R&B, soul, reggae, jazz, gospel, and Ba ...

for Best Newcomer and Best R&B Act.

Track listing

Sample credits * "I Love Your Ways" contains a replayed element of "Give Me the Sunshine" by Leo's Sunshipp.

Personnel

Adapted from

AllMusic AllMusic (previously known as All-Music Guide and AMG) is an American online database, online music database. It catalogs more than three million album entries and 30 million tracks, as well as information on Musical artist, musicians and Mus ...

. *San Acharya – A&R *Shola Ama – primary artist, vocals, background vocals *Ed Baden-Powell – bass, drum programming, guitar, acoustic guitar, bass, keyboards, string arrangements *Toby Baker – bass, keyboards *David Barry – guitar *Carlton Batts – mastering *Joe Belmaati – keyboards, programming *Melvin Britt – background vocals *

Sue Ann Carwell Sue Ann Carwell, also known as Sue Ann, is an American singer/songwriter whose career spans more than four decades, going back to when she was an early contributor to the Minneapolis sound pioneered by Prince in the late 1970s. She recorded two a ...

– vocal arrangement, background vocals * Rob Chiarelli – mixing *Jorge Corante – drum programming, keyboards, piano * Cutfather – producer, remixing * D'Influence – arranger, mixing, producer *Michael "Mickey D" Davis – A&R, executive producer * Terry Dexter – background vocals *Marcella Ffrench – background vocals *Mark Franks – engineer *Guido Zen – engineer *Livio Harris – arranger, producer, background vocals *Stephen Hussey – strings *Anthony Jeffries – engineer * Kwame Kwaten – bass, executive producer, keyboards, moog bass *Shaun LaBelle – arranger, bass, drum programming, producer, synthesizer * Ed Lover – engineer *Steve Marston – horn *Patrick McMahon – engineer *Yan Memmi – engineer, mixing *Rod Michaels – engineer *Randee Saint Nicholas – photography *Dik Shopteau – engineer *Paul Waller – arranger, drum programming, keyboards, mixing, producer

Charts

Certifications

References

External links

''Much Love''
at

Discogs Discogs ( ; short for " discographies") is a database of information about audio recordings, including commercial releases, promotional releases, and bootleg or off-label releases. Database contents are user-generated, and described in ''T ...

{{Authority control 1997 debut albums Warner Music Group albums Shola Ama albums