Album · Erykah Badu
Baduizm by Erykah Badu
Baduizm is an album by Erykah Badu, released in 1997. 1 song from it has charted on rock radio countdowns, with 5 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “On & On”, on 5 lists with a best position of #47.
Baduizm, Erykah Badu's debut album, dropped on February 11, 1997, and it sounded like it had always been there: slow-rolling grooves, jazz-bent phrasing and a voice critics kept comparing to Billie Holiday. The road to it ran through a 19-song demo, Country Cousins, made while she toured with her cousin Robert "Free" Bradford after quitting university. It caught the ear of Kedar Massenburg, who set her up with D'Angelo for a duet on "Your Precious Love".
Badu co-produced the album with James Poyser and the Roots, in sessions that ran from January to October 1996 across New York, Philadelphia and Dallas. "On & On" led a run of four singles, the record debuted at number two on the Billboard 200 on its way to triple platinum, and it took Best R&B Album at the Grammys. Next to D'Angelo's Brown Sugar and Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite, it helped put neo-soul on the map.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Baduizm on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | On & On | 5 | #47 | – | 2020–2025 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.