45 years after earning her first Hot 100 entry, Grace Jones has moved up the charts with her Beyonce, Tems Collab “Move”.
Sshh confirmed with World Music Views that Jones’s verse for Move, was recorded at her and husband Zak Starkey’s Jamaican Sound System (formerly Trojan Jamaica) studio in Ocho Rios, Jamaica.
Debuting at No. 54 this week, this is the 70s dance hit maker’s fourth song to hit the Hot 100 chart. She first entered with Sorry/That’s The Trouble, which peaked at No. 71 in 1977 and I Need A Man peaked at No. 83 later that year. Her highest chart success was 35 years ago with I’m Not Perfect which peaked at No. 69 on January 10, 1987.
Jones a former Island Records singer, actor and model has not released music since her 2015 Disco three albums box set.
Her music career started in 1977, and she quickly became a high-profile figure of New York City’s disco scene. In the early 1980s, under the guidance of Chris Blackwell she moved away from pure disco and incorporated reggae, funk, post-punk, and pop music, frequently collaborating with both the graphic designer Jean-Paul Goude and the musical duo Sly & Robbie. She has several Top 40 entries on the UK Singles Chart with “Private Life”, “Pull Up to the Bumper”, “I’ve Seen That Face Before”, and “Slave to the Rhythm.”
In Chapter 11 of Chris Blackwell’s Memoir: The Islander, My Life In Music And Beyond he spoke of how he first saw a her in New York and then discovering she is Jamaican: “an incredible picture this striking woman, holding a microphone and balancing unnaturally on one leg.”
Blackwell says upon meeting her he thought, “Grace was a more Uhuru than Disco”
Among her popular roles an actress; Zula in the fantasy-action film Conan the Destroyer (1984) alongside Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sarah Douglas, and subsequently appeared in the James Bond movie A View to a Kill (1985) as May Day, and starred as a vampire in Vamp (1986); all of which earned her nominations for the Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress. In 1992, Jones acted in the Eddie Murphy film Boomerang, and contributed to the soundtrack. She also appeared alongside Tim Curry in the 2001 film Wolf Girl.
In 2016, Billboard ranked her as the 40th greatest dance club artist of all time.
Renaissance
Billboard reported today that Beyoncé charted all 16 songs from her new album Renaissance on the latest Billboard Hot 100 (dated Aug. 13).
Renaissance released Columbia/Parkwood is the Queen Bee’s seventh No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart, with 332,000 equivalent album units earned in the July 29-Aug. 4 tracking week, according to Luminate. The set scores the second-largest weekly total for an album this year, after the opening week of Harry Styles’ Harry’s House (521,000) in June. It’s also the first album released by a woman in 2022 to rule the chart.
Leading Beyoncé’s total on the Hot 100 is the album’s single, “Break My Soul,” which jumps 6-1, becoming her eighth solo No. 1. She had last led in a lead role with “Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)” in 2008-09.
Single Ladies was certified 9 times platinum by the RIAA today, August 8, along with 69 other Beyonce gold, platinum and multi platinum album and singles certifications.
