Someone to Love (Jon B. song)

"Someone to Love"
Single by Jon B. featuring Babyface
from the album Bonafide
Released1995
Recorded1994
GenreR&B
Length4:33
Label
Songwriter(s)Babyface
Producer(s)Babyface
Jon B. singles chronology
"Someone to Love"
(1995)
"Pretty Girl"
(1995)
Babyface singles chronology
"Dream Away"
(1994)
"Someone to Love"
(1995)
"Slow Jams"
(1996)

"Someone to Love" is a song by Jon B. from his debut album Bonafide. Released as the first single from the album in 1995, the song is a duet with Babyface that gained wide exposure on the Bad Boys soundtrack.

The song, with a style very much inspired by Babyface,[1] peaked at number 10 on the US Hot 100 chart and at number 7 on the US R&B chart and was also certified gold by the RIAA.

The song received a Grammy Award nomination for the category Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals in 1996.[2] The then 21-year-old Jon B. stated he felt the nomination was "an honor he could not have asked for."[3]

  1. ^ "Vibe". Vibe Vixen. Vibe Media Group: 128. June 2003. ISSN 1070-4701. Retrieved 2015-04-08.
  2. ^ "List of Grammy nominees". CNN.
  3. ^ "Jon B: 'That Grammy & Me'". Daily News. New York. 1996-02-25.[permanent dead link]