“The best voices come from Detroit!” Anita Baker has created music that has prevailed throughout the decades. When one mentions Baker, they often say how they listen to her music while completing house chores. “She makes cleaning my home worthwhile,” said a listener to Anita Baker's music. Younger generations will say they’ve heard Anita’s music by way of their older family members, which is how most Anita Baker fans get their first taste. Anita Baker’s album One Night Of Rapture went platinum in only six months in 1986. After achieving a whopping four platinum albums, Anita Baker's music is still listened to today. In essence, Anita Baker albums went platinum because of Anita’s will to stay true to herself and her own ideas. According to Anita, she feels as if she would have let the outside influences of others in the music industry affect the vision she had for her musical endeavors, and she wouldn’t have been as …show more content…
Anita Baker's albums are platinum because she interjected herself into the songs. The depth within each and every song by Baker is what I like to call the difference between “singing“ and “sanging,” as older generations would say, when an artist is truly talented. Anita Baker has remained relevant throughout the years, and in this discussion, we will discuss the factors that influence the fate of her career. Anita Baker's debut album, The Songstress, charted at number twelve on the Billboard Top R&B albums, selling over five hundred thousand copies nationwide. The album Rapture still reigns as Baker’s highest-selling project in the span of her career. Rapture, in 1986, sold over ten million copies nationwide. The Rapture album ranked eleven out of two hundred on Billboard and is also five times platinum within the United States region. Anita Baker's Rapture album produced what some proclaimed to be her best-selling single, Sweet