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Updated 04-May-2020.
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BET’s ‘The New Edition Story’ Miniseries Ends on Ratings High Note: After raking in an impressive premiere audience for first edition of BET’s New Edition miniseries, it was a foregone conclusion that “The New Edition Story” would perform well. Ni…
New Edition’s “Candy Girl” Turns 30: A Retrospective (Deluxe Edition): We all know about New Edition being five cats from Orchard Park Projects in Boston’s Roxbury neighborhood. We all know about their career being kicked off 30 years ago with a hit single called “Candy…
You Say It’s Your Birthday: New Edition and Bell Biv Devoe’s Michael Bivens: The ultimate news source for music, celebrity, entertainment, movies, and current events on the web. It's pop culture on steroids.
Jamie Foxx, New Edition Open BET Awards With Rousing Michael Jackson Tributes: Foxx does a decent Moonwalk; New Edition perform Jackson 5 medley.
My botty best at summarizing from Wikipedia: New Edition is an American R&B group from the Roxbury neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts . the group reached its height of popularity in the 1980’s . early hits included “Candy Girl”, “Cool It Now All six members of New Edition reunited in 1996 to record the group’s sixth studio album Home Again . During the ill-fated Home Again Tour, both Bobby Brown and Michael Bivins quit the group, forcing the group received their star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on January 23, 2017 . a three-part docuseries premiered on bET about the group’s career and personal life . all six members will reunite the album was released in 1983 on Levi Belt Streetwise Records . it featured the hits: “Is This The End”, “Popcorn Love” and the title track . the boys parted company with starr in 1984 . the Machats secured the group a bigger recording deal with major label MCA Records . the management company, AMI, Jump and Shoot, released the group’s self-titled second album . eclipsing their new edition’s third album, All for Love, was released in the latter half of 1985 . the group would continue to record and tour during this period to pay off its debt . the album was certified platinum, and spawned the hits “Count Me Out” and “With You All the Way” the growing popularity of the group led to a guest appearance in the 1985 film Krush Groove . as 1986 wound to a close, they recorded a cover of The Penguins 1954 hit “Earth Angel” the song peaked at number twenty-one and inspired the group to record Under the Blue Moon . to pad his potential “If It Isn’t Love,” “You’re Not My Kind of Girl,” “Can You Stand The Rain” and “N.E. Heartbreak” became New Edition’s most commercially successful album . the former member Bobby Brown served as the opening acts . Ricky Bell, Michael Bivins and Ron DeVoe formed a trio . their 1990 debut album, Poison, went quadruple platinum . the group reunited to record Home Again, their first new album in eight years . the album debuted at number one on both the billboard 200 and R&B Albums chart . Home Again produced several hits, including the despite not having toured together in close to a decade, old rivalries and struggles for on stage dominance resurfaced . by the middle leg of the tour, one evening at a concert in Las Cruces, deVoe, Bell, Gill, and Tresvant finished out the rest of the tour as a quartet . Brown admitted during an interview that he was intoxicated during the tour . 1996 was the swan Gill signed the group to his Bad Boy Records label after their long term contract with MCA Records ended . in the fall of 2004, new edition’s seventh studio album and Bad Boy debut, One Love, was released . the lead- Ricky Bell revealed that Combs’ refused to pay New Edition’s long time producers for a track that the group wanted on the album . despite the messy divorce with Bad Boy, New Edition soldiered on and continued new edition filmed a concert at the university of south carolina’s Koger Center in Columbia . the concert was billed as “Spend the night with new edition” the group has advertised a BET special in 2008, the group (minus Brown) recorded a new song called “Full Service” for their latest album, The Block . in 2009, Brown, Tresvant and Gill formed a side group called Heads of Ricky Bell and Johnny Gill joined new kids on the block onstage at a house of blues benefit show . Gill later confirmed that new edition had signed with manager Irving Azoff . all six members of new edition reunited in February 2012, Brown would miss a handful of dates due to the death of ex-wife Whitney Houston . on March 9 and 11, 2012, Bobby Brown and Bell Biv DeVoe made their African debut by performing in Nigeria the group’s original choreographer and longtime manager Brooke Payne also served as a co-producer . on January 24–26, 2017, BET aired the biopic miniseries The New Edition Story the miniseries brought in 28.4 million viewers to BET . it was directed by Chris Robinson and executive produced by Jessie Collins . on June 28, 2016, Hollywood Chamber of Commerce announced New Edition’s induction into the Hollywood Walk of Fame in the category of Recording . in 2017, New Edition received a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2017 BET Awards .