Music Career

		Life Story
		Music Career
		Life and Career
		Billboard Music Charts
		Awards & Nominations
		Fashion and Relationships
		Achievements and Rankings

Lopez's debut album, On The 6, a reference to the subway line she used to take growing up in Castle Hill, was released on June 1, 1999 and reached the top ten of the Billboard 200. The album featured the multi-week #1 lead single, If You Had My Love, as well as the top ten hit Waiting For Tonight. It also contained the Spanish language, Latin-flavored duet No Me Ames with Marc Anthony, which was an international DAN hit, though the song was never released as a single in the US. 

Despite this, the video received moderate airplay on the US music channels VH1 and The Box as a novelty. The album also spawned another international hit in Feelin' So Good, a hip-hop track which contained guest raps by Big Pun and Fat Joe; it failed to make the top 50 of the Billboard Hot 100. Let's Get Loud was also released as a single, and became a minor dance hit.

Her sophomore effort, J. Lo, was released in January 2001 and debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200. The lead single, Love Don't Cost A Thing was her first UK number one single, and, along with its follow-up, Play (which was written by rising teen star, Christina Milian) it became a top five hit during the year the album was released. 

The album's next two singles, I'm Real and Ain't It Funny, ended up becoming her biggest ever hits, with both spending several weeks at #1. However, to capitalize on this, Lopez asked Murder Inc. to remix both songs, completely changing the lyrics and melodies and adding raps from Ja Rule in both songs, and from Caddillac Tah to Ain't It Funny (Murder Remix). The I'm Real and Ain't It Funny remixes were two of the biggest pop and rap hits in late 2001 and early 2002, respectively, and their more hip-hop sound gave J. Lo street credibility and brought her music to a whole new group of fans. 

She re-released the CD on her 32nd birthday, July 24, 2001, including Ja Rule's remixed version of I'm Real. The original version of I'm Real however, sparked controversy when it contained a sample (of Yellow Light Orchestra's Firecracker), originally planned to be used for Mariah Carey's single Loverboy. 

Rumors suggest this was Tommy Motolla's doing, Carey's ex-husband. Carey was forced to scrap the sample, instead using a sample of the Cameo's song Candy. The single famously flopped on radio, signaling a general downturn in Carey's career until her comeback in 2005.

Following the successes of the remix, Lopez decided to devote an entire album to the effort; the result, J To Tha L-O!: The Remixes, appeared on February 5, 2002. This album, too, debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200, marking the first remix album in history to debut (or even reach) #1 on the chart. This time around, she got 50 Cent and Nas to write rhymes for two remixes of her next single, I'm Gonna Be Alright, which ended up becoming another top ten hit. The album also included rarer dance and hip-hop remixes of her past singles, and a new song, a ballad called Alive, which was included in Lopez's movie Enough.

On November 26, 2002, Lopez released her fourth studio album, This Is Me... Then, which reached #2 on the Billboard 200 and spawned two very popular singles; the top 5 Jenny From The Block, (sampling the track from the song Watch Out Now by the Beatnuts, and including raps from Jadakiss and Styles P and the multi-week #1 All I Have featuring LL Cool J. Another single, I'm Glad, was also released, but only managed to go top forty, a rather low result considering Lopez's usual chart success. Another song from the album was a cover of Carly Simon's You Belong To Me.

In 2004, Lopez once again participated in duets with Marc Anthony, this time on his albums Amar Sin Mentiras and Valio La Pena.

After a considerable amount of time away from the music scene, Lopez finally released her fifth studio album, Rebirth, on March 1, 2005. Debuting at #2 on the Billboard 200 to initially decent sales success, the album quickly fell off the charts and making it Lopez's biggest commercial (not to mention critical) flop yet. Despite this, the album has so-far spawned one hit in Get Right, which reached the top twenty; however, it was greatly shunned by critics as an almost complete rip-off of Usher's unreleased song Ride. 

Even so, Get Right was a huge hit in the UK, becoming her second #1 single there. The second single, Hold You Down, which featured Fat Joe, only barely made it into the top 75 in the US, peaking at #64. It reached #17 in Australia with little - none promotion and managed a peak of #6 in the UK.

In late 2006, Jennifer Lopez is to release her sixth studio album and first Spanish album titled Como Ama Una Mujer and as well as an English album.

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