1 on Billboard's 200 album chart, and was nominated for a Grammy for Best Pop Vocal Album. Watters and Biancaniello wrote three songs for Kelly Clarkson's March 2009 studio album All I Ever Wanted: "Whyyawannabringmedown," "The Day We Fell Apart" and the title track, " All I Ever Wanted", and produced a fourth, entitled "I Want You." The album sold over 900,000 copies in the US, debuted at No. The duo co-wrote and co-produced two songs, " Yesterday" and "Take a Bow" and produced a third, " The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face". The Watters and Biancaniello duo also worked on the British singer's Leona Lewis' 2007 debut album, Spirit, which sold seven million units worldwide.
8 song of the decade on the chart, went gold, and was nominated for two Grammy Awards (Best Female R&B Vocal Performance and Best R&B Song). 1 on Billboard's Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, became the No. In April 2007, Watters and Biancaniello wrote and produced another hit single for Fantasia: " When I See You", which spent 8 weeks at No. Some of the team's hits have included, Natasha Bedingfield's " Love Like This", and Keri Hilson's "Energy". In 2007 Watters formed the production/songwriting team The Runaways along with Biancaniello, Wayne Wilkins, Rico Love, and Ryan Tedder. The single went platinum and won Billboard's Top Selling Single of the Year and Top Selling R&B/Hip-Hop Single of the Year for 2004 and Billboard's American Urban Radio Networks Top Selling R&B/Hip-Hop Single of the Year for 2005. The song debuted at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 chart. In June 2004 Watters and Biancaniello co-wrote with Watters' wife and fellow American Idol contestant Tamyra Gray, " I Believe" released by American Idol Season 3 winner Fantasia. The album went on to sell 12 million copies worldwide. Watters and Biancaniello co-wrote the song "I Surrender" on the album that debuted at No. In 2001 produced, co-wrote with Biancaniello and made background vocals with Mary Griffin in What about love for the album Bad Girls, for the spanish singer Mónica Naranjo.Īlso released in March 2002 was Celine Dion's multi-platinum album "A New Day Has Come". The single went top 10 in 8 other countries' singles charts. Watters and Biancaniello produced and co-wrote with Anastacia another single for the artist, " One Day in Your Life", released in March 2002.
The single was a hit internationally going Top 5 in 10 countries. Released in February 1999 the partners produced and co-wrote with Anastacia her debut single " I'm Outta Love," from her album Not That Kind which went on to platinum and multiplatinum status in 10 countries. The platinum single was Simpson's first top ten hit which reached No. The partners wrote and produced Jessica Simpson's hit " I Wanna Love You Forever," released in September 1999. Watters and Biancaniello soon became production partners and have been writing songs and producing together ever since. Watters met record producer and songwriter Louis Biancaniello in 1996 while working on Color Me Badd's third album Now and Forever. Color Me Badd disbanded in 1998 and Watters went on to pursue a career in production and songwriting.
2 Billboard Hot 100)", I Adore Mi Amor" and " All 4 Love". Watters and Color Me Badd sold 8.8 million records over their career and had 9 Top 40 Hits on the Billboard Hot 100 including three number ones with " I Wanna Sex You Up" (No. Bell introduced them to his management team and the group were soon signed to Giant Records in 1990. After forming, the group was soon discovered by Robert "Kool" Bell of Kool and the Gang fame. Watters formed what later would be known as the R&B singing group Color Me Badd in high school along with fellow members Mark Calderon, Kevin Thornton, and Bryan Abrams.