Test your knowledge of Usher's biggest hits, deep cuts and iconic moments.
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His catalog swings between whispered bedroom ballads and peak-time club records, and both are in play here: the slow burn of 'U Got It Bad', the crunk snap of 'Yeah!'. Name each one from a short clip.
The details decide the close calls: how many copies Confessions moved in a week, how many number ones it spun off, and which of his hits actually came years before it.
His songs sort into tiers. Start with the Confessions number ones everyone knows, then the slow jams, then the club reinventions, and finally the comeback singles that only real fans place.
The album everyone owned in 2004 hands out the easy points: 'Yeah!' with Lil Jon and Ludacris, 'Burn', 'Confessions Part II' and 'My Boo' with Alicia Keys. Four number ones from one record, and most players name them on the first note, so they open any Usher quiz.
Before the club hits, Usher was a balladeer. The spoken-intro 'Nice & Slow' and the number-one ballads 'U Remind Me' and 'U Got It Bad' all trade on the same low, unhurried delivery. Casual fans still catch these, most of them recorded before Confessions.
This is where the quiz opens up. 'Love in This Club' with Young Jeezy, the will.i.am-produced 'OMG' and the Pitbull team-up 'DJ Got Us Fallin' in Love' show Usher chasing each new dance sound, and they land far from the Confessions ballads that made him famous.
What sorts the diehards sits outside the juggernaut: the falsetto Grammy-winner 'Climax', the slow-build 'Good Kisser', the Confessions-era cut 'Caught Up' and the early 'You Make Me Wanna...'. Land these from a short clip and you have gone well past the one album most players stop at.
The Confessions singles come up first, 'Yeah!', 'Burn', 'Confessions Part II' and 'My Boo', plus the slow jams 'U Got It Bad' and 'Nice & Slow' and later club hits 'Love in This Club' and 'OMG'.
Confessions makes the start easy, since so many of his best-known songs come from that one 2004 album. It gets tricky once the quiz moves to his pre-Confessions ballads and his later club reinventions.
No. Confessions is the core, but the quiz reaches back to 'Nice & Slow' and 'U Remind Me' and forward to 'OMG', 'Climax' and 'Good Kisser', so knowing one album only gets you halfway.
His full name is Usher Raymond IV. He was born on October 14, 1978, in Dallas, Texas, grew up in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and came up as an artist in Atlanta, Georgia.
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