Coco Jones could possibly be having fun with a really particular Friday as soon as 2024 Grammy nominations are introduced, however she and her followers can kick off their celebrations a little bit bit earlier: Billboard can solely reveal that Coco Jones might be MTV’s World PUSH Artist for November.
The announcement comes lower than every week after Jones marked the one-year anniversary of What I Didn’t Inform You, her debut EP with Def Jam. That mission and its accompanying North American headlining tour helped the powerhouse vocalist transition from Disney star to award-winning R&B dynamo. Previously yr, Jones has picked up finest new artist honors from each the BET Awards and the NAACP Picture Awards, in addition to a whopping six nominations on the upcoming Soul Prepare Music Awards (Nov. 26), together with album, tune and video of the yr.
What I Didn’t Inform You homes Jones’ very first Billboard Sizzling 100 hit, “ICU.” The DJ Camper-helmed ballad spent 20 weeks on the rating, peaking at No. 62. The observe, which additionally obtained a remix from fellow Disney alum Justin Timberlake, topped each Mainstream R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay and R&B Digital Music Gross sales.
“‘ICU’ actually fell into my lap, I really feel, as a result of I used to be so shocked… what I ended up doing that day within the studio… I heard this observe by Camper, and I couldn’t skip it,” Jones says in a press launch saying the PUSH information. “Then I needed to get actually susceptible and inform this story that I really feel like individuals can relate to: whenever you love somebody they usually didn’t do something mistaken to you however you guys are simply mistaken for one another.”
“ICU” marked a brand new frontier for Jones’ profession, changing into her first RIAA Platinum single and introducing her to scores of recent listeners. The tune’s success additionally gave approach to the deluxe version of What I Didn’t Inform You, which arrived earlier this yr (Jan. 20) and featured three new songs along with the beforehand launched “Easy” (with Babyface).
“I feel my favourite line is the primary line ‘one thing about your fingers on my physique’ as a result of I simply really feel prefer it snaps individuals’s consideration… I really feel prefer it offers me a southern twang,” Jones says. “It jogs my memory the place I’m from and it shocked those that I might go that low. It’s only a actually good line to me. It’s actually strong.”
As MTV‘s featured World PUSH Artist for the month of November, Jones will associate with the leisure iconoclast all month to debate her roots, the tales and reminiscences behind her music and the artists and eras that encourage her. For Jones, The Cheetah Women have been a formative a part of her childhood, particularly the tune “Cinderella,” which she hails as a “woman energy anthem.” “I used to be the largest Cheetah Women fan,” she gushes. “That was my first live performance ever truly and I believed they requested me to return up on stage, however my mother mentioned no.”
Jones can also be set to debut two unique efficiency movies for “ICU” and “Double Again,” the latter of which she credit to the “Brandys, Aaliyahs and Future’s Childs” of the ’90s and describes as “the most effective songs to get [her] make-up performed to or to do [her] make-up to.”
The MTV PUSH initiative goals to attach followers throughout the globe with a brand new music artist each month by way of dwell performances, unique broadcast premieres of music movies, interviews and video content material. Earlier MTV PUSH artists embody Lizzo, Doja Cat, Billie Eilish, SZA, Chloe X Halle, H.E.R., Jack Harlow, Jorja Smith, BROCKHAMPTON and extra.
Watch an unique clip of Coco Jones performing and speaking about “ICU” above.
