Alicia Keys celebrates 20 years since the release of ‘The Diary of Alicia Keys’, her second studio album

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Alicia Keys is celebrating. The 15-time Grammy Award-winning artist and global music icon celebrates, this December, the 20th anniversary of his second studio album with the publication of The Diary of Alicia Keys 20.

And to celebrate it, a new expanded digital edition with unpublished content, which will be available in digital, 360RA and Dolby Atmos. With a total of 24 themesincludes nine bonus tracksamong them Golden Childan unpublished rarity from Alicia’s personal archive that is now available.

Four new music videos have been released by The Diary of Alicia Keys: Karma, You Don’t Know My Name, If I Ain’t Got You and Diary (with Tony! Toni! TonĂ©! and Jermaine Paul), plus the lyric video for the unreleased song Golden Child.

A few weeks ago, specifically on December 1, Keys wanted to celebrate the milestone with a intimate anniversary concertonce in a lifetime, in which he performed the album from start to finish, in the Webster Hall, New York.

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Published in December 2003, The Diary of Alicia Keys, debuted at number 1 on the Billboard 200, with the best sales of a female artist in its first week of that year. The album had three Top 10 singles: You Don’t Know My Name, If I Ain’t Got You and Diary. Furthermore, he added three new Grammy Awards: Best R&B Album, Best Female R&B Vocal Performance (If I Ain’t Got You) and Best R&B Song (You Don’t Know My Name) to his career total. The album, which was certified four times Platinum by the RIAA, has sold more than five million copies in the United States and more than eight million worldwide.

Since the 2001 release of their debut album, Songs in A MinorKeys has sold more than 65 million records and created an unprecedented repertoire of hits and achievements.

List of songs The Diary of Alicia Keys 20

1. Harlem’s Nocturne

2. Karma

3. Heartburn

4. If I Was Your Woman/Walk On By

5. You Don’t Know My Name

6. If I Ain’t Got You

7. Diary (featuring Tony! Toni! Toné! & Jermaine Paul)

8. Dragon Days

9. Wake Up

10. So Simple (featuring Lellow)

11. When You Really Love Someone

12. Feeling U, Feeling Me (Interlude)

13. Slow Down

14. Samsonite Man

15. Nobody Not Really

16. If I Ain’t Got You (Orchestral Version) (featuring Queen Charlotte’s Global Orchestra) (from Netflix’s “Queen Charlotte”)

17. Golden Child

18. You Don’t Know My Name/Will You Ever Know It (Reggae Mix)

19. Diary (featuring Tony! Toni! Toné! & Jermaine Paul) (Hani Mixshow)

20. If I Ain’t Got You (Spanish Version) (featuring Queen Charlotte’s Global Orchestra (from Netflix’s “Queen Charlotte”)

21. Streets of New York (AOL Broadband Rocks! Live at Webster Hall – Dec.1, 2003)

22. If I Ain’t Got You (AOL Broadband Rocks! Live at Webster Hall – Dec.1, 2003)

23. Diary (feat. Jermaine Paul) (AOL Broadband Rocks! Live at Webster Hall – Dec. 1, 2003)

24. You Don’t Know My Name (AOL Broadband Rocks! Live at Webster Hall – Dec. 1, 2003)

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