"The First Time"
Single by Surface
from the album 3 Deep
B-side"Closer Than Friends"
ReleasedUnited Kingdom October 1990

United States October 11, 1990

Germany December 6, 1990
Recorded1989
Genre
Length4:16
LabelColumbia
Songwriter(s)Brian Simpson
Bernard Jackson
Producer(s)Surface
Surface singles chronology
"Can We Spend Some Time"
(1990)
"The First Time"
(1990)
"All I Want Is You"
(1991)

"The First Time" is a single by American R&B/pop music trio Surface that hit number one on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1991 for two weeks, the trio's only chart-topper. The song also spent one week at number one on the U.S. R&B chart[2] and two weeks atop the adult contemporary chart.[3]

Charts

See also

References

  1. 1 2 Breihan, Tom (November 3, 2021). "The Number Ones: Surface's "The First Time". Stereogum. Retrieved December 19, 2023. Consider the chorus of "The First Time," a tender R&B ballad that was the only #1 hit for the group known as Surface...and "The First Time" sounded like a relic of the smoothed-out quiet storm '80s.
  2. 1 2 Whitburn, Joel (2004). Top R&B/Hip-Hop Singles: 1942-2004. Record Research. p. 559.
  3. 1 2 Whitburn, Joel (2002). Top Adult Contemporary: 1961-2001. Record Research. p. 237.
  4. "Bubbling Down Under: Week commencing 11 February 1991". Retrieved February 20, 2022.
  5. "Item Display - RPM - Library and Archives Canada". Collectionscanada.gc.ca. 1991-02-16. Retrieved 2018-12-21.
  6. "Item Display - RPM - Library and Archives Canada". Collectionscanada.gc.ca. 1991-03-02. Retrieved 2018-12-21.
  7. Charts.nz
  8. Cash Box Top 100 Singles, February 2, 1991
  9. Nielsen Business Media, Inc (December 21, 1991). "1991 The Year in Music & Video: Top Pop Singles". Billboard. 103 (51): YE-14. {{cite journal}}: |last1= has generic name (help)
  10. "Cash Box Year-End Charts: Top 100 Pop Singles, December 28, 1991". Archived from the original on December 28, 2018. Retrieved December 28, 2018.
  11. "Billboard Hot 100 60th Anniversary Interactive Chart". Billboard. Retrieved 10 December 2018.


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