The Boy Is Mine

Brandy and Monica recorded 'The Boy Is Mine' as a duet for Brandy's second album Never Say Never, with production and writing handled by Brandy alongside Rodney Jerkins and LaShawn Daniels, who built the track around a sparse, percussive R&B arrangement designed to showcase the two vocalists trading verses. Released in 1998 on Atlantic Records, 'The Boy Is Mine' spent thirteen weeks at number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming one of the best-selling singles of the year and a defining moment in late-1990s R&B, with its rivalry narrative between two of the genre's biggest young stars generating significant media attention. The track remains one of the most commercially successful duets in pop and R&B history, winning a Grammy Award for Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group, and it cemented both Brandy and Monica's status as defining vocalists of their generation while becoming a touchstone reference point for collaborative R&B singles.