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In addition to music, Ne-Yo served as judge for the reality competition series World of Dance from 2017 to 2020 alongside Jennifer Lopez and Derek Hough. His seventh studio album, Good Man, was released on June 8, 2018.
Ne-Yo's sixth studio album, Non-Fiction, followed in 2015. (2012), saw the international success of its lead single " Let Me Love You (Until You Learn to Love Yourself)", which certified platinum in the United States, became Ne-Yo's fifth chart-topping song in the United Kingdom, and sold over two million copies. Libra Scale (2010), Ne-Yo's fourth studio album, reached number one in the UK R&B Singles and Albums Charts and number nine on the US Billboard 200, seeing a decline in overall sales. Year of the Gentleman has been certified platinum twice in the US, selling two million copies, also platinum three times in the UK and once in Japan. Its singles " Closer" and " Miss Independent" were also nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance, Best Male R&B Vocal Performance, and Best R&B Song. His third studio album, Year of the Gentleman (2008), saw continued success and further Grammy Award nominations for Best Contemporary R&B Album as well as Album of the Year. It is certified platinum in the United States, United Kingdom, Japan and Australia and saw the success of the single " So Sick", which topped the Billboard Hot 100 chart in the United States.īecause of You (2007), Ne-Yo's second studio album, was the second number one platinum-selling album debuted on the Billboard 200 and Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums charts, and received the Grammy Award for Best Contemporary R&B Album at the 50th Grammy Awards. His debut studio album, In My Own Words (2006), was critically and commercially successful, reaching number one on the Billboard 200 chart in the United States. Ne-Yo's debut solo single, " Stay", was released in 2005 to moderate success. The single's successful release in the United States prompted an informal meeting between Ne-Yo and Def Jam's label head and the signing of a recording contract. He gained fame for his songwriting abilities when he penned Mario's 2004 hit " Let Me Love You". I wouldn't call the game over yet.Shaffer Chimere Smith (born October 18, 1979), better known by his stage name Ne-Yo, is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, actor, dancer, and television judge. "We have a lot of cloudy skies, and that's largely tied to delta and delta-plus," said Beth Ann Bovino, chief U.S. Heading into the end of the summer, the unusual burden of convincing workers to fill a historically high level of job openings will be critical for the economy. And a gauge that measures the employment level compared to the total working-age population – a metric critically important to Federal Reserve policymakers – rose to 58.4%, its best since March 2020 and now just 2.7 percentage points below its peak. Labor force participation inched up, at least, to 61.7% as the unemployment rate slid to 5.3%. While the total employed is well below its pre-pandemic level, it did improve by 1.04 million. July's nonfarm payrolls report provided a raft of good news across a variety of areas. Are schools going to reopen? If they're not going to reopen, if people are limited in their ability to send their kids to school, some people are going to be hard-pressed to go back to the labor market." "So I guess it's dependent on what happens in the fall. "They're all important, they're all interconnected," said Joseph LaVorgna, chief economist for the Americas at Natixis and former chief White House economist during the Trump administration. Each could continue to play a role, though renewed precautions over the delta strain are likely to become front and center. Enhanced benefits, child care issues and fear over the pandemic and, now its delta variant, have long led the list of things keeping people out of their jobs.