THE WILD CHILD

Still, in that year, the video earned Farris the Billboard Music Video Awards Best Pop/Rock New Artist Clip of the Year. She was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance (1996). As of 2024, Taylor Swift is now tied with four other solo women for the fifth-most weeks spent at No. 1 on the Pop Airplay chart. She is currently on the same level as Dionne Farris (“I Know”), Mariah Carey ("We Belong Together") and Miley Cyrus (“Flowers”), who joined this list earlier this year. And on her debut album was Farris’ biggest hit of her career so far, “I Know,” which stayed on the Billboard Hot 100 chart for 38 weeks, reaching a peak of No.4. If the ’90s could be described in one song, “I Know” would basically be it. Good luck getting this earworm out of your head anytime soon! After Farris left Columbia, she decided to quit major labels and do music completely her way in 2004 when she started her own record label, Free & Clear Records. “I don’t want any parts of the traditional experience of the music industry”, she said during an interview with PopMatters in 2009. “What I would like to do with Free and Clear records is help promote other artists who have talent but also put them up on game and make sure they know their business and know what the business is … and be fair about it.” The first artist Farris signed to the label was herself, and she released the company’s first album, Signs of Life, in 2004.