26 years ago today, Aaliyah released ‘Try Again.’ The song off the ‘Romeo Must Die’ soundtrack became one of the singer’s classic hits. It initially debuted at number 57 on the Billboard Hot 100 before making its way to the top of the chart in June 2000. It made history as the first song to reach number one on the chart without any pure sales — a record only recently matched by Taylor Swift’s ‘The Fate of Ophelia.’ At the 2001 Grammy ceremony, Aaliyah earned a nomination for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance after winning two VMAs for the song: Best Female Video and Best Video from a Film. The song has received retrospective acclaim from music critics, who highlight it as an innovative piece of music, majorly due in part to its futuristic sound at the time of its initial release. The Timbaland-produced classic was credited by The New York Times for “helping to smuggle the innovative techniques of electronic dance music onto the American pop charts” and “establishing Aaliyah as pop m...