The concert won Best Major Concert Act (Female Category) at the 2001 Aliw Awards. Her special guests included Janno Gibbs, Ogie Alcasid, Jaya, KC Montero and Gabby Eigenmann. The most notable performance of the show is when she sang "On the Wings of Love" while hanging on a harness in mid-air and 'flying' above the audience. The two-night sold out concert caused a big traffic jam along EDSA.
It paraded stunningly exquisite costumes, intricate stage design and pyrotechnics. The concert was personally directed and conceptualized by Velasquez herself. It is also the first time in the Philippines that a limited edition 48-page colored magazine was released together with the album.Īfter releasing the album, Velasquez staged the R2K: The Concert, her most notable concert series held at the Araneta Coliseum for two consecutive sold-out days on April 7–8, 2000 and produced by Viva Concerts & Events.
The VCD contains six music videos done by Velasquez with director Louie Ignacio including "One Love" which features actors Antoinette Taus and Dingdong Dantes. It also marked the first time a Philippine artist released an album with a VCD. She also featured actor Gabby Eigenmann and MTV Pilipinas VJ KC Montero to do a rap adlib for her song "For the Love of You". R2K is Velasquez' third all-covers album after Tagala Talaga and Retro. It is the best-selling album by a female artist in Philippine history and stayed in record charts for a year. R2K is Velasquez's most successful album both commercially and critically.
It was certified 12x platinum by the Philippine Association of the Record Industry (PARI) but was never awarded by VIVA Records. The album was produced by Velasquez and certified platinum in two weeks after its release with 40,000 units sold. It consists various covers of the past millennium's contemporary hits from the 1980s such as Jeffrey Osborne's "On the Wings of Love" to the 1990s such as Aerosmith's "I Don't Want to Miss a Thing". The album is Velasquez' second from Viva Music Corporation after Drawn. About R2K is the tenth studio album by Filipino singer-actress Regine Velasquez, released on Novemby Viva Records in the Philippines in CD and cassette format and later as a digital download.
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