98º and Rising

98 Degrees and Rising is the second album released by 98°, released on October 20, 1998 by Motown Records. The album marked their first to break the top 20 on the Billboard 200 chart, with its peak of number fourteen.

The album spawned a total of four singles: “True to Your Heart”, “Because of You”, “The Hardest Thing”, and “I Do (Cherish You)”, three of them which reached the top 40 on the Billboard Hot 100, except for “True to Your Heart”, which did not chart. “I Do (Cherish You)” is the highest charting single of their career, with its peak of number five.