Usher awards-American R&B singer, Usher Raymond IV was born in October 14, 1978 in Dallas, Texas in the United States of America.

Usher was born to Jonetta Patton O’Neal and Usher Raymond III. He shares the same mother with his stepbrother, Jack Lackey.

Usher joined the neighborhood church youth chorus in Chattanooga at age nine under his mother’s guidance.

There, his grandmother first heard him sing, though she didn’t think he was good enough to perform professionally until Usher joined a group.

Usher’s family relocated to Atlanta, Georgia, thinking that a larger city would offer more opportunities for exposing his ability. There, the climate was more hospitable for aspiring vocalists. He went to North Springs High School in Atlanta.

Usher career

Usher’s mother entered him in local singing contests when he was 12 years old, and this is how a music A&R from LaFace Records came to notice him.

Usher, his self-titled debut album, was published in 1994. With the release of My Way, his second album, in the late 1990s, he gained popularity.

It gave birth to his first number-one single on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100, “Nice & Slow,” as well as the top two singles, “You Make Me Wanna…,” and “My Way.”

The number-one singles “U Remind Me” and “U Got It Bad” as well as the top-three single “U Don’t Have to Call” were off of his third album, 8701 (2001). Eight million copies were sold globally, and in 2002 and 2003, it was recognized with its first two Grammy Awards for Best Male R&B Vocal Performance.

His 2004 album Confessions, which featured the number-one singles “Yeah!” (with Lil Jon and Ludacris), “Burn,” “Confessions Part II,” and “My Boo” (featuring Alicia Keys), as well as the top-ten “Caught Up,” made him one of the best-selling musicians of the 2000s decade.

The RIAA awarded it a Diamond certification for its global sales of more than 20 million copies. He released the albums Here I Stand (2008) and Raymond v. Raymond (2010) after divorcing his manager and mother in 2007.

Both of these albums debuted at the top of the Billboard 200 chart and, in turn, gave rise to the number-one singles “Love in This Club” (featuring Young Jeezy) and “OMG” (featuring will.i.am).

Before the top-fifteen song “More” was released, the EP Versus produced the top-five single “DJ Got Us Fallin’ in Love” (with Pitbull).

The top-ten single “Scream” from Looking 4 Myself (2012) debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 list as well. Grammy Awards were given to the R&B ballads “There Goes My Baby” and “Climax” in 2011 and 2013, respectively.

Juicy J’s “I Don’t Mind” (2014) also made it to the top fifteen, while Hard II Love (2016) peaked at number five on the Billboard 200 chart. He collaborated on the album A with the music producer Zaytoven, and it was published in 2018.

Usher has reportedly sold 23.8 million albums and 38.2 million digital songs in the US, earning the moniker “King of R&B” from a number of media sources.

He is one of the best-selling musicians of all time, with 80 million recordings sold internationally.

At the close of 2009, Billboard placed him as the second-most lucrative artist of the decade, the decade’s top Hot 100 artist, and the decade’s best solo album with Confessions.

The same publication ranked him sixth among the “Top 50 R&B/Hip-Hop Artists of the Past 25 Years” and fourteenth among the “Greatest of All Time Hot 100 Artists” on their respective lists.

Nine of Usher’s singles reached number one. He has received inductions into the Hollywood Walk of Fame, the Black Music and Entertainment Walk of Fame, and the Georgia Music Hall of Fame. He is regarded as a cultural icon and sex symbol.

Eight Grammy distinctions, 34 ASCAP Awards, nine Soul Train Music Awards, and eight American Music Awards are just a few of the numerous honors and distinctions that Usher has received.

Usher is the fifth-most honored performer at the Billboard Music trophies with 18 trophies. He is the owner of the record company Raymond-Braun Media Group (RBMG), a partnership with talent scout Scooter Braun that features Justin Bieber from Canada.

Usher is known for his humanitarian work in addition to his great music career. He founded the Usher’s New Look Foundation.

Checkout Usher’s awards, honors and achievements

Usher has amassed a long list of accolades over the course of his career, including a Diamond certification for Confessions, two multi-platinum albums in My Way and 8701, two platinum albums in Here I Stand and Raymond v. Raymond, among others, and cumulative album sales of over 23 million in the US and 43 million globally.

This includes 9 Soul Train Music Awards, 8 American Music Awards, 18 Billboard Music Awards, and 8 Grammy Awards. Usher won 11 awards in 2004 to become the most honored artist by Billboard.

He received the Golden Note Award at the 26th annual ASCAP Rhythm & Soul Music Awards in 2013. In terms of record sales, Yahoo Music ranked him second only to Michael Jackson as the top R&B act of the decade, while Fuse ranked him as the 10th most award-winning artist of all time.

He has sold more than 100 million records overall. Usher received a star at 6201 Hollywood Boulevard after being inducted into the 29th Annual Georgia Music Hall of Fame in 2007 and the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2016.

In terms of digital single sales globally, his tracks “Love in This Club” and “OMG” rank among the top 10. More than any other male solo artist at the time, Usher earned nine number-one and eighteen top-ten singles on the Billboard Hot 100, spending a total of 47 weeks at the top.

Usher held the record for the most total weeks spent at the top of the Hot 100 chart in a calendar year at the time with 28 weeks at number one in 2004 alone.

He became the first artist of the 2010s with “OMG” to amass number-one singles in the 1990s, 2000s, and 2010. He followed Stevie Wonder, Michael Jackson, Janet Jackson, and Madonna as the fifth artist in history to accomplish that milestone.

He also became the third male soloist in history to have at least one number-one song from five straight studio albums.

Usher tied Michael Jackson and Marvin Gaye for the most number-one singles of the 2000s on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart with 13, the most of the decade. In 2010, he also broke the record for most number-one singles on a single chart.

Usher has 16 number-one singles on the Airplay chart, with “You Make Me Wanna” (12 weeks) and “Climax” (11 weeks) having the longest runs on the latter. He also has 14 number-one hits on the Rhythmic list, 16 on the Mainstream R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart, and 14 number-one singles on the Rhythmic chart.

Several Billboard Year-End charts have included Usher at the top, including seven in 1998, seventeen in 2004, and one in 2010. He became the first performer since The Beatles in 1964 to have two singles occupy the top two spots on the Year-End Hot 100 chart with “Yeah!” and “Burn” in the lead positions.

“Yeah!” came in second place to Mariah Carey’s “We Belong Together” on the 2000s Billboard Decade-End list. He was listed at number 6 on Billboard’s list of the “Top 50 R&B/Hip-Hop Artists of the Past 25 Years” and was the second-most successful musician of the 2000s.

He was ranked number 14 on the “Greatest of All Time Hot 100 Artists” list, number 6 on the “Top 60 Male Artists of All-Time” list, and number 31 on the “35 Greatest R&B Artists of All-Time” list by the same publication.

Confessions was ranked 16 on their list of the “Greatest of All Time 200 Albums” and 10 on the list of the “Greatest 50 Albums Since ’93” by Vibe magazine.

They rank “Yeah!” at number 14 on their list of the “Greatest of All Time Hot 100 Songs” and at number 15 on their list of the “Greatest Songs of the 2000s”.

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