Since then, Minaj has put out several other popular albums and has garnered countless accolades
She won both “Best Female Vocalist of the year” and “Performer of the year” at the 1987 Tejano Music Awards. Selena made it big in her singing career, her 1990 album was the first Tejano record to achieve gold record status. This status meant that it sold more than 500,000 copies. Many people loved Selena as well as her music, her recordings continued to sale strong. Being as popular as Selena was, she finally took a break from her tours and hectic schedule to marry Chris Perez.
Aaliyah 's smart and strong connections have truly helped her in cementing her name in the industry as she collaborated with an equally famous music conglomerate Atlantic Records with Missy Elliott and Timbaland is supporting her career. Her second album, One In A Million, is such an effective follow-up as it 's been patronized well and great by the general music audience amounting to eight million copies purchased worldwide. This is the time of Aaliyah 's career that her name is a staple to every music fast and list and this very album yielded famous songs such as Hot Like Fire, 4 Page Letter and If Your Girl Only Knew, all of which placing a respectable rank on US Billboard Hot 100. Aaliyah also managed to penetrate the Hollywood scene with the movie Romeo Must Die alongside the action superstar Jet Li and this is where Try Again was born and released. The last known album that Aaliyah has released is her self-titled compilation in July 2001.
Missy Elliot is one of the greatest female MC’s of her time. Elliott is a Grammy winning female rapper who took the game by storm with hits such as “Get Ur Freak On” and “Work It”. She has four Grammy’s and was the first female MC to be invited into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. On top of her vast collection of awards, Elliott is a role model for young people everywhere.
The hit “Freeway of Love”, was number 1 on R&B and 3 on Pop charts in 1985. Also in the late 80s she did more duets with other artists. The other artist includes George Michael, Whitney Houston, Elton John and Michael McDonald, to name a few. Also her duet with George Michael, “I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me)”, was number 1 on the pop charts and on the R&B charts it was number 5. Also she recorded another gospel album.
She started to take singing lessons, and got her first small role in the all-black Broadway show “Dance With Your God.” Her performances quickly “caught the interest of a talent scout from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)”, casting her in movies such as, “Cabin in the Sky,” “Stormy Weather,” “Death of a Gunfighter,” “The Wiz” and many more (biography.com). Her recording career “includes over forty albums and twenty-six singles”, one being a cover of the title song for “Stormy Weather”. Her career won her eight Grammy Awards, two Tony Awards, a spot in the Pittsburgh Jazz Hall of Fame, and national honors from the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (pittsburghmusichistory.com). In the 1980’s, after the death of her father and son, she made her way back into the limelight with her award-winning show, “Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music”.
Initially, in 1989 he only sold 20,000 copies of his first album Garth Brooks, but his momentum grew immensely and after he became more established within the next year he sold over nine million copies of his first album. From then on no one could stop him. For instance, only over a three year span his songs No Fences (1990) Ropin’ The Wind (1991), Chase (1992) and In Pieces (1993) combined made for 46 million sold copies (Byworth, 258). Today, with 149 million albums sold the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) names Garth Brooks the #1 selling solo artist in United States history.
so he continued in clubs and bars. Three years later Garth signed a contract with Capitol Records, where he released his first album (Brooks). Garth Brooks first album set off chain reaction of big hits. In 1989 his first album “Garth Brooks” was released (Brooks).
Views sold over 852,000 copies in the first week of release and achieved over 245 million streams, more than previous record 115.2 million by Beyonce’s Lemonade. Views became Drake’s sixth consecutive number one album. As of August 2016 Views has sold 1.4 million copies in the U.S. overall, it has attained one billion streams in the U.S. according to the record
These awards include Album of The Year, in addition to the album’s individual record-breaking success with the general public (Beyoncé).
This single, which she co-wrote at the age of twenty-one in 1938, sold one million copies, and stayed on the pop charts for seventeen weeks thus bringing
Carey married Cannon in 2008, but they announced they were separated last year after six years of marriage. Carey has sold over 200 million albums during her career, making her the top-selling female artist of the millennium. Some of her projects include her self-titled debut, Emotions, Music Box, Daydream, Butterfly, The Emancipation of Mimi, and her
As Selena continued to grow, so did her career. She became more and more popular. She recorded her first album in 1984 with the
Contributions of the Ancient Romans Although the Ancient Romans adopted they ways of the Greeks, they have had many contributions. The Roman Empire is known to be one of the greatest empires that existed in the western part of the eastern hemisphere. While ruling and expanding their empire, the Romans done so many things that have shaped the world today. Here are some of the contributions of the ancient Romans.
She began working on her debut album and in 2008 her debut single “Just Dance” was nominated for a Grammy Award. Lady Gaga's debut single, "Just Dance," was released to radio in early 2008, and received both popular and commercial acclaim. The song was then nominated for a Grammy Award (for best dance recording) in
