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.
As Selena continued to grow, so did her career. She became more and more popular. She recorded her first album in 1984 with the
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
The Braxtons released their debut and only studio album, So Many Ways in 1996. It got to #83 on the Billboard 100. Two years later, Tamar met a record producer to work on a debut album, Ridiculous.
Where would the world be without natural born leaders and people who are willing to inspire and change others? Demi Lovato is a influential person Despite her hard times and struggles she experienced throughout her life she started in many films and also hit singles. Demi Lovato born August 20, 1992 in Dallas Texas Lovato is the middle child of three sisters her older sister Dallas is also a singer and actress. Growing up Lovato won several talent contest and performed in famous venues. She started show business at the age of 10.(Mizouchi 1) From a young age Lovato was always around actresses and singers because her mom Diana Lovato a cheerleader and Apple actress being around actresses and singers because of her mom influence her to become a singer and actress.
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
No-one said acting was easy,e right? 13 Lauryn Hill In the late 90’s Lauryn Hill released a hugely successful album called The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill which debuted at number one on the U.S. Billboard 200 and went on to sell approximately eight million copies. But that was it. The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill remains her only solo album and since then she has only managed to release a handful of singles.
