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A child prodigy, Taylor Swift (born on December 13, 1989) made her first visit to the country music capital Nashville when she was just eleven, handing out tapes of herself to labels. To help develop her songwriting, her family moved from Pennsylvania to Nashville where she became the youngest staff songwriter ever signed by Sony/ATV Tree Publishing. Taylor had her first hit at 16 in 2006 with Tim McGraw, following it with a self-titled debut album, which produced four more hits. Her second album Fearless was released in 2008, selling over four million copies, helping to make her America's biggest-selling artist of the year. She followed with Speak Now in 2010, preceded by its lead single “Mine” which debuted into the Hot 100 at Number 3. She won two Grammy Awards for the single “Mean” and embarked on a world tour. In 2012, she released the track \"We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together,” the lead single from her fourth album Red. The single became the fastest single in digital history, reaching Number 1 on the iTunes Chart just an hour after its release. She followed this success with “Begin Again,” “I Knew You Were Trouble,” “Everything Has Changed,” and “Red.” Following its release, the album soared to the top of the Billboard 200. With more awards coming her way, Swift wasted no time getting back in the studio to pen her fifth full-length, 1989. The album was released in 2014 and featured the hit “Shake It Off,” which earned her another Number 1 on the Hot 100. After the further singles “Blank Space,” “Bad Blood,” and “New Romantics,” Swift announced she was taking a short break to work on her new album. Reputation was released in 2017 and was led by the chart-topping single “Look What You Made Me Do.” The second single, “...Ready for It,” saw the light later that year, reaching Number 4 in the US, with the album selling more than one million copies in its first four days on sale. In 2019, she returned with “Me!,” the lead single from her seventh studio album Lover, released in August of that year. At the turn of the decade, Swift surprised her fans with Folklore (2020), which broke several records across streaming platforms, and the more experimental sister album Evermore, released less than five months after Taylor Swift’s eighth full-length. Its lead single “Willow” climbed to Number 28 on Billboard’s Adult Top 40. Following a legal dispute over her back catalog with former label Big Machine, she set out to re-record new versions of her earlier albums, starting with 2008’s Fearless (Taylor’s Version) and Red (Taylor’s Version) in 2021. Both albums debuted at Number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100. Midnights, her first collection of new material since 2020's Evermore, appeared in 2022 and also shot straight to the top of the pop charts in the US. Speak Now (Taylor's Version), a re-recording of her 2010 third studio full-length, came out in 2023 and included cameos by Fall Out Boy and Hayley Williams from Paramore.
The daughter of an African-American father and a Creole mother, Beyoncé Giselle Knowles won her first talent show singing John Lennon's \"Imagine\" at the age of 7 and met LaTavia Roberson and Kelly Rowland at an audition the following year for a girl group that went on to become Girl's Tyme. Beyoncé's father, Matthew Knowles, took over the management and the group ultimately evolved into Destiny's Child in 1993. Four years later – with the addition of LeToya Lockett - the group was signed to Columbia and on their way to becoming the biggest-selling female group in the world, releasing six commercially acclaimed albums between 1998 and 2004. Beyoncé then launched her debut solo album Dangerously in Love in 2003, including the massive international hit \"Crazy in Love,\" also featuring rapper – and future husband - Jay-Z. In 2002, she added acting to her list of talents when she starred in the film Austin Powers: Goldmember before going on to take roles in Dreamgirls (2006), The Pink Panther (2006), and Cadillac Records (2008). Albums B'Day (2006) and I Am... Sasha Fierce (2008) continued her reign of success, the latter of which won six Grammy awards. She returned with fourth studio album 4 in 2011, which went straight in at the peak of the Billboard 200. Surprise self-titled album Beyoncé arrived in 2013 with corresponding music videos and featured talents such as Jay-Z and Frank Ocean and even featured a guest appearance from Beyoncé and Jay-Z's daughter, Blue Ivy. The critically-acclaimed visual album Lemonade was released in 2016 and famously sparked rumors around the inner-workings of her marriage to Jay-Z when audiences began analyzing its scorned, emotive lyrical content. The album debuted at Number 1 on the Billboard 200 and being the sixth consecutive studio album to do so meant that it made Billboard history. The album featured the hit song “Formation” which she performed live during her slot at the highly-coveted NFL Super Bowl 50 halftime show. As part of a collaboration called The Carters, Beyoncé and Jay-Z released the album Everything Is Love (2018) following two world tours in which the duo performed together. It was released immediately after the premiere of the music video for the single “Apes**t” which was filmed at the Louvre Museum in Paris, France. After her headlining performance at the 2018 Coachella music festival, in 2019 a documentary titled Homecoming featured footage from the concert and the behind-the-scenes production process. It was accompanied by Homecoming: The Live Album which included a cover of Maze's “Before I Let Go,” which was released as a single. Knowles provided the voice for Nala in 2019’s remake of The Lion King. She provided the new song “Spirit” to the film and it’s soundtrack The Lion King – The Gift. In June 2020, in the wake of the protests sparked by the death of George Floyd, Knowles released the single “Black Parade.” Beyoncé would return in 2022 with her seventh studio effort Renaissance, a celebration of black queer club music that shot straight to the top of the Billboard 200.
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out of Detroit in a whirlwind of controversy, hype and snarling put-downs, Dr. Dre's protégé Eminem took the hip-hop world by storm in 1999 with his major label debut 'The Slim Shady LP'. Singles 'My Name Is', 'Guilty Conscience' and 'Forgot About Dre' gatecrashed the charts and instantly introduced him as a celebrity-baiting, acerbic comic bound for superstardom. 'The Marshall Mathers LP' (2000) went even further, with 'Stan' reaching number one in the UK and showing a genuinely sharp talent far beyond the bad boy image. Emerging from trailer park beginnings to enter freestyle rap battles, Eminem told his life story in the movie '8 Mile' (2001). 'Lose Yourself', from the film's soundtrack, claimed the Academy Award for Best Original Song and a more reflective character emerged, battling with fame and personal issues on 'The Eminem Show' (2003) and 'Encore' (2004). After a three-year hiatus during which he entered rehab, he returned in 2009 with the 'Rehab' album and won the Grammy Award for Best Rap Album for 'Relapse' in 2010 and for 'Recovery' the following year along with a MOBO Award for Best International Act in 2010.Learning to sing in his local church's gospel choir, 14-year-old Usher (born 14 October 1978 in Dallas, Texas) was spotted at a talent contest and signed to LA Reid's label LaFace Records. As a smooth singing teen starlet, he released his first singles while still at school, before making a huge splash with second album My Way (1997). \"You Make Me Wanna\" hit Number 2 in the US singles chart (Number 1 in the UK), while \"Nice & Slow\" went one step further, topping the US charts and establishing a new R&B superstar. Huge, multi-platinum albums 8701 (2001), Confessions (2004), Here I Stand (2008) and Number 1 singles \"U Remind Me,\" \"Yeah!\" featuring Lil Jon and Ludacris, \"Burn\" and \"Love in This Club\" were followed by a flood of awards as Usher matured from a slick, pop playboy into a confessional soul star. Along the way, he's also found time to act in numerous Hollywood films, buy a stake in NBA basketball team Cleveland Cavaliers and sing at Michael Jackson's funeral. Albums-wise, he followed up 2008's Here I Stand with another chart-topping triumph in the form of Raymond v. Raymond, released in 2010, and seventh album Looking 4 Myself, which also rocketed to the top of the US Billboard 200 in 2012. He returned four years later with his eighth studio album Hard II Love (No. 5), for which he enlisted the talents of Young Thug (\"No Limit\") Future (\"Rivals\") and the Panamanian salsa singer Rubén Blades on \"Champions,\" a track included on the soundtrack of the film Hands of Stone. Two years later, he teamed up with Zaytoven for collaborative album A, which featured guest spots from Future and Gunna and went to number 31 on the US Billboard 200. In August 2023, Usher unveiled a new single with Summer Walker and 21 Savage, \"Good Good,\" which went to number 68 and gave fans the second taste of his ninth album following the release of single \"Glu\" in March 2023, which was co-produced by Avila Brothers, Lil Jon and Sean Garrett.
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his blend of R&B, hip hop, and pop, Drake became of the world's best-selling artists during the 2010s. He was born as \"Aubrey Drake Graham\" in Toronto, Canada, on October 24, 1986, and split his childhood years between Toronto and Memphis. Drake's time in the latter city broadened his musical tastes and paved the way for him to become one of the first Canadian rappers to make an international breakthrough. Initial interest was sparked by the mixtapes he released on the internet, along the 2007 single \"Replacement Girl,\" which prompted Lil Wayne to invite him on tour. This led to another successful mixtape called So Far Gone, as well as collaborations with the likes of Jay-Z, Eminem, and Kanye West. He finally charted in his own right with \"Best I Ever Had\" and \"Every Girl,\" both of which entered the Top 10 in the same week in 2009. His 2010 debut album Thank Me Later went straight to Number 1 in the US, followed by Take Care in 2011. Preceded by the promotional single \"Wu-Tang Forever, \" Drake’s third studio effort Nothing Was the Same arrived in 2013 and shot straight to the top of the North American charts. In 2015, he released If You're Reading This It's Too Late, another mixtape that went straight onto streaming services with no prior announcement. It sold more than 1 million copies and made Drake a platinum-selling artist. His fourth studio album Views (2016) achieved pole position in both the US and Canada, spearheaded by chart-topping hits such as \"Hotline Bling\" and \"One Dance\" with WizKid and Kyla. He followed this success with the mixtape More Life in 2017. His fifth full-length, Scorpion, was officially released in June 2018 as a double album and broke records on streaming platforms with more than 132 million plays in one day. During the following years, Drake continued to dominate the charts with star-studded releases such as the mixtape Dark Lane Demo Tapes (2020) and Certified Lover Boy (2021) which, despite receiving mixed reviews, still managed to debut atop the Billboard 200. That same year, he was named Artist of the Decade at the Billboard Awards ceremony. Honestly, Nevermind arrived in 2022 and became Drake's eleventh Number 1 album, featuring a newfound emphasis on dance music and house influences. Before the year ended, he returned to Number 1 with Her Loss, a collaborative album recorded alongside fellow chart-topping rapper 21 Savage.
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