Usher is an American recording artist and actor. He rose to fame with the release of his second album My Way, which spawned his first Billboard Hot 100 number one hit, Nice and Slow. His follow up album 8701 produced the Billboard Hot 100 number-one hits U Remind Me and U Got It Bad. Both albums sold over 8 million copies worldwide, establishing Usher as one of the biggest selling R&B artists of the 1990s.
Usher's success continued with his album Confessions, which has sold over ten million copies in the United States, and been certified diamond by the RIAA. Confessions had the highest first week sales for an R&B artist in history, sold over 20 million copies worldwide, and was named the bestselling R&B album of the 2000s decade. It spawned a record breaking four consecutive Billboard Hot 100 number-one hits—Yeah!, Burn, Confessions Part II, and My Boo. At the Billboard Music Awards, he collected 11 trophies and was named overall artist of the year. Usher won two prizes at the People's Choice Awards and three more at the Grammys—for best contemporary R&B album, best R&B performance by a duo or group and best rap/sung collaboration, “Yeah!”.
To date, Usher has sold over 43 million albums worldwide. He has won numerous awards including eight Grammy Awards, four World Music Awards, eight American Music Awards, and eighteen Billboard Music Awards. The RIAA ranks Usher as one of the best-selling artists in American music history, having sold over 23.8 million albums in the United States alone. Billboard Magazine ranked Usher the number one Hot 100 artist of the 2000s decade. They also named him the second most successful artist of the 2000s decade, and Confessions was ranked as the top solo album and second most successful overall album of the last decade. Usher has attained nine hot 100 number-one hits (all as a lead artist) and has attained sixteen hot 100 top-ten hits..

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