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Usher

It's been more than fifteen years since Usher was discovered after an appearance on "Star Search" and signed to LaFace Records-more than half of his lifetime has been spent in fame's white-hot spotlight. His self-titled 1994 debut was a moderate hit, but his breakthrough was 1997's MY WAY, which sold six million copies and featured the massive hits "You Make Me Wanna," "Nice & Slow," and the album's title track.

The four-times-platinum 8701 followed in 2001, which included "U Remind Me" and "U Don't Have to Call" (songs which won back-to-back Grammys in the "Best Male R&B Vocal Performance" category) and the Number One hit "U Got It Bad."

But none of that success could compare to the phenomenon that erupted around 2004's Confessions album. The disc sold over one million copies its first week of release, still the highest debut-week numbers ever for a male R&B artist. "Yeah!," "Burn," and "Confessions Part II" all topped Billboard's Hot 100 singles charts, and Usher became the first solo artist in history to have three singles inside the Hot 100's top 10 simultaneously (only the Beatles and the Bee Gees had previously accomplished this feat). After "My Boo," a duet with Alicia Keys, also hit Number One, he closed out the year having spent twenty-eight weeks at the top of the U.S. charts. The follow up to this phenomenal album was 'Here I Stand' released in 2008.

Over thirty million albums and five Grammy awards later, Usher is back with a brand new album, Raymond Vs Raymond the lead single from this, Papers is already riding high on the Choice playlist.

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