Mary J Blige

About

Mary J Blige is an American singer-songwriter, actress, and philanthropist. Her career began in 1991 when she signed to Uptown Records.

She went on to release 13 studio albums, eight of which achieved multi-platinum sales. Blige has sold 50 million albums in the United States and 80 million records worldwide.

Blige has won nine Grammy Awards, four American Music Awards, twelve Billboard Music Awards. She has also had three Golden Globe Award nominations, including one for her supporting role in the film Mudbound (2017.

Furthermore, she also received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and Best Original Song, becoming the first person nominated for acting and songwriting in the same year.

Accolades

Billboard ranked Blige as the most successful female R&B/Hip-Hop artist of the past 25 years. In 2017, Billboard magazine named her 2006 song “Be Without You” as the most successful R&B/Hip-Hop song of all time. The song spent an unparalleled 15 weeks atop the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart and over 75 weeks on the chart. In 2011, VH1 ranked Blige as the 80th greatest artist of all time. In 2012, VH1 ranked Blige at number 9 in “The 100 Greatest Women in Music” list.