When the track reached No. 1, Stevie became the youngest solo artist to have topped the Billboard Hot 100 – though another future
The youngest artist to hit number one on the Hot 100 is Stevie Wonder in 1963 with ” Fingertips Pt. 2″ at the age of 13. The youngest female to top the Hot 100 is Little Peggy March, also in 1963, with “I Will Follow Him” at the age of 15. Wonder's single was also the first live recording to top the chart.
She recorded the song in early January 1963 and it was released on January 22, when she was only 14. March became the youngest female artist with a number-one hit, at 15, in late April 1963, a record that still stands for the Billboard Hot 100.
"Foolish Beat" set a record, making Gibson at 16 the youngest artist to write, produce, and perform a Billboard number-one single, as cited in the 1988 Guinness Book of World Records.
"Royals" was released as Lorde's debut single in mid-2013 and achieved international success making her the youngest solo artist to achieve a number-one single on the US Billboard Hot 100 since 1987!
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Two reasons: young Aisha was never officially credited on “Lovely” and the song did not reach a Billboard chart until Jan. 29, 1977 (when it entered Adult Contemporary at its No. 23 peak), almost two years after she was born. Blue Ivy Carter/B.I.C. also benefits from the era in which she born.
With the 2010 holiday release of her O Holy Night EP, Evancho became the best-selling debut artist of 2010, the youngest top-10 debut artist in US history and the youngest solo artist ever to go platinum in the US. In 2011, her first full-length album, Dream with Me, debuted at No.
However, the official title of youngest artist in the world goes to Arushi Bhatnagar, who had her first solo exhibition when she was just 11 months old.
Japanese 2-year-old Murakata Nonoka, popularly known as Nono-chan, has just been awarded a Guinness World Record for being the “Youngest Solo Artist to Release an Album.” Nono-chan released her first album when she was only 2 years and 361 days old.
Youngest artists to win Album of the Year (as lead artist)
Billie Eilish is the youngest artist to win the Grammys for Album of the Year and Record of the Year.
It broke three UK chart records in the process. With 44 years since her last number one, "Wuthering Heights" in 1978, Bush surpassed Tom Jones's 42-year gap between number ones and replaced Cher as the oldest female solo chart-topping artist at 63 years and 11 months.
10-year-old Victory Brinker holds the Guinness World Record as the world's youngest opera singer.
1: Aretha Franklin
Topping our list of the best female singers of all time, Aretha Franklin also stands as the most-charting female singer in history. Starting out in the gospel choir at her Baptist church, in Detroit, Franklin began her career as a recording artist in 1960, aged just 18.
At age 13, Stevie Wonder became the youngest person ever to have a No. 1 single.
8-year-old Leah Peasall, who won in 2002 after being featured on the "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" soundtrack, holds the record as the youngest-ever Grammy winner. Blue Ivy Carter, at 9, became the second-youngest in 2021.
“Running Up That Hill” oldest song to hit No.
Abel Tesfaye, more commonly known as The Weeknd, is statistically the most popular musician on the planet, and no one else even comes close. The 33-year-old Canadian singer's success has seen him set two new Guinness World Records titles: Most monthly listeners on Spotify – 111.4 million (as of 20 March 2023)
According to the Official Charts Company, at just 17 years old (and several months), Eilish has made history as the youngest solo female musician to top the albums chart, and she grabbed that record by just a few months. When it was announced that When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? had made it to No.
Rihanna Is America's Youngest Self-Made Billionaire.
Most of us have not made a million before we're 30, but the news that Ed Sheeran is the richest young musician on the planet will come as no surprise.
Paul McCartney – $1.2 Billion
As a solo artist alone, he has sold over 100 million records worldwide, and the royalties from his extensive catalog of music which include those for some of the most iconic songs in the history of popular music.
Singer, concert artist, actress, and model, Jackie Evancho is a platinum selling recording artist that first became a worldwide sensation at the age of 10 years old with her stunning debut performance singing "O Mio Babbino Caro" on season 5 of NBC's America's Got Talent (AGT).
1. "Old Town Road" by Lil Nas X featuring Billy Ray Cyrus.