Music Legend USHER receives his hollywood Walk of Fame
Usher is one of the best-selling artists of all time, as ranked by the Recording Industry Assn. of America (RIAA). He has sold over millions of records, earned 9 Grammy Awards, and he was named the #1 Hot 100 artist of the 2000s decade. He also has a diamond album.
The RIAA ranks Usher as one of the best-selling artists in American music history, having sold over 23.8 million albums and 38.2 million digital songs in the United States alone. To date, his worldwide sales stand over 43 million albums and 75 million records overall, making him one of the best-selling music artists. Usher has won numerous awards including eighteen Billboard Music Awards and eight Grammy Awards. At the end of 2009, Billboard named him the number-one Hot 100 artist of the 2000s decade, the second most successful artist of the 2000s decade, and ranked Confessions as the top solo album of the 2000s decade.[14] Billboard also placed him at number six on their list of “Top 50 R&B/Hip-Hop Artists of the Past 25 Years”.[15] Usher has attained nine Hot 100 number-one singles. He has been inducted into the 29th Annual Georgia Music Hall of Fame and the Hollywood Walk of Fame. In 2008, he started his own record label Raymond-Braun Media Group (RBMG) a joint venture with talent manager Scooter Braun. The most prominent artist Raymond represents is Justin Bieber. Under Raymond’s minority ownership, the Cleveland Cavaliers won the 2016 NBA championship.
