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• REAL NAME: Melissa Jefferson
• BIRTHDAY: April 27, 1988
• BIGGEST POP SINGLE: "About Damn Time" (2022)
• BIGGEST LP: Cuz I Love You (2019)
• GRAMMY AWARDS: 4
• "You can wake up and change many things about your appearance, but the inevitability of waking up in your skin is what unifies us." - Lizzo, 2015
  
  

• Lizzo was born as Melissa Jefferson on April 27, 1988 in Michigan. She began being interested in music while her family lived in Texas and was a member of the 'Cornrow Clique' group in her teens. Lizzo also studied classic music and the flute while at the University of Houston. In her early 20's, Lizzo moved to Minneapolis to get into the music industry and became a member of 'Lizzo & The Larva Ink' and 'Chalice'. By 2013, Lizzo released her debut LP Lizzobangers.

• October 15: Lizzo released her debut LP Lizzobangers.

• December 11: Lizzo released Big Grrrl Small World.

• October 7: Lizzo released the EP Coconut Oil,

# 5 Singles Artist of the Year

• April 19: Lizzo released Cuz I Love You.
• April 27: Lizzo hit the ARC Weekly Top 40 with "Juice."

• May 4: Lizzo topped the Billboard Digital Albums chart for 1 week with Cuz I Love You.

• June 1: Lizzo hit the ARC Weekly Top 40 with "Truth Hurts." The track was originally released in 2017.

• July 12: Cuz I Love You (Deluxe) was released.
• July 13: Lizzo hit the Top 10 with "Truth Hurts."
• July 27: Lizzo topped the Billboard Rhythmic Top 40 chart for 3 weeks with "Truth Hurts."

• August 26: Lizzo was nominated for 2 MTV Video Music Awards including Best New Artist and Push Artist of the Year.
• August 31: Lizzo topped the Billboard R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart for 11 weeks, R&B/Hip-Hop Digital Songs chart for 9 weeks, and Rap Songs chart with "Truth Hurts."

• September 4: Cuz I Love You was certified gold.
• September 7: Lizzo topped the Billboard Hot 100 chart for 7 weeks, Digital Songs chart for 5 weeks, and Dance/Mix Show Airplay chart for 9 weeks with "Truth Hurts."
• September 7: Lizzo could be seen in the film Hustlers.
• September 14: Lizzo hit the ARC Weekly Top 40 with "Good As Hell." The track was originally released in 2016. A remix of the song featuring Ariana Grande was released in October.
• September 21: Lizzo hit #1 for 3 weeks on the ARC Weekly Top 40 with "Truth Hurts."
• September 28: Lizzo topped the Billboard Radio Songs chart for 6 weeks and Pop Songs chart for 4 weeks with "Truth Hurts."

• October 12: Lizzo hit the Top 10 with "Good As Hell."

• November 9: Lizzo topped the Billboard R&B/Hip-Hop Digital Songs chart and R&B Songs chart with "Good As Hell."
• November 23: Lizzo hit #1 for 4 weeks on the ARC Weekly Top 40 with "Good As Hell."
• November 23: Lizzo topped the Billboard R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart with "Good As Hell."
• November 24: Lizzo was nominated for 2 American Music Awards including New Artist of the Year, Favorite Soul/R&B Female Artist, and Favorite Soul/R&B Song ("Juice").
• November 30: Lizzo topped the Billboard Radio Songs chart and Pop Songs chart with "Good As Hell."

• December 7: Lizzo topped the Billboard Dance Club Songs chart with "Good As Hell."
• December 13: Cuz I Love You (Super Deluxe) was released.
• December 21: Lizzo performed on Saturday Night Live.

# 46 Singles Artist of the Year

• January 4: Lizzo topped the Billboard Digital Songs chart with "Good As Hell."
• January 14: Cuz I Love You was certified platinum.
• January 26: Lizzo won 3 Grammy Awards including Best Urban Contemporary Album (Cuz I Love You), Best Pop Solo Performance ("Truth Hurts"), and Best Traditional R&B Performance ("Jerome"), and was nominated for Album of the Year (Cuz I Love You), Record of the Year and Song of the Year (awarded to the songwriter) ("Truth Hurts"), Best R&B Performance ("Exactly How I Feel" with Gucci Mane), and Best New Artist.

• February 1: Lizzo hit the ARC Weekly Top 40 with "Cuz I Love You."

• August 30: The video for "Cuz I Love You" was nominated for a MTV Video Music Award for Best R&B Video. The video for "Good As Hell" was nominated for Best Editing.

• August 21: Lizzo hit the ARC Weekly Top 40 with Cardi B with "Rumors."
• August 28: Lizzo topped the Billboard R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart and Rap Songs chart with Cardi B with "Rumors."

• September 12: Lizzo was nominated for a MTV Video Music Award for Song of the Summer ("Rumors").

# 4 Singles Artist of the Year

• April 16: Lizzo hosted and performed on Saturday Night Live.
• April 23: Lizzo hit the ARC Weekly Top 40 with "About Damn Time."
• April 30: Lizzo topped the Billboard R&B Digital Song Sales chart with "About Damn Time."

• May 21: Lizzo hit the Top 10 with "About Damn Time."
• May 21: Lizzo topped the Billboard R&B Songs chart with "About Damn Time."

• June 4: Lizzo topped the Billboard Digital Song Sales chart with "About Damn Time."

• July 2: Lizzo topped the Billboard Dance/Mix Show Airplay chart with "About Damn Time."
• July 9: Lizzo hit #1 for 7 weeks on the ARC Weekly Top 40 with "About Damn Time."
• July 9: Lizzo topped the Billboard Pop Airplay chart with "About Damn Time."
• July 15: Lizzo released Special.
• July 16: Lizzo topped the Billboard Radio Songs chart and R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart with "About Damn Time."
• July 23: Lizzo topped the Billboard Adult Pop Songs chart with "About Damn Time."
• July 30: Lizzo topped the Billboard Hot 100 chart with "About Damn Time."
• July 30: Lizzo topped the Billboard Album Sales chart with Special.

• August 6: Lizzo hit the ARC Weekly Top 40 with "2 Be Loved (Am I Ready)."
• August 6: Lizzo topped the Billboard Rhythmic Airplay chart with "About Damn Time."
• August 28: Lizzo was nominated for Artist of the Year at the MTV Video Music Awards and the video for "About Damn Time" won for Video For Good, and was nominated for Best Pop Video, and Song of the Year.

• November 20: Lizzo was nominated for 2 American Music Awards including Favorite Pop Female Artist and Favorite Song - Pop ("About Damn Time").

• December 31: Lizzo topped the Billboard 2022 Year-End Chart Toppers as the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Digital Song Sales Artist and Top R&B Digital Song Sales Artist, and with the Top R&B Song and Top R&B Digital Song Sales ("About Damn Time").

• February 5: Lizzo won a Grammy Award for Record of the Year ("About Damn Time"), and was nominated for Album of the Year and Best Pop Vocal Album (Special), and Song of the Year (awarded to the songwriter) and Best Pop Solo Performance ("About Damn Time").
• February 18: Lizzo hit the ARC Weekly Top 40 with help from SZA with "Special."

• April 1: Lizzo hit the Top 10 with help from SZA with "Special."

vinyl	Lizzobangers Released: October 15, 2013 Tracks: "Lizzie Borden" - "W.E.R.K. Pt. II" - "Wat U Mean" - "T-Baby" - "Be Still" - "Faded" - "Hot Dish" - "Make Way" - "Batches & Cookies" (featuring Sophia Eris) - "Pants Vs. Dress" - "Go" - "Bloodlines" - "Bus Passes And Happy Meals"
	Big Grrrl Small World Released: December 11, 2015 Tracks: "Ain't I" - "Betcha" - "Ride" - "Humanize" - "Bother Me" - "B.G.S.W." - "The Fade" - "1 Deep" - "The Realist" - "En Love" - "My Skin" - "Jang A Lang"
	Coconut Oil (EP) Released: October 7, 2016 Billboard Top 200 LPs peak: # 31 Tracks: "Worship" - "Phone" - "Scuse Me" - "Deep" - "Good As Hell" - "Coconut Oil"
iTunes Amazon.mp3 vinyl	Cuz I Love You Cuz I Love You (Deluxe) Cuz I Love You (Super Deluxe) Released: April 19, 2019 US: Platinum Billboard Top 200 LPs peak: # 4 Billboard # 1: Digital Albums Grammy Winner: Best Urban Contemporary Album Grammy Nominee: Album of the Year Rolling Stone: Tracks: "Cuz I Love You" - "Like A Girl" - "Juice" - "Soulmate" - "Jerome" - "Crybaby" - "Tempo" (featuring Missy Elliott) - "Exactly How I Feel" (featuring Gucci Mane) - "Better IN Color" - "Heaven Help Me" - "Lingerie" - "Boys" - "Truth Hurts" - "Water Me"
	Special Released: July 15, 2022 Billboard Top 200 LPs peak: # 2 Billboard # 1: Album Sales Grammy Nominee: Album of the Year, Best Pop Vocal Album Tracks: "The Sign" - "About Damn Time" - "Grrrls" - "2 Be Loved (Am I Ready)" - "I Love You Bitch" - "Special" - "Break Up Twice" - "Everybody's Gay" - "Naked" - "Birthday Girl" - "If You Love Me" - "Coldplay"

1	About Damn Time from the LP Special ARC chart run: 31 - 23 - 17 - 13 - 9 - 7 - 6 - 5 - 4 - 3 - 2 - 1 - 1 - 1 - 1 - 1 - 1 - 1 - 4 - 4 - 4 - 7 - 7 - 7 - 11 - 12 - 16 - 20 - 26 - 29 - 40 - off Year-End Chart Position: # 3 RIAA Certification: 2x Platinum Billboard # 1: Hot 100, Pop Airplay, Radio Songs, R&B Songs, R&B Digital Song Sales, Digital Song Sales, Dance/Mix Show Airplay, R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, Adult Pop Songs, Rhythmic Airplay Grammy Winner: Record of the Year Grammy Nominee: Song of the Year, Best Pop Solo Performance MTV VMA Winner: Video For Good MTV VMA Nominee: Song of the Year, Best Pop Video	1(7)	31	2022
2	Truth Hurts from the LP Cuz I Love You (Deluxe) ARC chart run: 39 - 29 - 18 - 14 - 14 - 11 - 10 - 8 - 5 - 4 - 4 - 4 - 4 - 2 - 2 - 2 - 1 - 1 - 1 - 2 - 3 - 2 - 3 - 6 - 7 - 10 - 13 - 16 - 28 - 32 - off Year-End Chart Position: # 4 RIAA Certification: 7x Platinum Billboard # 1: Hot 100, Radio Songs, Pop Songs, Digital Songs, Rap Songs, Rhythmic Songs, Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, R&B/Hip-Hop Digital Songs, Dance/Mix Show Airplay, Rap Digital Song Sales Grammy Winner: Best Pop Solo Performance Grammy Nominee: Record of the Year, Song of the Year	1(3)	30	2019
3	Good As Hell from the EP Coconut Oil ARC chart run: 40 - 30 - 21 - 19 - 10 - 9 - 7 - 6 - 4 - 3 - 1 - 1 - 1 - 1 - 2 - 2 - 4 - 7 - 10 - 14 - 19 - 24 - 30 - 37 - off Year-End Chart Position: # 12 RIAA Certification: 5x Platinum Billboard # 1: Radio Songs, Pop Songs, Digital Songs, R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, R&B Songs, R&B Digital Song Sales, Dance Club Songs MTV VMA Nominee: Best Editing	1(4)	24	2019	iTunes Amazon.mp3
4	Special [Lizzo featuring SZA] from the LP Special ARC chart run: 31 - 21 - 17 - 14 - 12 - 11 - 10 - 10 - 14 - 13 - 16 - 28 - 36 - off	10	13	2023
5	Rumors [Lizzo featuring Cardi B] from the digital download RIAA Certification: Platinum ARC chart run: 26 - 16 - 13 - 13 - 12 - 14 - 20 - 28 - 33 - off Year-End Chart Position: # 77 Billboard # 1: R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, Rap Songs MTV VMA Nominee: Song of the Summer	12	9	2021	iTunes Amazon.mp3
6	2 Be Loved (Am I Ready) from the LP Special ARC chart run: 40 - 31 - 25 - 19 - 16 - 16 - 16 - 16 - 16 - 14 - 14 - 17 - 18 - 19 - 24 - 35 - 40 - off Year-End Chart Position: # 64	14	17	2022
7	Cuz I Love You from the LP Cuz I Love You (Deluxe) ARC chart run: 39 - 29 - 19 - 17 - 17 - 23 - 25 - 34 - off Year-End Chart Position: # 95 RIAA Certification: Gold MTV VMA Nominee: Best R&B Video	17	8	2020	iTunes Amazon.mp3
8	Juice from the LP Cuz I Love You ARC chart run: 40 - 37 - 28 - 25 - 25 - 29 - 38 - off Year-End Chart Position: # 120 RIAA Certification: 2x Platinum	25	7	2019	iTunes Amazon.mp3
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