  John Mayer grew up in
Connecticut and as a teen became a fan of
blues music after hearing a Stevie
Ray Vaughan recording. Within a few
years, Mayer started playing guitar and
performing in blues bars. By age 19, Mayer
had temporarily studied at Berklee College Of
Music, headed for Atlanta, Georgia to refine
his songwriting skills, and released his
first LP - Inside
Wants Out. His success in Atlanta led to
a performance at the South By Southwest Music
Conference in Texas in 2000, which then led
to a major recording deal with Columbia
Records.
 Mayer released his
debut LP - Room
For Squares.
 # 16
Singles Artist of the Year
Room
For Squares was certified gold.
 Mayer hit the Top 40 with "No Such Thing."
Room
For Squares was certified
platinum.
Mayer hit the Top 10 with "No Such Thing."
Mayer was
nominated for a MTV Video Music
Award For Best New Artist.
Mayer's first
EP, Inside
Wants Out was re-released. The EP was
recorded in 1999 and includes many acoustic
versions and unreleased tracks.
Mayer hit the
Top 40 with "Your Body Is A
Wonderland."
Mayer topped
the Billboard Top Internet Albums chart with Inside
Wants Out.
 Mayer hit the Top 10 with "Your Body Is A
Wonderland."
Room
For Squares was certified 2x
platinum.
 # 33
Singles Artist of the Year
 Mayer released Any
Given Thursday.
Mayer won a Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance ("Your Body Is A
Wonderland") and was nominated for Best New Artist. Mayer also performed
at the ceremony.
Room
For Squares was certified 3x
platinum.
Mayer co-headlined a tour with
the Counting Crows.
 Mayer's video for "Your Body Is A
Wonderland" was nominated for a MTV Video Music
Award for Best Male Video.
Mayer hit the Top 40 with "Bigger Than My Body."
Mayer topped the Billboard Hot
Digital Tracks chart for 2 weeks with "Bigger Than My Body."
Any
Given Thursday was certified platinum.
 September 9: Mayer released his
next LP Heavier
Things.
Mayer topped the Billboard 200
Albums chart for a week and Internet Albums
chart for a week with Heavier
Things selling over 316,000 copies in
its first week of release in the US.
Mayer won a Radio Music Awards
for Artist of the Year - Adult Contemporary
Radio.
Mayer performed
on Saturday
Night Live.
Heavier
Things was certified platinum.
 Mayer was nominated for an American Music
Award for Favorite Pop/Rock Male
Artist.
 # 57
Singles Artist of the Year
 Mayer hit the Top 40 with "Clarity."
Mayer hit the Top 40 with "Daughters."
Heavier
Things was certified 2x platinum.
Room
For Squares was certified 4x platinum.
 Mayer hit the Top 10 with "Daughters."
Mayer topped the Billboard Adult
Top 40 chart with "Daughters."
# 217 on the Top Pop Artists
of the Past 25 Years chart.
 # 90
Singles Artist of the Year
 Mayer performed as part of the
benefit show Tsunami Aid: A Concert Of
Hope on NBC.
Mayer won 2 Grammy Awards for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance and Song of the Year
(awarded to the songwriter) ("Daughters"). Mayer also performed at
the ceremony. Mayer later said the he felt
the award for Song of the Year should have gone to Alicia Keys - so when the two
collaborated years later, he broke his Grammy
and gave her the top part.
 The single "Daughters" was certified
gold.
Mayer could be heard on B.B. King's LP 80 with the track
"Hummingbird."
Mayer performed on ReAct
Now: Music & Relief - a benefit
program shown on music video channels to
raise money for those affected by Hurricane
Katrina.
Mayer performed as part of Farm
Aid 20 in Illinois.
The single "Your Body Is A
Wonderland" was certified gold.
 November 22: Mayer released Try!
John Mayer Trio Live In Concert. The trio is made up
of Mayer, Steve Jordan and Pino
Palladino.
Mayer could be heard on the Hurricane
Relief: Come Together Now compilation
with "Heart So Heavy" with Aaron
Neville.
Mayer was nominated for an American Music
Award for Favorite Adult Contemporary
Artist.
 # 55
Singles Artist of the Year
 Mayer could be heard on the Cars soundtrack with
"Route 66."
Mayer hit the Top 40 with "Waiting On The World To
Change."
September 12: Mayer's next LP Continuum was released.
 Mayer topped the Top Internet
Albums chart, Top Rock chart, and Top Digital
Albums chart with Continuum.
Mayer performed at the American Music
Awards.
Continuum was certified
platinum.
 # 97
Singles Artist of the Year
 Mayer won 2 Grammy Awards for Best Pop Vocal Performance -
Male
("Waiting On The World To
Change")
and Best Pop Vocal Album (Continuum), and was nominated
for Album of the Year (Continuum), Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance ("Route
66"), and Best Rock Album (Try!
John Mayer Trio Live In Concert). Mayer performed at
the ceremony.
Mayer topped the Billboard Adult
Contemporary Tracks chart with "Waiting On The World To
Change."
Mayer appeared on the cover of Rolling
Stone.
The single "Waiting On The World To
Change"
was certified platinum.
 Mayer released The
Village Sessions EP overseas
and as a digital release.
On July 7th, Mayer performed at
the Live
Earth
concert in the US. The 7-continent concert
organized by Al Gore brought together over
100 artists to perform and raise the world's
awareness about the climate crisis and how to
make a difference to help the environment and
the world.
Mayer could be heard on the Alicia Keys LP As
I Am on the track "Lesson
Learned."
Mayer was nominated for an American Music
Award for Favorite Adult Contemporary
Artist.
 Mayer topped the Billboard
Year-End Charts as the Top Hot Adult
Contemporary Artist and with the Top Hot
Adult Contemporary Song ("Waiting On The World To
Change").
Continuum was certified 2x
platinum.
 # 52
Singles Artist of the Year
 Mayer was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Performance -
Male
("Belief"). Mayer performed at the
ceremony.
Mayer hit the Top 40 with
helping out Fall Out Boy with
"Beat It."
Mayer hit the Top 40 with "Say" (from the film The
Bucket List).
 July 1: Mayer released Where
The Light Is: John Mayer Live In Los Angeles.
Mayer could be heard on the
compilation Songs
For Tibet - The Art Of Peace with the track
"Belief."
Where
The Light Is: John Mayer Live In Los Angeles was certified gold.
 Mayer won 2 Grammy Awards for Best Pop Vocal Performance -
Male
("Say") and Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance ("Gravity"),
and was nominated for Best
Song Written for a Motion Picture, Television
or Visual Media (awarded to the songwriter) ("Say"), Best Pop Collaboration with
Vocals
("Lesson Learned" with Alicia Keys), and Best Music Video, Long Form (Where
The Light Is - Live In Los Angeles). Mayer performed at
the ceremony.
 Mayer released Battle
Studies.
Mayer topped the Billboard 200
LP chart, Top Digital Albums chart, and Top
Rock Albums chart with Battle
Studies. The LP sold over 286,000
copies its first week of release in the US.
Battle
Studies was certified gold.
 # 36
Singles Artist of the Year
Mayer hit the Top 40 with "Heartbreak Warfare."
 Mayer hit the Top 40 with "Half Of My Heart."
Battle
Studies was certified platinum.
Mayer was nominated for 3 Grammy Awards including Best Pop Vocal Performance -
Male
("Half Of My Heart"), Best Pop Vocal Album (Battle
Studies), and Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance
("Crossroads").
Mayer could be heard on the Tony Bennett LP Duets
II
on the track "One For My
Baby."
 Mayer released his next LP Born
And Raised.
Mayer topped the Billboard 200
LP chart for 2 weeks, Rock Albums chart, and
Digital Albums chart with Born
And Raised. The LP sold over 289,000
copies its first week of release in the US.
Born
And Raised was certified gold.
 Mayer released Paradise
Valley.
Mayer topped the Billboard
Digital Albums chart, Folk Albums chart, and
Rock Albums chart with Paradise
Valley.
- August 21: Mayer topped the
Billboard Adult Alternative Airplay chart
with "Last Train Home."
- February 12: Mayer topped the
Billboard Adult Alternative Airplay chart
with "Wild Blue."
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Room For Squares
Released: September, 2001
US: 5x Platinum
Billboard
peak:
# 8
Rolling Stone
review: 
Tracks: "No Such Thing" - "Why
Georgia" - "My Stupid
Mouth" - "Your Body Is A
Wonderland" - "Neon" -
"City Love" - "83" -
"3x5" - "Love Song For No
One" - "Back To You" -
"Great Indoors" - "Not
Myself" - "Unknown" -
"St. Patrick's Day" |
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Inside Wants Out
Released: September, 2002
Billboard
peak:
# 22
Tracks: "Back To
You" - "No Such Thing" (acoustic) -
"My Stupid Mouth" (acoustic) -
"Neon" (acoustic) -
"Victoria" - "Love
Soon" - "Comfortable" -
"Quiet" |
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Any Given Thursday
Released: February, 2003
US: Platinum
Billboard
peak:
# 17
Entertainment
Weekly: B-
Live Tracks: "3x5" -
"No Such Thing" - "Back
To You" - "City Love" -
"Something Missing" -
"Lenny / Man On The Side" -
"Message In A Bottle" -
"Love Song For No One" -
"Why Georgia" - "Your Body Is A
Wonderland" - "My Stupid
Mouth" - "Covered In Rain"
- "83 Medley" -
"Comfortable" -
"Neon" |
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Heavier Things
Released: September 9, 2003
US: 3x
Platinum
Billboard
peak:
# 1 (for 1 week)
Rolling Stone
review: - Entertainment
Weekly: C+
Tracks: "Clarity" - "Bigger Than My Body" -
"Something's Missing" -
"New Deep" - "Come Back To
Bed" - "Homelife" -
"Split Screen Sadness" - "Daughters" - "Only
Heart" - "Wheel" |
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Try! John Mayer Trio
Live In Concert
Released: November 22, 2005
US: Gold
Billboard
peak:
# 34
Rolling Stone:  Live
Tracks: "Who Do You Think I
Was" - "Good Love Is On The
Way" - "Wait Until
Tomorrow" - "Gravity" -
"Vultures" - "Out Of My
Mind" - "Another Kind Of
Green" - "I Got A Woman" -
"Something's Missing" - "Daughters" -
"Try" |
iTunes
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Continuum
Released: September 12,
2006
US: 4x Platinum
Billboard
peak:
# 2
Rolling Stone: - Entertainment
Weekly: B-
Tracks: "Waiting On The
World To Change" - "I Don't Trust
Myself (With Loving You)" -
"Belief" - "Gravity"
- "The Heart Of Life" -
"Vultures" - "Stop This
Train" - "Slow Dancing In A
Burning Room" - "Bold As
Love" - "Dreaming With A Broken
Heart" - "In Repair" -
"I'm Gonna Find Another You" |
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Where The Light Is: John
Mayer Live In Los Angeles
Released: July 1, 2008
US: Platinum
Billboard
peak:
# 5
Rolling Stone: 
Live Tracks: "Neon"
- "Stop This Train" - "In
Your Atmosphere" - "Daughters" - "Free
Fallin'" - "Everyday I Have The
Blues" - "Wait Until
Tomorrow" - "Who Did You Think
I Was" - "Come When I
Call" - "Good Love Is On The
Way" - "Out Of My Mind" -
"Vultures" - "Bold As
Love" - "Waiting On The
World To Change" - "Slow Dancing
In A Burning Room" - "Why
Georgia" - "The Heart Of
Life" - "I Don't Need No
Doctor" - "Gravity" -
"I Don't Trust Myself (With Loving
You)" - "Belief" -
"I'm Gonna Find Another You" |
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Battle Studies
Released: November, 2009
US: 2x Platinum
Billboard
peak:
# 1
Rolling Stone: - Entertainment
Weekly: B-
Tracks: "Heartbreak Warfare" - "All
We Ever Do Is Say Goodbye" - "Half Of My Heart" (with Taylor
Swift) - "Who Says" -
"Perfect Lonely" -
"Assassin" -
"Crossroads" - "War Of My
Life" - "Edge Of Desire" -
"Do You Know Me" -
"Friends, Lovers Or Nothing" |
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Born And Raised
Released: May, 2012
US: Gold
Billboard
peak:
# 1 (for 2 weeks)
Tracks: "Queen Of
California" - "The Age Of
Worry" - "Shadow Days" -
"Speak For Me" -
"Something Like Olivia" -
"Born And Raised" - "If I
Ever Get Around To Living" -
"Love Is A Verb" - "Walt
Grace's Submarine Test, January
1967" - "Whiskey, Whiskey,
Whiskey" - "A Face To Call
Home" - "Born And Raised"
(Reprise) |
iTunes
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Paradise Valley
Released: August 20, 2013
US: Platinum
Billboard
peak:
# 2
Tracks:
"Wildfire" - "Dear
Marie" - "Waitin' On The
Day" - "Paper Doll" -
"Call Me The Breeze" -
"Who You Love" (featuring Katy
Perry) - "I Will Be Found (Lost At
Sea)" - "Wildfire"
(featuring Frank Ocean) - "You're No
One 'Til Someone Lets You Down" -
"Badge And Gun" - "On The
Way Home" |
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The Search For
Everything- Wave One (EP)
Released: January 20, 2017
Billboard
peak:
# 2
Tracks: "Moving On
And Getting Over" -
"Changing" - "Love On The
Weekend" - "You're Gonna Live
Forever In Me" |
iTunes
Amazon.mp3 |
The Search For
Everything- Wave Two (EP)
Released: February 24, 2017
Billboard
peak:
# 13
Tracks: "Still Feel
Like Your Man" - "Emoji Of A
Wave" - "Helpless" -
"Roll It On Home" |
iTunes
Amazon.mp3
vinyl |
The Search For
Everything
Released: April 14, 2017
US: Gold
Billboard
peak:
# 2
Tracks: "Still Feel
Like Your Man" - "Emoji Of A
Wave" - "Helpless" -
"Love On The Weekend" -
"In The Blood" -
"Changing" - "Theme From
'The Search For Everything'" -
"Moving On And Getting Over" -
"Never On The Day You Leave" -
"Rosie" - "Roll It On
Home" - "You're Gonna Live
Forever In Me" |
iTunes
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vinyl |
Sob Rock
Released: July 16, 2021
Billboard
Top 200 LPs
peak: # 2
Tracks: "Last Train
Home" - "Shouldn't Matter But
It Does" - "New Light" -
"Why You No Love Me" -
"Wild Blue" - "Shot In The
Dark" - "I Guess I Just Fee
Like" - "Til The Right One
Comes" - "Carry Me Away" -
"All I Want Is To Be With You" |
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