Usher's self-tited debut album was released in August 1993 stateside. Afterwards, his second album My Way and enjoyed major international chart success which sold over eight million copies worldwide. It produced the three top ten singles "You Make Me Wanna," "My Way," and "Nice and Slow," of which all were certified gold and platinum, respectively. His third album 8701 was released in 2001, Pushed by its number-one hits "U Remind Me," and "U Got It Bad". Follow-up album Confessions was released in 2004 and certified diamond by the RIAA, it spawned the #1 hits "Yeah!", "Burn", "My Boo", and "Confessions Part II, it went on to sell more than 20 million copies worldwide. Here I Stand, Usher's critically-acclaimed fifth studio album, was released in 2008; it was certified platinum in the United States but failed on international music markets. However, it spawned the number-one hit "Love In This Club" alongside two other singles.
The RIAA ranks Usher as one of the best-selling male artists in American music history,[1] having sold over 22 million copies of his five studio albums in the United States and nearly 40 million albums worldwide, to date according to this article.
