{"key":"7513","name":"Katy Perry","bio":"Katy Perry (born Katheryn Elizabeth Hudson on October 25, 1984) is a singer\/songwriter from Santa Barbara, California, United States. Since the release of her 2007 debut single \"Ur So Gay,\" Perry has released four albums and has had six Billboard Hot 100 #1 hit singles. Under the name Katy Hudson, she released a self-titled gospel album in 2001, which was unsuccessful. In 2007, after signing with Capitol Music Group, her fourth record label in seven years, she adopted the stage name Katy Perry. She released her first Internet single \"Ur So Gay\" that November, which garnered public attention but failed to chart. She rose to fame with the release of her second single \"I Kissed a Girl\" in 2008, which made it onto top international charts. Perry's first mainstream studio album One of the Boys followed later that year and subsequently became the 33rd-best selling album worldwide of 2008. Her second studio album, Teenage Dream, was released in August 2010 and debuted at number one on the Billboard 200. The album includes five Billboard chart-toppers \"California Gurls,\" \"Teenage Dream,\" \"Firework,\" \"E.T.\" and \"Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.),\" making Teenage Dream only the second album - after Michael Jackson's Bad - to have five songs reach #1 on the Billboard Hot 100. With \"E.T.\" at number one on the chart of May 12, 2011, Perry became the first artist in history to spend 52 consecutive weeks in the top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100. Perry has been a judge on American Idol, has released multiple fragrances, and voiced Smurfette in the 2011 film The Smurfs. Perry married Russell Brand on October 23, 2010. After 14 months of marriage, Brand filed for divorce from Perry on December 30, 2011, in Los Angeles, citing irreconcilable differences. The divorce became effective in July 2012 and is one of the main subjects of \"Katy Perry: Part of Me,\" a 2012 documentary concert film. After its release, Perry's third album, Prism, topped the US album charts with first week sales of 286,000, making it Perry's best opening week to date. Her fourth studio album, Witness, was released in 2017.","featuredImage":"https:\/\/assets.allamericanmusic.com\/images\/7513_h_0.jpg","feeRange":"500,000 - 1,000,000"}

{"key":"7518","name":"Mariah Carey","bio":"Mariah Carey is a Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter, record producer, actress, and entrepreneur known for her smash hit \"All I Want for Christmas Is You,\" as well as her five-octave vocal range. Referred to as the \"Songbird Supreme\" by the Guinness World Records, she is noted for her five-octave vocal range, melismatic singing style, signature use of the whistle register, and songwriting prowess. She rose to fame in 1990 after signing to Columbia Records and releasing her eponymous debut album, which topped the U.S. Billboard 200 for eleven consecutive weeks. Soon after, Carey became the only artist ever to have their first five singles reach #1 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart, from \"Vision of Love\" to \"Emotions.\" Carey achieved worldwide success with follow-up R&B and pop albums Music Box (1993), Merry Christmas (1994), and Daydream (1995). These albums spawned some of Carey's most successful singles, including \"Hero,\" \"Without You,\" \"All I Want for Christmas Is You,\" \"Fantasy,\" \"Always Be My Baby,\" as well as \"One Sweet Day,\" which later became Billboard's Song Of The Decade for the 1990s. After separating from Mottola, Carey adopted a new image and incorporated more elements of hip hop into her music with the release of Butterfly (1997). Billboard named her the country's most successful artist of the 1990s, while the World Music Awards honored her as the world's best-selling recording artist of the 1990s, and the best-selling female artist of the millennium. After eleven consecutive years charting a U.S. #1 single, Carey parted ways with Columbia in 2000 and signed a $100 million recording contract with Virgin Records. However, following her highly publicized physical and emotional breakdown, as well as the critical and commercial failure of her film Glitter (2001) and its accompanying soundtrack, her contract was bought out for $50 million by Virgin and she signed with Island Records the next year. After a relatively unsuccessful period, she returned to the top of music charts with The Emancipation of Mimi (2005), which became the best-selling album of 2005 in the U.S. Its second single, \"We Belong Together,\" was the #1 song of 2005 in the U.S., and was later declared Billboard's Song of the Decade for the 2000s. In 2009, she was cast in the critically acclaimed film Precious, which won her Breakthrough Actress Performance Award at the Palm Springs International Film Festival. Throughout her career, Carey has sold more than 200 million records worldwide, making her one of the best-selling music artists of all time. Carey holds the record for the most #1 singles by a solo artist, a female songwriter, and a female producer. In 2019, She has consistently been credited with inspiring a generation of singers and is hailed as being one of the pioneers of pop and contemporary R&B music. In January of 2020, Carey became the first artist to ever have a #1 single in four different decades.","featuredImage":"https:\/\/assets.allamericanmusic.com\/images\/7518_h_0.jpg","feeRange":"please contact"}

{"key":"7525","name":"Nicki Minaj","bio":"Onika Tanya Maraj, known professionally as Nicki Minaj, is a Trinidadian-American rapper, singer, songwriter, actress, and model. Born in Saint James, Trinidad and Tobago and raised in Queens, New York, Minaj gained public recognition after releasing three mixtapes between 2007 to 2009 and subsequently signed to Young Money Entertainment in 2009. Minaj's first and second studio albums, Pink Friday and Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded, both peaked at number one on the U.S. Billboard 200 and produced the successful singles \"Super Bass\" and \"Starships\", respectively. In 2010, Minaj became the first female solo artist to have seven singles simultaneously charting on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100. Her third studio album, The Pinkprint, was preceded by its second single, \"Anaconda\", which peaked at number two on the Hot 100. Minaj made her film debut in the 2012 animated film Ice Age: Continental Drift, followed by supporting roles in The Other Woman and Barbershop: The Next Cut. In 2013, she was a judge on the twelfth season of American Idol. Her fourth studio album, Queen, was released in 2018. Minaj was the first female artist included on MTV's Annual Hottest MC List, with a New York Times editor saying that some consider her to be \"the most influential female rapper of all time\". In 2016, Minaj was included on the annual Time 100 list of the most influential people in the world. Her rapping is distinctive for its fast flow and the use of alter egos and accents, primarily British cockney. Early in her career, Minaj was known for her colorful costumes and wigs. She has the most Billboard Hot 100 entries for a female artist in the chart's history while being ninth overall. Minaj has often been dubbed \"The Princess of Rap\" by media outlets. In December 2018, Minaj began dating childhood friend Kenneth \"Zoo\" Petty. She filed for a marriage license in August 2019. She announced their official marriage on October 21 of that same year. She hyphenated her husband's last name with hers upon marriage, becoming Maraj-Petty.","featuredImage":"https:\/\/assets.allamericanmusic.com\/images\/7525_h_0.jpg","feeRange":"please contact"}

{"key":"7540","name":"Carly Rae Jepsen","bio":"Carly Rae Jepsen (born November 21, 1985) is a Juno-nominated singer\/songwriter from Mission, British Columbia, Canada. In the summer of 2007, she placed third in the fifth season of Canadian Idol. Her debut album Tug of War was released in Canada on September 30, 2008. An EP titled Curiosity was released on February 14, 2012. The lead single, Call Me Maybe, reached #1 in her native Canada and was certified double platinum. Jepsen was the first Canadian artist to reach the top of the digital chart since Justin Bieber in 2010 with Baby. Carly is currently touring on the Shout it Out World Tour as the opening act for the pop rock trio Hanson.","featuredImage":"https:\/\/assets.allamericanmusic.com\/images\/7540_h_0.jpg","feeRange":"100,000 - 200,000"}

{"key":"231460","name":"Matt and Kim","bio":"Matt and Kim (sometimes stylized MATT and KIM) are an American indie electronic duo from Brooklyn, New York. The group formed in 2004 and consists of Matt Johnson (vocals\/keyboards) and Kim Schifino (drums). The duo is known for its upbeat dance music and energetic live shows which often incorporate samples from other artists. Although they started their career playing shows in lofts and other close-quarters venues, they have since performed at numerous festivals, including Bonnaroo, Coachella, and the Firefly Music Festival. Since they started performing together in 2004, they have released 6 studio albums. Their 2009 album Grand featured the lead single \"Daylight\", which was certified gold by the RIAA. The music video for \"Lessons Learned\", another song on Grand, featured the duo stripping naked in New York\"s Times Square and won the Breakthrough Video Award at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards. Their fifth studio album, New Glow, was released in April 2015 by Harvest Records in the United States and Virgin EMI Records internationally. In January 2018, the duo announced a sixth studio album due to be released in the spring. The album was later revealed to be titled Almost Everyday and was released on May 4, 2018.","featuredImage":"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/c\/c8\/Mattandkimpiazza.jpg\/287px-Mattandkimpiazza.jpg","feeRange":"75,000 - 150,000"}

{"key":"7519","name":"Cyndi Lauper","bio":"Cyndi Lauper (born Cynthia Ann Stephanie Lauper on June 22, 1953 in Brooklyn, New York, United States), is a Grammy Award-winning singer (who possesses a four-octave vocal range) and Emmy Award-winning film, television and theatre actress. She was lead singer of the rockabilly band Blue Angel before her rise to fame as a solo singer. Her melodic voice and wild costumes have come to epitomize the 1980s and New Wave \u2014 the decade and genre in which she first came to fame.Born in Queens, New York to Swiss German-American Fred Lauper and Sicilian Italian-American Catrine Dominique, she began her career in a cover band, but soon began performing her own songs (though she almost quit singing altogether due to strained vocal chords in 1977). By 1980 she'd released a rockabilly album on Polydor with the band Blue Angel. Despite much critical acclaim, the album \"went lead,\" as Lauper says, and the band split as Lauper filed for bankruptcy.In 1983 she started dating her manager David Wolff with whom she released She's So Unusual, a worldwide hit album which made Lauper a household name. A mixture of teen-friendly pop-rock and edgier, almost punky sounds, the album's biggest hit, Girls Just Want to Have Fun, quickly established itself as a female anthem. Lauper won a Grammy Award for Best New Artist at the Grammy Awards of 1984 for her work on the album. Lauper was the first female artist to have four consecutive Hot 100 Top 5 hits from one album.Subsequent albums (such as True Colors, A Night to Remember, Hat Full of Stars) did not sell as well, but Lauper remains active to the present day and still retains a very strong fan base.Lauper's latest album Memphis Blues was released in June 2011, premiering at #1 on the Billboard Blues Album Chart where it remained for 14 consecutive weeks. The album also reached #26 on the Billboard Top 200, and was later named the Billboard Blues Album of the year, also earning Lauper a Grammy nomination. This brought her total Grammy nominations to 13 with one win.","featuredImage":"https:\/\/assets.allamericanmusic.com\/images\/7519_h_0.jpg","feeRange":"150,000 - 300,000"}

{"key":"7551","name":"Take That","bio":"Take That are a band that originated in Manchester, England in 1990. The original members were Gary Barlow, Mark Owen, Robbie Williams, Jason Orange and Howard Donald. Between the band's first single release, \"Do What U Like\" and \"Promises\" in 1991 and their cataclysmic breakup in 1996 when Robbie Williams left the band to pursue a solo career in 1995, the BBC described Take That as \"the most successful British band since The Beatles, beloved of young and old alike.\" Take That's dance-pop tunes and soulful ballads dominated the British charts in the first half of the 1990s. They released two of the best selling albums of the decade with Everything Changes (1993) and Take That: Greatest Hits (1996). According to the AMG Music Guides, \"at this time were giant superstars in Europe with the main question about them not being about whether they could get a hit single, but how many and which would make it to number one.\"The band reformed with the exception of Robbie Williams in 2006 and released their first new single in 10 years: \"Patience.\" Following the success of \"Patience,\" they released the album Beautiful World which topped sales in 2006 and sold more than the current release by Robbie!During 2007, Take That also wrote a song for the motion picture Stardust titled \"Rule the World\" which reached #2 in the UK charts and went on to be the 5th biggest selling single of 2007. Meanwhile the album Beautiful World was the fourth biggest selling album of 2007.The 2008 Brit Awards provided Take That with a Brit for \"Best Live Act\" for their \"Beautiful World\" European tour and \"Best British Single of The Year\" For \"Shine.\"In late 2008, the group released their second album since their reunion entitled The Circus which made it to the Christmas number one spot in 2008. In July 2010, it was confirmed that Robbie Williams had rejoined the band, and that they would be releasing new material together in late 2010. The first album to include Robbie Williams was released on November 15, 2010 with the title Progress.This album gained very good to excellent reviews in publications as diverse as The Telegraph and Q (which gave it 8\/10). Q said, \"Progress is a triumph; musically, conceptually, personally.\" It was announced in September 2014 that Jason Orange had left the band as he did not \"wish to commit to recording and promoting a new album.\"","featuredImage":"https:\/\/assets.allamericanmusic.com\/images\/7551_h_0.jpg","feeRange":"please contact"}

{"key":"8184","name":"The Saturdays","bio":"The Saturdays are a pop group formed in the United Kingdom in 2007, comprising Una Healy, Mollie King, Frankie Sandford, Vanessa White and Rochelle Wiseman. Songfacts reports that they decided on calling themselves 'The Saturdays' as it sounded fun and different to the other girl bands. They didn't want the name to reference their gender, like Girls Aloud, The Spice Girls or Sugababes.The Saturdays made their recording debut in 2007 under the record label Fascination Records, a sub-division of Polydor Records. Their debut album, Chasing Lights, produced five UK Top 25 singles. The band embarked on their first headlining UK tour, called 'The Work Tour', in June 2009.Their first single, titled If This Is Love was released on 28th July 2008 and entered the UK chart at #8 where it peaked. It reached #33 on the Eurochart Hot 100 singles. The single's sold around 90,000 copies to date. The second single, Up, was released on 13 October 2008. It debuted on the UK singles chart at #5, where it peaked, #11 on the Irish singles chart and #15 on the Eurochart Hot 100 singles. The single was certified as Silver and sold over 285,000 copies to date. The third single was released on January 4th 2009 and was called Issues. The chorus' lyrics had to be changed as the word \"slap\" sounded too close to the word \"stab\", and the band didn't want to condone violence. It was later changed to \"leave\". The single entered the UK chart at #84 and peaked at #4. It managed to hit #14 in Ireland and #21 in Europe. Their fourth single, Just Can't Get Enough, was the official Comic Relief single in 2009. It was a cover of the Depeche Mode song with the same name. It entered and peaked in the chart at #2, giving The Saturdays their highest charted position to date, and their 4th consecutive top 10 hit in the UK. Their 5th single was called Work. It was released on June 29th 2009 and peaked at #22 on the UK singles chart. Chasing Lights was released on October 27th 2008 and re-released on March 16th 2009 including the Comic Relief single. It entered the UK album chart at #11, peaking at #9 and was certified Platinum, selling over 300,000 copies. It also reached #34 in Ireland and #46 in Europe.The Saturdays' second album, Wordshaker, was released October 12th 2009. The first single from Wordshaker was released on October 5th 2009. Titled Forever Is Over, it peaked at #2 in the UK charts, while coming in at #9 in the Irish charts. This was the band's fifth consecutive Top Ten hit. The second single from Wordshaker was Ego. The video was released on 17th of November and the single officially came out on January 3rd, 2010.","featuredImage":"https:\/\/assets.allamericanmusic.com\/images\/8184_h_0.jpg","feeRange":"please contact"}

{"key":"7546","name":"Pixie Lott","bio":"Pixie Lott (born Victoria Louise Lott on 12 January 1991 in London, England) is an English singer-songwriter and actress. At the age of 15 she was signed to the Island Def Jam Music Group by L.A. Reid, and is now signed to the subsidiary Mercury Records in the UK, and Interscope in the U.S.Her debut single \"Mama Do (uh oh, uh oh)\" was released digitally on 6 June 2009 and physically on 8 June 2009, going straight to number one on the UK Singles Chart for the week of 14 June 2009. She also recorded the track in Simlish for Electronic Arts' The Sims 3. Lott's second single \"Boys And Girls\", which was physically released on 7 September 2009, hit the the top of the UK Singles Chart for the week of 13 September 2009, followed by her debut album, Turn It Up, released on 14 September 2009. Subsequent singles \"Cry Me Out\", \"Gravity\" and \"Turn It Up\" all charted inside the UK top 20.Lott has also recorded covers of many songs, these include \"Poker Face\", \"Use Somebody\" and \"Apologize\". She has also featured in a charity single by War Child UK, \"I Got Soul\", along with the likes of Chipmunk and N-Dubz.","featuredImage":"https:\/\/assets.allamericanmusic.com\/images\/7546_h_0.jpg","feeRange":"please contact"}