Christopher Maurice Brown, born May 5th 1989, is an American singer, songwriter, dancer and actor.

He is one of the most prominent artists in R&b music, being credited as an Evolver of the genre and often being referred to by contemporaries as the king of R&b.

His R&B has been characterized by influences from other genres, mainly pop and Hip Hop.

His lyrics develop predominantly over emotional and heathenistic themes.

Brown has had comparisons to Michael Jackson for his singing and dancing abilities.

In 2004, Brown signed with Jive Records and released his aonomus debut studio album.

The following year later certified triple platinum with his debut single run at peing at top the Billboard

Hot 100.

Brown became the first male artist since 1995 to have his debut top the chart.

His second album, exclusive 2007, was met with further Commercial Success worldwide and spawned his second billboard Hall 100 number one kiss kiss.

In 2009, Brown received media attention after pleading guilty to felony assault of his then girlfriend, singer Rihanna.

He was sentenced to 5 years probation and six months community service, with his personal life and legal issues being highly publicized by media outlets in the following years.

This foresaw the release of his third album, Graffiti, which was considered to be a commercial failure.

Following Graffiti, Brown released his fourth album Fame 2011 11, which became his first album to top the billboard 200.

The album contained the commercially successful singles yeah, 3x, Look at me now- and beautiful people, and earned him the Grammy award for best R&b album.

His fifth album, Fortune, released in 2012, topped the billboard 200 following the releases of X 2014 and royalty 2015, both peing in the top three of the billboard 200.

His eighth album, heartbreak on a full moon, 2017, a double dis LP consisting of 45 tracks, was certified gold for Combined sales and album equivalent units of over 500,000 after one week and later certified double Platinum.

Brown’s ninth studio album, Indigo 2019, found similar success, debuting at top the billboard 2.it included the single no guidance, which broke the record for longest running number one on billboards.

R&b/hip Hop Airplay chart its charts.

Success was outdone with the single go crazy, released the following year, which broke Brown’s own record for longest running number one in 2022.

His Indigo album spawned a sleeper hit with its song Under the Influence, which was re-released as a single.

Brown has sold over 140 million records worldwide, making him one of the world’s bestselling music artists.

He has gained a cult following and is one of the highest grossing African-American touring artists of all time.

Brown holds the record for the most most Billboard Hot 100 entries of any male singer in history, the most top 40 hits of any R&B singer in history, the most Raa gold certified singles of any male singer in history and the most Raa multiplatinum singles of any male singer in history.

I in 2019 billboard named Brown the third most successful artist of the 2010’s decade in R&B and hip-hop music.

Behind Drake and Rihanna, Brown has won 202 awards from 513 nominations and pursued an acting career.

In 2007 he made his feature film debut in Stomp the Yard and appeared as a guest on the television series The Oc.

Other films include this: Christmas 2007, takers 2010-

Think Like a Man 2012 and Battle of the Year 2013- early life.

Christopher Maurice Brown was born on May 5th 1989 in the small town of Tapan, Virginia, to join Hawkins, a former daycare center director, and Clinton Brown, a corrections officer at a local prison.

He has an older sister, Lel Bundy, who works in a bank.

Music was always present in Brown’s life.

Beginning in his childhood, he would listen to sole albums that his parents owned and eventually began to show interest in the hip-hop scene.

Brown taught himself to sing and dance at a young age and often cites Michael Jackson as his inspiration.

He began to perform in his church choir and in several local town talent shows.

Brown said during a 2023 interview with Shannon sharp that he started to take in consideration music as his job.

After winning a talent show during a summer camp when he was 11 years old, performing Cisco Thong Song.

The camp leaders they laughed, but everybody kind of went crazy in there and I was

Like I think I can do this.

When he mimicked an usher performance of my way, his mother recognized his vocal talent and they began to look for the opportunity of a record deal.

The same time, Brown was going through personal issues.

His parents had divorced and his mother’s boyfriend terrified him by subjecting her to domestic violence.

Ina 2017- self-d doent: Welcome to My Life.

Brown goes into detail about the Abus of relationship.

Brown said that when he was six, his mother’s partner shot himself in the head but did not die.

The Gunshot blinded him the physical impairment only adding to his rage.

His mother’s partner took anger and frustration out on Hawkins.

I had to hear my mom get beat up every night.

I’ pee on myself, just scared to even walk out into the hallway because I didn’t want to see nothing.

Career 2002 to 2004: career Beginnings.

At age 13, Brown was discovered by hit Mission records, a local production team that visited the gas station where his father worked while searching for new Talent.

Around the same time he performed with one of his production managers, son named Tj, for hip hop artist Puff Daddy, but the rapper refused to sign him to his record label.

Bad boy records missions, Lamont Fleming provided voice coaching for Brown.

The team helped to arrange a demo package under the name of C Sizzle and approached contacts in New York.

Tina Davis, Senior anr executive at Def Jam recordings, heard the demo package that Brown’s local team had sent to Def Jam and, among the artists contained in the Cd, she was impressed by Brown with his track Whose Girl Is That?

Davis later had Brown auditioning in her New York office and she immediately took him to meet the former president of the island De Jam music group, Antonio La Reed, who offered to sign him that day.

But Brown refused his proposal because Reed wouldn’t talk to his mother.

Brown then started to Sojen in Harlem, New York, to seek a record deal.

The negotiations with De Jam continued for 2 months and ended when Davis lost her job due to a corporate merger.

Brown asked her to be his manager and once Davis accepted, she promoted the singer to other labels such as Jive Records, J Records and Warner Brothers records.

I knew that Chris had real talent, says Davis.

I just knew I wanted to be part of it.

Brown attended Essex High School in Virginia until late 2004 when he moved to New York to pursue his music career.

According to Mark Pittz, in an interview with hitquarters, Davis presented brown with a video recording and Pit’s reaction was: I saw huge potential.

I didn’t love all the records, but I loved his voice.

It wasn’t a problem because I knew that he could sing

And I knew how to make records.

Brown ultimately chose Jive due to its successful work with then young ax such as Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake.

Brown stated I picked Jive because they had the best success with younger artists in the pop Market.

I knew I was going to capture my African-American audience, but Jive had a lot of strength in the pop area as well as longevity in careers.

Brown said in a 2013 interview that during his permanence in Harlem, when he was trying to get his music heard by major labels, his artistic intention was to both rap and sing on his records, but Jive condensed him to stick to just singing because, according to him, it wasn’t acceptable yet for an R&B singer to also rap on records.

2005 to 2006, Chris Brown and acting debut.

After signing to Jive Records in 2004, Brown began recording his self-titled debut studio album in February 2005.

By May, there were 50 songs already recorded, 14 of which were picked to the final track listing.

The singer worked with several producers and songwriters- Scott Storch, Cole and Dre, Shan Garrett and Jas Fa, among them, commenting that they really believed in him.

Brown Coote half of the tracks.

I write about the things that 16-year-olds go through every day, says Brown, like you, just got in trouble for sneaking your girl into the house or you can’t drive so you steal a car or something.

The whole album took less than 8 weeks to produce I in 2023.

Brown described working on his first album as a learning experience, recalling that he felt insecure about releasing Runett as his first single, the album’s lead single, run.

It was a great Commercial Success, making brown the first male act since Montel Jordan in 1995 to have his debut single to reach the summit of the Billboard Hot 100, later remaining for four additional weeks.

Three of the other singles- Dash Yo, Excuse Me, Miss, gim me that and say goodbye, found similar success, peing within the top 20 at the same chart.

Released on November 29th 2005, the self-titled Chris Brown album debuted at number two on the billboard 200 with first week sales of 154,000 copies.

Deca 8 can, head of the Guardian, defined it as a smooth slice of commercial R&b.

Chris Brown sold over 3 million copies in the United States, where it was certified three times Platinum by the R, and 6 million copies worldwide.

On June 13th 2006, Brown released a DVD entitled Chris Brown’s Journey, which shows footage of him traveling through England and Japan getting ready for his first visit to the Grammy Awards behind the scenes of his music videos and bloopers.

On August 17th 2006, to further promote the album, Brown began his major co-headlining tour, the up close and personal tour.

Due to the tour, production for his next album was pushed back two months.

St Jude Children’s Research Hospital received $10,000 in ticket proceeds from Brown’s 2006 up close and personal tour.

Brown has made appearances on Upn’s oneon-one and the Ns Brandon T Jackson show on its pilot episode 2007 to 2008 exclusive.

In January 2007, Brown landed a small role as a Band Geek in the fourth season of the American television series The Oc.

Brown then made his film debut in Stomp the Yard alongside Neo, Megan good and Columbus Short.

On January 12th 207 I. in April 2007, Brown was the opening act for Beyonce on the Australian leg of her, the Beyonce experience tour.

On July 9th 2007, Brown was featured in an episode of Mtv’s- my super sweet 16 for the event.

It was retitled Chris Brown, my super 18, celebrating his 18th birthday in New York City.

Brown singing at Brisbane Entertainment Center in 2008.

Shortly after ending his summer tour with Neo, Brown quickly began production for his second studio album, exclusive.

The album’s lead single, Wall To- Wall, was released and it didn’t reach the chart.

Success of his previous singles, peing at number 79 on Us billboard Hot 100 chart and number 22 on the Us hot are npip hop songs chart, being his lowest charting single at the time.

However, kiss kiss, featuring and produced by Tay, released as the album’s second single, received huge success, reaching number one on the Us Billboard Hot 100 chart and becoming Brown’s second number one single following run it in 2005 with you.

Produced by Stargate dual producers, known at the time for their work with R&B singer, Neo was released as the third single from exclusive and had even bigger worldwide success than kiss kiss, becoming one of the alltime best-selling singles and reaching number two on the Us Billboard Hot 100 chart.

Exclusive was released in the United States on November 6th 2007.

According to the guardian, the album demonstrated his agility, infusing R&B with the era’s autotune strain of Pop leaning hip hop.

The album debuted at number four on the Us billboard 200 chart, selling 294,000 copies in its first week, becoming a bigger Commercial Success than his previous outing.

Exclusive was certified four times Platinum by the Raa.

In November 2007, Brown starred as a video host for St Jude Children’s Research hospitals math Aon program.

He showed his support by encouraging students to use their math skills to help children with cancer and other catastrophic diseases.

On November 21st 2007, Brown appeared, as has a leading role in this Christmas, a family drama starring Regina King do.

He also contributed to the soundtrack of the movie that contains his cover versions of trial tenderness, and this Christmas the latter has been certified platinum by the Raa.

To further support the album exclusive, Brown embarked on his the exclusive Holiday Tour, visiting over 30 venues in United States.

The tour began in Cincinnati, Ohio, on December 6th 2007 and concluded on February 9th 2008 in Honolulu, Hawaii.

In March 2008, Brown was featured on Jordan spark single Noir, which received worldwide success, peing at number three on the Us Billboard Hot 100 chart.

He also made a guest appearance on David B single, Get Like Me, alongside Young Jock.

The song peaked at number 16 on the Billboard Hot 100 and number two on the Us hot rap songs chart.

In 2008, browned of a commercial spot for double Min go, creating a jingle commissioned by an advertising company working for Wrigley, Brown first created the short version for the commercial, then extended and expanded it into a full song named forever.

During another recording session, forever was later released as a single anticipating Brown’s reissue of exclusive.

The song was noted for being Brown’s first record to Adventure into the dance pop genre, becoming one of his biggest singles, reaching number two on Billboard Hot 100 billboard, wrote positively of the single, stating in its 2008 review that Brown has proved, as 2008’s pop/r&b prints, that he has talent and charm to command the charts for as long he chooses.

The reissue titled exclusive, the forever Edition, was released on June 3rd 2008, 7 months after the original version, featuring four new tracks, and pushed the album’s success further.

In August 2008, Brown guest starred on Disney’s The Sweet Life of Zack and Cody as himself.

Towards the end of 2008, Brown was named artist of the year by Billboard Magazine, with the songs with you forever and no air, resulting three of the top 10 most sold singles in the United States of 2008, 2009 to 2010.

Graffiti and mixtapes.

In 2008, Brown began work on his third studio album, announced to be called graffiti, promising to experiment with a different musical Direction inspired by singers Prince and Michael Jackson.

He stated I wanted to change it up and really be different.

Like my style nowadays, I don’t try to be typical Urban.

I want to be like how Prince, Michael and Stevie Wonder were.

They can cross over to any genre of music.

Following the domestic violent Scandal involving Brown and his then girlfriend, Rihanna, on February 8th 2009, a major part of mass media took positions against the singer.

The Scandal also caused Brown to lose significant endorsements, including the one with with double mint, with some music stations across the United States briefly Banning Brown songs.

The singer later participated in numerous television appearances during the year to express himself publicly about it.

He spoke about it to Abc News.

I never ever had problems with anger- no, no domestic violence with any of my past girlfriends or any altercations.

I never was that kind of person.

I look at it and it’s really like really difficult.

It’s like: how could I be that person?

In the 2017 self-d documentary Welcome to My Life, Brown says his reputation dropped sharply after his 2009 assault on Rihanna.

I went from being on top of the world number one songs, being kind of like America sweetheart, to being Public Enemy Number One.

Graffiti’s lead single, I can transform you, was released on September 29th 2009.

The song peaked at number 20 on the Us Billboard Hot 100 chart.

Crawl was released as the album’s second single on November 23rd 2009.

The song reached number 53 on the Billboard Hot 100.

Graffiti was then released on December 8th 2009.

Brown, with this album, started to take full control of his art, managing the artistic Direction and writing every song of the album, with the exception of the song I’ll go, written and produced by Brian Kennedy and James Fontleroy.

He said that his decision to entirely direct and write his albums and songs came from the fact that he wanted to give his own perspective of the music he wanted to make and by his wanting to verbalize whatever he was going through.

Critics noted that with the album’s sound, Brown aimed to expand his music beyond the genres of his previous Works.

According to Michael Wood of Los Angeles Times, the album is made of an upbeat part that can be considered the Sonic sequel to Forever, mixed with power ballads, observed to express his remorse and feelings following the Rihanna incident.

The album, compared to its two predecessors, was a commercial and critical failure, debuting at number seven on the Us billboard 200 chart, selling 102,000 copies in its first week and receiving generally negative reviews from critics.

Despite this, Graffiti was nominated for two Grammy Awards, including one for the best contemporary R&B album and the other for the best R&B performance by a duo or group with vocals for the Track- take my time- featuring Tank.

As of March 23rd 2011, it has sold 341,000 copies in the United States.

While performing a Michael Jackson tribute at the 2010 Bet Awards, Brown started to cry and fell to his knees while singing Jackson’s Man in the Mirror.

The performance and his emotional turmoil resonated with several celebrities present at the ceremony, including Trey songs, Diddy and taji.

P Hensen song said he left his heart on the stage.

He gave genuine emotion.

I was proud of him and I was happy for him for having that moment.

Michael’s brother, Germaine Jackson, expressed similar sentiment, stating it was very emotional for me because it was an acceptance from his fans, from what has happened to him and also paying tribute to my brother.

Later, during the award ceremony, Brown stated: I let y’all down before, but I won’t do it again, I promise.

While accepting the award for the Aol fandemonium prized I in August 2010, Brown starred alongside in ensemble cast, including Matt Dylan, Paul Walker, Adris Alba, Hayden Christensen and Ti in the crime Thriller takers and also served as executive producer of the film.

During 2010, Brown released three free mixtapes: in my zone, Rhythm and streets fan of a fan collaborative mixtape with rapper Tigga and in my zone 2, which featured a new writing style for the singer and a different musical style, mixing R&B with hip-hop.

For the mixtapes he worked with new producers, most notably Kevin Mccall.

The mixtapes received a great response from the artists core audience, consolidating it.

The single Deuces extracted from the fan of a fan mixtape obtained critical and Commercial Success.

Peing at number one on the hot are mb/ Hiip hop songs.

The song was later remixed by some of the biggest names in the hip-hop scene at that time, including Drake, Kanye West, Andre 3000, Rick Ross, fabulous and Ti.

He later released the solo track no BS as his second single from fan of a fan and decided to include the two singles from the mixtape as anticipation singles for his next album, 2011 to 2012.

Fame and fortune.

In September 2010, Brown announced his album Fame, backronym 4, forgiving all my enemies, releasing in October the first official single from the album

Yeah

3x, a dance pop song Different from the urban content of the previous mixtapes.

The single received big International success, entering the top 10 in 11 countries, including Australia, Austria, Denmark, Ireland, Netherlands, New Zealand, Switzerland and the United Kingdom.

It was succeeded by the hip-hop single Look At Me Now, featuring rappers Lil Wayne and Busta rymes.

That reached number one on the Us hot r&b/hip hop songs chart, where it remained for eight consecutive weeks.

It also reached number one on the Us hot rap songs chart.

The single became the best-selling rap song of 2011, as well as one of all-time best-selling singles in the United States.

Stereo gum.

While critiquing Brown’s Public Image, during a review praised his musical ability and the track, stating that it brings me no joy to report that look at me now is a 10.

Brown’s fourth studio album.

Fame was first released on March 18th 2011.

Defined by critics as a musical Kaleidoscope for for its versatile sound, the album debuted at number one on the Us billboard 200 chart with first week sales of 270,000 copies, giving Brown his first number one album in the United States.

Steve Jones of Usa Today said that the album showed a more mature, confident and adventurous Brown who has emerged in the wake of all the drama and he has delivered the strongest album of his career.

The album’s thirdd single, beautiful people, featuring Benny Benasi, peaked at number one on the Us hot club songs chart and became the first number one single on the chart for both Brown and Benasi.

She a you was released as the album’s fourth us single, while Next to You, featuring Canadian recording artist Justin Bieber, served as the album’s fourth International single.

To further promote the album, Brown embarked on his Fame tour in Australia and North America.

Brown performing at Superfest in Sydney, Australia, 2012.

Brown received six nominations at the 2011 Bet Awards and ultimately won five Awards, including best male R&B artist viewers Choice Award, the Fandemonium award, best collaboration and video of the year four Look at me now.

He also won three awards at the 2011 Bet hip-hop Awards, including the people’s Champ award, Reese’s Perfect combo award and best hip-hop video for Look at me now at the 2011 Soul Train Music Awards Fame one album of the year.

The album has also earned Brown three Grammy Award nominations at the 54th Grammy awards for best R&b album, as well as best rap performance and best rap song for Look At Me Now, dot. on February 12th 2012, Brown won his first Grammy award for best R&b album.

During the ceremony, Brown performed several songs marking his first appearance at the award show since his conviction of felony assault.

Originally, Brown wanted Fame to be a double dis consisting of 25 to 30 tracks, but the label was contrary to that.

Right before the release of Fame, Brown decided to follow his intentions in an acceptable way for the label, working on a sequel of Fame called fortune.

That would be a whole new album that contained new material and even some tracks that didn’t make the cut of the previous album dot.

On October 7th 2011, Rca music group announced it was disbanding Jive Records, along with Arista records and J Records.

With the shutdown, Brown and all other artists previous signed to these three labels will release future material on the Rca records brand do.

Brown’s fifth studio album, Fortune, was anticipated with the release of strip Sweet Love till I die and the top 10 singles Turn Up the Music and don’t wake me up.

Fortune was released on July 3rd 2012.

The album’s musical style was noted for mixing Brown’s R&B with pop and electronic music.

The album debuted top the billboard 200 but received negative reviews from critics.

Los Angeles Times wrote that the album is Brash and Commercial, stating that Brown’s Fame hit with a solid combination of freaky heavy duty, R&B bangers and the requisite sex and bed seduction numbers.

But Fortune, his fifth studio album, is the work of an artist who has gone Allin with a handful of commercial tracks designed to get our hero paid and back in America’s good graces.

Despite the negative reception, it was nominated for best Urban contemporary album at the 55th Grammy Awards.

To further promote the album, Brown embarked on his Carpe Dm tour in Europe, Africa, Asia and Trinidad 2013 to 2015.

X and royalty.

After concluding his carpay Dm tour in 2012, Brown’s next studio album started to develop.

On February 15th 2013, the singer unofficially released the song home, where he expresses a reflection on the dark side of Fame and how the only moment of respit from that thought is when he returns to the neighborhood where he grew up with people who knew him from the start.

On March 26th 2013, Brown announced the release of X in various interviews and listening sessions.

I, in an interview with Ebony Brown, spoke of taking his music in a different direction and changing his sound from the pop infused and sexually explicit one of the previous album, Fortune, to a more mature, Soulful and vulnerable theme for the album dot.

On March 29th 2013, he released the critically acclaimed Fine China as the lead single of X. Yahoo lotted Fine China as a suful 1970s inspired track and said that it was Brown’s most musical sound to date, following the release of two other anticipation singles of X. don’t think they know and love more.

On August 9th 2013 at 10:9 am Pacific Daylight Time, Brown was reported to have suffered a seizure from record plant Studios in Hollywood, California.

As a 911 call was made when paramedics arrived, Brown allegedly refused to receive treatment and also refused to be transported to the local hospital.

Brown has reportedly suffered from seizures since his childhood.

The next day, Brown’s representative reported the seizure was caused by intense fatigue and extreme emotional stress, both due to the continued onslaught of unfounded legal matters and the non-stop negativity.

On November 20th 2013, Brown was sentenced to an anger management rehabilitation center for 3 months, putting the December 2013 release of X in Jeopardy. to hold fans over until the X Album drops, Brown released a mixtape titled X Files on November 19th 2013.

Brown revealed in 2022 that at the time when he was on the way to go to the counseling, he received a phone call from Prince that told him to don’t lose focus, wanting a conversation with him about being special.

Brown described the phone call as one of his most influential moments.

Dot on February 22nd 2014, it was announced that the album would be released on Brown’s birthday, May 5th 2014.

On April 14th 2014, Brown released a teaser of the new Track- don’t be gone too long, featuring Ariana Grande.

However, at his May 9th 2014 court date, Brown was ordered to serve 131 days in jail for his probation violation and the collaboration ended up never being released.

Furthermore, the album was again delayed due to Brown’s prison sentence while incarcerated.

The album’s fourth single, loyal, became one of Brown’s most successful songs by selling over 6 million copies in the Us and peing in the top 10 of the Us Billboard Hot 100 and the Uk singles chart.

Brown said in a 2022 interview that following his release from jail, he experienced more episodes of fans explaining to him how some of his records helped them through life changing situations, making him realize that he was making music for an actual purpose.

Dot New Flame, featuring Usher and Rick Ross, was later released as the album’s final single.

The title track X was released as an instant gratification track alongside the album pre-order on Itunes on August 25th 2014.

Brown’s 6th studio album X was released on September 16th 2014.

The album received positive reviews from critics that considered it a big Improvement compared to its critically paned predecessor, Fortune.

Brad weed of billboard reviewing X described Brown as a talent whose skill for hit singles and agile performances is only matched by his neack for cannonballing into career-threatening pools of legal and PR problems.

At the 2015 Grammy Awards, the album was nominated for the best Urban contemporary album, while New Flame was nominated for best R&B performance and best R&B song.

Commercially, the album debuted number two on the Us billboard 200, selling 146,000 copies in its first week, becoming a sixth consecutive top 10 debut in the United States.

X has been certified double Platinum by the recording industry Association of America, Raia, pushing the promotion for the album further.

Brown performed and appeared at several televised music events and music festivals across the United States.

On February 24th 2015, Brown released his first collaborative studio album with Tigga titled fan of a fan the album.

The album was a follow-up to the pairs 2010 mixtape fan of a fan and its lead single, Ao, received commercial success I. in early 2015, Brown also embarked on his Between the Sheets tour with Trey songs I. in April 2015, he discovered that he had a daughter and broke up with his ex-girlfriend Karui Tran, contemporarily starting his one hell of a night tour.

Brown in January 2006, 16, performing back to sleep in Miami.

In Spring 2015, Brown was featured on Dj Dioro song five more hours, which received worldwide success dot.

On June 24th, Brown released liquor as the first single from his seventh studio album titled royalty being dedicated to his daughter.

On October 16th, he revealed the album cover dot.

On October 13th 2015, Brown announced that royalty would be released on November 27th 2015, after it was revealed that the album has been pushed back to December 18th 2015.

In exchange, on November 27th 2015, he released a free 34 track mixtape called before the party as a Prelude to royalty, which features guest appearances from Rihanna, was Khalifa Pusha T Kelly Roland, whale igga, French Montana and Fetty Wap.

The mixtape is composed by previously unreleased tracks that brown recorded in different Studio sessions between 2012 and 2015.

Royalty was released on December 18th 2015 and debuted at number three on the Us billboard 200, selling 184,000 units- 162,000 in pure album sales.

In its first week, Brown directed and released eight music videos for the songs of royalty, serializing them to construct a linear story.

According to Ananna Robertson of vibe Brown on the album Sticks to the absence of a Sonic script show, showcasing a pure, palpable display of an outside of the box approached to music.

Robertson said that lyrically, the album waves goodbye to a mo on its way out the door, noting it to be a stark contrast to 2014’s X, which included professions of affection.

2016 to 2017: heartbreak on a full moon.

Brown started working and recording tracks for his next album few weeks before the release of royalty in late 2015.

For from the first days of 2016, Brown started to preview on his social media accounts several unreleased songs from his recording sessions I in March 2016, he collaborated again with Italian Dj Benny Benasi for the song Paradise from the latter’s album, Dan aholic dot.

On May 3rd, he announced the single grass ain’t Greener, showing its cover art and announcing it as the first single from a new album titled heartbreak on a full moon.

The single was released on May 5th 2016.

On July 7th, after the 2016 shooting of Dallas police officers, Brown released on his Soundcloud page two piano ballads-

My friend and a lot of love, saying that the songs are released for free for anybody dealing with Injustice or struggle in their lives.

In 2016, the singer released two hip-hop collaborative mixtapes with his OMB crew before the Trap Knights and Tarzana and Attack the Block.

Brown left in the studio working on heartbreak on a full moon in in June 2016.

Throughout 2016 and 2017, he continued sharing several Snippets from songs that he was recording.

He also built a recording studio inside of his home to work on the album.

During this period, he embarked two concert tours as well: the European leg of the one hell of a night tour in 2016 and the Party tour in 2017 dot.

On December 16th 2016, he released the second official single from the album Party featuring guest vocals from American R&b singer Usher and rapper Gucci M. around this time, Brown decided to create heartbreak on a full moon as a 40 track album.

Talking about this decision, he stated in a 2017 interview that he wanted to outdo expectations and push the boundaries on artistry.

Rca records, the record label of the singer, initially wasn’t agreeable of satisfying Brown’s intentions to make a 40 track album, thinking that it would have damaged it commercial performance, but the singer ended up convincing them.

Privacy was later released as the album’s third single dot.

On June 7th, he released Welcome to my life, a self-d doent focused on his life and career directed by Andrew Sandler.

Numerous celebrities participated in the movie, describing Brown from a personal and professional point of view.

Among them there are Jennifer Lopez, Mike Tyson, Rita Ora, Usher and igga.

On August 4th 2017, he released the album’s fourth single, the trap song Pills And Automobiles, featuring fellow American rappers, Yogatti, a boogie with the hoodie, and Kodak Black.

While shortly after he released the fifth single, questions dot, on October 25th 2017, Brown organized with title a free popup concert in New York City to perform the singles on the album and promote it.

Heartbreak on a full moon was eventually released as a double Dis album on October 31st 2017 via digital Ret ters and onto Cd 3 Days Later by Rca records.

Its lyrical content is thought to have been inspired by Brown’s breakup with Karui Tran.

He explained the concept for the album in August 2017 during an interview for complex saying.

I thought heartbreak on a full moon was a depiction of what my soul wanted to say.

It’s funny because we’re doing a double album.

I’ done so many records, but all of the records to me are personal favorites and I feel like it gets what I want to say.

Across cultural critic and media personality, Joe Budon defined heartbreak on a full moon as his best album, despite being counted for only three days of sales.

Heartbreak on a full Moon debut at number three on the Us billboard 200, becoming Brown’s ninth consecutive top 10 album on the chart.

One week after its release, heartbreak on a full moon was certified gold by the recording industry Association of America for Combined sales and album equivalent units of over 500,000 units in the United States, and brown became the first R&B male artist that went gold in a week since Usher’s confessions in 200000 Ford I in 2019, the album has been certified double Platinum by the recording industry Association of America Raa.

On December 13th 2017, he released a 12T track surprise deluxe edition of the album called cuffing season 12 Days of Christmas.

Brown eventually embarked on his Us heartbreak on a full Moon tour in June 2018 to further promote the album.

The opening acts for the tour were black her, Rich, the kid and Jack Quis. 2018 to 2019.

Indigo.

On January 31st 2018, shortly after President Donald Trump’s 2020 State of the Union Address, Brown released for free the track state of the union, a ballot where he expresses a message about social Harmony I. in February 2018, Brown and rapper Joiner Lucas announced an upcoming collaboration project titled Angels and Demons, with the release of the single stranger things.

However, the project ended up never being released.

On March 15 2018, Brown was featured on Lil Dicky’s hit single Freaky Friday.

The song became one of the most successful comedy songs in contemporary pop music, topping the charts in New Zealand and the United Kingdom, also entering the top 10 in the United States.

Following the end of the Heartbreak on a full Moon tour, Brown, Br started to work on his ninth album, Indigo.

On January 4th 2019, Brown released undecided as its lead single.

Undecided saw Brown reunite with producer Scott stor, who previously worked with brown, in 2005 on his breakout hit run it.

The single marked Brown’s first release after signing an extension and a new license agreement with Rca records that gave him the owning of his master recordings, making him one of the youngest artists to do so, at the age of 29 dot.

On April 11th , he released the second single off the album titled back to love.

Andy Kilman, of all music, described the song as a career highlight, although it failed to chart in the Us.

The third single, wobble up, was released a week later, featuring Nicki Minaj and gzy, and a summer tour with Nicki Minaj was announced but ended up never happening dot.

On April 25th, he appeared on a track with Marshmallow and Tigga called light it up dot.

On May 2nd, Brown revealed the list of artists featured on Indigo, including Nicki Minaj, Tory Lanz, Igga, Justin Bieber, Juicy J, juvenile H tank, Lil John, Lil Wayne, Joiner, Lucas Gana and Drake.

The announcement of the Drake collaboration sparked headlines due to their public Feud that lasted for several years.

On May 31st, he appeared on the commercially successful single easy, where he duet with singer Danny Lee dot.

On June 8th, Brown released no guidance featuring Drake as a single.

It debuted at number nine on the Us Billboard Hot 100, making it Brown’s 15th top 10 song, and later peaked at number five.

Do the single one best collaboration performance, best dance performance and song of the year at the 2019 Soul Train Music Awards and received a nomination for best R&B song at the 62nd Grammy Awards.

Brown performing during his Indigo tour in 2019.

Indigo was eventually released on June 28th 20 2019, marking Brown’s second double album.

Musically, the album explored his R&B roots and other genres such as afrob, beats, pop, dance hall and bounce music.

According to ad amorosi of The Inquirer, the album’s themes mix Spiritual Awakening with sexuality.

I and the United States.

Indigo debuted at number one on the Us billboard 200 with 108,000 album equivalent units, which included 28,000 pure album sales in its first week, making it his third number one album in the country.

Indigo was further promoted with the release of the single heat, which topped the billboard rhythmic Airplay chart and earned Brown is 13th number one on the chart and second during 2019.

On October 4th 2019, Brown eventually released a deluxe version of Indigo entitled Indigo extended, which included 10 additional songs, making the extended version a total of 42 songs.

On June 10th 2019, Brown announced an official headlining concert tour where he performed the album throughout United States titled Indigo tour.

The tour began on August 20th and ended on October 19th.

Jak kedin of Tampa Bay Times attended the Tampa concert and, reviewing it, he said it was a guilty pleasure wondering if enjoying his stage presence should be wrong, considering the controversy surrounding his public figure expressing.

At what point do we, can we?

Should we forget about the blowups and restraining orders and just marvel at the Brown splits into a backflip and kick spins at 360 during drunk texting?

The Indigo tour grossed over 30 million $100,000 in its 37 shows, selling out most of the venues.

The end of the year, Brown was ranked third on Billboards top r&b/hip hop artists of the decade for the 2010s, behind Rihanna and Drake in second and first respectively.

2020 to 2023- Breezy.

In December 2019, Brown revealed that he started working on new material for his 10th studio album.

Later, on April 29th 2020, Brown announced the release of a collaborative mixtape with young thug slime and be.

The mixtape was released on May 5th 2020 and features the hit single go crazy, which peaked at number three on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming Brown’s first song to spend one full year on the chart.

I, in April 2021, go crazy, broke the record for the longest running number one song on R&b/hip Hop, Airplay, a record that was previously held by Brown’s 2019 hit single, no guidance dot. on May 1st 2020, Brown was featured on Drake’s dark Lane demo tapes mixtape on the track, not you two.

The song earned.

Brown has 100th career entry on the Us Billboard Hot 100, debuting at number 25.

On July 9th 2020, Brown announced via Instagram that the title of his 10th album would be Breezy, a reference to his stage nickname, Al.

In July, Brown stated that while working on the album, he wanted to make some really endearing music that talked to women’s Soul dot.

On August 2nd 2021, he announced on his Instagram account that his Breezy album would be accompanied by a short film of the same name.

However, it ended up never happening.

Dot.

On January 14th 2022, he released the single iffy, which Peak to number one of the rithmic radio chart.

On April 3rd 2022 dot.

On March 27th 2022, Brown co-head and af1 postrace concert for the 2022 Saudi Arabian Grand Prix dot.

On April 1st 2022, Brown released the album’s second single we warm embrace.

The song was listed on the top five R&B songs of 2022 list by Vi magazine that stated we will go down in history as one of Chris Brown’s most timeless songs.

On April 26 2022, Brown announced his Us summer tour, one of them ones with rapper Lil Baby.

The tour included 27 stops in North America and kicked off on July 15.

Do Brown performed at Drees after hour’s Nightclub at the croma Las Vegas hotel and casino.

On June 11th 2022 in Las Vegas to Mark the launch of his new multi-year residency at the venue.

On June 17th 2022, one week ahead of the album release, Brown released the audio for an afro beats collaboration with Nigerian singer whisk titled call me everyday.

Breezy was released, reled on June 24th 2022 by Rca records and Cbe and debuted at number four on the billboard 200 dot.

On July 8, an expanded version of the album with nine new songs was released at the 65th Grammy Awards.

The deluxe edition of breezy was nominated for best R&B album but lost to Robert Glasper’s black radio 3. following Glasper winning, Brown publicly attacked him and the recording Academy on his social media accounts, later apologizing to the American am musician, congratulating him for the Accolade, stating he was not the intended target.

Brown performing at the O2 Arena in London during his Under the Influence Tour 2023.

On September 4th 2022, Brown won International artiste of the year at the 15th annual hes Awards.

The category is designed for non-african artists or groups with outstanding achievements and impact on afer beats I and the summer of 2022.

His song Under the Influence, contained in the extended edition of his 2019 album Indigo, went viral on the Tik Tok platform, giving the song great Commercial Success globally.

With Under the Influence, Brown became the first R&B singer in history to chart over 50 top 40 hits on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.

On October 14th 2022, Brown appeared as a special guest at Usher’s Las Vegas residency to perform few songs at the end of his performance, Usher told Brown: you’re a legend, we love you and we gone.

Continue to keep lifting you up dot.

On November 16th 2022, Brown released two Christmas themed songs titled: no time like Christmas, and it’s giving Christmas.

On November 18th 2022, Brown took to his Instagram page to announce that the American Music Awards had canceled his scheduled tribute performance to Michael Jackson in celebration of the 40th anniversary of the 1982 album Thriller.

Brown also shared rehearsal footage of the cancelled tribute and stated the performance was canel.

For unknown reasons, the cancelled tribute prompted backlash against the amas from fans and Industry pece alike.

Germaine Dupri stated the decision to pull the tribute signal- something grave- for celebration of black music, stating that if the American Music Awards canceled the Chris Brown performance, then that means they canceled the 40th anniversary of Thriller, which means they canceled the Michael Jackson tribute.

Black music: we in trouble.

Similarly, John Branka, the co-executive of the Michael Jackson estate, stated that the Ama should be ashamed of themselves and that the cancellation is an attack on black music.

Following the global success of under the influence, the title of the song gave its name to the European tour that brown subsequently embarked in 2023.

That Under the Influence Tour which registered, sold out.

During all the 24 Arena dates scheduled was seven additional dates being later added.

Also registering sold out.

The tour included six nights at London’s O2 Arena, three nights at Aa arena in Paris, three nights at Zigo Doome in Amsterdam and more.

Prior to the start of the Under the Influence Tour, the original opening Act Skelang withdrew from the tour and was replaced by South African singer Tyla.

The tour marked Brown’s first tour in Europe since the 2016 European leg of his one hell of a night tour.

The tour also marked Brown’s first concerts in the United Kingdom following the revoking of his ban from entering the country implemented in 2010.

In January 2023, Brown surpassed Elvis Presley for the most Raa gold certified singles among all male vocalists in history, after previously passing Presley for the most Billboard haot 100 entries among all male vocalists I. in March 2023, Brown became the fifth artist in Billboards history to reach 10 number ones on billboards R&b/hip Hop Airplay chart with his hit record Under the Influence.

Additionally, Brown earned his 18th number one on the bill boards mainstream r&b/hip Hop Airplay chart with Under the Influence, making him the artist with the third most number ones on the mainstream r&b/hip Hop Airplay chart, behind Drake and Lil Wayne in first and second respectively dot.

On August 4th 2023, the single how we roll in collaboration with Sierra was released.

D. on August 27th 2023, Brown headlined a one-off concert from Jamaica National Stadium titled: Chris Brown and friends live in Jamaica as a part his Under the Influence Tour.

2023 present 1111.

In June 2023, Brown released summer to hot, the lead single of his 11th album.

The song was nominated at the 66th annual Grammy awards for best R&b performance.

Brown announced that his next album would be titled 11-11, revealing the album’s concept being connected to the Homm numerological Belief.

Moreover, he shared that the album will contain 11 songs, a much shorter track list than his previous album’s: heartbreak on a full moon, Indigo and Breezy.

On October 20th 2023, Brown released the Afrob Beat song, Sensational, featuring Nigerian artists L and Davido as 11.

Cole and 112nd single dot.

On October 21st 2023, Brown clarified that the album would actually contain 22 songs, as opposed to the 11 he had stated previously.

Dot.

On November 6th 2023, Brown confirmed ired that there would be seven featured artists on the album, including L Davido, future Friday, Byron Messia and two other artists who were listed as hidden features.

Prior to its releaseon November 7th 2023, Brown released the single nightmares featuring Byron Messi, a Dot.

On November 9th, he announced that 11-11 would be released on November 10th, a day earlier than what previously announced.

A few hours before the release of 11-11, its last track was changed from the previously announced double negative, which features Justin Bieber, to a track called views.

Brown explained the last minute change on his Instagram account on the album’s release day with the following statement: double negative unfortunately did not make the deadline in time with the lawyers, so we couldn’t put it on the album.

Justin, my little brother for life.

So we will make that moment happen soon.

Sorry to the fans that really wanted it to be.

On the album, 1111 was released on November 10th 23.

The album marks Brown’s thirdd double album with its two sides containing 11 Tracks each.

The album’s musical style mixes R&B, pop music, afrob beats and dance hall.

Reviewing 1111, Kayla sandord of renowned for sound stated that on the record, Brown does well to demonstrate his Dynamic vocal quality.

In the United States, 11-11 debuted at number nine on the Us billboard 200, making it his 12th consecutive top 10 album in the country.

1111 marks the low lowest debut for a Chris Brown solo studio album on the Us billboard 200, surpassing Graffiti 2009, which debuted at number seven on the chart towards the end of 2023.

Brown headlined different concerts located in the Middle East.

The singer addressed the ongoing war in Gaza at the end of a Dubai Uae concert, saying there’s a lot of evil and a lot of genocide going on in the world right now, urging his audience, particularly the younger generation, to embrace love and positivity, and expressed his appreciation for the support of his fans using words in Arabic:

Inshah mashah, I love you, he said.

In January 2024, with T Grizzly single Idgaf featuring Chris Brown and Mariah the scientist, he became the first artist in the 21st century to have charted on the Billboard

Hot 100 for 20 consecutive years dot.

On March 5th 2024, Brown announced the 11-11 tour, a North American Arena tour Fe, featuring singers irra star, M long and Ma as supporting acts.

On April 11th 2024, the singer released 1111 Deluxe, the Expanded Edition of his 11th album containing 13 additional tracks and features from Lil Wayne, Bryson, tiller, Davido Joiner, Lucas, T Grizzly and Mario.

Among the tracks contained the song Freak features of verse, where the singer directly De’s American rapper quo.

The rapper responded the following day with tender, a diss track aimed at Brown leading the ladder to release weakest link.

The following week do.

Hip Hop Dx praised Brown’s rapping on weakest link, adding that the singer has taken his disdain for quo to a whole different level, with the release of weakest link, on which he takes some deeply personal shots at his adversary.

Jayani Turner, Williams of complex called the disc song shocking, describing how the singer fired more lethal shots at quo on his new track concerning fans about the possibility of their beef getting physical Artistry.

Brown has cited a number of artists as his inspiration, predominantly Michael Jackson.

Brown emphasizes Michael Jackson is the reason why I do music and why I am an Entertainer.

In she a you, fine China and back to love, he exemplifies Jackson’s influence both musically and Visually.

Ebony Magazine’s batini Danielle asserted that fine China was reminiscent of Michael Jackson’s off-the-wall choreographically.

Mtv noticed that it takes distinct visual cues from classic Clips like Smooth Criminal and beat it, while billboard complemented his appearance by calling it a modern way to channel the King of Pop.

Usher is also another influence who comes across as a more contemporary figure for Brown.

He tells Vi magazine he was the one who the youngsters looked up to.

I know that we in the dancing and singing World looked up to him and maintains if it wasn’t for Usher, then Chris Brown couldn’t exist.

Other influences include Marvin, Gay, Sam Cook, genuine Phil Collins, Bobby Brown and our Kelly dot.

He is cited Naughty by Nature, Tupac, Lil Wayne and Rakim as his hip-hop influences musical style.

Brown’s musical style typically Blends the traditional sound of R&B with different influences from other genres, most importantly hip hop and pop.

His pure sight of R&B is densely shown throughout his discography, being exemplified by songs like no Bs.

Don’t judge me back to sleep.

We warm embrace music.

Critics have commended Brown’s musical contribution, recognizing his versatility and considering him an Evolver of R&b music.

Lyanna Robertson of vibe, talking about his introduction to the genre, said: as traditional R&B flourished around him, the Young singer began an evolution of the genre.

She saw his debut single run it as a Prelude to what brown would continue to do for the next decade: relentlessly disrupt the constructs of rhythm and blues.

By his second album exclusive, she says he was tapping more electric up tempos, swimming deep in hip-hop Waters and annihilating the pop arena.

Describing the Grammy award-winning Fame as his most diverse offering to date, containing songs that mixed many genres, including R&B pop, hip hop, dance Hall Rock and Euro pop, she remarked there was no level of musical flexibility comparable.

There still isn’t.

Fame is considered to be the album that defined Brown’s Musical style, and Persona Fortune was noted for featuring a more electronic musical Direction, containing genres such as house music and Edm.

According to all music, different tracks of the X Album are soul driven, while on others Brown combines memorable hooks with some Stellar production work on rubbery.

Disco, Funk, disco and Funk are also showcased on Singles like zero and Fine China, royalty and heartbreak on a full moon.

Further explored alternative R&B and trap, with the latter also containing dance hall records.

Throughout his career, Brown has always had a strong influence from Hip Hop and his music and following his 2010 mixtapes, he approached the genre differently, starting to rap frequently on mixtapes and features, adding to his albums fully hip-hop songs like look at me now till I die, and pills and Automobiles, or by doing performances that switch from his R&B singing to his rapping, like he did in several tracks from his album heartbreak on a full moon.

His dance pop side in the single forever off his second album exclusive opened the door for other europop songs like yet 3x beautiful people turn up the music and don’t wake me up, but started to be less present in his music from his album X, on the albums Indigo and 11-11, brown Incorporated afrob beats in his music themes.

Brown’s lyrical production is typically considered to be emotional or hedonistic.

His songs mainly cover themes of sex desire, regret, romantic love, heartbreak, recklessness and internal conflict, also having some introspections over the Dark Side of Fame.

Along with his vocal and dancing abilities, his songwriting is considered to be one of the things that distinct him for the better compared to other R&B singers of his time.

American Media executive and radio personality, Ebro Darden, stated that brown is the most all-around talented person in R&b.

Trey songs is talented, but he can’t dance like Chris Brown.

Usher is probably the only one that could come close to him, but he doesn’t have the songwriting ability that Chris Brown has.

Brown said in 2013 during an interview for Rolling Stone that his songs are always derived from personal experiences.

Then again, I always like mixing reality with art.

Billboard reviewing royalty found its content to be an art imitating life thing.

Vultures writer Craig Jenkins, while reviewing heartbreak on a full moon, noted in its breakup tracks a usage of shattered, jilted reflection, while the sexual records lyrics were described for being explicit voice.

Brown possesses a light lyric tenor voice which spans three and a half octaves, rising from the Bas F, F2 to its peak at the soprano C C6, better Source Meed.

His vocal ability was first recognized by his mother at a young age.

As Brown tells People magazine, I was 11 and watching Usher perform my way and I started trying to mimic it.

My mom was like you can sing and I was like: well, yeah,

Yeah, Mama.

Subsequently, leading to the start of his career, take you down.

Most notably earned him a Grammy award nomination for best male R&B vocal performance in 2009.

Often described as a dynamic vocalist, Brown’s vocal performances are characterized by harmonization, vocal runs and melisma.

Stereo Gum stated that Brown’s voice is an undeniably powerful instrument, one of those endlessly elastic, Soulful tenners, and he knows exactly how to flex it without flaunting it.

While, while his voice on his first two albums- Chris Brown and Exclusive- was considered to be youthful due to his age, with subsequent projects like Graffiti and fame, it was noted for maturing to a more distinctive voice, with brown coming into his own as a singer dot on Fame.

Critics noted huge flexibility in his voice, with Steve Jones of Usa Today praising the singer’s ability to give top-notch vocal performances in R&b, europop, rap, rock and acoustic records.

X and Indigo were noted for displaying his tamber, exemplifying his singing performances.

According to billboard, his singles liquor and go crazy are representative of Browns Harmonizing.

Lost and found time for love, no guidance and R feature energic vocal performances being noted for displaying a wide emotional range in his singing dot on another round.

Don’t judge me, and it won’t stop.

He showcases soft vocals through a soothing tone.

According to Slant Magazine, different tracks from his heartbreak on a full Moon album showcase the singer’s falsetto, being a reminder that Brown’s voice is capable of Sublime Beauty.

Jake Indiana of heist Noy said that his feature on Kanye West song Waves is one of his best vocal performances and that it sounds like ascending to Heaven with a choir of Angels at your back.

Dot on Look at me now, no Romeo, no Juliet and stranger things.

He displayed his ability of fast rapping dancing, Brown dancing on stage during his Party tour in 2017.

Brown’s dancing abilities and Stage presence are widely praised, receiving broad comparisons to those of Michael Jackson.

According to Brown, he taught himself how to dance by imitating Jackson’s moves since childhood, then developing his own distinct style throughout his career.

Brown also mentioned Mc Hammer as an inspiration to his dancing style.

Most of his music videos feature complex choreographies, including the futuristic Turn Up the Music, the Jackson inspired choreography of Fine China zero, where he displayed different dancing Styles, including popping, and his signature spin move party, where he showcased his remarked footwork and heat, described by the source as a silky, smooth choreography that shows Brown’s unmatchable dancing Talent.

Some of his most notable dancing live performances include his Thriller Recreation at the 2006 World Music Awards, his Medley at the 2011 Mtv Video Music Awards, where he performed a choreography that included flying parts, and his two 2015 freestyle dancing over Futures, March Madness at the best ofal the Heg Maleval that included an acclaimed front flip.

In films such as Stomp, the Yard and Battle of the Year, Brown displayed his ability to break dance, while in character, street art.

Aside from his musical career, Brown was noted for markedly producing graffiti art.

His visual Works have been described as Mong, inspired and Abstract.

Brown said that he painted since his childhood, saying my first approach with was painting School walls, saying that he has always been captivated by the fact that drawing and painting gives you the chance to express yourself in whatever way, showing to the world your own Dimension.

Chris Brown painting a shop shutter in Amsterdam 2016, Brown has produced street art under the pseudonim confused partnering with street artist Kai to produce works for the Miami Bosel.

The singer painted the buildings of different radio stations, such as Hot 97.

In 2015, he worked on of the walls of the Grammy Museum, mixing his spray paint drawings with images of James Brown, Prince, Michael Jackson and himself.

Brown has made graffiti works for different cities worldwide, including Los Angeles, London and Amsterdam.

His painting and dancing abilities were shown at the same time when Brown, partnering with spotify’s rap caviar, painted heartbreak on a full Moon’s album cover, mostly from dancing around the canvas I. in 2020 he painted a mural in memory of Kobe Bryant, doing a portray that includes Kobe’s face, a Mamba and a few pictures of Kobe dribbling and dunking a basketball acting.

Brown has also pursued an acting career.

In 2007, he made his onscreen feature film debut as a supporting role in the dance drama Stomp the Yard and took a leading role in the Christmas comedy film.

This Christmas 2007, he portrayed will Tut in three episodes on the Fox television series The Oc in 2007.

He also guest starred as himself on the Children’s Program Sesame Street in 2007, The Sweet Life of Zach and Cody in 2008 and in The Comedy Central series Tosho in 2011.

He has continued to act inconsistently in films such as the heist Thriller takers 2010, which he also executive produced, the romantic comedy Think Like a Man 2012 and the dance film Battle of the Year 2013.

He produced and starred in a documentary on himself entitled Welcome to My Life 2017.

Reviewing the documentary, Rachel Leah of Salon talked about what the singer said on domestic violence, stating Chris Brown’s actions are inexcusable, but what he says about male violence is vital.

Brown returned to film playing a supporting role in the sports comedy film shebal 2021.

He also made a guest starring appearance as a rapper in the Abc sitcom blackish in the season 3 episode entitled Richard youngster.

The episode received controversy and criticism for its casting of brown, with Caroline Frank of Vox writing.

Casting Brown as the Lynch Bin of an episode all about double standards and oblivious men.

Doing wrong by black women is astonishingly toned, deaf and a major misstep from a show that usually makes a point of knowing better the show’s Creator, Kenya Baris, defended Brown’s casting, saying we wanted someone to play a troubled music star, which he was.

It had been 10 years since the Rihanna incident which happened when he was a kid, basically 19 years old.

I saw him out and he was very contrite and wanted to do something.

I felt like.

Let’s do that.

Achievements and awards- main article list of awards and nominations received by Chris Brown.

In terms of Music, sales and accolades, Brown is one of the most commercially successful and award-winning artists in R&b music, often being referred to by contemporaries as the king of R&b.

As of 2023, Brown has sold over 217 million records worldwide, making him one of the world’s bestselling music artists.

He is also one of the highest grossing African-American touring artists of all time.

Brown is also one of the bestselling digital artists of all time.

As of 2024, Brown has certified 94.5 million digital singles in the United States, ranked at number 15..

Brown has sold over 40 million albums worldwide since his debut, including 18 million in the Us.

In May 2019, Brown surpassed James Brown for the most Billboard Hot 100 entries among R&B singers I. in May 2020, Brown became the first R&b artist in history to achieve 100 entries on the billboard Hall 100.

Subsequently, in July 2022, Brown surpassed Elvis Presley for the most Billboard Hot 100 entries among male singers.

Also, in July 2022, Brown overtook singer the weekend for the most charted songs on billboards- nearly 10-year-old hot R&B songs chart.

Brown also has the third most top 10 entries on the Billboard Hot R&b songs among all artists.

In September 2022, Brown became the first R&B singer in history to chart over 50 top 40 hits on the Billboard Hot 100.

He achieved the record by earning his 51st top 40 hit with his single Under the Influence.

As of 2023, Brown is in a three-way tie with Rihanna, Eminem and future for night, most top 40 hits on the Hot 100 with 52 dot.

Moreover, Brown holds the record for the most consecutive charting weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 among all male R&B artists, with a streak of 161 weeks.

This streak ranks ninth overall among artists across all genres.

I in January 2023, Brown broke Elvis Presley’s record for the most gold certified singles by the recording industry Association of America, Raa, among all male vocalists.

He did so after scoring his 56th gold certified single with call me everyday.

In February 2023, Brown became the first male vocalist in Raa history to score 20 multiplatinum singles in the United States.

At the time of the record, only 8 a in history had scored 20 or more multiplatinum singles in the Us throughout their careers, with brown being the only male vocalist and male R&B artist in the groupto.

Provide an overall picture of Browns chart success billboard ranked him third overall in the top R&b/hip hop artists of the 2010’s decade, he was only surpassed on the list by Drake and Rihanna in first and second respectively, and held the highest rank among male R&B artists.

I. in January 2024, Brown became the first artist in the 21st century to have charted on the Billboard Hot 100 for at least 20 distinct and consecutive calendar years.

In terms of radio success and achievements, Brown is tied with Beyonce for the fourth most number one on the billboard R&b/hip Hop Airplay chart.

Moreover, Brown has 53 top 10 entries on the billboard R&b/hip Hop Airplay, which is the most among all R&B artists and the second most among all artists behind Drake.

Brown also holds the record for the two longest running number one hits on the billboard R&b/hip Hop Airplay since the chart was first established in 1992.

In January 2020, Brown initially set the record for longest running number one on this chart with his 2019 single no guidance, which remained number one for 27 weeks.

The following year, Brown broke his own record for the longest running number one with his 2020 single go crazy, which remained number one for 28 weeks.

Moreover, Brown has the third most number ones on the billboard mainstream r&b/hip Hop Airplay chart, with 18, which is the most among all R&B artists and third most among all artists behind Drake and Lil Wayne in first and second respectively, dot on the billboard rhythmic Airplay chart.

Brown is in a four-way tie with Usher the weekend and Bruno Mars for third, most number one singles on the chart with 13.. brown has a total of 117 entries on the rhythmic Airplay chart, which is the most among all R&B artists and the second most among all artists behind Drake.

In terms of awards and accolades, Brown has won a total of 199 awards from 5133 nominations over the course of his career, among which included Grammy Award: 19 Bet Awards for Bet Hip Hop Awards: four Billboard Music Awards: five American Music Awards: 60 Asap Awards: 49 BMI Awards: 14 Soul Train Music Awards: three Mtv Video Music Awards: One Mtv Australian award: three Iheart Radio Music Awards: One Iheart Radio titanium award: one international dance music award: one Cor Award: two mobile Awards: One Trl award for end Aacp Image Awards: two Nickelodeon awards: two People’s Choice Awards: one ozone award: 17 Choice Awards: eight Urban Music Awards: 38 Dvo certified Awards: One World Music Award: one.

Hes Brown is the second most decorated artist in the history of the Bet Awards.

Behind Beyonce.

Brown is also tied with Bruno Mars as the second most decorated artist in the history of the Soul Train Awards.

Behind Beyonce, Brown is tied with Rihanna for the seventh most Vivo certified Awards, with 38, and holds the record for the most Vivo certifications among male R&B artists.

Moreover, Brown was ranked fourth among the top 10 highest performing us artists on Vivo of the 2010’s decade, behind Taylor Swift, Eminem and Justin Bieber in first, second and third respectively.

Lastly, Brown is the first American Artist and the only R&B artist to ever win a hes award for outstanding achievements in the Nigerian music industry.

Brown won his hes in the category of international artiste of the year, which was designed to recognize non-african artists or groups with outstanding achievements and impact on Afrob Beites personal life relationships.

From 2007 to 2009, Brown dated singer Rihanna until their highly publicized domestic violence case I. in 2011, Brown briefly dated model dream Michelle.

Later, during the same year, Brown began dating Karui Tran, whom he had met while she was working as a personal assistant to a stylist I. in February 2012, Rihanna and Brown released remixes to their singles Turn Up the Music and birthday cake, leading observers to speculate about their relationship.

In October 2012, Brown announced that he ended his relationship with Tr because he did not want to see her hurt over my friendship with Rihanna.

The day after the announcement, Brown released a video entitled the real Chris Brown, which features images of himself, Tran and Rihanna.

As brown wonders, is there such thing as loving two people?

I don’t know if it’s possible, but I feel like that.

In January 2013, Rihanna confirmed that she and Brown had resumed their romantic relationship, stating it’s different.

Now we don’t have those types of arguments anymore.

We talk about, we value each other, we know exactly what we have now

And we don’t want to lose that.

Speaking of Brown, Rihanna also said he’s not the monster.

Everybody thinks he’s a good person.

He has a fantastic heart, he’s giving and loving

And he’s fun to be around.

That’s what I love about him.

He always makes me laugh.

All I want to do is laugh really, and I do that with him.

Rihanna and Brown collaborated again on a duet song off Rihanna’s Unapologetic album titled nobody’s business.

The song was noted by critics as a public response by the couple towards the public perception of their intimacy.

May 2013 interview, Brown stated that he and Rihanna had broken up again.

He subsequently reunited with Tran, but they parted ways following confirmation of Brown’s firstborn daughter in 2015, unwittingly conceived with another woman during a break from his relationship with Tran.

Brown also welcomed a son and a second daughter in 2019 and 2022 respectively, each with a different woman religion.

When discussing his upbringing, Brown stated we were used to two pairs of shoes for a school year.

We used to go to church every day.

I was one of those kids that had more Church Clothes than school clothes.

He has also discussed his second work of Grace, saying that he experienced the Holy Ghost while performing his.

Ey is on the sparrow in church.

After being released from jail on June 2nd 2014, Brown wrote that he was humbled and blessed and tweeted the words: thank you, God.

In 200: 15, he said during an interview for vibe that God is the only thing that he is afraid of.

Speaking about prayers, he said I pray every day.

I think we pray unconsciously too.

Personally, I don’t pray for success.

I pray for knowledge, for understanding and peace of mind.

I really try to pray for that because it’s a big world and you can get wrapped up in it trying to please every city.

So I just Tred to get a peace of mind and me understanding that, being at peace with my flaws and my talents, I’m cool with that.

That’s why I think once he shows me certain things, or even the choices that I make and decisions that I make that are healthy for me.

He shows me the right path.

When I bless other people, he always blesses me.

It’s not even about a self-serving Journey.

It’s about just learning.

I want to learn people’s experiences.

I want to give them experiences too.

Mental health: despite his commercial success and start, Brown has long struggled with mental health issues and addiction.

I and his Welcome to My Life documentary Brown revealed that he had contemplated suicide following the Rihanna incident.

The singer unveiled during a 2013 interview with the guardian that he lost his virginity at the age of 8 to a girl who was 14 or 15 at the time.

Justifying the episode with the countryside context in which he grew up I in 2013, Brown was sentenced to 90 days in rehab by a Los Angeles Superior court judge to fulfill the terms of his probation for the Rihanna incident, while at the Rehab facility Brown was formally diagnosed with bipolar 2 disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder.

The Rehab facility stated that Brown will require close supervision by a physician to ensure his bipolar mental health condition remains stable.

It is not uncommon for patients with post-traumatic stress disorder and bipolar 2 to use substances to self-medicate their biochemical mood swings and Trauma triggers.

The clinical team at the rehab facility also attributed Brown’s aggression to his untreated mental health disorder, severe sleep deprivation, inappropriate self-medicating and untreated Ptsd.

In a 2014 interview with radio personality Ebro Darden, Brown revealed that prior to his 2013 incarceration, he used the syrup, the Xanax, and added that, while Marijuana offset his hyperactive Tendencies, once I started doing the lean, the other stuff, I’d be sitting in the recording booth sleeping in.

20177 billboard wrote an investigative article about Brown’s mental health issues and addiction.

According to what ex-members of his team told billboard around April 2015, he had broken a 15-month stretch of sobriety, going out on Xanax and lean, spiraling into a more frequent drug use.

In the first months of 2016 dot.

Former members of Brown’s team also told billboard that he was using cocaine, Xanax, Marijuana, Molly and lean.

Additionally, his former security guards revealed that certain nights they had to check Brown’s pulse through the night while he slept to ensure he had not overdosed legal issues.

At around 12:30 am PST on February 8th 2009, Brown and his then girlfriend singer Rihanna, had an argument that escalated into physical violence with brown, causing Rihanna visible severe facial injuries which required hospitalization.

Brown turned himself into the Los Angeles Police Department’s Wilshire station at 6:30 PM Pst and was booked Under Suspicion of making criminal threats dot.

On June 22nd 2009, Brown pleaded guilty to felony assault and accepted a plea deal of community labor, 5 years of Probation and domestic violence counseling dot.

On August 25th, Brown received 5 years of probation.

He was ordered to attend one year of domestic violence counseling and undergo 6 months of community service.

The judge retained a 5-year restraining order on Brown which required ired him to remain 50 yard 45.72 M away from Rihanna, reduced to 10 yards at public events.

On September 2nd 2009, Brown spoke about the domestic violence case in a pre-recorded Larry King live interview, his first public interview about the matter.

He was accompanied to the interview by his mother, Joyce Hawkins, and attorney Mark Gagos, as he discussed growing up in a household with his mother being repeatedly assaulted by his stepfather.

Brown said of hearing details of his assault of Rihanna.

I’m in shock because, first of all, that’s not who I am as a person and that’s not who I promise I want to be.

In February 2011, at request of Browns and Rihanna’s lawyers, Mark Gagos and Donald Elra, judge Patricia Sneg modified the restraining order to of level one order, allowing both singers to appear at award shows together in the future.

While conducting his community service in Virginia, Brown was tested positive for cannabis and appeared in court on September 25th 2012, at which his hearing date was changed to November, to determine whether he had violated the terms of his court order.

On March 20th 2015, Brown’s probation ended, formally closing the felony case emanating from the Rihanna assault that happened over 6 years prior.

In the 2017 self-d doent Welcome to My Life, Brown goes into detail about their relationship, saying he intended to marry Rihanna, but she lost trust in him after he lied about a prior sexual encounter with someone who worked with him.

Brown also provided a detailed description on how the known fight happened.

Other legal issues: on June 14th 2012, Drake and his Entourage were involved in a scuffle with brown at a nightclub called wiip in the Soho neighborhood of New York City.

About eight people were injured during the brawl, including San Antonio Spur star Tony Parker, who had surgery to remove a piece of glass from his eye.

Drake was not not arrested.

Brown’s attorney, alleged Drake, was the instigator.

Brown himself tweeted about the incident and publicly criticized Drake.

Weeks later, in January 2013, Brown was in an altercation with Frank Ocean over a parking space outside a recording studio in West Hollywood.

Police officers in Los Angeles said Brown was under investigation, describing the incident as battery due to Brown allegedly punching ocean.

Ocean said he would not press charges.

According to Jamaican singer Shan King, who was present during the altercation, ocean and his cousin instigated the fight and were at fault in July 2013.

Brown’s probation was revoked after he was involved in an alleged hit and run in Los Angeles.

He was released from court and scheduled to reappear in August 2013 to learn whether he would serve time in prison.

The charges would later be dropped, but Brown would have 1,000 additional hours of community service added to his probation terms I. in October 2013, Brown was arrested for felony assault in Washington Dc after refusing to take a picture with a man and throwing a punch that broke the man’s nose.

The charge was reduced to a misdemeanor.

Brown spent 36 hours in a Washington jail and was taken to court in shackles.

He was released and ordered to report to his California probation officer within 48 Hours.

On October 30th 2013, Brown voluntarily entered Rehab.

After Brown completed his 90 days, the judge ordered him to remain a resident at the Malibu treatment facility until a hearing on April 23rd 2014.

The deal was, if Brown left rehab, he would go to jail.

On March 14th 2014, Brown was kicked out of the rehab facility and sent to Northern Neck Regional Jail for violating internal rules.

He was expected to be released on April 23rd 2014, but a judge denied his release request from custody, either on bail or his own recognizance.

At his May 9th 2014 court date, Brown was ordered to serve 131 days in jail for his probation violation.

He was sentenced to serve 365 days in custody.

However, the judge gave him credit for 234 days he had already spent in rehab in jail, as well as credits for good behavior while behind bars.

Brown was released from jail on June 2nd 2014.

In June 2016, Chris Brown was sued for assault, false imprisonment and Battery by Mike G, the singer’s former manager, hired in 2012 to help him repair his Public Image.

Mike G claimed that on May 10th of that year, Brown assaulted him, locked him in a room and punched him four times in the face and neck.

Subsequently, Brown accused Mike G on his social media accounts of stealing money while working for him being fired for it, an accusation that the manager later denied I. in 2019, the lawsuit was settled out of cour court, with brown and the manager, informing courts that both parties have reconciled their differences and reached a confidential deal.

The terms of the deal closed all claims against each party and granted the court jurisdiction in enforcing the deal.

In 2017, Brown’s ex-girlfriend, Karui Tran, was granted a 5-year restraining order against him by a judge in Santa Monica after she shared text messages and voicemails in court, where Brown threatened her and demanded she return diamond rings and other gifts given during their relationship.

In 2022.

Brown was served copyright infringement lawsuits on three of his singles: privacy, no guidance and pills and Automobiles.

The lawsuit on the single privacy was filed by Uk-based music firm green sleeves, who alleged that privacy lifted a line from 1997 dance hall track tied up skirt recorded by red rat.

Red rat himself wasn’t involved in the lawsuit and publicly expressed that he was agreeable of Brown’s usage of his lyrics.

Brown eventually reached a settlement with green sleeves for copyright infringement.

The pair of songwriters who sued Brown and Drake for copyright infringement on no guidance dropped the lawsuit in its entirety in September 2022.

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Lastly, the musician who filed the copyright infringement on pills and Automobiles dropped the lawsuit in June 2023- false accusations.

In the early hours of August 30th 2016, a woman called the police and accused Brown of threatening her with a gun inside his house.

Police were called, but Brown denied the mry without a warrant.

When they returned with one, Brown refused the mry and began what new sources referred to as a standoff with the Lapd, including the Robbery Homicide Division and sweat team.

During this time, Brown was seen posting videos on Instagram in which he rails against the police and the media coverage of the activity at his house.

He denounced media reports that he was barricaded inside his house, complained about the helicopters flying overhead head and called the police idiots and the worst gang in the world.

He said that he was innocent and what I do care about is you are defacing sick my name and my character and integrity.

Brown was arrested and later released from jail on $250,000 bail dot on September 1st 2016.

Brown’s lawyer, Mark Gagos, stated that there was no standoff and that, with regard to the Lapd search, nothing was found to corroborate her statement.

Charges were later dropped after Prosec Ers declined to arrain Brown on the felony charges.

Brown later sued the accuser for defamation prevailing in the lawsuit after it was ruled that the defendant brought to court false and defamatory statements about Brown through her incriminating text messages, where she said that Brown kicked her out of his house because she called his friend jewelry fake and she was going to set him up and call the cops and say that he tried to shoot her.

Brown later told Good Morning America my character’s been defaced.

I’m glad that all my real supporters know me and know the truth, and they’ll see the truth in January 2022.

A woman filed a civil suit accusing Brown of raping her on a yacht in Miami.

In December 2020, the woman attempted to sue Brown for $20 million do.

Brown denied the allegations and later submitted text messages and voicemails to the Miami Police Department which indicated a consensual relationship with the accuser I and the text messages the woman is seen courting Brown and lwd language and bare naked selfies almost immediately after the alleged rape took place.

According to Tmz, Brown countersued the accuser for defamation and the accuser’s lawyer withdrew from the case.

After she was made aware of the messages and voicemails Brown submitted to Miami Police, the lawsuit against Brown was dropped in August 2022.

Business ventures.

In 2007, Brown founded the record label Cbe Chris Brown, entertainment work, culture, Beyond Evolution.

Under Interscope Records, Brown has signed frequent collaborator Kevin Mccall, singer Sabrina Antoinette, former rich girl member seven streer singer, songwriter Joel James and rock group ugly.

However, from 2014, the label started to sign exclusively Brown’s Works.

In October 2009, Brown founded a lifestyle website called mechanical dummy with the purpose of curating and promoting current trends in the world of technology, music, culture, fashion, style and emerging brands.

Brown served as the creative director of the site.

Brown has stated in 2015 he owned 14 Burger King restaurants, later revealing in 2022 that he sold the portfolio.

In November 2012, Brown launched a nonprofit charity organization called the symphonic love Foundation to financially support Arts programs for kids and to support a number of health and education programs and nonprofits which provide education on domestic abuse, Dating Violence and Hiv Aids and leadership programs to children with developmental disabilities.

In May 2012, Brown partnered with famed artist Ron English to create a limited edition toy and sculpture line called dumb English, which they debuted at the toy Art Gallery in Los Angeles.

In November 2013, Brown partnered with Sprayground, a New York backpack company, to launch a limited line of custom backpacks called The Invasion capsule collection.

On November 11th 2021, the singer launched his own cereal Breezy’s Cosmic crunch, partnering with soflow snacks for this limited edition of collectible breakfast serial.

In May 2022, Brown partnered with Los Angeles-based clothing brand, renowned and an online Media Company, black Nft art, to launch an Nft collection titled the oracles with accompanying Physical Street Wear pieces I. N July 2022, Brown released an Nft collection titled the Breezy verse, consisting of 10,000 3D animated NTS with sound and visual effects implemented on the Eran blockchain.

The Breezy verse Nft collection was released in conjunction with Brown’s 10 studio album Breezy.

In September 2023, Brown partnered with California based cannabis brand and dispensary Originals to launch his own strain of recreational Cannabis named busin.

In October 2023, Faraday future intelligent Electric Inc. a California based startup focused on the development of electric vehicles, announced a partnership ship with brown where he would become an ambassador and co-creation officer of the company.

In March 2024, Brown launched his own line of disposable Vapes called the Cb5 Kx- Chris Brown disposable Vape fashion.

In 2012, Brown launched a street wear clothing line called Black Pyramid in collaboration with the founders of the pink Plus Dolphin clothing line I. in 2016, the clothing label was set for larger release, partnering with street wear clothing lines such as Snipes, for a worldwide distribution, also being distributed through its own Black Pyramid boutiques.

On December 11th 2015, the Japanese fashion brand of bathing ape revealed that brown would become the face of the Brand’s high-end range Bit Black Label, which was a follow-up to the Brand’s inaugural celebrity partnership.

Fronted by fellow artist Travis Scott.

In 2016, Brown partnered with German streetware company Snipes for a summer capsule collection designed in collaboration with the singer.

The same year, Brown also served as a model for Philip Pl’s fall and winter campaign.

I in 2016, during an interview with Vanity Fair atalia, he talked about his own definition of style.

It’s not the name of a designer, it’s not parading as a model, it’s not the money you can spend on a jacket.

Style is self-awareness.

Self-confidence it’s feeling comfortable and what you have on and who you are, it’s the ability to be an individual, to be yourself, to be be free in a free world.

In May 2023, Brown partnered with German 3D printed footware company Zeller Feld, designer no sales and street wear and culture company, the oracles, to launch his own line of 3D printed slides titled Nami.