Usher discography
American singer Usher has released nine studio albums, ten compilation albums, eight extended plays, and eighty-one singles. His music has been released on the LaFace, Arista, Jive, RCA, and gamma record labels.
Usher has sold more than 33 million albums in the United States alone and over 65 million albums worldwide. With over 100 million total records sold worldwide, he is one of the best selling music artists of all time. He has nine number 1 singles and eighteen Hot 100 Top 10 singles on the US Billboard Hot 100. In 1994, Usher released his debut album Usher in North America, which sold 500,000 copies, and produced the singles "Can U Get wit It", "Think of You", and "The Many Ways". The former two peaked in the lower half of the UK and US charts. His follow-up 1997 album My Way sold over 8 million copies worldwide, becoming his breakthrough album. It is certified seven-times Platinum in the US, and spawned three successful singles, including his first UK number 1 song, "You Make Me Wanna...", and first US Hot 100 number 1 song, "Nice & Slow". Usher's success continued in 2001, with his third studio album, 8701. It debuted at number 4 on the Billboard 200. The album produced two number 1 singles, such as "U Remind Me" and "U Got It Bad". In 2002, the album was certified five-times Platinum in the US for sales of 5 million copies. As of 2010, its worldwide sales stand at over 8 million.
Usher's success increased in 2004, with the release of his fourth album, Confessions. It was his first US number 1 album and had the highest first-week sales for an R&B artist, with 1.1 million copies sold. It spawned four Hot 100 number 1 hits: "Yeah!", "Burn", "Confessions Part II", and "My Boo". "Yeah!" and "Burn" stayed atop the Hot 100 for a combined twenty weeks and were the best-selling singles of 2004, ranking first and second, respectively. Confessions received a Diamond certification from the Recording Industry Association of America, and as of 2012, the album has sold over 20 million copies worldwide. Confessions is the best-selling R&B album of the 21st century and is also the best-selling album by a black artist this century. The album ranked second on the 2000–2009 Billboard 200 Decade-end chart. In 2008, Usher's fifth album Here I Stand followed. The album's lead single, "Love in This Club", topped the Hot 100, marking Usher's eighth number 1 on the chart. "Love in This Club Part II", the second single from Here I Stand, charted within America's Top 20 while its third single "Trading Places" reached number 6 in New Zealand as well as the Top 30 in Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom. Here I Stand was certified two-times Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America. Its worldwide sales stand over 6 million copies, making it one of the most successful R&B albums of 2008.
In 2010, Usher released Raymond v. Raymond and it became his third consecutive number 1 album. The album produced five singles: "Papers", "Hey Daddy", "Lil Freak" and "There Goes My Baby" all reaching the Hot 100's top 40, while "Papers" and "There Goes My Baby" topped the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart. The album's two other singles, "OMG" and "More", achieved worldwide success, with "OMG" topping the Hot 100 to give him his ninth number 1 single, and making Usher the first artist with Hot 100 number 1 singles in the 1990s, 2000s and 2010s. Raymond v. Raymond was certified three-times Platinum by the RIAA, and as of March 2012 has sold 1.3 million copies in the US. By the end of the year, it sold over 2 million copies worldwide and ranked as the ninth best-selling album of the year in the US. In the same year, a follow-up set titled Versus was released, and became Usher's sixth Top 10 album. The EP's lead single "DJ Got Us Fallin' in Love" reached the Top 10 in many countries and peaked at number 4 on the Billboard Hot 100. To date, Raymond v. Raymond, including its EP Verzuz, has sold an estimated 5 million copies worldwide, and nearly 2 million copies in the US, making it one of the best-selling albums in the 2010s decade by a black artist. Usher's seventh studio album Looking 4 Myself was released in June 2012 and became his fourth number 1 album in the US. Its first single "Climax" peaked in the Top 20 on the Hot 100, and topped the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart for eleven weeks. The song also won him a Grammy at the 55th Grammy Awards for Best R&B Performance. The album's second single "Scream" reached the Top 10 in various countries, including the US, Canada and the UK. In 2014, Usher released "Good Kisser", "She Came to Give It to You" and "I Don't Mind" as successes in the UK, with the latter reaching high on the Hot 100 and topping the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs to give him his thirteenth number 1 on that chart, tying him with Michael Jackson and Marvin Gaye.
Usher released his eighth album, Hard II Love, which became his seventh Top 5 album on the Billboard 200. It was led by the Hot 100 Top 40 hit "No Limit" and Australian Top 10 hit "Crash". In 2018, Usher collaborated with Zaytoven to release his first collaborative extended project titled A. It debuted and peaked at number 31 on the Billboard 200 chart, with the song "Peace Sign" released as the only single.
In February 2024, Usher released his ninth album, Coming Home. The album debuted at number 2 on the US Billboard 200 and was supported by the Top 40 single, "Good Good", in which peaked at number 25 on the Billboard Hot 100.