Adams has won 20 Juno Awards and a Grammy Award for Best Song Written for a Motion Picture or Television amongst 16 Grammy nominations, and has been nominated for five Golden Globe Awards and three Academy Awards for his songwriting for films. In 2008, Adams was ranked 38th on the list of all-time top artists on the Billboard Hot 100.
Since 1999, Adams released eight albums, three reaching number one in Canada, and the last three reaching the top three in the UK, Germany and elsewhere in Europe. In the 1990s, Adams had six European Radio Airplay number one songs for 32 weeks, the fourth and third most, respectively and three number one songs on the European Sales Chart for 29 weeks total, the most weeks of any artist. He did duets with Barbra Streisand (" I Finally Found Someone" (1996), his last US top ten hit) and Melanie C (" When You're Gone" (1998), an international top five hit). In 1996, Adams' 18 til I Die was a top five album in many countries, but only reached number 31 in the US. Adam's 1993 greatest hits compilation album, So Far So Good, topped the charts in numerous countries selling 13 million copies worldwide, including being certified 6× platinum in Canada, 5× platinum in the US, and 14× platinum in Australia. Beginning in 1993, Adams' hits were mostly ballads, including the worldwide number one or two hits " Please Forgive Me" (1993) " All for Love" (1993) and " Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman?" (1995), the latter two topping the U.S. Another major hit off the album was the Canadian number one and US number two hit " Can't Stop This Thing We Started", which also went top ten in several other countries. The song was included on Adams' Waking Up the Neighbours (1991), a worldwide number one album that sold 16 million copies, including being certified diamond in Canada. It is one of the best-selling singles of all time, having sold more than 15 million copies worldwide. In 1991, Adams released " (Everything I Do) I Do It for You", which went to number one in at least 19 countries, including for 16 straight weeks in the UK. In 1989, he ended the decade by co writing with fellow Canadian songwriter Jim Vallance and American songwriter Diane Warren "When the Night Comes", played at the end credits of that year's Tom Selleck starred crime drama, An Innocent Man. His 1987 album Into the Fire, with its US and Canadian top ten song, " Heat of the Night", rose to number two in Canada and the top ten in the US and several other countries.
His 1984 Canadian and US number one album, Reckless (which became the first album by a Canadian to be certified diamond in Canada), made him a global star with tracks like " Run to You" and " Summer of '69", both top ten hits in the US and Canada, and the power ballad " Heaven", a US number one hit. He rose to fame in North America with the 1983 top ten album Cuts Like a Knife, featuring its title track and the ballad " Straight From the Heart", his first US top ten hit. Adams was the most played artist on Canadian radio in the 2010s and has had 25 top-15 singles in Canada and a dozen or more in each of the US, UK, and Australia.Īdams joined his first band at age 15, and at age 20 his eponymous debut album was released. He has been cited as one of the best-selling music artists of all time, and is estimated to have sold between 75 million and more than 100 million records and singles worldwide. Bryan Guy Adams OC OBC FRPS (born November 5, 1959) is a Canadian musician, singer, songwriter, composer, and photographer.
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