Nelly

Nelly is an American Grammy Award winning hip hop artist, entrepreneur and occasional actor. He has performed with the rap group St. Lunatics since 1993. He began his solo career in 2000 with his debut album Country Grammar, the title track of which was a top ten hit. The album debuted at number three on the Billboard 200 and went on to peak at number one. Country Grammar is Nelly's best-selling album to date, selling over 8.4 million copies in the United States. His following album, Nellyville, produced the number-one hits "Hot in Herre" and "Dilemma" (featuring Kelly Rowland). Other singles included "Work It" (featuring Justin Timberlake), "Air Force Ones" (featuring Murphy Lee and St. Lunatics), "Pimp Juice" and "#1".

He has released seven studio albums, fifty singles, two extended plays, two compilation albums, two collaboration albums, one remix album, two mixtapes and sixty-eight music videos.

His dual release album Sweat and Suit came out in 2004 and the compilation Sweatsuit was released in 2006. Sweat debuted at number two on the US Billboard 200 chart, and in the same week, Suit debuted at number one. Six singles were released from the two albums, collectively, including "Flap Your Wings", "My Place" (featuring Jaheim), "Tilt Ya Head Back" (featuring Christina Aguilera) and "Over and Over" (featuring Tim McGraw). The song "Errtime" (featuring Jung Tru and King Jacob) and "Fly Away" were recorded by Nelly for the soundtrack album for The Longest Yard.

Nelly's fifth studio album, Brass Knuckles, was released in September 2008 which produced the singles "Party People" (featuring Fergie), "Stepped on My J'z" (featuring Jermaine Dupri and Ciara) and "Body on Me" (featuring Akon and Ashanti). In 2010, Nelly released the album 5.0. The lead single, "Just a Dream", has appeared in the top ten of several singles charts and were certified platinum in the United States. The second single is "Move That Body" (featuring T-Pain and Akon). "Gone" is the sequel to Nelly's 2002 worldwide number one single "Dilemma", also with Rowland, and serves as third single from Nelly's album.

He won Grammy Awards in 2003 and 2004 and the RIAA ranks Nelly as one of the best-selling male artists in American music history, with 21 million albums sold in the United States. In December 2009, Billboard ranked Nelly the number three Top Artist of the Decade.

In 2013, Nelly released the album M.O.