Justin Bieber

"I'm looking forward to influencing others in a positive way. My message is you can do anything if you just put your mind to it."

• Born Justin Drew Bieber on March 1, 1994, in London, Ontario

• While his first EP, 2009's My World, reached No. 5 on the Billboard 200, it wasn't until his debut studio album, 2010's My World 2.0, hit No. 1 that Justin Bieber became a bona fide sensation. "Baby," featuring Ludacris, became his first Top 10 hit, reaching No. 5.

• Bieber received his first GRAMMY nominations for 2010 for Best New Artist and Best Pop Vocal Album. He won his first career GRAMMY for 2015 for Best Dance Recording for "Where Are Ü Now" with Diplo and Skrillex. Bieber made his GRAMMY stage debut alongside Jaden Smith and Usher at the 53rd GRAMMY Awards, performing his hit "Baby."

• Bieber has more Twitter followers than there are residents of his home country Canada.

• Bieber has contributed memorabilia to GRAMMY Charity Online Auctions, which raises funds for The Recording Academy’s health and human services charity, MusiCares.

• As of 2016, Bieber had granted more than 260 wishes for terminally ill children in support of the Make-A-Wish Foundation.

SWAG and the 2026 Grammy Nominations

Released in 2025, SWAG marked Justin Bieber's most critically ambitious project in years and his boldest artistic statement since Purpose a decade earlier. The album arrived after a prolonged public absence driven by health challenges — including his 2022 diagnosis with Ramsay Hunt syndrome, which caused partial facial paralysis and forced him to cancel the remaining dates of his Justice World Tour. SWAG was widely received as both a creative return and a personal one, with Bieber channeling those experiences into a set of songs that ranged from introspective R&B to euphoric pop.

The Recording Academy took notice. At the 68th Grammy Awards in 2026, SWAG earned four nominations — the most Bieber had received for a single project since Justice swept six categories at the 64th Grammys in 2022:

• Album of the Year — SWAG
• Best Pop Vocal Album — SWAG
• Best Pop Solo Performance — "DAISIES"
• Best R&B Solo Performance — "YUKON"

The Album of the Year nomination was particularly significant — only Bieber's second nod in that category, and a signal of the broader critical re-evaluation his work has undergone as he has moved into his late twenties. The dual pop and R&B nominations for individual tracks reflected the genre-spanning nature of the album itself, which drew from classic soul, contemporary R&B, and the confessional pop he helped define in the early 2010s.

"DAISIES," the album's lead single, paired a buoyant melody with lyrics about resilience and renewal, and became one of the most-streamed songs of early 2025. "YUKON," a slower, more textured R&B cut, drew comparisons to the atmospheric depth of his Justice-era collaborations with Daniel Caesar and Givēon, and demonstrated a maturity in his vocal approach that reviewers consistently highlighted.

SWAG represented the latest chapter in a Grammy relationship that stretches back to 2011, when a teenage Bieber received his first nominations for Best New Artist and Best Pop Vocal Album for My World 2.0. In the fifteen years between those early nominations and SWAG's recognition at the 68th Grammys, Bieber accumulated 27 total nominations across pop, R&B, dance/electronic, country, and music film categories — one of the broadest genre footprints of any artist in his generation.