Just In Bieber-mania

Success doesn’t have to come at an age, not for someone who has an endowment of the art he wants to succeed in.

What does it take to be gifted a Range Rover on your 16th birthday? What makes almost 4.5 million fans follow your tweets and nearly 9.5 million others, like your profile on Facebook? And what excites millions of young teenage girls chase a middle-class background guy? I presume, you are thinking: May be phenomenal success on cricket field in India or election in world’s most powerful country or even being a soccer master cum style icon like Beckham can get one there. I bet you are mistaken: This guy is getting three times as many searches as David Beckham in the UK, despite being relatively unheard of there. And there is at least one more number that will leave you without an answer! And that is: 253 million views of his music video on YouTube and counting, highest ever by anyone in any aspect of human endeavour! Tune in with Justin Bieber, the 16 year old whiz musician from Ontario, Canada, who is out to rock the world with his teen-pop songs.
  
The magic of the simple lyrics, when sung in to the childlike reverberation of the prodigy’s vocals have been casting a spell on audiences across seas and cultures. Bieber’s first single ‘One Time’ about one of his favorite topics, puppy love has been watched 157 million times on YouTube alone.
‘One Time’
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Me plus you, I'ma tell you one time
One time, one time
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….
Your world is my world
And my fight is your fight
My breath is your breath
And your heart
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Bieber was just 13 when Chris "Tricky" Stewart produced "One Time" reached the top 30 in more than 10 countries. "One Time" was released to radio while Bieber was still recording his debut album. The song reached number 12 on the Canadian Hot 100 during its first week of release in July 2009 and later peaked at number 17 on the Billboard Hot 100. The song was certified Platinum in Canada and the U.S. and Gold in Australia and New Zealand. Bieber's first album My World, was released on November 17, 2009. Thereafter three consecutive singles, "One Less Lonely Girl", "Love Me", and "Favorite Girl", were released exclusively on the iTunes store and all of them charted within the top forty of the Billboard Hot 100. But the song that became Bieber's biggest hit till date was ‘Baby’. An up-tempo R&B, blending together doo-wop and hip-hop elements, it was available for digital download on January 18, 2010. And within seven months of that in July 2010, ‘Baby’ became the most viewed video in YouTube history.

‘Baby’
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Oh woah oh

You know you love me
I know you care
Just shout whenever
and I'll be there

You want my love
You want my heart
And we will never ever ever be apart
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Baby baby baby oh
Like baby baby baby no
Like baby baby baby oh
I thought you'd always been mine (mine)
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‘Baby’ peaked at number one in France, and charted in the top ten of the United Kingdom, Canada, the United States, Australia, Norway, Japan, Ireland, Hungary, Belgium, Ireland, Slovakia, and New Zealand. 
The Struggles:
The initial years of this baby-faced teen sensation were not what even most of his fans are having. Born on March 1, 1994, in Stratford, Ontario, until recently, this Jewish kid was a regular boy who played hockey and soccer and lived in low-income housing with his mother Pattie Mallette. Mallette, was just 18 years old when she became pregnant. She raised Bieber as a single mother working a series of low-paying office jobs to make ends meet. As a teenager herself, she dreamed of becoming an actress. And though her plans got thwarted when she became pregnant at 18, she tried to get Justin all he needed with her little resources. Bieber taught himself piano, drums, guitar and trumpet, took drum lessons and yowled pop tunes while doing his daily stuff. Initially, Justin kept his musical passions to himself. At 12, he entered a local talent contest Stratford Idol, and without any singing lessons and vocal coaches, came second. Justin began opening up and that summer started busking in front of a Stratford theater earning nearly $3,000. Recalling those days of 2007 Ms. Mallette said in an interview, “He took us on our first vacation ever,”. “We went to Disneyland.”
Ms. Mallette started posting homemade videos on YouTube, where this multi-talented scrappy athlete and chess player put his impeccable spin on songs from artists like Usher, Ne-Yo and Stevie Wonder. This soul singing phenomenon racked up over 10,000,000 views on You Tube purely from word of mouth. That was when Atlanta-based hip-hop manager Scooter Braun accidentally found Justin on You Tube. Braun convinced Ms. Mallette to let Bieber, then 13, fly to Atlanta, Georgia, to record demo tapes. A week after arriving, Bieber sang for R&B singer/songwriter Usher. Bieber was soon signed to Raymond Braun Media Group (RBMG), a joint venture between Braun and Usher.
NOW Justin and his mother live in Atlanta. He is tutored privately and takes vocal lessons, the costs subventioned by Island Def Jam records and the R & B superstar Usher. Now that Justin covers the length and breadth of the world singing for his millions of fans, the child in him still likes to skateboard through airports and play video games moments before he goes on stage. The New York Times wrote, ‘Justin has become ridiculously successful at an age so tender that his preferred mode of greeting is a hug.’ Probably Justin knows that well. So he tweeted earlier this month, “Im still the small town kid you all found on youtube and im hyped to see the world." So, how does a 16-year-old define success? “I grew up with not a lot of money,” Justin replied. “We never owned a house. I want to buy my mom a house.”
Justin has his work ethics and eyes set on future, “The harder you work, the more successful you can be. This is just the beginning for me”.

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