  John Mayer grew up in
Connecticut and as a teen became a fan of
blues music after hearing a Stevie
Ray Vaughan recording. Within a few
years, Mayer started playing guitar and
performing in blues bars. By age 19, Mayer
had temporarily studied at Berklee College Of
Music, headed for Atlanta, Georgia to refine
his songwriting skills, and released his
first LP - Inside
Wants Out. His success in Atlanta led to
a performance at the South By Southwest Music
Conference in Texas in 2000, which then led
to a major recording deal with Columbia
Records.
 Mayer released his
debut LP - Room
For Squares.
 # 16
Singles Artist of the Year
Room
For Squares was certified gold.
 Mayer hit the Top 40 with "No Such Thing."
Room
For Squares was certified
platinum.
Mayer hit the Top 10 with "No Such Thing."
Mayer was
nominated for a MTV Video Music
Award For Best New Artist.
Mayer's first
EP, Inside
Wants Out was re-released. The EP was
recorded in 1999 and includes many acoustic
versions and unreleased tracks.
Mayer hit the
Top 40 with "Your Body Is A
Wonderland."
Mayer topped
the Billboard Top Internet Albums chart with Inside
Wants Out.
 Mayer hit the Top 10 with "Your Body Is A
Wonderland."
Room
For Squares was certified 2x
platinum.
 # 33
Singles Artist of the Year
 Mayer released Any
Given Thursday.
Mayer won a Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance ("Your Body Is A
Wonderland") and was nominated for Best New Artist. Mayer also performed
at the ceremony.
Room
For Squares was certified 3x
platinum.
Mayer co-headlined a tour with
the Counting Crows.
 Mayer's video for "Your Body Is A
Wonderland" was nominated for a MTV Video Music
Award for Best Male Video.
Mayer hit the Top 40 with "Bigger Than My Body."
Mayer topped the Billboard Hot
Digital Tracks chart for 2 weeks with "Bigger Than My Body."
Any
Given Thursday was certified platinum.
 Mayer released his next LP Heavier
Things.
Mayer topped the Billboard 200
Albums chart for a week and Internet Albums
chart for a week with Heavier
Things selling over 316,000 copies in
its first week of release in the US.
Mayer won a Radio Music Awards
for Artist of the Year - Adult Contemporary
Radio.
Mayer performed
on Saturday
Night Live.
Heavier
Things was certified platinum.
 Mayer was nominated for an American Music
Award for Favorite Pop/Rock Male
Artist.
 # 57
Singles Artist of the Year
 Mayer hit the Top 40 with "Clarity."
Mayer hit the Top 40 with "Daughters."
Heavier
Things was certified 2x platinum.
Room
For Squares was certified 4x platinum.
 Mayer hit the Top 10 with "Daughters."
Mayer topped the Billboard Adult
Top 40 chart with "Daughters."
# 217 on the Top Pop Artists
of the Past 25 Years chart.
 # 90
Singles Artist of the Year
 Mayer performed as part of the
benefit show Tsunami Aid: A Concert Of
Hope on NBC.
Mayer won 2 Grammy Awards for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance and Song of the Year
(awarded to the songwriter) ("Daughters"). Mayer also performed at
the ceremony.
 The single "Daughters" was certified
gold.
Mayer could be heard on B.B. King's LP 80 with the track
"Hummingbird."
Mayer performed on ReAct
Now: Music & Relief - a benefit
program shown on music video channels to
raise money for those affected by Hurricane
Katrina.
Mayer performed as part of Farm
Aid 20 in Illinois.
The single "Your Body Is A
Wonderland" was certified gold.
 Mayer released Try!
John Mayer Trio Live In Concert. The trio is made up
of Mayer, Steve Jordan and Pino
Palladino.
Mayer could be heard on the Hurricane
Relief: Come Together Now compilation
with "Heart So Heavy" with Aaron
Neville.
Mayer was nominated for an American Music
Award for Favorite Adult Contemporary
Artist.
 # 55
Singles Artist of the Year
 Mayer could be heard on the Cars soundtrack with
"Route 66."
Mayer hit the Top 40 with "Waiting On The World To
Change."
 Mayer's next LP Continuum was released.
Mayer topped the Top Internet
Albums chart, Top Rock chart, and Top Digital
Albums chart with Continuum.
Mayer performed at the American Music
Awards.
Continuum was certified
platinum.
 # 97
Singles Artist of the Year
 Mayer won 2 Grammy Awards for Best Pop Vocal Performance -
Male
("Waiting On The World To
Change")
and Best Pop Vocal Album (Continuum), and was nominated
for Album of the Year (Continuum), Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance ("Route
66"), and Best Rock Album (Try!
John Mayer Trio Live In Concert). Mayer performed at
the ceremony.
Mayer topped the Billboard Adult
Contemporary Tracks chart with "Waiting On The World To
Change."
Mayer appeared on the cover of Rolling
Stone.
The single "Waiting On The World To
Change"
was certified platinum.
 Mayer released The
Village Sessions EP overseas
and as a digital release.
On July 7th, Mayer performed at
the Live
Earth
concert in the US. The 7-continent concert
organized by Al Gore brought together over
100 artists to perform and raise the world's
awareness about the climate crisis and how to
make a difference to help the environment and
the world.
 Mayer could be heard on the Alicia Keys LP As
I Am on the track "Lesson
Learned."
Mayer was nominated for an American Music
Award for Favorite Adult Contemporary
Artist.
Mayer topped the Billboard
Year-End Charts as the Top Hot Adult
Contemporary Artist and with the Top Hot
Adult Contemporary Song ("Waiting On The World To
Change").
Continuum was certified 2x
platinum.
Mayer was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Performance -
Male
("Belief"). Mayer performed at the
ceremony.
Mayer hit the Top 40 with
helping out Fall Out Boy with
"Beat It."
Mayer hit the Top 40 with "Say" (from the film The
Bucket List).
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Tracks: "Who Do You Think I
Was" - "Good Love Is On The
Way" - "Wait Until
Tomorrow" - "Gravity" -
"Vultures" - "Out Of My
Mind" - "Another Kind Of
Green" - "I Got A Woman" -
"Something's Missing" - "