  Gwen Stefani, born October 3,
1969, rose to fame with her band No
Doubt. In 2004, Gwen showed the world
she could do it solo as well.
Gwen won Best Female Vocalist at
the California Music Awards, known as the
Bammies and formerly called the Bay Area
Music Awards.
 # 68
Singles Artist of the Year
 Gwen helped out Moby with his track "Southside" and the video
topped the MTV Top 20 and hit the Top 40.
Gwen hit the Top 10 as part of Moby's hit "Southside."
 Gwen hit the Top 40 again
helping out Eve with her hit "Let Me Blow Ya Mind" from Eve's LP - Scorpion.
Gwen hit the Top 10 with her help on Eve's hit "Let Me Blow Ya Mind."
Gwen topped the Billboard Hot
100 Airplay chart with Eve for 4 weeks with
"Let Me Blow Ya Mind."
Gwen won a Teen Choice
Award for Choice R&B/Hip Hop Track
("Let Me Blow Ya Mind" with Eve).
Gwen topped the Billboard Top 40
Tracks chart with Eve for 2 weeks with
"Let Me Blow Ya Mind."
Gwen hit #1 helping out on Eve's hit "Let Me Blow Ya Mind."
Gwen's collaborations
with singles and videos paid off in the form
of 4 MTV Video Music
Award nominations including Best Male Video (with Moby for "Southside"), Best Female Video, Best Hip-Hop Video, and Viewer's Choice (with Eve for "Let Me Blow Ya Mind"). Both Moby and Eve won Best Male Video and Best Female Video respectively.
Gwen could be heard on the All-Star
Tribute benefit single "What's
Going On" (with proceeds going to
AIDS and 9/11 charities).
Gwen took home 2 VH1/Vogue
Fashion Awards for Rock Style and Visionary
Video Award (with Moby for "Southside").
Gwen won a My VH1 Award for
Favorite Female Artist.
Critics in Rolling
Stone voted Gwen as Best Female
Performer of the Year.
 Gwen won a Grammy Award for Best Rap/Sung Collaboration ("Let Me Blow Ya Mind" with Eve).
 # 62
Singles Artist of the Year
Gwen hit the Top 40 solo with
"What You Waiting For?"
 Gwen hit the Top 10 solo with "What You Waiting For?"
Gwen released her solo LP, Love,
Angel, Music, Baby.
Gwen hit the Top 40 with help
from Eve on "Rich Girl."
Gwen topped the Billboard Hot
Dance Music Club Play chart for 2 weeks with
the remixes of "What You Waiting For?"
Gwen co-starred in the Howard
Hughes biopic, The
Aviator, portraying Jean Harlow.
Love,
Angel, Music, Baby was certified gold.
 Gwen was chosen by Rolling
Stone magazine's readers as the best
female performer.
 # 4
Singles Artist of the Year
Gwen appeared on the cover of Rolling
Stone.
Gwen hit the Top 10 with help from Eve on "Rich Girl."
Gwen was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal
Performance ("What You Waiting For?"). Gwen performed
at the ceremony.
"What You Waiting For?" was certified
gold.
Gwen performed on Saturday
Night Live.
"Rich Girl" was certified
platinum.
 Gwen hit the Top 40 and Top 10 with "Hollaback Girl."
Gwen topped the Billboard Hot
Digital Songs chart with "Hollaback Girl."
Gwen topped the Billboard Hot
100 chart and Pop 100 Airplay chart with
"Hollaback Girl."
Gwen hit #1 for 6 weeks with
"Hollaback Girl."
Love,
Angel, Music, Baby was certified 2x
platinum.
The single "Rich Girl" was certified 2x
platinum and "Hollaback Girl" was certified
platinum.
 Gwen hit the Top 40 with "Cool."
Gwen hit the Top 10 with "Cool."
Gwen won a Teen Choice Award for
Choice Breakout, Female and Choice
Collaboration ("Rich Girl"
with Eve).
Gwen's video for "Hollaback Girl" won a MTV Video Music
Award for Best Choreography (Kishaya Dudley) and
was nominated for Video of the Year, Best Female Video, Best Pop Video, and the video for
"What You Waiting For?" won for Best Art Direction (Zach Mathews) and was
nominated for Best Editing.
The single "What You Waiting For" was certified
platinum.
Gwen debuted
her L.A.M.B. fashion line at New York's
Fashion Week.
 Gwen hit the Top 40 with "Luxurious."
Gwen topped the Billboard Hot
Dance Club Play chart with "Cool."
The single "Hollaback Girl" was certified 5x
platinum.
Gwen won an American Music
Awards for Favorite Pop/Rock Female Artist and was nominated for
Artist of the Year. Gwen performed at the
ceremony.
Gwen hit the Top 10 with "Luxurious."
Gwen confirmed that she was
pregnant with her first child.
Love,
Angel, Music, Baby was certified 3x
platinum.
Gwen had the most downloaded
digital single of the year with "Hollaback Girl" with 1.2 million
downloads.
Gwen had the #8 selling LP of
2005 with Love,
Angel, Music, Baby selling over
2.5 million copies during the year.
 Gwen topped the Billboard
Year-End Charts as the Top New Pop
Artist and with the Top Hot Digital Song
("Hollaback Girl").
 # 27
Singles Artist of the Year
Gwen hit the Top 40 with "Crash."
 Gwen was nominated for 5 Grammy Awards including Album of the Year and Best Pop Vocal Album (Love,
Angel, Music, Baby), Record of the Year and Best Pop Vocal Performance -
Female
("Hollaback Girl"), and Best Rap/Sung Collaboration ("Rich Girl").
Gwen gave birth to a baby boy.
 Gwen hit the Top 40 with "Wind It Up."
Gwen performed at the American Music
Awards.
Gwen released The
Sweet Escape. The set included new tracks
and outtakes from her first solo LP.
Gwen hit the Top 10 with "Wind It Up."
Gwen performed on Saturday
Night Live.
 # 16
Singles Artist of the Year
 Gwen hit the Top 40 with help
from Akon with
"The Sweet Escape."
Gwen hit the Top 10 with help from Akon with
"The Sweet Escape."
 Gwen hit #1 for 4 weeks with help from Akon with
"The Sweet Escape."
Gwen hit the Top 40 with "4 In The Morning."
The
Sweet Escape was certified platinum.
Gwen was nominated for a MTV Video Music
Award for Most
Earthshattering Collaboration ("The Sweet Escape" with Akon).
Gwen was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Pop Collaboration with
Vocals
("The Sweet Escape" with Akon).
Gwen gave birth to her second
child - a son.
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The Sweet
Escape
[Gwen Stefani featuring Akon]
from the LP The Sweet Escape
ARC Chart Run: 35 - 27 - 26 - 17 - 13 - 8 - 5 - 4 - 4 - 4 - 3 - 3 - 2 - 1 - 1 - 1 - 1 - 4 - 7 - 9 - 12 - 14 - 15 - 21 - 23 - off
Year-End Chart Position:
# 6
Grammy Nominee: Best Pop
Collaboration with Vocals
MTV VMA Nominee: Most
Earthshattering Collaboration |
1(4) |
25 |
2007 |
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| 2 |
Hollaback
Girl
from Love, Angel, Music, Baby
ARC chart
run: 36 - 27 - 17 - 8 - 1 - 1 - 1 - 1 - 1 - 1 - 3 - 5 - 8 - 11 - 13 - 14 - 20 - 29 - 35 - off
Year-End Chart Position:
# 12
RIAA Certification: 5x
Platinum
Grammy Nominee: Record of the Year, Best Pop Vocal
Performance - Female
MTV VMA Winner: Best Choreography
MTV VMA Nominee: Video of the Year, Best Female Video, Best Pop Video |
1(6) |
19 |
2005 |
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| 3 |
Rich Girl
[Gwen Stefani featuring Eve]
from the LP Love, Angel, Music, Baby
ARC chart
run: 40 - 36 - 32 - 25 - 21 - 19 - 15 - 13 - 11 - 9 - 7 - 4 - 3 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 9 - 13 - 22 - 31 - off
Year-End Chart Position:
# 26
RIAA Certification: 2x
Platinum
Grammy Nominee: Best Rap/Sung
Collaboration |
3 |
21 |
2005 |
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| 4 |
Let Me Blow
Ya Mind
[Eve featuring Gwen Stefani]
from Eve's Scorpion
ARC Chart Run: 40 - 39 - 35 - 31 - 26 - 17 - 14 - 9 - 7 - 5 - 4 - 2 - 1 - 3 - 7 - 13 - 21 - 33 - off
Year-End Chart Position:
# 30
Grammy Winner: Best Rap/Sung
Collaboration
MTV VMA Winner: Best Female Video
MTV VMA Nominee: Best Hip-Hop Video, Viewer's Choice |
1(1) |
18 |
2001 |
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South Side
[Moby with Gwen Stefani]
from Moby's Play
ARC Chart Run: 39 - 37 - 32 - 29 - 24 - 20 - 18 - 16 - 15 - 14 - 12 - 10 - 7 - 6 - 11 - 17 - 27 - 32 - off
Year-End Chart Position:
# 40
MTV VMA Winner: Best Male Video |
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18 |
2001 |
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Luxurious
from Love, Angel, Music, Baby
ARC Chart Run: 37 - 29 - 22 - 17 - 13 - 11 - 9 - 7 - 6 - 4 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 12 - 23 - 27 - 33 - off
Year-End Chart Position:
# 44 |
4 |
17 |
2005 |
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Cool
from Love, Angel, Music, Baby
ARC Chart Run: 39 - 28 - 21 - 16 - 12 - 10 - 8 - 8 - 7 - 6 - 9 - 11 - 15 - 19 - 28 - off
Year-End Chart Position:
# 51 |
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15 |
2005 |
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4 In The
Morning
from the LP The Sweet Escape
ARC Chart Run: 39 - 36 - 33 - 29 - 25 - 23 - 20 - 18 - 17 - 15 - 24 - 28 - off
Year-End Chart Position:
# 83 |
15 |
12 |
2007 |
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 Wind It Up
from the LP The Sweet Escape
ARC Chart Run: 33 - 22 - 17 - 15 - 9 - 8 - 10 - 12 - 27 - 36 - off
Year-End Chart Position:
# 80 |
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10 |
2006 |
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What You
Waiting For?
from Love, Angel, Music, Baby
ARC Chart Run: 36 - 23 - 17 - 13 - 11 - 9 - 8 - 15 - 26 - 37 - off
Year-End Chart Position:
# 88
RIAA Certification:
Platinum
Grammy Nominee: Best Female Pop
Vocal Performance
MTV VMA Winner: Best Art Direction
MTV VMA Nominee: Best Editing |
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10 |
2004 |
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Crash
from Love, Angel, Music, Baby
ARC Chart Run: 39 - 30 - 23 - 20 - 19 - 18 - 24 - 35 - off
Year-End Chart Position:
# 107 |
18 |
8 |
2006 |
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Can I Have It Like
That
[Pharrell featuring Gwen Stefani]
from cd single |
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2005 |
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