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Awards:
43 Annual Grammy Award Winners for:
Best R&B Performance by A Duo or Group with Vocal - "Say
My Name"
Best R&B Song - "Say My Name"
Congratulations to Destiny's Child...
for receiving the Sammy Davis Jr. Entertainer Of the Year Award,
Female at the 15th Annual Soul Train Award
Congratulations to Destiny's Child...
Winner's of the 28th Annual American Music Awards
Favorite Soul/R&B Band, Duo, or Group
Bio:
Hailing from Houston, Texas, Destiny's Child is one of the best-selling
female groups of all time.
Destiny's Child has sold more than 21 million albums and singles
worldwide.
Released to stores on May 1, 2001, Survivor,
the third Destiny's Child album, debuted at #1 on the Billboard
album chart with the highest first week's sales figures (more than
663,000) of any female group in the SoundScan era and the highest
first week's sales figures of any album in Columbia Records history.
Survivor was certified double-platinum by the
RIAA as of June 4, 2001, four weeks after the album's release. Four
weeks after that, on July 2, 2001, Survivor
was certified triple-platinum in the United States. As of July 27,
2001,
Survivor has sold more than 6 million copies
worldwide.
The Writing's On The Wall, the group's sophomore
album, has sold more than 9 million copies worldwide.
Released on July 27, 1999, The Writing's On The Wall
was certified 7x platinum by the RIAA as of February 26, 2001.
The Writing's On The Wall debuted at #6 on
the Billboard 200 Album chart. Nine months after its release,
the album was #5 on the chart, having just experienced its best
sales week ever.
More than a year after the album's release, The Writing's
On The Wall was still in the Top 20 (#11), selling upwards
of 70,000 units per week.
In the first year of its release, The Writing's On The
Wall spent 47 out of 52 weeks in the Top 40 or better
of the Billboard 200 Album chart.
The Writing's On The Wall has generated three
Top 10 hits on the Billboard R&B singles chart: "Jumpin
Jumpin," "Say My Name," and "Bills, Bills, Bills,"
which spent nine weeks at #1 on the Billboard R&B Singles
chart (longer than any other record in the #1 position in 1999).
In the summer of 1999, "Bills, Bills, Bills" was the #1
song on R&B radio for four weeks in a row. Both "Bills
Bills Bills" and "Say My Name" topped the Hot 100
and the R&B Singles charts.
"Jumpin Jumpin," the fourth single from The Writing's
On The Wall, has topped the Billboard Hot 100
Airplay and Top 40 Mainstream Airplay charts as well as the SoundScan
Dance Maxi-Single Sales chart; the record has achieved Top 10 or
better status on the R&B Singles chart, the Top 40 Rhythm Airplay
chart, the Hot 100 Singles chart, the Top 40 Mainstream Airplay
chart and the Maxi-Single Sales chart.
"Bills, Bills, Bills" secured two Grammy nominations
for Destiny's Child: Best R&B Performance By A Duo Or Group
With Vocal and Best R&B Song. "Bills, Bills, Bills"
was cowritten, in part, by Destiny's Child's Beyonce Knowles and
Kelly Rowland and Kandi Burruss of Xscape.
Destiny's Child was awarded the coveted NAACP Image Award in the
Outstanding Duo or Group category for The Writing's On
The Wall.
Destiny's Child's videos have become mainstays on MTV and VH1, who
featured the group on "Divas 2000: A Tribute To Diana Ross."
"Say My Name" won the Best R&B Video Award at the
16th Annual MTV Video Music Awards.
The group opened this year's Soul Train Awards and has appeared
on "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno," "Donnie &
Marie," "Regis & Kathie Lee," "Rosie O'Donnell,"
and numerous other programs.
Destiny's Child has contributed music to the hit soundtracks for
"Men In Black," "Romeo Must Die," and "Life."
The group performs two songs--"Independent Women Part I"
and "DOT"--on the best-selling Charlie's Angels
-- Music From The Motion Picture.
To date, Destiny's Child has been awarded a total of 19 gold, platinum,
and multiplatinum certifications from the RIAA for "No, No,
No" (gold, platinum), Destiny's Child (gold, platinum), "Bills,
Bills, Bills" (gold), "Say My Name" (gold), The Writing's
On The Wall (gold, 7x platinum), Survivor (gold, 3x platinum), and
the video The Platinum's On The Wall (gold).
Led by founding members Beyonce Knowles and Kelly Rowland, Destiny's
Child burst onto the music scene in 1997 with the multi-platinum
single, "No, No No," from their self-titled debut album.
Michelle Williams joined the group in February 2000.
Destiny's Child toured with Christina Aguilera in Summer 2000.
The week of October 24, 2000, Destiny's Child had two singles
on the Billboard Hot 100 Airplay chart: "Independent
Women Part I" at #9, reaching 65 million listeners & "Jumpin
Jumpin" at #5, reaching 75 million listeners.
In 2000, Destiny's Child had three #1 records on the Billboard
Hot 100: "Bills, Bills, Bills," "Say My Name,"
and "Independent Women Part I."
At the end of November 2000, during its fourth straight week at
#1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, Destiny's Child's "Independent
Women Part I" also reached the largest audience (140.4 million
listeners) in the history of monitored airplay, breaking the record
set in May 1999 by TLC's "No Scrubs."
"Independent Women Part I" has spent 9 weeks topping the
Billboard Hot 100 and 3 weeks as #1 R&B Single.
When "Independent Women Part I" hit #1 on the U.K. charts,
Destiny's Child became the first American all-female group to hold
that position since 1989, when the Bangles hit it with "Eternal
Flame."
With "Independent Women Part I,' Destiny's Child became the
first American all-female group ever to debut at #1
on the U.K. charts.
In December 2000, Destiny's Child won four Billboard Music
Awards: Artist Of The Year, Artist Of The Year, Duo/Group, Hot 100
Singles Artist Of The Year and Hot 100 Singles Duo/Group Of The
Year. The Billboard Awards honor the year's #1 artists and
songs as determined by record sales and radio airplay. Winners were
decided by the 2000 year-end charts compiled from Billboard's
weekly charts published from December 1999 to December 2000.
Beyonce Knowles and Destiny's Child secured five nominations
for the 43rd Annual Grammy Awards: Record Of The Year ("Say
My Name"), Song Of The Year ("Say My Name"), Best
R&B Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocal ("Say My Name"),
Best R&B Song ("Say My Name"), and Best Song Written
For A Motion Picture Or Other Visual Media ("Independent Women
Part I").
On February 21, 2001, Destiny's Child took home two Grammy Awards:
Best R&B Song ("Say My Name") and Best R&B Performance
By A Duo Or Group ("Say My Name").
Destiny's Child won the Favorite Band, Duo or Group (Soul/Rhythm
& Blues Music) award at the 28th Annual American Music Awards,
announced January 8, 2001, at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles.
The trio was voted Favorite Singing Group in the 14th edition of
the Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards. The awards ceremony, hosted
by Rosie O'Donnell, was held on April 21, 2001, in Santa Monica,
California, and broadcast live on Nickelodeon.
Destiny's Child was nominated in five categories--more than any
other of this year's nominees--at the 7th Annual Blockbuster Entertainment
Awards: Favorite Group of the Year; Favorite Group, R&B; Favorite
Group, Pop; Favorite Single (for "Say My Name") and Favorite
Song from a Movie (for "Independent Women Part I" from
Charlie's Angels -- Music From The Motion Picture.)
The group walked off with two trophies: Favorite Group of the Year
and Favorite Group, R&B while Charlie's Angels -- Music
From The Motion Picture won in the Favorite Soundtrack category.
The Blockbuster Entertainment Awards ceremony was held at the Shrine
Auditorium in Los Angeles on April 11, 2001, and televised on FOX.
Destiny's Child were presented the prestigious Sammy Davis, Jr.
Award for Entertainer Of The Year at the Soul Train Awards ceremony
on February 28, 2001.
"Say My Name" earned Destiny's Child the NAACP Image Award
for Outstanding Duo or Group presented on March 1, 2001.
Destiny's Child is headlining the first-ever MTV TRL ("Total
Request Live") Tour, which kicked off July 18, 2001 at the
Pepsi Arena in Albany, New York.
In Billboard magazine (issued dated the week of August 4,
2001), the Destiny's Child single, "Bootylicious" hit
the #1 slot on the Hot 100 singles chart. It is the group's fourth
#1 record on the Hot 100 (following "Bills, Bills, Bills,"
"Say My Name," and "Independent Women Part I").
"Survivor" peaked at #2 on the Hot 100 while two more
singles--"No, No, No" and "Jumpin Jumpin" crested
at #3 on the chart.
Destiny's Child received two nominations--Best R&B Soul Single,
Group, Band or Duo (for "Survivor") and Best R&B/Soul
or Rap Song of the Year (for "Independent Women Part I")--at
the 7th Annual Soul Train Lady of Soul Awards.
Destiny's Child will perform at the Michael Jackson 30th Anniversary
In Show Business Celebration at Madison Square Garden on September
7, 2001.
Destiny's Child will release a Christmas album in time for this
year's holidays.
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