On November 17, Walker won her first Soul Train Music Award for Best New Artist, she later received backlash from fans for her short speech and was accused of faking her social anxiety. Due to her social anxiety, Walker canceled the remaining 20 out of 29 dates on the tour committing to 9 of them. Walker supported Over It with her accompanying The First and Last Tour, which kicked off on October 20. The album topped the R&B Albums chart for 14 nonconsecutive weeks, and as of July 2020, has yet to chart below number 7. Its debut week marked the largest streaming week for an R&B album by a female artist, in terms of on-demand audio streams. Over It debuted at number two on the US Billboard 200 with 134,000 units in its first week. Along with her album announcement, she shared the official artwork. On September 12, Walker revealed that Over It would be released on October 4 via LVRN and Interscope Records. ![]() The song, which contains an interpolation of Destiny's Child's number-one hit " Say My Name", was produced by London on da Track. On August 23, 2019, Walker released a track, called " Playing Games" as the first official single for her debut studio album, titled Over It. On February 27, she released the remix to her song, "Girls Need Love", with Drake. On January 25, 2019, Walker released her first EP titled Clear, consisting of four tracks of acoustic recordings. Following the success of her mixtape, Apple Music named Walker as its newest Up Next artist in 2019, and she became the number 8 R&B artist worldwide across the platform. Towards the end of 2018, Walker toured with 6lack on the From East Atlanta With Love Tour. Walker's album contained her thoughts on love, doubt, and womanhood. On October 19, 2018, Walker released her debut commercial mixtape, titled Last Day of Summer, supported by the lead single, " Girls Need Love". In 2017, she signed with this label and Interscope Records. Walker was discovered by a woman, who has the same name as her and works as the studio manager of an Atlanta-based label called Love Renaissance. Musical career 2018–2019: Career beginnings and Last Day of Summer Soon after, she began performing covers, posting various videos of herself to the platform. From 2016 to 2018, she had a small cleaning business, and was also an exotic dancer in Atlanta before she taught herself how to play the guitar by watching tutorials on YouTube. ![]() ![]() By 2023, Walker sold over 32 million certified units from the RIAA between albums and songs. In 2022 Billboard Women in Music recognized Walker with the Chart Breaker Award for her achievement on Billboard charts. Her accolades include a Billboard Music Award, a IHeartRadio Music Awards two Soul Train Music Awards, and two Grammy Award nominations. The album broke the record for most album streams in a single day by a female artist on Apple Music, and broke her previous record for largest streaming debut-week for a female R&B artist while she also tied with Taylor Swift as the only female artist to have 18 concurrent songs on the Billboard Hot 100. In November 2021, she released her second studio album Still Over It, which debuted at number-one on the Billboard 200. It debuted at number two on the Billboard 200 chart-breaking the record for the biggest streaming debut-week for a female R&B artist at the time -and received double platinum certification by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). In October 2019, Walker released her debut studio album Over It, which was met with critical and commercial success. The following year, she released her debut commercial mixtape Last Day of Summer and received her first Billboard Hot 100 entry with its single " Girls Need Love," which spawned a remixed version featuring Canadian rapper Drake. In November 2017, she signed a recording contract with the local record label Love Renaissance, an imprint of Interscope Records. Summer Marjani Walker (born Ap) is an American R&B singer-songwriter from Atlanta, Georgia.
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