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By November 2017, Mendes had earned the distinction

Mendes performed at some of the largest venues in the world, including the O2 in London. In 2017, Mendes again went on a world tour in support of Illuminate.

Mendes completed his first solo world concert tour in 2016 and performed on NBC’s Saturday Night Live for the first time in December of that year. The single reached the Top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100, while the album debuted at the top of both the Canadian AlbumsĬhart and the Billboard 200. The lead single “Treat You Better” preceded Mendes’s second album, Illuminate, which was released in September 2016. In 2016, Mendes received Juno nominations for Album of the Year and Pop Album of the Yearįor Handwritten, as well as for Artist of the Year. He also earned a 2015 Juno Award nomination for Breakthrough Artist of the Year. Mendes closed out 2015 as the opening act on Taylor Swift’s 1989 North American Mendes was the youngest artist to debut on theīillboard chart since fellow Canadian Justin Bieber did so in 2010. 1 on the Billboard 200 and quickly went platinum in the US with sales of more than one million copies.

On 14 April 2015, Mendes released his first studio LP, Handwritten. He followed this with his first major label EP in July of 2014, which peaked at No. Just shy of his 16th birthday, Mendes became the youngest artist to debut that high on the Billboard charts. His first single, “Life of the Party,” was released in June and debuted on theīillboard Top 25. Mendes signed with Island Records in May 2014. Mendes’s popularity online, particularly on Vine, caught the attention of American talent manager Andrew Gertler in late 2013. He graduated from Pine Ridge Secondary School in 2016. In high school, he was active in sportsĪnd drama. Following in the footsteps of Canadian pop music star Justin Bieber, he began posting clips of himself online covering well-known pop songs such as Bieber’s “As Long as You Love Me” and Adele’s “Hometown Glory.”īy the time he was 14, Mendes had three million combined followers on YouTube and Vine and was writing his own songs. Mendes taught himself how to play guitar by watching videos online. He has said that he grew up in a religious household. Shawn Mendes was born and raised in Pickering, Ontario, and is of Portuguese and English ancestry.