The Rise of Justin Bieber: From My World to Global Stardom and Gold Certifications

Bieber's debut album 'My World' was released on November 17, 2009. The album's second single, 'One Less Lonely Girl', and two promotional singles, 'Love Me' and 'Favorite Girl', were released exclusively on the iTunes Store and charted within the top 40 of the US Billboard Hot 100. As a result, he became the first solo artist to have four singles chart in the top 40 of the Hot 100 before the release of a debut album. 'One Less Lonely Girl' was later also released to radio and peaked within the top 20 in Canada and the US, and was certified gold in the latter. Following the release of 'My World', Bieber became the first artist to have seven songs from a debut album chart on the Billboard Hot 100. 'My World' was eventually certified platinum in the US and double platinum in both Canada and the United Kingdom. To promote the album, Bieber performed on several live shows such as mtvU's VMA 09 Tour, European program 'The Dome', YTV's 'The Next Star', 'The Today Show', 'The Wendy Williams Show', 'Lopez Tonight', 'The Ellen DeGeneres Show', 'It's On with Alexa Chung', 'Good Morning America', 'Chelsea Lately', and BET's '106 & Park'. Bieber also guest-starred in an episode of 'True Jackson, VP' in late 2009.