Mike Stud

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Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
relief
  US 55 05/25/2013 (2 weeks)
Closer
  US 13 07/26/2014 (1 week)
These Days
  US 58 01/30/2016 (1 week)

Mike Stud (born October 30, 1988 in Providence , Rhode Island ; actually Michael Francis Seander Jr. ) is an American rapper.

Career

Before Mike Seander became a rapper, he was a very successful college baseball player. He played basketball and baseball in high school, and in his senior year at St. Raphael Academy in Pawtucket , he was named Baseball Player of the Year in his home state of Rhode Island in 2006 and was awarded a university scholarship. In his first year at Duke University , he set a new university record as a pitcher , but then had to take a long break after an arm injury.

During this time he discovered his passion for rapping and wrote the song College Humor about partying as a student. At first the song was only successful in student circles, then in 2010 he put it online under the name Mike Stud with a self-made video on YouTube and thus reached over 1.5 million views. A video released immediately afterwards with the song In This Life exceeded that number again.

In October 2011 he released his first mixtape , entitled A Toast to Tommy, for download on iTunes , where he reached number 2 on the hip-hop charts and made it into the US R&B charts. In spring 2013 his first album Relief was released and immediately took him to the US album charts at number 55. He signed with 300 Entertainment , which belongs to the major label Atlantic Records , and released his second album a year later, entitled Closer . It debuted at number 13 on the official album charts, came in at number 2 on the R&B charts and topped the rap album charts. At the beginning of 2016 the album These Days was released , which again reached top 10 positions in R&B and rap charts. The title song is his most successful release on the internet with over 6 million views for the official video and another almost 5 million for the Rap Nation upload.

Discography

Albums

  • Relief (2013)
  • Closer (2014)
  • These Days (2016)
  • 4THEHOMIES (2018)
  • Uhyuready? (2019)

Mix tapes

  • A Toast to Tommy (2011)
  • Click (with Huey Mack , 2012)
  • #SundayStudTape (2013)
  • #SundayStudTape Vol. 2 (2013)
  • It's Spring Break, Homie (2015)
  • This Isn't the Album (2016)

Songs

  • College Humor (2011)
  • In This Life (feat. Loggy, 2011)
  • Happy Ending (2012)
  • Batter Up (2013)
  • Gas Pedal (Remix) (2013)
  • Let Her Go ( Passenger Remix) (2013)
  • Out Here (2014)
  • Closer (2014)
  • Brightside (2015)
  • These Days (2016, US:platinumplatinum)
  • Swish (2016)

swell

  1. ↑ Mike Stud in the US charts (Billboard)
  2. ↑ Music Sales Awards: US

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Stud, Mike
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Seander, Michael Francis Jr. (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-American rapper
DATE OF BIRTH October 30, 1988
PLACE OF BIRTH Providence , Rhode Island , United States