Miranda Lambert

Miranda Lambert 2010

Miranda Leigh Lambert (* 10. November 1983 in Lindale , Texas ) is an American country - singer and Grammy -Preisträgerin.

biography

Lambert is the daughter of country songwriter and guitarist Rick Lambert. She also played guitar at the age of 16 and wrote her own songs. She founded the Texas Pride Band, with which she performed professionally. With the support of her father, she recorded her debut album in 2001, which bears her name. She also took part in talent competitions, which gave her, among other things, a small role in the film Naughty Beasts! brought in.

In 2003 she won the local elimination for the Nashville Star. The televised finale of this talent show she finished as third place and had thus won a record deal. Their debut album on Epic Records was called Kerosene and went straight to number 1 on the country charts. It stayed there for over 100 weeks and sold over a million units (platinum status) during that time.

Two years later, the next album, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend , followed, again at number 1 on country albums and in the top 10 of the general sales charts. This album was awarded a gold record . Again every two years, album number three, Revolution , was released, which also reached number 1 on the country charts.

In 2011 she married her colleague Blake Shelton ; In 2015 the couple split. On February 14, 2019, Miranda Lambert announced on Twitter that she had married New York police officer Brendan McLoughlin.

Awards

Lambert was nominated for a Grammy in 2007, 2008 and 2010 and won it in 2011 in the category Best Female Country Vocal Performance for The House That Built Me . For her album Platinum , which was released in 2014 , she received her second Grammy in the category Best Country Album .

Discography

Albums

year	Title music label	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, music label , placements, weeks, awards, notes)				Remarks
		CH	UK	US	Country
2001	Miranda Lambert Heartfair Records	-	-	-	-
2005	Kerosene Epic Records	-	-	US18th platinum (70 weeks)US	Country1 (103 weeks) Country
2007	Crazy Ex-Girlfriend Sony BMG Nashville , Columbia Nashville	-	-	US6th × 2 Double platinum (111 weeks)US	Country1 (100 weeks) Country
2009	Revolution Columbia Nashville	-	-	US8th × 2 Double platinum (121 weeks)US	Country1 (90 weeks) Country
2011	Four the Record RCA Nashville	-	-	US3 platinum (108 weeks)US	Country1 (106 weeks) Country
2014	Platinum RCA Nashville	-	UK52 (1 week) UK	US1 platinum (69 weeks)US	Country1 (78 weeks) Country	Grammy (Best Country Album)
2016	The Weight of These Wings RCA Nashville	-	UK70 (1 week) UK	US3 platinum (43 weeks)US	Country1 (78 weeks) Country
2019	Wildcard RCA Nashville	CH92 (1 week) CH	UK57 (1 week) UK	US4 (11 weeks) US	Country1 (... week) Country

Singles

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)		Remarks
		US	Country
2004	Me and Charlie Talking Kerosene	-	Country27 (23 weeks) Country
2005	Bring Me Down Kerosene	-	Country32 (20 weeks) Country
	Kerosene Kerosene	US61 platinum (16 weeks)US	Country15 (22 weeks) Country
2006	New Strings Kerosene	-	Country25 (20 weeks) Country
	Crazy Ex-Girlfriend Crazy Ex-Girlfriend	-	Country50 (6 weeks) Country
2007	Famous in a Small Town Crazy Ex-Girlfriend	US87 gold (8 weeks)US	Country14 (33 weeks) Country
2008	Gunpowder & Lead Crazy Ex-Girlfriend	US52 × 2 Double platinum + gold (mastertone) (17 weeks)US	Country7 (31 weeks) Country
	More Like Her Crazy Ex-Girlfriend	US90 (8 weeks) US	Country17 (28 weeks) Country
2009	Dead Flowers Revolution	-	Country37 (15 weeks) Country
	White Liar Revolution	US38 platinum (20 weeks)US	Country2 (25 weeks) Country
2010	The House That Built Me Revolution	US28 × 3 Triple platinum (20 weeks)US	Country1 (21 weeks) Country
	Only Prettier Revolution	US61 gold (19 weeks)US	Country12 (24 weeks) Country
2011	Heart Like Mine Revolution	US44 gold (20 weeks)US	Country1 (23 weeks) Country
	Baggage Claim Revolution	US44 gold (20 weeks)US	Country3 (19 weeks) Country
2012	Over You Four the Record	US35 × 2 Double platinum (20 weeks)US	Country1 (23 weeks) Country
	Fastest Girl in Town Four the Record	US47 gold (19 weeks)US	Country7 (29 weeks) Country
2013	Mama's Broken Heart Four the Record	US20th × 3 Triple platinum (20 weeks)US	Country2 (29 weeks) Country
	All Kinds of Kinds Four the Record	US89 (5 weeks) US	Country24 (20 weeks) Country
2014	Automatic Platinum	US35 platinum (19 weeks)US	Country4 (21 weeks) Country
	Somethin 'Bad Platinum	US19th × 2 Double platinum (20 weeks)US	Country1 (25 weeks) Country	with Carrie Underwood
2015	Little Red Wagon Platinum	US55 platinum (11 weeks)US	Country5 (20 weeks) Country
	Smokin 'and Drinkin' Platinum	-	Country32 (15 weeks) Country	feat. Little Big Town
2016	Vice The Weight of These Wings	US47 platinum (19 weeks)US	Country2 (20 weeks) Country
	We Should Be Friends The Weight of These Wings	-	Country25 (21 weeks) Country
2017	Tin Man The Weight of These Wings	US75 platinum (1 week)US	Country15 (34 weeks) Country
2019	It All Comes Out In The Wash Wildcard	US70 (2 weeks) US	Country12 (... weeks) Country
	Fooled Around And Fell In Love	-	Country47 (1 week) Country	feat. Maren Morris , Ashley McBryde, Tenille Townes, Caylee Hammack & Elle King
	Bluebird wildcard	US26 (... weeks) US	Country3 (... weeks) Country
The following songs did not appear as single, but were made available for download and streaming through the album and were thus able to achieve a placement:
2014	Platinum Platinum	-	Country50 (1 week) Country
2015	Roots and Wings	-	Country32 (2 weeks) Country
2016	Sweet By & By Southern Family	-	Country40 (1 week) Country
2019	Mess With My Head Wildcard	-	Country45 (1 week) Country
	Tequila Does Wildcard	-	Country47 (1 week) Country

Guest Posts

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)		Remarks
		US	Country
2010	Coal Miner's Daughter Coal Miner's Daughter: A Tribute to Loretta Lynn	-	Country55 (1 week) Country	Loretta Lynn feat. Miranda Lambert & Sheryl Crow
2013	We Were Us Fuse	US26 (20 weeks) US	Country1 (20 weeks) Country	Keith Urban and Miranda Lambert
2016	Forever Country	US21 (4 weeks) US	Country1 (18 weeks) Country	as part of "Artists of Then, Now & Forever"
2018	Drowns the Whiskey Rearview Town	US32 platinum (19 weeks)US	Country3 (26 weeks) Country	Jason Aldean feat. Miranda Lambert
The following songs did not appear as single, but were made available for download and streaming through the album and were thus able to achieve a placement:
2012	Jingle Bell Rock Cheers, It's Christmas	-	Country37 (1 week) Country	Blake Shelton feat. Miranda Lambert

Video albums

• 2010: Revolution: Live By Candlelight (DVD-EP, Sony Music Entertainment)

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1. ↑ ^{a b} RIAA gold / platinum database
2. ↑ CMN: Divorce with Miranda Lambert and Blake Shelton . Retrieved July 26, 2015.
3. ↑ ^{a b c} Chart sources: CH UK US

Web links

Commons : Miranda Lambert  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Official website of Miranda Lambert
• Miranda Lambert at Discogs (English)
• Miranda Lambert at Allmusic (English)
• Biography at CMN (until 2005)