Selena Alvarez Research Paper

My favorite artist is Selena Gomez. She is my favorite because I like her style of music and I think she is genuinely a good person. I was first introduced to her in 2007 before I knew she sang on Disney Channel. She was on Wizards of Waverly Place and it was my favorite show. Not long after that I realized that she sang the theme song for that and found her music. I didn’t actively followed her throughout the years, but I have always heard her new music. I had a cousin who would show me all of her new songs and after that I did actively follow her. I have always liked that she is not only a musician but she is also an actress and recently, a producer. Selena was a big Disney star from 2007-2012. She was in Barney when she was young, continued on to …show more content…
She released a solo album with the song Come and Get It and it became her first top ten entry on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, and was certified triple platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). Additionally, it peaked at number two on the Mainstream Top 40 chart. In 2014, she had to take a break because she found out that she had lupus. She had to go and undergo chemotherapy, but she soon got back to her acting and singing career. After the whole rehab and chemotherapy fiasco, she started to work on her second solo album. She collabed with Zedd on this one and made Revival. Revival was included on several year-end lists of best albums. The record debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200 with first-week earnings of 117,000 units, of which 85,000 were pure album sales. In doing so, it became Gomez's second consecutive number-one album, after Stars Dance (2013). It was certified Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), denoting one million album-equivalent units (including albums sales, streaming and track-equivalent units) sold in the United States. After she released this, she decided to go on