Meghan Trainor

A vibrant pop artist whose soulful delivery and playful wordplay draw from modern R&B, dance grooves, doo-wop, hip-hop, and Caribbean soca, Meghan Trainor first captured widespread attention via her 2014 dance-friendly single “All About That Bass,” an ode to body positivity. The track propelled her Epic debut Title to the top of the Billboard 200 and earned her the 2016 Grammy for Best New Artist. That same year she issued her second studio set, Thank You, whose third Top Five Billboard Hot 100 entry “No” extended her streak of successes. Retaining her upbeat pop core, she explored varied sonic palettes through collaborations with Yo Gotti, Sean Paul, and Nicki Minaj across singles that culminated in the 2020 album Treat Myself. Returning to the bright, doo-wop-rooted sound of her earliest material, she scored another Top 20 Billboard 200 placement with 2022’s Takin’ It Back and later teamed with T-Pain for the 2024 single “Been Like This” that launched Timeless.

Trainor entered the world in December 1993 and spent her childhood on Nantucket Island, Massachusetts, where she started composing music at age seven and penned her debut song at eleven. At Nauset High School on Cape Cod she performed vocals and trumpet in the jazz ensemble while studying guitar under Johnny Spampinato, the acclaimed player associated with NRBQ and the Incredible Casuals. She also spent four years singing and playing guitar and keyboards in the local Nantucket group Island Fusion. During 2009 and 2010 she completed the five-week Performance Program at Berklee College of Music, earning strong evaluations and advancing to the finals of its songwriting contest. By eighteen she had already issued three independent albums and secured a publishing contract with Big Yellow Dog Music, which placed her material with Rascal Flatts, Macy Kate, Common Kings, and Sabrina Carpenter, before signing directly with Epic.

Her first Epic release, “All About That Bass,” featured the memorable lines declaring she was “no stick figure silicon Barbie doll” and that “every inch of you is perfect from the bottom to the top.” The pastel-hued video quickly amassed more than 1,600,000 YouTube views within a month of its June 2014 premiere, then climbed to number one on the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States and numerous other territories. After eight weeks atop the U.S. chart the single received five-times platinum certification for over four million domestic sales, while worldwide figures exceeded six million, marking it among 2014’s standout tracks. Follow-up “Lips Are Moving” reached number four on the Hot 100 and earned double-platinum status, paving the way for the January 2015 arrival of Title, which debuted at number one across several countries. Third single “Dear Future Husband” peaked at number 24 on the U.S. chart, and her year also included a contribution to the Peanuts Movie soundtrack plus a co-write on Rascal Flatts’ “I Like the Sound of That,” highlighted most prominently by a Grammy nomination.

Weeks prior to the March 2016 launch of “No,” the lead single from her sophomore album, Trainor collected the Grammy for Best New Artist. Thank You arrived that May and embraced a contemporary pop and R&B palette, climbing to number three on the Billboard 200 behind the singles “No,” “Me Too,” and “Better” featuring Yo Gotti. In 2017 she supplied “I’m a Lady” to the animated feature Smurfs: The Lost Village. February 2018 brought “No Excuses,” the opening promotional track for her third album Treat Myself, originally slated for August but postponed; instead she delivered The Love Train EP in February 2019 as a Valentine’s Day offering. The finished Treat Myself surfaced in January 2020 with production from Mike Sabath, Ojivolta, King Henry, and additional contributors, incorporating promotional cuts “Genetics,” “Workin’ on It” with Lennon Stella and Sasha Sloan, and “Nice to Meet Ya” featuring Nicki Minaj, alongside the platinum-certified “No Excuses.” It settled at number 25 on the Billboard 200. Later that October she released the holiday collection A Very Trainor Christmas, promoted in part by a duet with Seth MacFarlane on “White Christmas.”

The Teddy Swims collaboration “Bad for Me” and the track “Don’t I Make It Look Easy” ushered in her fifth major-label project, Takin’ It Back, in October 2022. Revisiting the bubblegum pop of the 1950s and 1960s that shaped her early releases, the set included further guest appearances from Scott Hoying, Natti Natasha, and trumpeter Arturo Sandoval, among others, and reached number 16 on the Billboard 200. A deluxe edition followed in March 2023, adding the single “Mother.” A year afterward she returned with the T-Pain partnership “Been Like This,” the first preview of her sixth album, Timeless, issued in 2024. Following the release of “Sweet Morning Heat,” a duet with Jimmy Fallon featured in Jerry Seinfeld’s Pop-Tart comedy Unfrosted, she continued the Timeless rollout with “To the Moon” and “I Wanna Thank Me” featuring Niecy Nash ahead of the album’s June arrival.