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Shawn Mendes
YouTuber Information
Profile	Shawn Mendes
Style	Music
Date joined	January 19, 2011
Twitter / X	@ShawnMendes
Facebook	ShawnMendesOfficial
Instagram and Threads	@shawnmendes
Other media	YouTube Music Deezer Apple Music Spotify TikTok Official Website
Videos	255+
Schedule	Unscheduled
Status	Semi-Active
Associates	Teddy Geiger • Camila Cabello
Username	Shawn Mendes
Personal information
Full name	Shawn Peter Raul Mendes
Nationality	Canadian
Channel trailer
Shawn Mendes - Can’t Imagine
Most viewed video
Shawn Mendes - Treat You Better
First video
Adele - Hometown Glory (Shawn Mendes Cover)-2

ShawnMendesVEVO
YouTuber Information
Profile	ShawnMendesVEVO
Style	Music
Date joined	June 10, 2014
Videos	147+
Schedule	Unscheduled
Status	Active
Username
Channel trailer
Shawn Mendes, Camila Cabello - Señorita
Most viewed video
Shawn Mendes - Treat You Better
First video
Shawn Mendes - Life Of The Party (Official Audio)

Shawn Peter Raul Mendes (born: August 8, 1998 (1998-08-08)) is a Canadian musician, singer, and songwriter, who performs the genres of pop, folk, rock, folk pop, and pop rock. He launched his YouTube channel on January 19, 2011. However, really, he began his career in 2013, and since then, he has released a total of four studio albums, including Handwritten, (2015), Illuminate, (2016), Shawn Mendes, (2018), and Wonder, (2020), one reissued album, which is Handwritten Revisited, (2015), two live albums, which included Live at Madison Square Garden, (2016), and MTV Unplugged, (2017), and three extended plays, which includes Shawn Mendes EP, (2014), Spotify Singles, (2018), and Shawn Mendes: The Album (Remixes), (2018).

Discography

Studio albums

• Handwritten (2015)
• Illuminate (2016)
• Shawn Mendes (2018)
• Wonder (2020)

Tours

Headlining

• Shawn's First Headlines (2014–2015)
• Shawn Mendes World Tour (2016)
• Illuminate World Tour (2017)
• Shawn Mendes: The Tour (2019)
• Wonder: The World Tour (2022)

Co-Headling

• Jingle Ball Tour 2014 (with various artists) (2014)
• Jingle Ball Tour 2015 (with various artists) (2015)
• Jingle Ball Tour 2018 (with various artists) (2018)

Supporting

• Austin Mahone: Live on Tour (Austin Mahone) (North America) (2014)
• The 1989 World Tour (Taylor Swift) (North America) (2015)

Career

2013–2015: Handwritten

Mendes learned to play guitar by watching YouTube tutorial videos at the age of 13 in 2012. Less than a year later he started posting cover videos on YouTube. Mendes started attracting viewers after he posted a cover from Justin Bieber's "As Long as You Love Me" on the social video app Vine in 2013 and got 10,000 likes and as many followers the next day. After that he gained millions of views and followers in a few months, becoming well known for his six-second snippets of renditions of many popular songs. Mendes saw Bieber as a career model at the time. By August 2014, he was the third most-followed musician on Vine. Artist manager Andrew Gertler discovered Mendes online in November 2013, bringing him to Island Records in January 2014. In April, he won Ryan Seacrest's "Best Cover Song" contest with "Say Something" by A Great Big World. He officially signed to Island in May 2014.

He released his first single "Life of the Party" on June 26, 2014. He became the youngest to debut in the top 25 on the US Billboard Hot 100, making it to number 24 for the week ending July 12, 2014. Prior to his signing, Mendes toured as a member of the Magcon Tour alongside other young Viners with a large following on social media. Mendes was also on a nationwide tour with Austin Mahone as an opening act. He released his debut major label EP in July. The EP debuted and peaked at number five on the Billboard 200, selling 48,000 copies in its first week. He won a Teen Choice award in 2014 for Webstar in Music. On September 5, 2014, "Oh Cecilia (Breaking My Heart)" featuring Mendes was released as the fifth single from the Vamps' debut album, Meet the Vamps. On November 6, 2014, "Something Big" was released as the second single.

On April 14, 2015, Mendes released his full-length album Handwritten, which debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 chart with 119,000 equivalent album units, selling 106,000 copies in its first week and was certified platinum. Mendes then became the youngest artist to debut at number one since the release of Justin Bieber's My World 2.0. The third single from the album, "Stitches", peaked at number four on the US Billboard Hot 100, becoming his first top 10 single in the US, and became his first number one on the Adult Pop Songs and Adult Contemporary charts. The song later reached number one in the UK. Also in 2015, Mendes opened for Taylor Swift during 1989 World Tour dates for North America and recorded "Believe" for the soundtrack of Disney Channel Original Movie Descendants. In late 2015, Mendes and Camila Cabello, who was at the time a member of the group Fifth Harmony, released their collaborative single "I Know What You Did Last Summer". The song was included on Mendes' Handwritten Revisited reissue.

Mendes was listed among Time's "25 Most Influential Teens of 2014", debuting in the list after being the youngest-ever artist to debut in the top 25 of Billboard Hot 100. He was listed in Time's "The 30 Most Influential Teens of 2015", making the list after his debut album topped the Billboard 200 and his single "Stitches" made the top 10 in the US and other countries.

2016–2017: Illuminate

On January 21, 2016, Mendes made his acting debut on The CW's The 100 third-season premiere. He later announced his second world tour as a headliner, the Shawn Mendes World Tour, which started in March 2016 and sold out 38 shows in North America and Europe within minutes.

Trivia

• His YouTube channel is currently the 110th most subscribed YouTube channel, 24th most subscribed music artist on YouTube, the 3rd most subscribed Canadian channel (2nd most subscribed Canadian individual YouTuber) and the 8th most viewed Canadian YouTube channel (5th most viewed individual Canadian YouTuber).
• He used to have a relationship with Camila Cabello.

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