"Big Girls Don't Cry", Fergie's number one single, was nominated for  "Best Female Pop Vocal Performance” at the  50th annual Grammy Awards. This comes as a well-diserved end to a successful year. Her debut solo album THE DUTCHESS has sold 5 million copies worldwide and and is a RIAA double-platinum.
 
Fergie was awarded "Favorite Female Artist (Pop/Rock)"at last month's 2007 American Music Awards; "Female Artist Of The Year" at the MTV Video Music Awards; and "Top Female Artist" at the Teen Choice Awards.

THE DUTCHESS (released September 19, 2006) has spent 63 weeks on the Billboard 200 albums chart, having almost 3 million copies sold in the U.S. and another 2 million internationally. Rolling Stones themselves described the album as "a banging mix of party-starters and down-tempo jams ... pure booty-shaking fun." It's run of consecutive RIAA platinum singles began in the summer 2006 with "London Bridge."

"Fergalicious," "Glamorous," and "Big Girls Don't Cry” were the next three singles from THE DUTCHESS that hit the #1 spot. Each surpassed 2 million digital sales along the way, the first time that any artist has had three hits from one album accomplish that feat. Fergie is the only artist to have 4 songs from one album sell over 1 million ringtones. In all, her combined digital singles sales and ringtone sales total in excess of 15 million. "Big Girls Don't Cry" has been named iTunes' biggest-selling single of 2007.

Fergie was named the first female artist since Christina Aguilera to score three #1's from one album when "Big Girls Don't Cry" hit #1 in August 2007. Fergie is also the first female artist of the decade to land her first four solo singles in the Top 5 on the Nielsen BDS-powered CHR/Top 40 chart. "Clumsy" is Fergie's fifth single, currently at #6 on the Hot 100 in its 8th week out, with digital sales topping the 550,000 mark.

Fergie stated: "THE DUTCHESS has exceeded all of my wildest dreams."

Fergie has been a member of the multi-platinum two-time Grammy Award winning group The Black Eyed Peas for nearly five years, since they became a global sensation with the release of their third album, Elephunk (June 2003, featuring the massive #1 hit, "Where Is the Love?" and the Rap Grammy-winning "Let's Get It Started"). It was followed by their first #1 pop/ #1 R&B crossover album, 2005's triple-platinum Monkey Business, which spun off a trio of smash hits, "Don't Phunk With My Heart" (their second consecutive Rap Grammy), "My Humps" -- which became the first 2-million selling Master Tone of all time -- and "Pump It." The Black Eyed Peas are an international success story, having sold more than 18 million units worldwide.