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Two days after Bieber releases the brooding "Broken" ("I guess they want a reaction/I ain't gonna give it to 'em/They're trying to get at me, yeah/But I ain't gonna feed into it"), the video for "Baby" breaks the billion-view mark on the streaming-video service Vevo, thanks to a strenuous campaign by Beliebers who wanted to […]

TMZ posts a video of the Biebs relieving himself into a restaurant's mop bucket while his friends (who refer to themselves as the "Wild Kidz") hoot and laugh, with one of them even declaring that the place should be honored to receive the teen idol's urine. (Would that make the people who work there pee-liebers?). […]

The Believe Tour's inaugural stop in Glendale, Arizona, has a sick beginning – and not sick in the good way. During the show, Bieber throws up three times, and even horks onstage at one point. After the show, he tweets "And …. Milk was a bad choice! Lol," thus keeping himself two steps ahead of […]

The year opens on a high note, with Bieber and longtime flame Selena Gomez tooling around on Segways and popping up on Instagram together. But things get lousy fast: Bieber and his friends are accused of throwing eggs at a nearby house in his Calabasas, California, neighborhood, and on the 14th the Los Angeles County […]

Bieber releases Journals, a compilation culled from a weekly series of new songs called #MusicMondays. The tracks – which include collaborations with Lil Wayne, Chance the Rapper and Future – are a logical step forward from the R&B of Believe, with moody, sparse instrumentation and mature lyrics. iTunes does not release sales figures for the […]

Bieber's month starts off poorly, with his 19th birthday party in London turning into what he deems his "worst birthday" thanks to underage members of his entourage being turned away by the club Cirque du Soir. The following Monday, he irks fans and parents in attendance at London's O2 Arena by arriving on stage 90 […]

Believe, Bieber's second album, is released. The album is an aggressive shift toward mature R&B for the young singer; producers include Diplo, Hit-Boy and Rodney Jerkins, while Nicki Minaj and Drake are among the featured artists. The lyrical content is also a bit of a leap; the bonus track "Maria" is a fairly explicit rebuke […]

"Boyfriend," the breathy, Timberlakian lead single from Bieber's second full-length Believe, debuts at Number Two on the Hot 100 on the strength of 521,000 digital download sales – Bieber's highest chart peak and will remain so through the rest of his career. The Mike Posner-penned track has Bieber showing off his deeper voice and loverman […]

A week before Bieber's proper first album My World 2.0 hits stores, the singer announces his first worldwide concert tour, also named "My World." The 130-date, eight-leg tour will stretch from June 2010 to October 2011, with the August 31st, 2010, show at New York's Madison Square Garden filmed. Meanwhile, My World 2.0, released on […]

Bieber's first movie, the documentary-slash-concert film Never Say Never, is released on the 11th; its 3-D aspects are used to particularly impressive effect during a scene in which Bieber tosses his feathery locks toward the audience. Two days later, Bieber loses the Best New Artist Grammy to Esperanza Spalding, causing irate Beliebers to hijack her […]

My World, Bieber's debut EP, is released; RS' Rob Sheffield compares Bieber's voice to "Joey Mclntyre getting savagely beaten by the Auto-Tune police."

Bieber's debut single "One Time," which counts The-Dream and "Tricky" Stewart among its masterminds, is released to radio. The song makes a slow climb up the charts, eventually peaking at Number 17 on the Hot 100. The video's plot has Bieber agreeing to house-sit for his pal Usher and seizing the opportunity to throw a […]

"kidrauhl" joins YouTube, and Bieber's mother Pattie uses the account to post videos of her son singing and playing music. (The username is a nod to Justin's dad, Jeremy, who posted in online forums as "lordrauhl.") His repertoire leans heavily toward R&B – in 2010 he told Rolling Stone that his mother played "a lot […]

Justin Drew Bieber is born to Pattie Mallette in Stratford, Ontario, Canada. The Number One song on Canada's pop chart that week: Ace of Base's "The Sign."