Queen Naija

CTL-E-5372 · Person · musician · 1995–present

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Michigan singer and media personality who converted a YouTube audience into a chart career by singing, in public and in detail, about betrayal, motherhood and starting over. Queen Naija Bulls was born on October 17, 1995, in Ypsilanti, Michigan, began singing in church as a child, and first reached national television as a contestant on the thirteenth season of American Idol in 2014. After building a large following as a vlogger, she refocused on music; her single Medicine entered the Billboard Hot 100 at No. 45 in April 2018 and topped the Adult R&B Songs chart. Capitol Records signed her that spring, and follow-up singles Karma and Butterflies each became platinum hits gathered on her self-titled debut EP, which peaked at No. 26 on the Billboard 200. Her debut studio album missunderstood (2020) reached the top ten of the Billboard 200 and No. 1 on the Top R&B Albums chart. She has continued the narrative with the EP After the Butterflies (2023) and the 2025 EP 30., released around her thirtieth birthday.

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• Also known as: Queen Naija Bulls, Queen Bulls

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Statistics: Born October 17, 1995, in Ypsilanti, Michigan (AllMusic biography, accessed October 15, 2026) · Medicine entered the Hot 100 at No. 45 in April 2018 and topped Adult R&B Songs (AllMusic) · Debut EP peaked at No. 26 and missunderstood at No. 9 on the Billboard 200 (AllMusic; HotNewHipHop) · Medicine was first self-released in late 2017 before its 2018 chart run; the record dates the chart facts, not the upload · Curator's Judgment: DRAFT — Queen Naija's innovation was distribution as much as voice: she arrived with her audience already assembled and her story already serialized, then proved the songs could stand without the vlog. CTL files her as a case study in the creator-to-artist pipeline, and as a frank, church-rooted Michigan R&B singer in her own right. · Photo slot: CLEARED — Wikimedia Commons File:Queen Naija WHTA 2023.png, HOTSPOTATL, CC BY 3.0, verified via Commons API 2026-10-15; direct URL https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8f/Queen_Naija_WHTA_2023.png?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled; master in packet photos/.

Sources

• AllMusic, "Queen Naija — Biography, Discography, Albums & Expert Reviews" — https://www.allmusic.com/artist/mn0003713340 (primary source)
• HotNewHipHop, "Who Is R&B Sensation, Queen Naija?" — https://www.hotnewhiphop.com/678650-queen-naija-bio

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