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AGE: 21 HOMETOWN: CAPE COD, NANTUCKET, MA HOMEBASE: NASHVILLE, TN OCCUPATION: SINGER-SONGWRITER GENRE: POP YEARS ACTIVE: 2014 LABEL: EPIC RECORDS FOR FANS OF: TAYLOR SWIFT, DEMI LOVATO, SELENA GOMEZ, KELLY CLARKSON WEBSITE: MEGHAN-TRAINOR.COM TWITTER: TWITTER.COM/MEGHAN_TRAINOR 1.4MM FOLLOWERS FACEBOOK FACEBOOK.COM/MEGHANTRAINORSONGS 1.6MM LIKES VEVO: YOUTUBE.COM/MEGHANTRAINORVEVO OVER 1.4B VIEWS INSTAGRAM: INSTAGRAM.COM/MEGHAN_TRAINOR 2.2MM FOLLOWERS SOUNDCLOUD: SOUNDCLOUD.COM/MEGHAN-TRAINOR PRESS KIT: EPICPUBLICITY.COM/ARTIST/MEGHAN-TRAINOR 2 3 BIOGRAPHY When 2014 began, Massachusetts native Meghan Trainor was an aspir ing artist and When Trainor sat down to write, she asked herself what she would want to hear. “Iwanted little;known songwriter with big dreams. A multi;instrumentalist who was producing to talk about the mistakes I made growing up,” sh e says. “I wanted someone to tell me, her own tracks at age 13, Trainor had penned a handfulof songs for artists like Rascal ‘Make sur e he treats you perfectly before you do an ything with him.’ My mom and I ar e Flatts and Hunter Hayes by the time she brought her ukulele to audition for Epi c ver y clo se and sh e al ways said, ‘Love your self, ’ but I never got the Guy Talkc the ‘M ake Records chief L.A. Reid last February. “Afterward , I sat alone in the confer ence room Sure He Takes You On A Prop er Date’ talk. So I wrote songs about it for younger girls who with no cell phone thinking I’d blown it,” she recalls. However bythe time 2014 ended , have to go through that without getting the talk, too.” Trainor, who turned 21in December, was a full;blown pop star with a multi;week No. 1 single, two Grammy nominations, and a sold;out headline tour on the horizon. “Dear Future Husband” lays down the rules about how she wants to be treated, finding her cheekily advi sing the fellow in question: “Take me on a date, I deserve it babe / And Last Jun e, Trainor’s debut “All About That Bass” — a suprem ely catchy body;positivit y don’t forget the flowers every anni ver sar y.” “I told Kevin that I wanted to write a letter to ode that she wrote to en courage herself and other cur vy girls to love themselves no my future husband and he was like, ‘H e's out there som ewher e and I hope he's taking matter what — quickly became one of the best;selling singles of all time, topping the notes,’” Trainor sayswith a laugh. On “Title” Trainor warn s herman: “Baby, don't call me charts in 58 countri es. It spent a record;breaking eight weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard a friend / If I hear that word ag ain / You might never get a chan ce to see me naked in your Hot 100, was certified 6x;platinum, and earned Trainor and her co;writer and producer bed.” “It was a concept I was really struggling with,” she says. “I was like, ‘Man, I'm sick Kevin Kadish 2015 Gr ammy nominations for Record of the Year and Song of the Year. of all these guys just treating me horriblyc hooking up with me and then being with (Its cand y;colored vid eo has been vi ewed over 480 million times and counting.) Trainor someone el se the next day. Let'stalk about it.’" Trainor gets a bit more emotional on “L ike turned in jubilant performances of “All About That Bass” everywh ere from The Ell en I’m Gonna Lose You,” a song she wrote years ago with Nashville songwriter s Ju stin DeGeneres Show to The Tonight Show’s music room (backed byJimmy Fallon and The Weaver and Caitlyn Smith and which features John Legend (with whom Trainor shar es a Roots playing classroom in struments) and did a victory lap acro ss the U.S. on The manager). “John brought soul and feeling to it,” she says. “He really understood the lyr ics Jingle Ball Tour, wh ich cu lminated in Nick Jonas leading 20,000 people in singing and captured them perfectly in his verse.” “Happy Birthday” to her at the show in Tampa. “All About That Bass” quickly became a cultural phenomenon, its popularity making it a ripe target for parody, inspiring Title is the wor k of a singular talent and it’s obvious from list ening to it that Trainor may NASA’s “All About That Sp ace” and Nerdist’s St ar Wars;themed “All About That Base: be young, but she is no newbie to the craft of songwriting. Growing up on the island of No Rebels.” Even Ju stin Bieber co ver ed the song, posting a remix with Maejor Ali to Nantucket, an hour boat rid e and two;hour drive from Boston, Trainor turned to making YouTube in October. “When I saw that, I was like, ‘That’s it. I’m famous. It’s done,’” music at age 11, partially because there wasn’t much el se to do. Her father, a musician , Trainor says. played her Jam es Brown, Ray Charles, jazz, and doo;wop records, the latter striking a chord in her. “It was the catchiest stuff,” she says. “The Chordettes’ ’Lollipop’ — that was But Trainor was only getting started with “All About That Bass.” In January sh e my jam,” sh e says. When Trainor show ed an aptitude for writing songs, her dadgot her a released her debut album Title, which brings her flair for indelible melody to an MacBook with Gar ageBand. “As a kid, I thought Britney Sp ear s wrote her own songs. I irresistible blend of ’50s doo;wop, throwback hip;hop, blue;eyed soul, and classic pop. thought everyon e did, And I was like, ‘Well, I've got to get going if I want to be a pop star , “I wanted to bring in the old;school feel, but I wanted to keep it ver y modern,” Trainor right? So let's do this,’" she says. After self;releasing two albums, she land ed a says. “Every time I felt a song going too old school I’d say to Kevin, ‘Let’s put a rap publishing deal at 18 and, in stead of accepting the full scholarship offered by Boston’s here and som e 808s there and make sur e it pops, so when this plays in a club it goes prestigious Berklee College of Music, Trainor spent her late teens flying back and forth hard. My dadalways saysthere aretoo many slow songs in the wor ld, so I like to make between her home and Los Angeles to team up with producers and artists on songwriting sure there's some kind of beat.” sessions. Trainor’s other goal was to write chatty lyr ics that would reach a wid e cross;section of In a writing session with Kadish, a Grammy;nominated producer and songwriter who’s listen ers. “A fan came up to me once and said , ‘Yo, thank you for writing the way we also worked with Miley Cyrus and Jason Mraz, in spir ation struck in the form of “All About speak,’ so I made sure every song was like a conversation and wh at someon e might That Bass,” which cam e out in 40 minutes. “When it first became a hit, I was like, ‘This is actual ly say,” sh e explains. The lyrical tone is in keeping with the relatability of her going to last for a second.’ Now it has a life of its own,” she says. It has also chang ed her story;telling, with songs about the morn ing after a hook;up (“Walkashame”), tipsy life. “Over the last year, I've made a bunch of new friends and I've grown up a lot,” sh e texting (“3am”), and shady, lying exes (Top 5 second singl e “Lips Are Movin”). says. “I can say I've done things that a lot of 21;year;olds haven't done. Every singl e one Entertainment Weekly has called Title “Real;girl pop with massive charm.” of my dreams has already com e true. That's pretty cool. I did all of it. Now I need to make a new goal board!” 4 BRAND AT T R I B U T E S • ALL- AMERICAN • KIND • APPROACHABLE • LIVELY • ASSERTIVE • LOVABLE • CHARITABLE • MULTITALENTED • CHEEKY • MUSICAL • CHEERFUL • PLAYFUL • CONFIDENT • RELATABLE • DOWN TO EARTH • SASSY • EMPOWERING • SENSIBLE • FRIENDLY • SILLY • FUN • SMART • GENUINE • SWEET • GOOD– NATURED • THOUGHTFUL • HAPPY • UPBEAT • HEALTHY • WARM • INNOCENT • YOUTHFUL 55 AWARDS AND NOMINATIONS AMERICAN MUSIC AWARDS - 2015 • NOMINATED FOR ARTIST OF THE YEAR • NOMINATED FOR FAVORITE FEMALE ARTIST — POP / ROCK • NOMINATED FOR FAVORITE ARTIST — ADULT CONTEMPORARY BILLBOARD MUSIC AWARDS - 2015 • WON AWARDS FOR: • TOP DIGITAL SONG- “ALL ABOUT THAT BASS” • TOP HOT 100 SONG– “ALL ABOUT THAT BASS” • NOMINATED FOR: • TOP HOT 100 ARTIST • TOP FEMALE ARTIST • TOP STREAMING ARTIST • TOP DIGITAL SONGS ARTIST • TOP NEW ARTIST • TOP STREAMING SONG (VIDEO) – “ALL ABOUT THAT BASS” • BILLBOARD CHART ACHIEVEMENT AWARD PRESENTED BY SAMSUNG GALAXY (FAN-VOTED) IHEARTRADIO MUSIC AWARDS • NOMINATED FOR SONG OF THE YEAR - “ALL ABOUT THAT BASS” • NOMINATED FOR BEST NEW ARTIST 57TH ANNUAL GRAMMY AWARDS - 2015 • NOMINATED FOR BEST RECORD – “ALL ABOUT THAT BASS” • NOMINATED FOR BEST SONG – “ALL ABOUT THAT BASS” AMERICAN MUSIC AWARDS • NOMINATED FOR NEW ARTIST OF THE YEAR 6 ALL ABOUT THAT BASS #1 PEAKED AT #1 IN THE U.S. AND 58 INTERNATIONAL MARKETS TOP 5 PEAKED IN THE TOP 5 IN 81 INTERNATIONAL MARKETS & GROWING #7 TOP-SELLING SONG OF 2014 #1 U.S.

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