Blue Ivy Carter

Blue Elizabeth Ernestine Louise Mae Damita Jo Ivy Carter is the firstborn child of Beyonce and Jay-Z. She was born on January 7, 2012, at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City.

Career Achievements & Facts about Blue Ivy

  • Blue Ivy set the record for the most tweeted about person in history.
  • Blue Ivy is the youngest person ever to appear on the Billboard charts.
  • Blue Ivy is the youngest person ever to win an MTV Video Music Award (she was -6 months old when she punched Britney and her VMA tribute off the stage)
  • Her Tumblr page received 20 million hits in 2 days, making it the most popular Tumblr page in history.
  • Was named an honorary citizen of Croatia.
  • Her birthday (January 7th) is a national holiday in Brazil, also known as Blue Ivy Day.
  • Blue Ivy spent $50 million on a small chain of islands off the coast of Fiji, which she gave to Beyonce as a Mother’s Day present.
  • Blue Ivy was the youngest person to appear on the cover of Vogue. Her cover was the biggest selling issue in the history of the magazine.
  • Her first mixtape, “Young and Pruned (Vol. 1)” was the most downloaded mixtape in history.
  • In her cover story with Rolling Stone, Blue referred to her mother as “her greatest inspiration.”
  • Refers to Jay-Z as “Not the Mama”
  • Blue’s debut album Blue Friday has sold more than 10 million copies worldwide and she was the youngest person to be nominated for an Album of the Year Grammy.
  • Recently completed her autobiography, Snatched, Perched, Unmoved & Unbothered: The Life and Times of Blue Ivy Carter, which is slated for release in early 2013.
  • Currently in the studio with Diplo, James Blake, Frank Ocean, Pharrell Williams, and Mark Ronson working on her 2nd album Blue Friday: Ivy Reloaded.