2018–2019: Career beginnings and Last Day of Summer Walker was discovered on Vine by a woman of the same name, who works as the studio manager of an Atlanta-based label called
Love Renaissance. Walker's album contained her thoughts on love, doubt, and womanhood. Towards the end of 2018, Walker toured with
6lack on the
From East Atlanta With Love Tour. Following the success of her mixtape,
Apple Music named Walker as its newest
Up Next artist in 2019, and she became the number 8
R&B artist worldwide across the platform. On January 25, 2019, Walker released her first EP titled
Clear, consisting of four tracks of acoustic recordings. On February 27, she released the remix to her song, "Girls Need Love", with
Drake.
2019–2020: Breakthrough and Over It On August 23, 2019, Walker released "
Playing Games" as the first single for her debut album, titled
Over It. The song, which contains an interpolation of
Destiny's Child's number-one hit "
Say My Name", was produced by
London on da Track.
Over It debuted at number two on the US
Billboard 200 with 134,000
units in its first week. Its debut week marked the largest streaming week for an R&B album by a female artist, in terms of on-demand audio streams. The album topped the
R&B Albums chart for 14 nonconsecutive weeks. Walker supported
Over It with her accompanying The First and Last Tour, which kicked off on October 20. Walker canceled 20 out of 29 dates, citing social anxiety. On November 17, Walker won her first
Soul Train Music Award for Best New Artist, but later received backlash from fans for her short speech and was accused of faking her
social anxiety. On June 29, Walker announced the release of an EP, titled
Life on Earth to be released on July 10. The announcement came a day after she performed "Session 32" and "
Come Thru" with
Usher at the
2020's BET Awards, where Walker was nominated for Best New Artist and Best Female R&B/Pop Artist.
Life on Earth debuted atop the
Billboard Top R&B Albums chart, becoming Walker's second number one. It also debuted at number 8 on the
Billboard 200 becoming Walker's second top 10 project on the chart. Two tracks from the EP charted on the
Billboard Hot 100: "Let It Go", and "My Affection" featuring
PartyNextDoor, at numbers 84 and 86, respectively. "
Come Thru" featuring Usher was certified platinum on August 20 by the
Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). A few days later, on August 25, her song "Body" was certified gold, "
Playing Games" was certified two-time platinum, and "
Girls Need Love" was certified three-time platinum by the
Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), respectively. On October 14, Walker won the
Billboard Music Award for the Best Female R&B Artist at the
2020 ceremony, beating out
Beyoncé and
Lizzo. Walker was also nominated for
Top R&B Artist and Top R&B Album for
Over It. On November 23, she released a repackaged version of the
Over It album, titled
Over It (Complete Edition). The repackaged version of the album features all 18 songs from the standard version of the album plus additional
instrumentals,
a capella versions, live renditions and more. On December 10, Walker's debut song, "Session 32" was certified gold and her collaboration featuring
Jhené Aiko, titled "I'll Kill You" was certified platinum by the
Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), respectively. On the
Billboard 200 year-end chart of 2020,
Over It was the second best performing R&B album of the year behind
The Weeknd's
After Hours and was the seventeenth best performing album overall.
2021–present: Still Over It and Finally Over It On November 5, 2021, Walker released her second album
Still Over It which has since broken the record for biggest R&B debut on the US albums chart since Beyoncé's album
Lemonade. The album surpassed 166,000 units within the first week of release. On November 29, Walker and
Ari Lennox performed the song "Unloyal" together at the
2021 Soul Train Music Awards. The "
No Love" extended remix featuring
Cardi B was announced on March 21, 2022. On March 25, it was released along with a music video. In May, Walker was featured on
Kendrick Lamar's track "Purple Hearts" from the 2022 album
Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers, for which Walker earned her first
Grammy Award nomination. On September 28, 2022,
Ciara released the single "Better Thangs", featuring Walker. The official music video, directed by Mia Barnes, premiered online on September 30. In 2023, Walker was featured on several songs including "
Good Good" by
Usher, "So Be It" by Alex Vaughn, "
Hell n Back" by
Bakar, "I Might" by
Sexyy Red, and "
Prove It" by
21 Savage. She also released her
Clear 2: Soft Life EP, which served as a sequel to her 2019 EP,
Clear, and rereleased her debut commercial mixtape,
Last Day Of Summer (Sped Up), along with four new versions of her song
Girls Need Love, titled
Girls Need Love (Girls Mix). These updated versions, which included a solo acoustic performance from Walker, also featured artists like
Victoria Monet,
Tyla, and
Tink. On November 14, 2025, Walker released her third album,
Finally Over It. == Personal life ==