Blue Ivy Carter

Some Lesser Known Facts About Blue Ivy Carter

• Blue Ivy Carter attracted massive public attention just days after her birth. On 9 January 2012, Time called her “the most famous baby in the world,” while CBS later ranked her among the world’s most well-known babies, alongside Prince George and North West.

• Blue Ivy’s parents, Beyoncé and Jay-Z, shared her first pictures on a newly created Tumblr page called ‘HelloBlueIvyCarter.

  

• Soon after Blue’s birth, her parents began trademarking her name. They did this not to launch products, but to prevent others from profiting off her name.

• In 2012, Jay-Z released a song titled ‘Glory,’ which featured Blue’s cries, crediting her as ‘B.I.C.’ With that, she became the youngest person to appear on a Billboard chart.

  

• In February 2012, Saturday Night Live aired a funny skit where singer Justin Timberlake pretended to be Bon Iver and sang to Blue Ivy Carter. The skit also featured other stars like Prince (played by actor Fred Armisen) andTaylor Swift (played by actor Kristen Wiig).

  

• In June 2012, the town of Hvar in Croatia named Blue an honorary citizen, as her parents’ 2011 visit brought more tourists to the area. During their trip, Beyoncé saw a tree covered in blue ivy and felt inspired to name her daughter after it.

• In January 2013, Saturday Night Live aired a skit where actor Maya Rudolph, playing Beyoncé, welcomed celebrities like Prince, Brad Pitt, and Nicki Minaj to Beyoncé and Jay-Z’s mansion. It humourously showed Blue’s crib lined with Diana Ross wig.

  

• In 2013, she appeared in an HBO’s documentary-live concert film titled ‘Life is But a Dream.’

  

• Blue Ivy has often appeared at music award shows with her parents. In August 2014, she joined Jay-Z to present Beyoncé a special award at the MTV Video Music Awards. In 2016, she made headlines for wearing an expensive outfit to the same event.

  

• In 2015, she lent her voice to Coldplay’s song ‘Up&Up’ from their album ‘A Head Full of Dreams.’

  

• She has appeared in a few musical films, including HBO’s ‘Lemonade’ (2016) and Disney+’s ‘Black Is King’ (2020).

  

• Blue Ivy has also appeared as a guest in several music videos of songs like ‘Formation’ (2016), ‘Family Feud’ (2017), ‘Find Your Way Back’ (2019), and ‘Mood 4 Eva’ (2019).

• Blue Ivy started her first grade at the Center for Early Education, a private school in West Hollywood, California, in 2018.

• In 2018, drag performer The Vixen acted as Blue Ivy on RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 10, which aired on VH1. The performance focused on Blue being a “brat.”

  

• In 2019, Blue gained significant recognition for her contribution to the song ‘Brown Skin Girl,’ which made it to the Billboard Hot 100.

  

• That same year, she appeared in documentary films titled ‘Homecoming: A Film by Beyoncé’ and ‘Beyoncé Presents: Making The Gift.’

  

• In 2020, she won the ‘BET Her Award’ for ‘Brown Skin Girl,’ making her the youngest BET Award recipient.

• In 2020, Beyoncé won a legal battle to trademark Blue’s name after wedding planner Veronica Morales, who ran a business called Blue Ivy Events, objected. The court ruled there was no confusion with the names and granted Beyoncé the trademark.

• In January 2020, Vanity Fair writer K. Austin Collins and Harper’s Bazaar web editor Violet Lucca made negative comments about Blue’s appearance in a picture, where she was posing with Beyoncé and rapper Megan Thee Stallion. Their remarks were widely criticised, and both later apologised and deleted their posts.

  

• In November 2020, Blue Ivy Carter narrated the audiobook version of ‘Hair Love,’ a children’s book by Matthew A. Cherry about a father learning to style his daughter’s hair.

  

• In 2021, she won the Best Music Video award at the 63rd Annual Grammy Awards for ‘Brown Skin Girl,’ which earned her second Guinness World Record, becoming the youngest person with individual credit to win a Grammy and the second youngest recipient in history.

• On 21 January 2023, Blue Ivy Carter made her live performance debut by joining Beyoncé onstage in Dubai to sing ‘Brown Skin Girl’ during a private concert.

  

• On 26 May 2023, Blue joined Beyoncé on the Renaissance World Tour as a dancer, performing to ‘My Power’ and ‘Black Parade.’

  

• In the 2023 episode ‘The Going-Away Party’ of Apple TV+’s series ‘Extrapolations,’ a fictional Blue Ivy Carter Holiday Album was mentioned. The show imagined her as a future pop star, adding a playful touch to its serious theme of climate change.

  

Blue Ivy Carter (centre) in the music video of the song ‘Formation’ (2016)