Bbno$
Canadian rapper (born 1995)
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Alexander Leon Gumuchian (/ɡəˈmuːtʃiən/ gə-MOO-chee-ən;[† 1] born June 30, 1995), known professionally as bbno$,[a] is a Canadian rapper, singer, and songwriter. He became widely known for his 2019 single "Lalala" (featuring Y2K). He continued this success through collaborations with artists including Yung Gravy and his 2021 single "Edamame". In 2025, he won the Juno Fan Choice Award.
June 30, 1995
- Rapper
- singer
- songwriter
bbno$ | |
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bbno$ in 2024 | |
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| Born | Alexander Leon Gumuchian June 30, 1995 Vancouver, Canada |
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| Years active | 2014–present |
| Website | bbnomula |
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Early life
Alexander Leon Gumuchian[4] was born in Vancouver[5] on June 30, 1995,[† 3][6] the son of an Armenian father from Egypt and a Danish-Swiss mother.[7][8] He was homeschooled before he began high school.[9][10] He was a competitive swimmer during high school.[† 4] While growing up, his mother had encouraged him to learn piano, but he struggled with music theory.[11] He has said that he was good with rhythm and enjoyed playing the djembe, but did not listen to music for fun until the age of 15.[11] In 2019, he received a Bachelor of Human Kinetics (kinesiology) degree from the University of British Columbia Okanagan in Kelowna.[12][11]
Career
2014–2016: Early work
bbno$ started making music after a back injury prevented him from pursuing his dream as a professional swimmer.[3][13] He became interested in rapping and music production in 2014, when he began experimenting on GarageBand with a group of friends.[14] He started making music for his own enjoyment with this group of friends, who later called themselves the Broke Boy Gang.[3] After five or six months of performing live as a group and releasing multiple tracks online, the group broke up.[3]
bbno$ began posting tracks on SoundCloud in September 2016 under the moniker bbnomula, quickly gaining millions of streams and followers. He gained unexpected popularity in China, where he sold out his first few "back-to-back" headlining tours.[5] He credited his success there to Jackson Yee, a member of Chinese boy band TFBoys, after a video showed Yee dancing to the bbno$ song "Yoyo Tokyo" at his birthday party.[15]
2017–2024: Debut album and growing popularity
In 2017, bbno$ released his first EP, Baby Gravy, a collaboration with Yung Gravy,[† 5] shortly before releasing his debut studio album, Bb Steps, and his second collaborative EP, Whatever, with So Loki in 2018.[† 6][† 7]
In late 2019, bbno$ released his second studio album, Recess, which draws inspiration from the Disney series of the same name, and includes features from Y2K and Trippy Tha Kid.[† 8][16] Many tracks off of Recess gained millions of streams on Spotify.[15] bbno$ and Y2K have been recognized for marketing their single "Lalala" online by using various websites and online apps, namely Tinder, Instagram, TikTok, and Craigslist.[17][15] The song peaked on over 20 charts around the world and gained over 1 billion streams worldwide. On March 17, 2023, the song was certified triple platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America for equivalent sales of three million units in the United States.[18][17][19] Later in 2019, bbno$ would go on to release another album, I Don't Care at All. The album featured various pre-released singles, "Slop", "Pouch", and "Shining on My Ex", the latter of which featured frequent collaborator Yung Gravy. The album was solely produced by Y2K.[20]
On February 14, 2020, Baby Gravy 2 was released properly in collaboration with Yung Gravy. It serves as a sequel to the 2017 EP Baby Gravy. The video for his single "Imma" features bbno$ in drag, travelling around Victoria with drag queen Jimbo.[21]
On January 29, 2021, "Help Herself" was released. The song, produced by Diamond Pistols, was the first single from a new bbno$ project.[citation needed] Later in the year, on May 14, 2021, the five-song EP titled My Oh My was released. Three of the five songs, "Help Herself", "Bad to the Bone", and "Help Herself" (with Benee) had been released as singles prior to the EP. On July 24, 2021, "Edamame" featuring Rich Brian was released. This song was the first single from bbno$'s mixtape Eat Ya Veggies, and was later used in a trailer for The Garfield Movie. On October 8, 2021, bbno$ released Eat Ya Veggies. The sixth track in the album, "U Mad!", was included in the October 7, 2021 update of Counter-Strike: Global Offensive.[22]
He released his first new single of 2022 on April 8, titled "Mathematics". bbno$ released the studio album Bag or Die on October 21, 2022.[23] It includes the singles "Mathematics", "Piccolo", and "Sophisticated",[23] along with a collaboration with Yung Gravy, "Touch Grass".
In 2023, bbno$ and Yung Gravy released Baby Gravy 3, his seventh studio album and third collaboration album with Yung Gravy. It includes the singles "Goodness Gracious",[24] "You Need Jesus",[25] and "Nightmare on Peachtree Street" featuring Freddie Dredd.[26]
In 2024, bbno$ released six singles, "BPOT (Bills Paid on Time)"; "Pho Real" (with Vietnamese rappers Low G and Anh Phan), "Lil Freak" (featuring YouTuber-streamer MoistCr1TiKaL in the music video), "It Boy", "Two", and "Meant to Be". That same year, he collaborated with Smosh's Ian Hecox and Anthony Padilla for the song "Submissive & Breedable",
2025–present: bbno$, world tour
In October 2025, bbno$ released his self-titled seventh studio album bbno$, which included several of his single releases that year and the collaboration "1-800" with Ironmouse. bbno$ also cosplayed as Ironmouse following a challenge on social media.[27][28][29]
For the weekend of December 12, bbno$ staged an in-game concert in the video game Peak alongside Ironmouse and Vanillamace.[30]
On January 8, 2026, bbno$ released a new song, titled "Diamonds are Forever".[31]
Artistry
bbno$ has described his own music as "oxymoronic rap" that is "ignorant but melodic".[32] bbno$ grew up listening to straight bass dubstep and house music from names like Datsik and Excision, before listening to hip hop artists, namely Tupac Shakur, Gucci Mane, and Chief Keef.[11] He has cited Yung Lean and Pouya as his main rap inspirations.[14][12]
Personal life
Discography
Studio albums
| Title | Details | Peak chart positions | Certifications | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CAN [33] |
FIN [34] |
LIT [35] |
NOR [36] |
NZ [37] |
US [38] | |||
| BB Steps |
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— | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Recess |
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— | — | — | — | — | — | |
| I Don't Care at All |
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88 | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Baby Gravy 2 (with Yung Gravy) |
— | — | — | — | — | 188 | ||
| Good Luck Have Fun | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| Eat Ya Veggies |
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36 | 19 | 17 | 32 | — | — | |
| Bag or Die |
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— | — | 83 | — | — | — | |
| Baby Gravy 3[44] (with Yung Gravy) |
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— | — | — | — | — | — | |
| bbno$ |
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33 | — | 99 | — | 25 | 140 | |
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released. | ||||||||
Extended plays
| Title | Details |
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| Baby Gravy
(with Yung Gravy) |
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| Whatever (with So Loki) |
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| Babydrip (with SwuM) |
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| My Oh My |
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Singles
As lead artist
| Title | Year | Peak chart positions | Certifications | Album | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CAN [49] |
AUS [50] |
FIN [34] |
NOR [36] |
NZ [51] |
SWE [52] |
UK [53] |
US [54] |
US R&B [55] |
WW [56] | ||||
| "Lalala" (with Y2K or also featuring Carly Rae Jepsen and Enrique Iglesias) |
2019 | 10 | 16 | 16 | 23 | 16 | 58 | 32 | 55 | 22 | — | Non-album single | |
| "Bad Boy" (with Yung Bae and Billy Marchiafava)[61] |
84 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Bae 5 | ||
| "Slop" | — | — | — | — | —[b] | — | — | — | — | — | I Don't Care at All | ||
| "Shining on My Ex" (with Yung Gravy)[63] |
— | — | — | — | —[c] | — | — | — | — | — | I Don't Care at All and Baby Gravy 2 | ||
| "Iunno" (with Yung Gravy)[65] |
— | — | — | — | —[d] | — | — | — | — | — | Baby Gravy 2 | ||
| "Welcome to Chilis" (with Yung Gravy) |
2020 | — | — | — | — | —[e] | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| "Off the Goop" (with Yung Gravy and Cuco)[68] |
— | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| "Out of Control" (with ceo@business.net and Lentra)[69] |
— | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Incentivize Unpaid Overtime | ||
| "Mememe" (with Lentra)[70] |
— | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Good Luck Have Fun | ||
| "Quarantine Freestyle" (with Lentra)[71] |
— | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Non-album singles | ||
| "What Would Baby Do?" (with Lentra)[72] |
— | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| "Bad Boy" (with Yung Bae and Max)[73] |
— | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| "Astrology" (with Lentra)[74] |
— | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Good Luck Have Fun | ||
| "Jack Money Bean" (with Yung Gravy and Lentra)[75] |
— | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Good Luck Have Fun and Gasanova | ||
| "Imma" (with Lentra)[76] |
— | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Good Luck Have Fun | ||
| "Backwards" (with Lentra)[77] |
— | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| "WaWaWa" (with Y2K)[† 9] |
— | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Non-album single | ||
| "Help Herself" (with Diamond Pistols or with Diamond Pistols and BENEE)[78] |
2021 | — | — | — | — | —[f] | — | — | — | — | — |
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My Oh My |
| "Bad to the Bone" (with Lentra)[80] |
— | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| "Wussup" (with Yung Gravy)[81] |
— | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Eat Ya Veggies | ||
| "Edamame" (featuring Rich Brian) |
13 | 23 | 8 | 24 | 21 | — | 89 | —[g] | — | 165 | |||
| "Take a Trip" (with ceo@business.net and Jungle Bobby)[83] |
— | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Non-album single | ||
| "Yoga" (featuring Rebecca Black)[84] |
— | — | — | — | —[h] | — | — | — | — | — | Eat Ya Veggies | ||
| "Mathematics" | 2022 | — | — | — | — | —[i] | — | — | — | — | — | Bag or Die | |
| "Piccolo" | — | — | — | — | —[j] | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| "Sophisticated"[23] | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| "C'est la Vie" (with Yung Gravy and Rich Brian) |
— | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Marvelous | ||
| "Touch Grass" (with Yung Gravy) |
— | — | — | — | —[k] | — | — | — | — | — | Bag or Die | ||
| "Still" | 2023 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Non-album singles | |
| "Ushme Uturbe" (with Kalush Orchestra and Ditvak) |
— | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| "Goodness Gracious" (with Yung Gravy) |
— | — | — | — | —[l] | — | — | — | — | — | Baby Gravy 3 | ||
| "It Happens" (with Little Big) |
— | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Non-album singles | ||
| "We Are Not the Same" (with Marcus & Martinus) |
2024 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| "Pho'real" (with Anh Phan and Low G)[† 10] |
— | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| "Submissive & Breedable" (with Smosh)[90] |
— | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| "Lil' Freak" | — | — | — | — | —[m] | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| "It Boy" | — | — | — | — | —[n] | — | — | — | — | — | bbno$ | ||
| "Two" | — | — | — | — | —[o] | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| "Meant to Be" | — | — | — | — | —[p] | — | — | — | — | — | Non-album single | ||
| "Check" | 2025 | 62 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | bbno$ | |
| "Antidepressants" | — | — | — | — | —[q] | — | — | — | — | — | Non-album single | ||
| "Boom" | — | — | — | — | —[r] | — | — | — | — | — | bbno$ | ||
| "Mary Poppins" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Non-album singles | ||
| "Check (Hatsune Miku)" (as bbnogames; with Tommy. and Hatsune Miku)[97][98] |
— | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| "1-800" (with Ironmouse) |
— | — | — | — | —[s] | — | — | — | — | — | bbno$ | ||
| "Hot Topic" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| "NSFW" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| "Fight or Flight" (with Zoey808) |
— | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | WhoIsZoey? | ||
| "Yezzir" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | bbno$ | ||
| "Gigolo" | — | — | — | — | —[t] | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| "ADD" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| "Come to Brazil" | 2026 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released. | |||||||||||||
As featured artist
| Title | Year | Peak chart positions | Certifications | Album |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ITA [101] | ||||
| "Mayo, No Fries!" (Joost Klein featuring bbno$) |
2020 | — | Joost Klein 7 | |
| "0ffline" (Thasup featuring bbno$) |
11 |
|
23 6451 | |
| "Che uomo" (Tuzzo featuring Nello Taver, bbno$ and Young Miles) |
2022 | — | Non-album singles | |
| "Tango" (Tommy Cash featuring bbno$) |
2024 | — | ||
| "Cold Island" (My Singing Monsters featuring bbno$ as bbli$zard) |
2025 | — | ||
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released. | ||||
Other charted songs
Awards and nominations
| Year | Award | Category | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Juno Award | Fan Choice Award | Nominated | [104] |
| Breakthrough Artist of the Year | Nominated | |||
| 2025 | Fan Choice Award | Won | [105] |
Notes
- "Slop" did not enter the NZ Top 40 Singles Chart, but peaked at number 40 on the NZ Hot Singles Chart.[62]
- "Edamame" did not enter the Billboard Hot 100, but peaked at number 22 on the Bubbling Under Hot 100 chart.[82]
