Claim: John Mayer signed to Aware Records.

Room for Squares is the debut studio album by American musician John Mayer . It was released through Aware Records and Columbia Records on June 5 , 2001 , the album peaked at number 9 on the U.S. Billboard 200 chart . Upon its release , Room for Squares received generally positive reviews from most music critics and earned Mayer a Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance for the single `` Your Body Is a Wonderland '' . It is his best-selling album to date , with sales of over 4,484,000 copies in the U.S. as of July 2014 .