February 10, 20233 yr This d4vd song is sounding great, glad it's made the top 40. Love the similar vibes to Golden Hour.
February 10, 20233 yr Author 39 | 34 | 21st week Dermot Kennedy Kiss Me 3rd single from Sonder Released: 2nd September 2022 Label: Riggins Recording / Interscope Records / Island Records Chart Statistics NE (15/09/2022) | 49-61-50-46-53-39-33-34-28-25-21-15-21-47-51-x RE (12/01/2023) | 20-25-29-29-34-39 Sales: 200k+ Certification: Silver Status: Standard Chart Ratio 03 Sales 34 Audio Streaming 50 Video Streaming Video XhL1KC7l7Xw Biography Dermot Kennedy’s rip-roaring, free-flowing folk-pop grew out of years singing over rowdy crowds at local bars and open mics and in the streets of Dublin. Born in 1991, the singer/songwriter was raised in the small Irish village of Rathcoole, where he began writing songs as a teenager before studying classical music at Maynooth University and forming folk band Shadows and Dust. He soon set off on his own, busking on Dublin’s Grafton Street, the same spot favored by famous street musicians like Glen Hansard, The Frames frontman and Once actor. Kennedy built up his raspy, throat-ripping howls on the pavement, but found his largest following online after he self-released romantic ballads like 2015’s “An Evening I Will Not Forget” and 2016’s “After Rain”. A larger audience exposed him to a few key producers, including Stephen Kozmeniuk (Koz) and Mike Dean, both of whom have helped enhance the poetic intimacy of Kennedy’s songwriting with rumbling beats and expansive electronic production. Finding a delicate balance between soaring folk and understated hip-hop has been the key to Kennedy’s sound, starting with his 2019 debut album, Without Fear. His strengths come in turning quiet melodies into rousing anthems, including “Power Over Me”, a propulsive paean that captures the intoxicating rush of becoming enraptured, and “Outnumbered”, which feels almost gospel-like in its cathartic chorus. Meanwhile, his voice—a slightly weathered mix of grit and gravel—ties it all together, bringing the raw intensity he learned as a busker to pop charts around the world. - Apple Music Top 100 Chart History 2019 06 Outnumbered -2- MILLIONAIRE 2019 27 Power Over Me -1/3- 2019 89 All My Friends -AT- 2020 12 Giants -4- 2020 05 Paradise (Meduza feat. Dermot Kennedy) 2020 77 Don't Cry (Bugzy Malone & Dermot Kennedy) 2021 16 Better Days -1- 2022 44 Something To Someone -2- 2022 15 Kiss Me -3- 2022 91 One Life -AT- 0 x #1 | 1 x Top 5 | 2 x Top 10 | 5 x Top 20 | 6 x Top 40 | 10 x Top 100 Social Media Dermot Kennedy http://i.imgur.com/1SERq1f.png --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 38 | 36 | 8th week Tory Lanez The Color Violet Album track from Alone At Prom Released: 10th December 2021 Label: One Umbrella Records Chart Statistics NE (01/12/2022) | 99-94-x RE (12/01/2023) | 41-36-40-41-36-38 Sales: 60k+ Certification: - Status: Standard Chart Ratio 00 Sales 54 Audio Streaming 00 Video Streaming Video 07fhkAoCnig Biography Like his occasional sparring partner Drake, the rapper-singer-producer Tory Lanez is a natural omnivore, an artist who manages to soak up sounds from across the spectrum of hip-hop—from ’90s slow jams to 2010s trap, Caribbean dancehall to Canadian R&B—and spin it into something uniquely his own. Born Daystar Peterson in 1992, Lanez bounced around as a kid (Toronto, Montreal, Miami, Atlanta) before settling in Toronto in his early teens. His break came in 2009, when a string of self-directed videos he’d uploaded to YouTube caught the attention of Justin Bieber and Sean Kingston, the latter of whom gave Lanez a shot at a deal. Lanez quickly established himself as prolific and hard-hustling, kicking out as many as four mixtapes a year, demonstrating an unusual versatility as both a singer and a rapper. His first album, I Told You, came out in 2016; two more—MEMORIES DON’T DIE and LoVE me NOw—followed in 2018, amidst high-profile features with Future, Sean Paul, Rick Ross, and Ty Dolla $ign. “I’ve got to tailor my style in a way that’s just like, you can’t trace it and can’t detect it,” Lanez told Apple Music about how he pulls his sound together. “I wanted to be able to trace it in a way where it was like, for me, just something that people were going to listen to and be like, ‘Yo, there’s so many things here that I can’t even hate on this.’” - Apple Music Top 100 Chart History 2016 47 Luv -1- 2018 85 B.I.D -PS- 2018 82 Drip Drip Drip (feat. Meek Mill) -AT- 2018 88 Miami (feat. Gunna) -AT- 2018 09 KIKA (6ix9ine feat. Tory Lanez) 2019 94 Freaky -1- 2019 47 Good Love (Nafe Smallz feat. Tory Lanez) 2019 43 Not Today (The Plug presents Dappy & Tory Lanez) 2019 41 My One (Wiley feat. Tory Lanez, Kranium & Dappy) 2019 55 2 Cups (Stay Flee Get Lizzy presents Popcaan, Fredo & Tory Lanez) -NAS- 2019 63 First Time (Krept & Konan & Spice feat. Tory Lanez) 2019 32 Jerry Sprunger (Tory Lanez & T-Pain) -1- 2019 35 The Take (feat. Chris Brown) -AT- 2019 70 Beauty In The Benz (feat. Snoop Dogg) -AT- 2020 58 Who Needs Love -1- 2020 66 Stupid Again -AT- 2020 85 Can I (Kehlani feat. Tory Lanez) 2022 36 The Color Violet -AT- 0 x #1 | 0 x Top 5 | 1 x Top 10 | 1 x Top 20 | 4 x Top 40 | 18 x Top 100 Social Media Tory Lanez http://i.imgur.com/1SERq1f.png --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 37 | 31 | 16th week Meghan Trainor Made You Look 2nd single from Takin' It Back Released: 21st October 2022 Label: Epic Records Chart Statistics NE (03/11/2022) | 28-14-8-4-3-2-7-12-23-66-5-7-10-12-31-37 Sales: 400k+ Certification: Gold Status: Accelerated Chart Ratio 01 Sales 04 Audio Streaming 03 Video Streaming Video gPCCYMeXin0 Biography Even before she dropped her debut single in 2014, Meghan Trainor already had it made. By that point, the 20-year-old Nantucket native had achieved the dream of many aspiring singer/songwriters: to infiltrate the inner sanctum of Nashville’s Music Row. But as it turns out, co-writing songs for country stars like Rascal Flatts and Hunter Hayes was the warm-up for what came next. Upon its release in the summer of 2014, Trainor’s first solo single, “All About That Bass,” swiftly became the most inescapable pop earworm of the year, thanks to a rump-shaking, retro-R&B sound that filled the void vacated by the late Amy Winehouse and a then-dormant Adele. But not only did the song transform Trainor into an instant, cross-generational pop star, its celebration of plus-size physiques made her a spokesmodel for body positivity at a time when there were few such role models in the entertainment industry. (And that motivational ethos would make her a natural choice to judge singing-competition shows like The Voice UK.) With the release of the full-length Title in 2015, Trainor became just the 13th woman in pop history to have both her first single and first album go to No. 1 on the Billboard charts, but on the follow-up, Thank You, she proved she was no mere throwback artist, as singles like “Me Too” and “No” updated her old-school aesthetic for modern-day dance floors. And on 2020’s Treat Myself, she further immersed herself in contemporary club sounds, applying her Aretha-sized sass to the synth-pumped thump of “No Excuses” and EDM-washed “Wave.” But even as her muse has drifted from Motown to Minaj (who turns up on the ASMR&B duet “Nice to Meet Ya”), Trainor’s self-help mission remains on course. “Every message that I give when I’m writing songs, it’s all to me,” she told Apple Music, where she also hosts Dirty Pop Radio. “I keep listening to these songs and I keep having to remind myself, ‘baby girl, love yourself.’” Trainor’s ongoing success lies in her ability to find new and creative ways to translate those personal affirmations into communal anthems. - Apple Music Top 100 Chart History 2014 01 All About That Bass -1- MILLIONAIRE 2014 02 Lips Are Movin -2- 2015 20 Dear Future Husband -3- 2015 01 Marvin Gaye (Charlie Puth feat. Meghan Trainor) MILLIONAIRE 2015 99 Like I'm Gonna Lose You (feat. John Legend) -4- 2016 11 NO -1- 2016 84 Me Too -2- 2018 70 No Excuses -1- 2018 11 Just Got Paid (Sigala, Ella Eyre & Meghan Trainor feat. French Montana) 2019 51 Baby, It's Cold Outside (Brett Eldredge feat. Meghan Trainor) 2020 88 Nice To Meet Ya (feat. Nicki Minaj) -2- 2020 70 I'll Be Home -AT- 2022 02 Made You Look -1- 2 x #1 | 4 x Top 5 | 4 x Top 10 | 7 x Top 20 | 7 x Top 40 | 13 x Top 100 Social Media Meghan Trainor http://i.imgur.com/1SERq1f.png --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 36 | 10 | 18th week Oliver Tree and Robin Schulz Miss You Non-album single Released: 5th August 2022 Label: Atlantic Recording Corporation Chart Statistics NE (20/10/2022) | 28-9-8-5-4-3-4-4-11-18-51-75-7-9-9-11-10-36 Sales: 400k+ Certification: Gold Status: Accelerated Chart Ratio 05 Sales 03 Audio Streaming 08 Video Streaming Video BX0lKSa_PTk Biography Oliver Tree A brief encounter with Oliver Tree might lead you to wonder: Is this guy for real? The bowl cut, bell-bottoms, and pink-and-purple windbreaker all seem calculated to confuse. Yet the ample pleasures of his unusual brand of tongue-in-cheek pop are right there on the surface. Born Oliver Tree Nickell in Santa Cruz, California, in 1993, he got his start as Tree on Belgium’s Apollo Records—an early home to Aphex Twin—in 2013, pairing warbly sing-speaking with folktronica beats. Three years later, he reappeared as Oliver Tree, bringing emo energy to “When I’m Down,” a collaboration with pop-EDM producer Whethan, then returned in 2017 with “Welcome To LA,” which poked fun at the city’s superficial reputation. Over the next few years, he developed the Oliver Tree character in wry lyrics paired with irresistible electro-pop hooks. In his viral hit “Alien Boy,” he sings from the perspective of an extraterrestrial—a proud misfit and slyly unreliable narrator with an “eagle beak” and “ostrich feet”—but on the grunge-flavored “Hurt,” another standout from 2020’s Ugly is Beautiful, he makes a more heartfelt admission: “I’m sorry if I hurt you.” As an entertainer, he’s fully committed to the bit. In an interview with Apple Music, he claimed to have spent 27 months engineering a 20-foot-tall scooter that he rides using stilts. But he serves universal truths alongside his tall tales. Adopting a philosophical tone, he told Apple Music, “You’re never going to be truly happy if you can’t learn to accept yourself the way you are.” - Apple Music Robin Schulz In a matter of two short years, producer/DJ Robin Schulz rose to prominence as one of the definitive artists of the post-EDM boom of the 2010s. Born in Osnabrück, Germany, in 1987, Schulz cut his teeth on the local DJ circuit as a teenager, quickly landing his own club night as a 20-year-old tastemaker. Inspired by his breakout success behind the decks, he soon pivoted to production, releasing a handful of buzzing originals and remixes. But once he dropped his 2014 internationally chart-topping remix of "Waves" by Dutch singer/rapper Mr. Probz, he became next in line to claim the DJ throne. The song itself, a downtempo pop ballad turned into a chilled-out, sun-soaked house jam, helped birth and popularize tropical house, an EDM microgenre that ruled festival stages and charts around the world. Indeed, Schulz's feel-good take on dance music—bright, bouncy pop melodies and catchy vocals atop a deep house framework—defined the then-nascent sound. But where other producers were boxed in by the sonic trend, Schulz transcended it, expanding into pop territory. His remix-heavy 2014 debut album, Prayer, saw him reworking dance-friendly pop acts like Lykke Li and Coldplay, while 2015's Sugar featured collaborations with Akon and Moby. His third full-length, 2017's Uncovered, put Schulz’s production prowess on full display: Mixing lush melodies and powerful vocals into his singular blend of pop-meets-dance, the album fulfilled his crossover potential. Just look to "Shed a Light," alongside fellow dance-pop stars David Guetta and Cheat Codes, and "OK," featuring UK crooner James Blunt, and you'll know why Schulz remains two steps ahead on the global dance floor. - Apple Music Top 100 Chart History Oliver Tree 2021 33 Life Goes On -1- 2022 03 Miss You (Oliver Tree & Robin Schulz) -NAS- 2023 11 Voices (KSI feat. Oliver Tree) 0 x #1 | 1 x Top 5 | 1 x Top 10 | 2 x Top 20 | 3 x Top 40 | 3 x Top 100 Robin Schulz 2014 01 Prayer In C (Lillywood & Robin Schulz) -1- MILLIONAIRE 2015 96 Headlights (feat. Ilsey) -1*- 2015 94 Sun Goes Down (feat. Jasmine Thompson) -2- 2015 21 Sugar (feat. Francesco Yates) -2*- 2016 24 Shed A Light (Robin Schulz, David Guetta & Cheat Codes) -1- 2022 03 Miss You (Oliver Tree & Robin Schulz) 1 x #1 | 2 x Top 5 | 2 x Top 10 | 2 x Top 20 | 4 x Top 40 | 6 x Top 100 Social Media Oliver Tree Robin Schulz http://i.imgur.com/1SERq1f.png
February 10, 20233 yr Author 35 | 35 | 6th week Sub Focus and Dimension Ready To Fly Non-album single Released: 7th October 2022 Label: EMI Chart Statistics NE (12/01/2023) | 52-43-48-40-35-35 Sales: 50k+ Certification: - Status: Standard Chart Ratio 20 Sales 66 Audio Streaming 90 Video Streaming Video UvxxwoWoCzk Biography Sub Focus Nick Douwma aka Sub Focus has risen through the ranks of underground jungle to become a global dance music superstar. First building a reputation around air-punching, dancefloor-dismantling drum & bass, he now draws from all corners of the electronic landscape - epitomising the ‘anything goes’ mantra of today's scene. - Spotify Dimension Robert Etheridge aka Dimension is one of the UK’s most unique electronic music artists. Defined by a clear aesthetic that bleeds through into his music and imagery, Dimension has announced himself as one of the new wave of dance music headliners. - Spotify Top 100 Chart History Sub Focus 2005 60 X Ray / Scarecrow -NAS- 2008 92 Timewarp / Join The Dots -1- 2009 38 Rock It / Follow The Light -2- 2010 41 Could This Be Real -3- 2010 41 Splash (feat. Coco) -4- 2011 98 Flashing Lights (Chase & Status & Sub Focus feat. Takura) 2012 23 Out The Blue (feat. Alice Gold) -1- 2012 12 Tidal Wave (feat. Alpines) -2- 2013 10 Endorphins (feat. Alex Clare) -3- 2013 14 Turn It Around (feat. Kele) -4- 2013 10 Turn Back Time -5- 2019 51 Desire (Sub Focus & Dimension) -1- 2023 35 Ready To Fly (Sub Focus & Dimension) -NAS- 0 x #1 | 0 x Top 5 | 2 x Top 10 | 4 x Top 20 | 7 x Top 40 | 13 x Top 100 Dimension 2019 51 Desire (Sub Focus & Dimension) 2023 35 Ready To Fly (Sub Focus & Dimension) 0 x #1 | 0 x Top 5 | 0 x Top 10 | 0 x Top 20 | 1 x Top 40 | 2 x Top 100 Social Media Sub Focus Dimension http://i.imgur.com/1SERq1f.png
February 10, 20233 yr I wasn't expecting to see a second top 40 hit from that guy. Glad that 36-39 section were all skipped.
February 10, 20233 yr Author 34 | 43 | 45th week Harry Styles As It Was 1st single from Harry's House Released: 1st April 2022 Label: Erskine Records Chart Statistics NE (14/04/2022) | 1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-2-2-3-2-2-2-3-3-16-20-21-22-18-21-26-28-28-24-32-36-34-37-33-41-54-61-73-81-96-19-30-37-45-43-34 Sales: 1,700k+ Certification: 2x Platinum Status: Accelerated Chart Ratio 01 Sales 01 Audio Streaming 01 Video Streaming Video H5v3kku4y6Q Biography In a 2019 interview with Apple Music, Harry Styles shared a memory from the early days of One Direction. They were in the studio in Sweden working on “What Makes You Beautiful”. First single, the rollercoaster train just starting to climb the track. Someone comes into the room and says there are a couple of girls outside. Why? the band asks. They’re looking for you guys. For One Direction. “And we’re all just like, ‘But we’re in Sweden!’” Ah, the old, “who…us?” routine. Harry! Incorrigibly charming, dreamboat for starry-eyed youth the world over. And, as it turns out, a legitimate force in pop, the kind of artist who could bridge contemporary appeal with classic values in ways that felt fresh but familiar, universal. Part of what had made One Direction so great was that they never shied away from the pleasures of boy-band pop, but never patronised their audiences or fell back on gimmicks, either: Never mind the no-dancing policy; they were writing songs, exploring music as something beyond the show. In his solo career, Styles (born 1994, in Redditch, England) has done much the same, combining soul (“Watermelon Sugar”), confessional soft rock (“Sign of the Times”) and psychedelia (“Sunflower, Vol. 6”) with a modern touch, summarising where pop has been while also pushing it forward. “I’m just trying to go through life being a little less worried about stuff,” he said. “Definitely with working. Because ultimately, it’ll be okay.” He had a busy five years there. But he’s got a lifetime ahead of him. - Apple Music Top 100 Chart History 2017 01 Sign Of The Times -1- MILLIONAIRE 2017 46 Sweet Creature -IG- 2017 51 Carolina -AT- 2017 58 Two Ghosts -2- 2017 64 Meet Me In The Hallway -AT- 2017 66 Kiwi -3- 2017 80 Only Angel -AT- 2017 87 Ever Since New York -AT- 2017 99 Woman -AT- 2019 03 Lights Up -1- 2019 04 Watermelon Sugar -4- MILLIONAIRE 2019 07 Adore You -2- MILLIONAIRE 2019 15 Falling -3- MILLIONAIRE 2020 26 Golden -5- 2022 01 As It Was -1- MILLIONAIRE 2022 02 Late Night Talking -2- 2022 03 Music For A Sushi Restaurant -3- 2022 37 Matilda -AT- 2 x #1 | 6 x Top 5 | 7 x Top 10 | 8 x Top 20 | 10 x Top 40 | 18 x Top 100 Social Media Harry Styles http://i.imgur.com/1SERq1f.png http://www.buzzjack.com/forums/uploads/group_images/of_233.png
February 10, 20233 yr Author 33 | 32 | 13th week Taylor Swift Lavender Haze 2nd single from Midnights Released: 21st October 2022 Label: Taylor Swift Chart Statistics NE (03/11/2022) | 3-6-11-11-14-24-53-65-78-x RE (26/01/2023) | 43-44-32-33 Sales: 200k+ Certification: Silver Status: Standard Chart Ratio 44 Sales 03 Audio Streaming 06 Video Streaming Video h8DLofLM7No Biography The country world feigned surprise when, after three albums of Music Row-indebted songcraft, Taylor Swift formally embraced pop on 2012’s Red. But no one should have been shocked: Any 14-year-old capable of persuading her parents to move from suburban Pennsylvania to Nashville for her career clearly has ambition to burn. And the thrill of following Swift’s rise has been watching her execute it flawlessly, largely because her melodic intelligence is equal to that ambition. Her early, youthful love songs heralded 2010's newly self-possessed Speak Now—which showed off her scathing wit—and evolved into knowing, ironclad pop fare that held its own against boisterous Max Martin production on 1989, her fifth album, titled after her birth year. Throughout, her songwriting has blurred the lines between the public and private, burying enough real-life clues (about, say, scarves and Starbucks) to make clear that only Swift can own her narrative, thank you very much, while still retaining a lyrical elegance. Though 2017’s reputation might have been perceived as a gorgeously constructed piece of dramatic theater—its attendant heroes and villains all real-life characters from Swift's public feuds—all that spectacle proved an attention-grabbing cover for her most romantic album yet. She turned up the romance even more on 2019’s Lover, but it was 2020’s folklore and its companion, evermore—ruminative, relatively lo-fi albums written and recorded during the COVID-19 pandemic—that earned her the Apple Music Award for Songwriter of the Year. - Apple Music Top 100 Chart History 2009 02 Love Story -1- MILLIONAIRE 2009 60 White Horse -AT- 2009 51 Teardrops On My Guitar -2- 2009 100 Crazier -OST- 2009 30 You Belong With Me -3- 2010 57 Today Was A Fairytale -OST- 2010 30 Mine -1- 2012 67 Safe & Sound (feat. The Civil Wars) -OST- 2012 70 Eyes Open -OST- 2012 22 Both Of Us (B.o.B feat. Taylor Swift) 2012 04 We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together -1- MILLIONAIRE 2012 30 Begin Again -PS- 2012 26 Red -PS- 2012 02 I Knew You Were Trouble. -2- MILLIONAIRE 2012 36 State Of Grace -PS- 2012 07 Everything Has Changed (feat. Ed Sheeran) -4- 2013 09 22 -3- 2013 45 Sweeter Than Fiction -OST- 2013 25 The Last Time (feat. Gary Lightbody) -5- 2014 02 Shake It Off -1- MILLION SELLER 2014 39 Welcome To New York -IG- 2014 04 Blank Space -2- MILLIONAIRE 2015 21 Style -3- 2015 04 Bad Blood (feat. Kendrick Lamar) -4- 2015 40 Wildest Dreams -5- 2016 05 I Don't Wanna Live Forever (ZAYN & Taylor Swift) -OST- MILLIONAIRE 2017 01 Look What You Made Me Do -1- MILLIONAIRE 2017 07 ...Ready For It? -2- 2017 15 Gorgeous -3- 2017 29 Call It What You Want -IG- 2017 49 End Game (feat. Ed Sheeran & Future) -4- 2018 45 Delicate -5- 2019 03 ME! (feat. Brendon Urie) -1- 2019 05 You Need To Calm Down -2- 2019 43 The Archer -IG- 2019 14 Lover -3- 2019 21 The Man -4- 2019 27 Cruel Summer -AT- 2019 44 Christmas Tree Farm -NAS- 2020 57 Only The Young -NAS- 2020 06 cardigan -1- 2020 08 exile (feat. Bon Iver) -AT- 2020 10 the 1 -AT- 2020 03 willow -1- 2020 15 champagne problems -AT- 2020 19 no body, no crime (feat. HAIM) -AT- 2021 12 Love Story (Taylor's Version) -1- 2021 52 You All Over Me (Taylor's Version) (feat. Maren Morris) -2- 2021 30 Mr. Perfectly Fine (Taylor's Version) -3- 2021 52 You Belong With Me (Taylor's Version) -AT- 2021 73 Renegade (Big Red Machine feat. Taylor Swift) 2021 25 Wildest Dreams (Taylor's Version) -1*- 2021 03 All Too Well (Taylor's Version) -1- 2021 18 State Of Grace (Taylor's Version) -AT- 2021 22 Red (Taylor's Version) -AT- 2022 02 The Joker And The Queen (Ed Sheeran feat. Taylor Swift) 2022 88 the lakes -AT- 2022 42 This Love (Taylor's Version) -2*- 2022 77 Don't Blame Me -AT- 2022 63 Carolina -OST- 2022 78 august -AT- 2022 01 Anti-Hero -1- 2022 03 Lavender Haze -2- 2022 04 Snow On The Beach (feat. Lana Del Rey) -AT- 2023 63 Bejeweled -AT- 2023 66 You're On Your Own, Kid -AT- 2 x #1 | 16 x Top 5 | 22 x Top 10 | 29 x Top 20 | 44 x Top 40 | 66 x Top 100 Social Media Taylor Swift http://i.imgur.com/1SERq1f.png http://www.buzzjack.com/forums/uploads/group_images/of_177.png
February 10, 20233 yr Love "Lavender Haze" - doubt it'll do much better than this now but it should hopefully stick around for a bit longer and already has a great peak!
February 10, 20233 yr Author 32 | 33 | 20th week Dean Lewis How Do I Say Goodbye 3rd single from The Hardest Love Released: 1st September 2022 Label: Island Records Australia Chart Statistics NE (06/10/2022) | 87-72-43-35-31-23-24-24-24-33-55-53-57-86-23-26-26-31-33-32 Sales: 200k+ Certification: Silver Status: Standard Chart Ratio 36 Sales 34 Audio Streaming 45 Video Streaming Video QCtEe-zsCtQ Biography For a while there, singer-songwriter Dean Lewis could have been lost to the gaming world. In 2005, he represented Australia playing Halo 2 at the World Cyber Games in Singapore–and finished fifth. But after developing an obsession with Oasis, he secreted himself in his room with his acoustic guitar. Born in Sydney in 1987, Lewis first took up the instrument at his father's urging at age 12, but only started to take it seriously in his late teens. “I spent all these years in my bedroom not thinking I was good enough,” Lewis told Apple Music. “It took a lot of people to say, ‘Oh, you’re good enough to do it.’” One of those people was Savage Garden’s former manager, whom Lewis, an Apple Music Up Next honoree, met at a boat party via a mutual friend. Upon hearing Lewis’ music, she helped land him a publishing deal. Hundreds of songs later—some of which went to artists such as Australian singer Taylor Henderson—Lewis released his debut single, “Waves,” in 2016. Imbued with James Blunt’s vocal vulnerability and Chris Martin’s knack for turning the everyday into a sweeping, affecting, relatable tune, “Waves” is a rumination on life becoming less exciting as you age. And it showcased his ability to land a killer blow in one line: “I watched my wild youth disappear in front of my eyes.” “That really personal style of writing is something I got from Bruce Springsteen,” he said. It’s on full display on his debut album, 2019’s A Place We Knew–the follow-up to his 2017 EP Same Kind of Different. Songs such as “7 Minutes” and “Be Alright” combine personal heartbreak with melodic, contemporary soft rock. “Ninety percent of the things I sing about are things that have happened to me,” he offers. “That’s how the songs connect.” - Apple Music Top 100 Chart History 2018 11 Be Alright -1- MILLIONAIRE 2019 100 Stay Awake -2- 2022 23 How Do I Say Goodbye -1- 0 x #1 | 0 x Top 5 | 0 x Top 10 | 1 x Top 20 | 2 x Top 40 | 3 x Top 100 Social Media Dean Lewis http://i.imgur.com/1SERq1f.png
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