Amy Shark

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Amy Shark 2017
Amy Shark 2017
Chart placements
(preliminary)
Explanation of the data
Albums
Night Thinker (EP)
  AU 2 07/05/2017 (9 weeks)
Love monsters
  CH 34 07/22/2018 (1 week)
  AU 1Template: Infobox chart placements / maintenance / NR1 link 
platinum
platinum
07/23/2018 (50 weeks)
Singles
Adore
  AU 3 
Quintuple platinum
× 5
Quintuple platinum
01/22/2017 (17 weeks)
I said hi
  AU 6th 
Quadruple platinum
× 4
Quadruple platinum
04/29/2018 (25 weeks)
Mess her up
  AU 29 
Double platinum
× 2
Double platinum
04/29/2019 (9 weeks)
Everybody Rise
  AU 32 07/13/2020 (... Template: Infobox chart placements / maintenance / provisional / 2020 where.)

Amy Shark , actually Amy Billings (born 1986 in Gold Coast ) is an Australian musician of the indie-folk scene of Queensland .

Life

Prior to her music career, Amy Billings worked as a video editor for a rugby team. After making music for a few years, she competed in the Queensland Music Awards and eventually won the pop category. She then began touring nationwide under the name Amy Shark and eventually received an arts grant that enabled her to work with producer M-Phazes on her song Adore . The single was broadcast on the radio several times in 2016 and became a top three hit in Australia in early 2017. Shark signed to Sony Wonderlick label , and her debut EP Night Thinker ranked second on the country's album charts. The album received six ARIA Award nominations . Amy Shark won Vanda & Young's $ 50,000 songwriting competition in 2018.

Discography

Albums

  • 2010: Broadway Gossip (as Amy Cushway )
  • 2012: It's a Happy City (as Amy Cushway )
  • 2018: Love Monster

EPs

  • 2008: I Thought of You Out Loud (as Amy Cushway )
  • 2008: Love's Not Anorexic (as Amy Cushway )
  • 2014: Nelson
  • 2017: Night Thinker
  • 2017: Up Next Session: Amy Shark

Singles

  • 2014: Spits on Girls
  • 2016: Golden Fleece
  • 2017: Weekends (AU:platinumplatinum)
  • 2017: Adore
  • 2017: Drive You Mad
  • 2018: I Said Hi
  • 2018: Don't Turn Around
  • 2018: Psycho ( feat.Mark Hoppus )
  • 2018: All Loved Up (AU:platinumplatinum)
  • 2019: Mess Her Up
  • 2020: Blood Brothers (AU:goldgold)
  • 2020: Everybody Rise

Guest Posts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Chart sources: CH AU
  2. ↑ Awards for music sales: AU
  3. ↑ See information in the SWR3-Pop-Lexikon
  4. ↑ Luca Bruno: Amy Shark: Epic-emotional moments in the radio studio. In: srf.ch. August 2, 2017. Retrieved May 10, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Amy Shark has won the 2018 Vanda & Young Songwriting Competition. Retrieved July 13, 2018 (Australian English).

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personal data
SURNAME Shark, Amy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Billings, Amy (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian musician on the indie folk scene
DATE OF BIRTH 1986
PLACE OF BIRTH Gold Coast , Queensland , Australia