Aqualung (musician)

Aqualung

Aqualung is the stage name of the musician Matt Hales (born January 17, 1972 ), under whom he has published music since 2002.

Career

Since his parents ran a record shop, he was introduced to music at an early age. As a teenager he wrote his first songs together with his brother. After a few attempts at a band and studying music in London, he achieved the first chart placement in Great Britain with a promotional song for Volkswagen . In 2004 he was also the singer of the song UR by Tiësto .

Discography

Albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)		Remarks
		UK	US
2002	Aqualung	UK15th gold (8 weeks)UK	-
2003	Still life	UK80 (1 week) UK	-
2007	Memory man	-	US88 (1 week) US

more publishments

• 2008: Words and Music
• 2010: Magnetic North
• 2015: 10 futures

Compilations

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)		Remarks
		UK	US
2005	Strange and Beautiful	-	US108 (9 weeks) US

more publishments

• 2004: B-Sides Volume 1
• 2004: Remixes Volume 1
• 2006: Live & Rarities: With Apologies to Anyone Who Is Actually Heartbroken

EPs

• 2003: If I Fall / Live at the Scala
• 2005: Deep Blue
• 2005: Still Life 1
• 2005: The All or Nothing EP
• 2005: Exclusive iTunes EP
• 2006: Exclusive iTunes EP 2
• 2019: Additional Futures

Singles

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)		Remarks
		UK	US
2002	Strange and Beautiful (I'll Put a Spell on You) Aqualung	UK7 (8 weeks) UK	-
	Good Times Gonna Come Aqualung	UK71 (1 week) UK	-
2003	Brighter Than Sunshine Still Life	UK37 (2 weeks) UK	US- gold US
2004	Easier to Lie Still Life	UK60 (1 week) UK	-

more publishments

• 2003: Baby Goodbye
• 2007: Cinderella
• 2007: Pressure Suit
• 2010: fingertip

Video albums

• 2004: Live 2004
• 2004: It's Easy to Play the Aqualung Way

swell

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Chart sources: UK US
2. ↑ Music Sales Awards: US UK

Web links

• Official website
• Aqualung at laut.de
• Aqualung at Indiepedia.de
• Aqualung at Allmusic (English)