Awolnation

Awolnation
Awolnation in Los Angeles , 2012
General information
Genre (s)	Indie rock , alternative rock , synth rock , industrial rock
founding	2010
Website	www.awolnationmusic.com
Founding members
singing	Aaron Bruno
Current occupation
singing	Aaron Bruno
Lead guitar	Christopher Thorn
Drums	Hayden Scott
Bass , background vocals	David Amezcua
Rhythm guitar , keyboard , background vocals	Kenny Carkeet

Awolnation ( spelling : AWOLNATION ) is an American indie rock band and the solo project of Aaron Bruno (former member of the bands Under the Influence of Giants and Home Town Hero ).

history

The band is signed to Red Bull Records and their first EP Back from Earth was released on May 18, 2010 on iTunes . Awolnation has performed with Weezer and MGMT . The band's first single, Sail , debuted at # 30 on the US Billboard Alternative Song Chart in the week of February 10, 2011. The debut album Megalithic Symphony with 15 songs was released digitally on March 15, 2011, the CD followed on March 29, 2011 on Red Bull Records.

Surname

The name "Awolnation" originated from Aaron Bruno's nickname in high school . In an interview with Kristin Houser of the LA Music Blog, he stated that "it would be better to disappear without saying goodbye because it's easier", from which his nickname Awol (abbreviation from the English "Absence Without Leave", in German "forbidden") or "unannounced absence").

Discography

Studio albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
2011	Megalithic Symphony	-	AT57 (5 weeks) AT	-	-	US84 platinum (111 weeks)US	First published: March 15, 2011
2015	run	DE83 (1 week) DE	AT11 (3 weeks) AT	CH50 (1 week) CH	-	US17 (12 weeks) US	First published: March 17, 2015
2018	Here come the runts	-	AT44 (1 week) AT	CH57 (1 week) CH	-	US20 (1 week) US	First published: February 2, 2018
2020	Angel Miners & the Lightning Riders	-	AT42 (1 week) AT	CH64 (1 week) CH	-	-	First published: April 24, 2020

Live albums

year	title	Remarks
2016	Live in Mexico	First published: February 19, 2016

EPs

year	title	Remarks
2010	Back from Earth	First published: May 18, 2010
2012	RE / SAIL	First published: April 12, 2012
	I've been dreaming	First published: June 6, 2012

Singles

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
2011	Sail Megalithic Symphony	DE58 (7 weeks) DE	AT4th gold (83 weeks)AT	CH35 gold (55 weeks)CH	UK17th platinum (37 weeks)UK	US17th × 6 Six-fold platinum (79 weeks)US	First published: Jan 4th 2011 Sales: + 7,000,000

More singles

• 2011: Not Your Fault (US:gold)
• 2012: Kill Your Heroes
• 2013: Thiskidsnotalright
• 2015: Hollow Moon (Bad Wolf)
• 2015: I'm on Fire
• 2015: I Am
• 2016: Woman Woman
• 2016: Run (Beautiful Things)
• 2017: Passion
• 2017: Seven Sticks of Dynamite
• 2017: Miracle Man
• 2018: Handyman
• 2018: Table for One (feat.Elohim)
• 2019: The Best
• 2020: The Best (feat.Alice Merton )

Guest Posts

• 2016: Kill It 4 the Kids (Slander Remix) ( Kill the Noise feat.Awolnation & R. City )

Awards for music sales

Golden record  Canada 2012: for the album Megalithic Symphony 2014: for the single Not Your Fault  Norway 2013: for the Single Sail Platinum record  Australia 2013: for the Single Sail  Denmark 2014: for the Streaming Sail  Italy 2015: for the Single Sail  New Zealand 2013: for the Single Sail

2 × platinum record  Norway 2013: for the Streaming Sail 3 × platinum record  Sweden 2013: for the Single Sail 6 × platinum record  Canada 2014: for the Single Sail

Note: Awards in countries from the chart tables or chart boxes can be found in these.

Country / Region	gold	platinum	Sales	swell
Awards for music sales (country / region, awards, sales, sources)
Australia (ARIA)	-	platinum1	70,000	aria.com.au
Denmark (IFPI)	-	platinum1	-	ifpi.dk
Italy (FIMI)	-	platinum1	30,000	fimi.it
Canada (MC)	2 × gold2	6 × platinum6th	560,000	musiccanada.com
New Zealand (RMNZ)	-	platinum1	15,000	nztop40.co.nz
Norway (IFPI)	gold1	2 × platinum2	5,000	ifpi.no
Austria (IFPI)	gold1	-	15,000	ifpi.at
Sweden (IFPI)	-	3 × platinum3	120,000	sverigetopplistan.se
Switzerland (IFPI)	gold1	-	15,000	hitparade.ch
United States (RIAA)	gold1	7 × platinum7th	7,500,000	riaa.com
United Kingdom (BPI)	-	platinum1	600,000	bpi.co.uk
All in all	6 × gold6th	23 × platinum23

swell

1. ↑ Redbull homepage
2. ↑ itunes.apple.com
3. ↑ nypress.com ( Memento of the original from July 24, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
4. ↑ planetverge.com ( Memento of the original from July 15, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
5. ↑ billboard.com
6. ↑ lamusicblog.com
7. ↑ ^{a b} Chart sources: DE AT CH UK US