Birdy (singer)

Birdy (2013)

Birdy (* 15. May 1996 as Jasmine Lucilla Elizabeth Jennifer van den Bogaerde in Lymington , Hampshire , England ) is a British pop singer .

Life

Jasmine van den Bogaerde, of Dutch - Belgian descent, was born in 1996 in Lymington , Hampshire as the daughter of the author Rupert and the concert pianist Sophie van den Bogaerde. She is the great niece of the actor Dirk Bogarde .

She learned to play the piano from her mother at the age of seven and began writing her own songs at the age of eight.

She got her nickname Birdy from her parents because as a baby she opened her mouth as wide as a hungry bird in a nest that wanted to be fed.

Career

At the age of twelve she took part in the Open Mic UK 2008 , a talent competition that started locally with thousands of participants and ended with the final of the 22 qualifiers on November 29, 2008 in Portsmouth . There she won both the “under 18” category and the overall Grand Prize with the title Be Free , which she wrote herself. As a prize for her victory, she was given six days of studio recordings. The first publication followed two years later under her nickname Birdy . In March 2011, Skinny Love was released , a cover version of a song by Bon Iver that made it into the top 20 of the UK singles chart. Their second single Shelter , originally from The xx , hit the charts in June.

Their first album Birdy , released in November 2011, reached the top of the charts for one week in 2012 in the Netherlands, the Flemish part of Belgium and Australia. In June 2012, Birdy recorded the song Learn Me Right with the British band Mumford & Sons , which can be heard on the soundtrack of the Pixar film Merida - Legend of the Highlands . She previously sang the song Just a Game for the film The Hunger Games .

The commercial breakthrough for Birdy came in Germany in December 2012. She appeared in the finale of the casting show The Voice of Germany and sang People Help the People (a cover version of the band Cherry Ghost ) together with finalist Isabell Schmidt . Then the single reached number three in the German charts and number two in the Swiss charts . On February 16, 2013, she performed at the Sanremo Festival , the most famous Italian music festival. Her album Fire Within was released on September 27, 2013 , from which Birdy released the songs Wings and No Angel for sale on iTunes .

The singer's third studio album, titled Beautiful Lies , was released by Warner Music on March 25, 2016 . The first single is entitled Keeping Your Head Up . The album was produced by Jim Abbiss ( Arctic Monkeys , Adele ) and Craig Silvey ( Arcade Fire , Florence and the Machine ) , among others .

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	Birdy	DE14th platinum (35 weeks)DE	AT14th gold (23 weeks)AT	CH3 platinum (84 weeks)CH	UK13 gold (27 weeks)UK	US62 (1 week) US	First published: November 4, 2011
2013	Fire Within	DE5 gold (33 weeks)DE	AT7th gold (15 weeks)AT	CH1 gold (32 weeks)CH	UK8th platinum (23 weeks)UK	US24 (2 weeks) US	First published: September 20, 2013
2016	Beautiful Lies	DE7 (8 weeks) DE	AT11 (7 weeks) AT	CH2 (15 weeks) CH	UK4th gold (18 weeks)UK	US68 (1 week) US	First published: March 25, 2016

EPs

• 2011: Live in London
• 2012: Live in Paris
• 2013: Birdy - Artist Lounge EP
• 2013: Breathe

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	Skinny Love Birdy	DE73 (6 weeks) DE	AT15th gold (29 weeks)AT	CH19th platinum (47 weeks)CH	UK17th × 2 Double platinum (65 weeks)UK	US- platinum US	First published: January 30, 2011
	Shelter Birdy	-	-	-	UK50 (4 weeks) UK	-	First published: June 3, 2011
	People Help the People Birdy	DE3 platinum (33 weeks)DE	AT7th gold (21 weeks)AT	CH2 × 2 Double platinum (40 weeks)CH	UK33 silver (10 weeks)UK	-	First published: October 28, 2011
2013	Wings Fire Within	DE15th gold (33 weeks)DE	AT3 gold (22 weeks)AT	CH3 platinum (24 weeks)CH	UK8th* platinum (35 weeks)UK	-	First published: July 29, 2013 * Returned to June 2015 after being used in a commercial for Lloyds Bank
2014	Words as Weapons Fire Within	DE63 (1 week) DE	-	-	-	-	First published: March 14, 2014
2016	Keeping Your Head Up Beautiful Lies	DE34 (15 weeks) DE	AT44 (10 weeks) AT	CH47 (4 weeks) CH	UK57 gold (7 weeks)UK	-	First published: January 1, 2016
	Wild Horses Beautiful Lies	-	-	-	UK75 silver (3 weeks)UK	-	First published: March 11, 2016

More singles

• 2012: 1901
• 2013: No Angel
• 2013: Light Me Up

As a guest musician

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
2014	I'll Keep Loving You Listen	DE96 (1 week) DE	-	-	-	-	Album release: November 21, 2014 David Guetta & Jaymes Young feat. Birdy
2015	Let It All Go Wishes	-	-	CH14th gold (24 weeks)CH	UK58 (1 week) UK	-	Album release: September 4th, 2015 Rhodes feat. Birdy
2016	Find me	-	-	-	UK36 silver (14 weeks)UK	-	Album release: November 4th, 2016 Sigma feat. Birdy

statistics

Chart evaluation

DE  AT  CH  UK  US Number one albums DE-DE AT-AT CH2CH UK-UK US-US Top 10 albums DE2DE AT1AT CH3CH UK2UK US-US Albums in the charts DE3DE AT3AT CH3CH UK3UK US3US

DE  AT  CH  UK  US Number one singles DE-DE AT-AT CH-CH UK-UK US-US Top 10 singles DE1DE AT2AT CH2CH UK1UK US-US Singles in the charts DE6thDE AT4thAT CH5CH UK8thUK US-US

Awards for music sales

Silver record  United Kingdom 2019: for the song Not About Angels Golden record  Australia 2015: for the album Fire Within  Belgium 2013: for the single wings  Denmark 2014: for streaming Skinny Love 2018: for the album Birdy 2019: for the single People Help the People 2019: for the song Not About Angels  France 2013: for the single People Help the People  Canada 2014: for the single Skinny Love  Poland 2012: for the album Birdy  Hungary 2014: for the album Fire Within

Platinum record  Australia 2012: for the album Birdy 2012: for the single People Help the People  Belgium 2012: for the single Skinny Love 2012: for the album Birdy 2012: for the single People Help the People  Denmark 2018: for the single Skinny Love  France 2013: for the single Skinny Love 2013: for the album Fire Within  Italy 2017: for the single Skinny Love 2018: for the single People Help the People 2 × platinum record  Australia 2015: for the single wings  France 2012: for the album Birdy 7 × platinum record  Australia 2018: for the single Skinny Love

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

Country / Region	silver	gold	platinum	Sales	swell
Awards for music sales (country / region, awards, sales, sources)
Australia (ARIA)	-	gold1	11 × platinum11	805,000	aria.com.au
Belgium (BEA)	-	gold1	3 × platinum3	105,000	ultratop.be
Denmark (IFPI)	-	4 × gold4th	platinum1	160,000	ifpi.dk
Germany (BVMI)	-	2 × gold2	2 × platinum2	750,000	musikindustrie.de
France (SNEP)	-	gold1	4 × platinum4th	525,000	snepmusique.com
Italy (FIMI)	-	-	2 × platinum2	100,000	fimi.it
Canada (MC)	-	gold1	-	40,000	musiccanada.com
Austria (IFPI)	-	5 × gold5	-	62,500	ifpi.at
Poland (ZPAV)	-	gold1	-	10,000	bestsellery.zpav.pl
Switzerland (IFPI)	-	2 × gold2	5 × platinum5	175,000	hitparade.ch
Hungary (MAHASZ)	-	gold1	-	2,000	slagerlistak.hu
United States (RIAA)	-	-	platinum1	1,000,000	riaa.com
United Kingdom (BPI)	5 × silver5	gold1	5 × platinum5	3,400,000	bpi.co.uk
All in all	5 × silver5	20 × gold20th	34 × platinum34

Awards

• 2014: Echo as an international rock / pop artist (Germany)
• 2014: "Los Premios 40 Principales" as best international newcomer (Spain)

swell

1. ^ Debrett's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, Kelly's Directories, 2000, p. 1629
2. ↑ Indy Almroth-Wright: Twelve year-old 'Birdy' wins UK talent contest On: BBC news, online December 6, 2008. Accessed January 6, 2012 (English)
3. ↑ Warner Music News: Birdy announces their new album "Beautiful Lies" for March 25th. on
4. ↑ ^{a b c} Chart sources: DE AT CH UK US
5. ^ David Zowie's House Every Weekend brings the Friday feeling to the Official Chart summit , Rob Copsey, Official Charts Company, July 10, 2015

Web links

Commons : Birdy  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Official website (English)
• Twelve year-old Birdy wins UK talent contest (English)
• A new teen star is about to go top 10 (English)
• Sadness and happiness are close together - Interview (German)
• Birdy at Discogs (English)