Chase & Status

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Will Kennard and Saul Milton (2012)
MC Rage as part of the live performance of Chase & Status, SonneMondSterne 2018

Chase & Status are in London living Electronica duo, the music from the categories Drum and Bass and Dubstep produced. The real names of the two musicians are Saul Milton and Will Kennard.

Career

They celebrated initial success with the 12 "releases Iron Fist / Zulu King , Love's Theme / Wise Up (Remix) , Dumpling Riddim / Disco and the 2006 single The Druids . This included the song Come Back , in which the rapper Top Cat takes over the singing and was often played on the English broadcaster Radio 1 .

Milton and Kennard were able to achieve a total of three number 1 chart placements in the UK dance charts. First in 2007 with the single Hurt You / Sell Me Your Soul , followed by Take Me Away / Judgment (Informer) 2008. On October 5th of the same year, Pieces , which was recorded together with Plan B , also reached first place and number 70 in the national single charts. The single end credits , also produced with Plan B, became part of the soundtrack for the film Harry Brown .

Chase & Status were largely involved in the production of Rihanna's fourth studio album, Rated R (2009).

Albums

Their first album, More Than Alot , reached number 49 in the UK album charts and number 2 in the dance charts on October 19, 2008. The long player was re-released on May 31, 2010 via Mercury Records under the title More Than Alot: New Edition including the tracks Saxon , Heartbeat (C&S Mix) and In Love (featuring Jenna G.) previously only available on singles .

Her second long player No More Idols was released on January 31, 2011 via Mercury Records. The duo made it possible for interested parties to hear 60 seconds of all the tracks on the album via the band's own YouTube channel before it was released .

On October 7, 2013, their third studio album, Brand New Machine , was released, for which they collaborated with Nile Rodgers , Major Lazer and Skrillex , among others . The first single, Lost & Not Found , reached number 9, the second single, Count on Me, number 5 on the UK charts .

In 2016 the first single of their fourth studio album, Tribe , was released with Control (feat. Slaves ) . Four more followed, on which guest contributions by Novelist, Tom Grennan, Blossoms and Emeli Sandé could be heard. The album was released on August 18, 2017.

Discography

Albums

year title Top ranking, total weeks, awardChartsChart placements
(Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
UK UK
2008 More Than Alot UK49
gold
gold

(5 weeks)UK
2011 No More Idols UK2
Double platinum
× 2
Double platinum

(102 weeks)UK
2013 Brand New Machine UK2
gold
gold

(23 weeks)UK
MTA, Mercury Records
2017 Tribe UK7 (3 weeks)
UK
MTA, Mercury Records
2019 Rtrn II Jungle UK12 (3 weeks)
UK
MTA, Mercury Records

EPs

  • 2005: Ten Tonne (Renegade Hardware)
  • 2006: The Druids (Bingo Beats)
  • 2015: London Bars (Mercury Records)

Singles

year Title
album 		Top ranking, total weeks, awardChartsChart placements
(Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
UK UK
2005 Love's Theme / Wise Up
 UK76 (1 week)
UK
Duppy man
 UK94 (1 week)
UK
feat. Capleton
2008 Pieces more
than alot 		UK70 (2 weeks)
UK
feat. Plan B
2009 Against All Odds
More than Alot 		UK45 (4 weeks)
UK
feat. Kano
End Credits
No More Idols 		UK9
platinum
platinum

(36 weeks)UK
feat. Plan B
2010 Let You Go
No More Idols 		UK11
silver
silver

(14 weeks)UK
feat. Mali
2011 Blind Faith
No More Idols 		UK5
platinum
platinum

(36 weeks)UK
feat. Liam Bailey
Hypest Hype
No More Idols 		UK70 (1 week)
UK
Promosingle
feat. Tempa T
Time
No More Idols 		UK21st
gold
gold

(20 weeks)UK
feat. Delilah
Hitz
No More Idols 		UK39 (9 weeks)
UK
feat. Tinie Tempah
Flashing Lights
No More Idols 		UK98 (1 week)
UK
feat. Sub focus
2012 Big man
 UK68 (1 week)
UK
feat. Liam Bailey
2013 Lost & Not Found
Brand New Machine 		UK9
silver
silver

(12 weeks)UK
feat. Louis M ^ ttrs
Count on Me
Brand New Machine 		UK5
silver
silver

(8 weeks)UK
feat. Moko
Alive
Brand New Machine 		UK21st
silver
silver

(10 weeks)UK
feat. Jacob Banks
2014 Blk & Blu
Brand New Machine 		UK48 (4 weeks)
UK
feat. Ed Thomas
2015 Funny
London bars 		UK96 (1 week)
UK
feat. Frisco
2016 Spoken Word
 UK78 (1 week)
UK
feat. George the Poet
All goes wrong
tribe 		UK65
gold
gold

(4 weeks)UK
feat. Tom Grennan

More singles

  • 2011: No Problem (UK:silversilver)

Trivia

  • The name of the end of 2009 by the two Englishmen founded label MTA Records derives from the title of the first album M ore T han A lot from.
  • Chase & Status manager Joe Oakley also worked for Pendulum .

swell

  1. ↑ http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/rockandpopfeatures/6599184/Chase-and-Status-interview.html
  2. ↑ http://www.chaseandstatus.co.uk/news.php?id=135&page=5
  3. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/user/chaseandstatustv
  4. ↑ a b Chart sources: UK UK2 UK3
  5. ↑ a b Music Sales Awards: UK
  6. ↑ http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/rockandpopfeatures/6599184/Chase-and-Status-interview.html

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