Nick Murphy

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Chet Faker at the Rolling Stone Awards, 2013
Chet Faker at the Rolling Stone Awards, 2013
Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Thinking in textures
  AU 38 02/11/2013 (4 weeks)
Built on glass
  CH 49 04/20/2014 (1 week)
  US 158 05/03/2014 (1 week)
  AU 1Template: Infobox chart placements / maintenance / NR1 link 04/21/2014 (49 weeks)
iTunes session
  AU 18th December 8, 2014 (3 weeks)
Singles
Drop the Game (with Flume )
  AU 18th 12/02/2013 (14 weeks)
Talk is cheap
  AU 6th 02/24/2014 (16 weeks)
gold
  AU 40 07/14/2014 (1 week)
Bend
  AU 48 06/29/2015 (1 week)
The Trouble with Us (with Marcus Marr )
  AU 8th 10/26/2015 (19 weeks)
Work EP (with Marcus Marr)
  AU 42 12/14/2015 (1 week)

Nick Murphy (* 23. June 1988 in Melbourne ; full name Nicholas James Murphy ), formerly known as Chet Faker is an Australian Soul - singer .

Career

Nick Murphy studied at St Kevins College in Sydney . In 2012 he signed a contract with the music label Downtown . In October of that year he won the Breakthrough Artist of the Year and the Australian Independent Records Award . His debut album Thinking in Textures , released in early 2013 under the pseudonym Chet Faker , did not go beyond number 38. Nevertheless, he then won the Rolling Stone Australia Award in the Best Independent Release category .

At the end of 2012 he was already featured in the song Left Alone as a guest on the number one album by Australian DJ Harley Streten alias Flume . In the fall of 2013 they recorded the EP Lockjaw together , which Murphy then made a breakthrough. The song Drop the Game came to number 18 after it was included in the review of the Hottest 100 of 2013 by the station Triple J. His second album Built on Glass then reached number one in the Australian album charts in April 2014 . The album was also successful in New Zealand and in Europe from France to the Netherlands. He was also able to place in the USA. There he was known for his cover version of the Black Street song No Diggity , which was used in a TV commercial during Super Bowl XLVIIIs . The Super Bowl is the largest annual television event in the United States and has been watched by 108 million people worldwide. The most successful song on the album was Talk Is Cheap , which originally peaked at number 31. After he was voted number one in the Triple J Hottest 100 on Australia Day , he rose to number six in the singles chart at the end of January 2015. Two more of his songs made it into the top 10 and the album went platinum .

At the beginning of September 2016, Nick Murphy announced that he would no longer publish as Chet Faker, but under his real name.

Nick Murphy describes his genre as future beat combined with modern soul .

Discography

Albums

  • Built on Glass (2014)
  • iTunes Session (2014)
  • Run Fast Sleep Naked (2019)

EPs

  • Thinking in Textures (2012)
  • Live Sessions (2013)
  • Lockjaw EP (with Flume , 2013)
  • Work EP (with Marcus Marr , 2015)

Singles

as Chet Faker

  • Terms and Conditions (2012)
  • I'm into You (2012)
  • Love and Feeling (2012)
  • Drop the Game (with Flume, 2013)
  • Talk Is Cheap (2014)
  • 1998 (2014)
  • Gold (2014)
  • Bend (2015)

as Nick Murphy

  • Stop Me (Stop You) (2016)

Songs (collaborations)

  • Mahal (with Ta-ku, 2011)
  • Fear Like You (with The Royal Swazi Spa, 2011)
  • Left Alone (with Flume, 2012)
  • Moon Plain (with The Coober Pedy University Band, 2013)
  • Fool of Me (with Say Lou Lou , 2013)
  • Rock On (with Nkechi Anele, 2013, Original: David Essex )
  • Try It Over (with Yujen, 2013)
  • On You (with GoldLink, 2014)
  • The Trouble with Us (with Marcus Marr , 2015)
  • No Reason (with Bonobo, 2017)

swell

  1. ↑ a b Chart sources: CH AU US
  2. ^ The rise and rise of Melbourne's soul scene. (No longer available online.) Faster Louder January 10, 2013, archived from the original on February 18, 2013 ; accessed on March 4, 2013 (English): “Little more than a year ago Melbourne's Chet Faker was just another bearded dude making beats in his garage; now he's signed to Downtown Records “ Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.fasterlouder.com.au
  3. ↑ Chet Faker wins big at music awards. Sydney Morning Herald, October 16, 2012, accessed March 4, 2013 .
  4. ↑ Tame Impala win at Rolling Stone Awards. Sky News, January 16, 2013, accessed on March 4, 2013 (English): "Other winners on Wednesday night included Melbourne singer / producer Chet Faker who claimed best independent release for his acclaimed Thinking In Textures EP."
  5. ^ Artist info Chet Faker. February 7, 2014, accessed August 8, 2014 .
  6. ↑ Omi makes it two weeks at # 1 with 'Cheerleader'. (No longer available online.) January 31, 2015, archived from the original on January 31, 2015 ; accessed on January 31, 2015 (English). 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / ariacharts.com.au
  7. ↑ Chet Faker is Nick Murphy - "Fear Less" , Testspiel.de, September 13, 2016

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personal data
SURNAME Murphy, Nick
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Murphy, Nicholas James (full name); Faker, Chet (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian soul singer
DATE OF BIRTH 1988
PLACE OF BIRTH Melbourne , Australia