Chip (rapper)

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Chip (born November 26, 1990 ; real name Jamal Noel Fyffe ), formerly Chipmunk , is a British grime rapper.

Career

Chipmunk, who hails from Tottenham in north London, made a name for himself as a freestyler at the age of 15, recording his first mix tapes and selling CDs he had produced himself. When the grime rapper and producer Wiley became aware of him, the professionally produced mixtape League of My Own was created with his support , which gave him his first breakthrough. In 2008 he was named best newcomer at the MOBO Awards and the Urban Music Awards, and he was even nominated for a BET Award as a rapper in the USA .

The following year, Chipmunk signed with Sony Columbia and had his first single success with Chip Diddy Chip , which landed at number 21 on the UK charts. His involvement in Ironik's new recording of Elton John's Tiny Dancer brought him to the top chart regions shortly afterwards and gave him additional fame. With Diamond Rings together with the singer Emeli Sandé he had his first own top 10 hit in July 2009 and three months later he even made it to number 1 in the British charts with Oopsy Daisy . This single was the forerunner to his debut album I Am Chipmunk , which entered the album charts at number 2 the following week.

His Song Champion has sold over 380,000 digital copies in the UK.

Since January 2012 he only calls himself Chip.

Discography

Albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChartsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)	Remarks
year	title	UK	Remarks
as a chipmunk
2009	I am chipmunk	UK2 gold (23 weeks)UK
2011	Transition	UK10 (4 weeks) UK
as a chip
2016	Power up	UK43 (1 week) UK	EP
2017	League of My Own II	UK12 (3 weeks) UK
2018	Ten10	UK17 (2 weeks) UK

More EPs

2015: Believe & Achieve: Episode 1 (2015)
2015: Light Work (2015)
2015: Believe & Achieve: Episode 2 (2015)

Collab albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChartsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)	Remarks
year	title	UK	Remarks
2020	Insomnia	UK3 (... weeks) UK	with Skepta & Young Adz

Mix tapes

2007: League of My Own
2009: Guess Who
2012: London Boy

Singles

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)		Remarks
year	Title album	DE	UK	Remarks
2009	Chip Diddy Chip I Am Chipmunk	-	UK21 (8 weeks) UK
	Diamond Rings I Am Chipmunk	-	UK6 (16 weeks) UK	feat. Emeli Sandé
	Oopsy Daisy I Am Chipmunk	DE46 (8 weeks) DE	UK1 gold (19 weeks)UK	feat. Dayo Olatunji chart entry in DE only 2010
	Lose My Life I Am Chipmunk	-	UK77 (1 week) UK	feat. N-Dubz
	Look for Me I Am Chipmunk	-	UK7th silver (18 weeks)UK	feat. Talay Riley
2010	Until You Were Gone I Am Chipmunk	-	UK3 silver (10 weeks)UK	feat. Esmée Denters
2010	Flying high transition	-	UK72 (3 weeks) UK
2011	Champion transition	-	UK2 gold (20 weeks)UK	feat. Chris Brown
	In the Air Transition	-	UK37 (5 weeks) UK	feat. Keri Hilson
	Take Off Transition	-	UK84 (4 weeks) UK	feat. Trey Songz
2018	CRB Check Ten10	-	UK43 (6 weeks) UK	feat. Not3s
2018	Wondering	-	UK91 (1 week) UK	with MO
2019	How It Is	-	UK18th silver (9 weeks)UK	First published: February 28, 2019 Sales: + 200,000; with Roddy Ricch & Yxng Bane feat. the plug
2020	Waze Insomnia	-	UK18 (... weeks) UK	First published: March 27, 2020 with Skepta & Young Adz
	Mains Insomnia	-	UK32 (3 weeks) UK	with Skepta & Young Adz
	Demons Insomnia	-	UK47 (1 week) UK	with Skepta & Young Adz

More singles

Beast (feat. Loick Essien , 2008)
I'm Fine (feat. Stormzy & Shalo, 2014)
School of Grime (feat. D Double E & Jammer, 2015)
Coward (2015, UK:gold)
Feeling Myself ( feat.Kano & Wretch 32 , 2015)
Hear Dis (feat. Stormzy, 2015)
Can't Run Out of Bars (2016)
Gets Like That (feat.Ghetts, 2017)
Honestly (feat. 67, 2017)

Guest Posts

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChartsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)	Remarks
year	Title album	UK	Remarks
2009	Tiny Dancer (Hold Me Closer) No Point in Wasting Tears	UK3 silver (18 weeks)UK	Ironik feat. Chipmunk & Elton John
2010	Number One Enemy Daisy Dares You	UK13 (6 weeks) UK	Daisy Dares You feat. Chipmunk
2010	Game Over Third Strike	UK22nd silver (10 weeks)UK	Tinchy Stryder feat. Professor Green , Example , Giggs , Devlin , Tinie Tempah & Chipmunk
2011	Pow 2011 Best of Bizzle	UK33 (2 weeks) UK	Lethal Bizzle feat. Jme , Wiley, Chipmunk, Face, P Money, Ghetts & Kano
2011	Teardrop	UK24 (2 weeks) UK	as part of The Collective
2013	Reload The Ascent	UK9 silver (8 weeks)UK	Wiley feat. Chip & Ms D
2016	Corn on the Curb Konnichiwa	UK73 (1 week) UK	Skepta feat. Wiley & Chip
2018	Genes	UK90 (2 weeks) UK	SL feat. chip
2018	Jumpy (Remix) The Ascent	UK81 (4 weeks) UK	Ambush Buzzworl feat. Skepta & Chip

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↑ http://www.ukmix.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=75237&start=800
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d Chart sources: UK1 UK2 UK3 UK4 DE
↑ Music Sales Awards: UK (database search)

Web links

Official Homepage (English)
Chipmunk at Allmusic (English)

personal data
SURNAME	chip
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Fyffe, Jamal Noel (real name); Chipmunk (stage name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	British rapper
DATE OF BIRTH	November 26, 1990

[1] ttp://www.ukmix.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=75237&start=800

[charts-2] Chart sources: UK1 UK2 UK3 UK4 DE

[ausz-3] Music Sales Awards: UK (database search)