Daya

Daya (2016)

Chart positions Explanation of the data

Albums

Sit still, look pretty   US 36  gold October 29, 2016 (9 weeks)

EPs

Daya   US 61 09/26/2015 (48 weeks)

Singles

Hide away   DE 44 03/11/2016 (13 weeks)   AT 45 03/25/2016 (9 weeks)   CH 55 02/28/2016 (9 weeks)   US 23  × 2 Double platinum 03/10/2015 (27 weeks) Don't Let Me Down (with The Chainsmokers )   DE 6th  diamond 03/11/2016 (61 weeks)   AT 6th  platinum 03/25/2016 (50 weeks)   CH 8th 03/13/2016 (51 weeks)   UK 2  × 2 Double platinum 04/21/2016 (50 weeks)   US 3  × 8 Eight times platinum 02/27/2016 (52 weeks) Sit still, look pretty   US 28  × 2 Double platinum 06/18/2016 (24 weeks)

Daya (born October 24, 1998 in Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania ; actually Grace Martine Tandon ) is an American singer .

Life

Grace Tandon was born in Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania and raised in Mt. Lebanon. She got piano lessons at a young age , other instruments such as guitar and saxophone followed. When she was ten, she also took singing lessons. She later performed at local events as well. A friend of the singing teacher brought her to the Z-Entertainment label , where she signed a record deal when she was 16. Her grandfather comes from India and while looking for a stage name she came across the translation of her first name Grace, which means "grace" as translated Daya in Hindi . Their first release under this name was Hide Away and began as a local radio hit in the spring of 2015 and was very successful on the Internet, among other things thanks to the support of bloggers like Perez Hilton . She began US-wide promotion and in the fall the EP Daya was released with Hide Away and five other songs. The song alone sold over a million copies ( platinum status ) and reached number 23 on the US singles charts . The EP came in at number 61 and stayed in the album charts for 48 weeks .

The American DJ duo The Chainsmokers became aware of Daya at the end of 2015 . Together they recorded the trap title Don't Let Me Down , which reached the top 10 of the German single charts .

In 2018, the singer came out as bisexual.

Discography

Albums

• 2016: Sit Still, Look Pretty

EPs

• 2015: Daya

Singles

• 2015: Hide Away
• 2015: Sit Still, Look Pretty
• 2016: Don't Let Me Down ( The Chainsmokers feat.Daya)
• 2017: Feel Good ( Gryffin & Illenium feat. Daya) (US:gold)
• 2017: New
• 2018: I Wanna Know (RL Grime feat.Daya)
• 2019: Insomnia
• 2019: Safe
• 2019: Left Me Yet
• 2019: Keeping It in the Dark

Awards for music sales

Golden record  Australia 2019: for the single New  Denmark 2018: for the single Hide Away  Italy 2016: for the single Hide Away  United States 2019: for the single New Platinum record  Australia 2016: for the single Hide Away  Canada 2016: for the single Hide Away  Poland 2016: for the single Don't Let Me Down  Sweden 2016: for the single Hide Away 2 × platinum record  Denmark 2018: for the single Don't Let Me Down

3 × platinum record  Belgium 2017: for the single Don't Let Me Down 6 × platinum record  Italy 2018: for the single Don't Let Me Down  Sweden 2017: for the single Don't Let Me Down 9 × platinum record  Australia 2018: for the single Don't Let Me Down  Canada 2017: for the single Don't Let Me Down Diamond record  France 2017: for the single Don't Let Me Down

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

Country / Region	gold	platinum	diamond	Sales	swell
Awards for music sales (country / region, awards, sales, sources)
Australia (ARIA)	gold1	10 × platinum10	-	735,000	aria.com.au
Belgium (BEA)	-	3 × platinum3	-	90,000	ultratop.be
Denmark (IFPI)	gold1	2 × platinum2	-	165,000	ifpi.dk
Germany (BVMI)	-	-	diamond1	1,000,000	musikindustrie.de
France (SNEP)	-	-	diamond1	250,000	snepmusique.com
Italy (FIMI)	gold1	6 × platinum6th	-	325,000	fimi.it
Canada (MC)	-	10 × platinum10	-	800,000	musiccanada.com
Austria (IFPI)	-	platinum1	-	30,000	ifpi.at
Poland (ZPAV)	-	platinum1	-	20,000	bestsellery.zpav.pl
Sweden (IFPI)	-	7 × platinum7th	-	280,000	sverigetopplistan.se
United States (RIAA)	3 × gold3	12 × platinum12	-	13,500,000	riaa.com
United Kingdom (BPI)	-	2 × platinum2	-	1,200,000	bpi.co.uk
All in all	6 × gold6th	54 × platinum54	2 × diamond2

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1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Chart sources: DE AT CH UK US
2. ↑ Mt. Lebanon runner Grace Tandon a hit singer as 'Daya' ( Memento of the original from February 25, 2016 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. , Eleanor Bailey, The Almanac, September 24, 2015 
3. ↑ A Lebo Pop Princess , JW Stehle, monthly - Mt. Lebanon Magazine, June 4, 2015
4. ↑ L-Mag: K-Word # 272: News from the Lesbian World , October 19, 2018, accessed on November 3, 2018.

Web links

• Official Homepage (English)
• Daya at Allmusic (English)