Dirty Vegas

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Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Dirty Vegas
  UK 40 
silver
silver
08/17/2002 (7 weeks)
  US 7th 
gold
gold
06/22/2002 (19 weeks)
Singles
Days Go By
  CH 97 10/27/2002 (1 week)
  UK 16 05/19/2001 (10 weeks)
  US 14th 05/11/2002 (20 weeks)
Ghosts
  UK 31 08/03/2002 (3 weeks)
Walk Into the Sun
  UK 54 10/23/2004 (2 weeks)

Dirty Vegas is a British house trio from London made up of Ben Harris , Paul Harris (the two are not related) and Steve Smith . The band is best known for their hit "Days Go By", for which they won a Grammy Award in 2003 .

Band history

The debut single "Days Go By" was released in 2001 and reached the top 30 in the UK single charts . It was re-released in 2002 and finally made it into the Top 20. In the United States, the single was known through a TV commercial for the Mitsubishi Eclipse . In 2003 the song won the Grammy Award for Best Dance Recording .

The band released two albums in 2002 and 2004 before splitting in 2005. After the split, Steve Smith produced a solo album called This Town , which was released in February 2008. In 2008 the band got back together to produce new songs together. In April 2011 the third studio album Electric Love was finally released .

Discography

Albums

  • 2002: Dirty Vegas
  • 2004: One
  • 2011: Electric Love
  • 2015: Photographer

Singles

  • 2001: Days Go By
  • 2002: Ghosts
  • 2003: Simple Things
  • 2004: Walk Into the Sun
  • 2008: Pressure
  • 2009: Changes
  • 2009: Tonight
  • 2011: Electric Love
  • 2011: Changes
  • 2011: Little White Doves
  • 2012: Emma
  • 2014: Let the Night

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b Chart sources: CH UK US
  2. Music Sales Awards: US UK