Echosmith

Echosmith
Echosmith Live in Munich 2015
General information
Genre (s)	Indie pop
founding	2009
Website	www.echosmith.com
Founding members
Drums	Graham Sierota
Vocals , keyboard	Sydney Sierota
Bass , vocals	Noah Sierota
Lead guitar , vocals	Jamie Sierota
Current occupation
Drums	Graham Sierota
Vocals , keyboard	Sydney Sierota
Bass , vocals	Noah Sierota
former members
Lead guitar , vocals	Jamie Sierota

Echo Smith is an American indie pop - band . It was founded in February 2009 in Toluca Lake , USA and consists of the siblings Graham, Sydney, Noah and Jamie Sierota. Echosmith was signed to Warner Bros. Records in May 2012 . The band is best known in their home country for the single Cool Kids . This rose to number 13 on the Billboard Hot 100 charts. Her first single, Tonight We're Making History , was released on June 5, 2012 and was used in an NBC promotion for the 2012 Summer Olympics . In June 2013 the new single and the official music video Come Together were presented. The debut album Talking Dreams hit stores on October 8, 2013.

Origin and musical influences

Singer Sydney Sierota 2015 Live in Munich

The siblings grew up in a musical household and therefore came into contact with various different musical instruments in their early childhood. The band is said to have been influenced by artists such as Coldplay , Echo & the Bunnymen , The Smiths , U2 , Joy Division and Fleetwood Mac . The youngest member, Graham (born February 5, 1999 ), plays drums . The only female member, Sydney (born April 21, 1997 ), is the lead singer and plays the tambourine and keyboard every now and then . Noah (born January 1, 1996 ) plays bass and the eldest brother, Jamie (born April 9, 1993 ), the lead guitar . The two older brothers also work as background singers.

Echosmith has indie rock and 80's dance rock influences . Singer Sydney Sierota has also been compared to Ellie Goulding in reviews .

Career

Echosmith released a number of cover songs such as I Will Wait by Mumford & Sons , Set Fire to the Rain by Adele and Princess of China by Coldplay and Rihanna .

The band's management consists of Jeffery David and The Knoller Group. In April 2013, Echosmith was added to the Alternative Press list of 100 bands you should know ("100 Bands You Need To Know") . On May 31, 2013, the band released their latest song Come Together on their YouTube channel. The music video was directed by Justin Coloma . It was shot in Los Angeles.

Her first single, Cool Kids , was released on June 4, 2013. The song debuted at number 87 on the Billboard Hot 100 . In the next week the single fell out again. The song also rose to number 94 in the US Airplay Top 100 and peaked at number 50 in the following weeks. The single remained in these charts for four weeks.

On June 7, 2013, the band performed at a concert at Warner Bros. Records in Burbank . It was streamed on Youtube at the same time. Echosmith's songs Come Together , Let's Love and March Into The Sun aired on ESPN in June . Echosmith also participated on the entire Vans Warped Tour in 2013. They supported the concerts of Owl City , Twenty One Pilots and Neon Trees . On Owl City's 2013 Midsummer Station Tour, they were the opening act in the United States and Canada .

The debut album Talking Dreams hit stores on October 8, 2013. Echosmith released their version of the famous Christmas carol I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day on December 3, 2013 . It was available as a free download on their website during December. The band performed the song Cool Kids on December 31, 2013 during the TeenNick show TeenNick Top 10: New Year's Eve Countdown , hosted by Nick Cannon . Echosmith was added to the list of " MTV 's 2014 Artists To Watch". The song Surround You is part of the soundtrack of the film Endless Love .

Echosmith played on the Vans Warped Tour in 2014. It was the second year in a row. For the television audience, they played their song Cool Kids on Conan O'Brien's programs Conan and Teen Wolf's aftershow ( Wolf Watch ) . On June 10, Echosmith released an acoustic EP called Acoustic Dreams , which includes acoustic versions of the four songs from Talking Dreams , as well as a new song called Terminal .

Echosmith was the MTV Push Artist of the Month in November 2014. This was followed by a tour with The Colourist as support in February 2015 in the USA and a European tour with Alvarez Kings . In 2015 the singer Sydney worked with the internationally successful German DJ Zedd for the song Illusion on the album True Colors . In August it was announced that guitarist Jamie was taking time off after the birth of his son and was represented by a support guitarist at concerts. The band had a guest appearance on The Muppets ( single All The Way , S1: E10), which aired on December 8, 2015. There were occasional messages on Twitter and Instagram that the band u. a. working on a new album with Gerard Way. In 2016, singer Sydney announced a collaboration with Hollister . On November 14, 2016, the band announced via Twitter, Facebook and the newsletter that Jamie could no longer be part of the band and would now take care of his family and the remaining siblings would continue as a trio.

Their second album, Lonely Generation , was released on January 10, 2020 .

• Echosmith 2015 Live in Munich
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  Jamie Sierota

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  Noah Sierota

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  Sydney Sierota

Discography

Studio albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
2013	Talking dreams	DE47 (2 weeks) DE	AT39 (1 week) AT	CH35 (1 week) CH	-	US38 gold (47 weeks)US	First published: October 8, 2013
2020	Lonely generation	-	-	-	-	-	First published: January 10, 2020

EPs

year	title	Remarks
2013	Summer sampler	First published: June 11, 2013
2014	Acoustic Dreams	First published: June 10, 2014
2015	Spotify sessions	First published: February 24, 2015
2017	Inside a dream	First published: September 29, 2017
	An Echosmith Christmas	First published: November 10, 2017

Singles

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
2013	Cool kids talking dreams	DE8th gold (22 weeks)DE	AT5 (19 weeks) AT	CH9 gold (19 weeks)CH	UK17th gold (19 weeks)UK	US13 × 3 Triple platinum (23 weeks)US	First published: June 4, 2013 Chart entry in the USA in July 2014, in Europe in 2014/15
2015	Bright Talking Dreams	-	-	-	-	US40 platinum (20 weeks)US	First published: February 2, 2015

More singles

• 2015: Let's Love
• 2018: Over My Head
• 2019: Favorite Sound (with audiences )
• 2019: God Only Knows ( Timbaland Remix) (with For King & Country )
• 2019: Lonely Generation

Awards for music sales

Golden record  New Zealand 2015: for the single Cool Kids  Spain 2015: for the single Cool Kids Platinum record  Denmark 2014: for the single Cool Kids  Italy 2014: for the single Cool Kids  Canada 2015: for the single Cool Kids  Sweden 2015: for the single Cool Kids

2 × platinum record  Australia 2015: for the single Cool Kids  Norway 2015: for the single Cool Kids

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

Country / Region	gold	platinum	Sales	swell
Awards for music sales (country / region, awards, sales, sources)
Australia (ARIA)	-	2 × platinum2	140,000	aria.com.au
Denmark (IFPI)	-	platinum1	60,000	ifpi.dk
Germany (BVMI)	gold1	-	150,000	musikindustrie.de
Italy (FIMI)	-	platinum1	30,000	fimi.it
Canada (MC)	-	platinum1	80,000	musiccanada.com
New Zealand (RMNZ)	gold1	-	7,500	nztop40.co.nz
Norway (IFPI)	-	2 × platinum2	20,000	ifpi.no
Sweden (IFPI)	-	platinum1	40,000	sverigetopplistan.se
Switzerland (IFPI)	gold1	-	15,000	hitparade.ch
Spain (Promusicae)	gold1	-	15,000	elportaldemusica.es
United States (RIAA)	gold1	4 × platinum4th	4,500,000	riaa.com
United Kingdom (BPI)	gold1	-	400,000	bpi.co.uk
All in all	6 × gold6th	12 × platinum12

Artist awards and nominations

• 2015: Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards - Nomination for Best Newcomer

Individual evidence

1. ^ Echosmith , Myspace. 
2. ↑ Ready Set Go! Is Now Echosmith , Warner Bros. Records. 
3. ↑ Tonight We're Making History , Popcrush. 
4. ^ Warped Tour , Alternative Press. 
5. ^ Echosmith Bio , Warner Music group.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.   
6. ^ Echosmith - Biography . Billboard. Retrieved July 10, 2014.
7. ^ Daniel Bromfield: Album review: Echosmith's 'Talking Dreams' lacks originality . E Daily Emerald. Archived from the original on January 2, 2015. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved July 22, 2014. 
8. ↑ Echosmith Cover Mumford & Sons , Warner Bros. Records News. 
9. ^ Echosmith - Set Fire To The Rain , NME.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.   
10. ^ Echosmith Covers Coldplay & Rihanna's Princess of China , Warner Bros. Records News. 
11. ↑ Contact , Echosmith Tumblr. 
12. ^ Echosmith , Warner Bros. Records. Archived from the original on February 11, 2015 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. . Retrieved June 7, 2013.  
13. ^ Echosmith's New Music Video , Warner Bros. Records News. 
14. ↑ ^{a b} Echosmith - Cool Kids . Acharts.us. Retrieved July 19, 2014.
15. ↑ Echosmith Releases Summer Sampler , AbsolutePunk. 
16. ^ Echosmith on ESPN June programming , ESPN. 
17. ↑ Bands , Vans Warped Tour. 
18. ↑ Echosmith , Sound Kick. 
19. ^ Owl City , Alive Magazine. Archived from the original on June 15, 2013 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. .  
20. ↑ Echosmith announce new album, "Talking Dreams", Idobi Network. 
21. ↑ http://www.warnerbrosrecords.com/news/free-holiday-song-download-echosmith
22. ↑ Nick Cannon Hosts TeenNick Top 10: New Years Eve Countdown , BroadwayWorld. 
23. ↑ MTV Artists To Watch 2014 , MTV BuzzWorthy. 
24. ↑ Endless Love Tracklist , Metrolyrics. 
25. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from February 15, 2014 in the web archive archive.today ) 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.  
26. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from January 11, 2015 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. 
27. ↑ Echosmith's Sydney Sierota on the Band's New Album and Her Viral Video With Fifth Harmony's Ally Brooke . In: Billboard . ( billboard.com [accessed November 15, 2016]).
28. ↑ ECHOSMITH on Twitter . In: Twitter . ( twitter.com [accessed November 15, 2016]).
29. ↑ Sydney Sierota Teases New Echosmith Song with New Hollister Collection Sneak Peek! In: Sydney Sierota Teases New Echosmith Song with New Hollister Collection Sneak Peek! | Echosmith, Sydney Sierota: Just Jared Jr. Retrieved November 15, 2016 . 
30. ↑ ECHOSMITH on Twitter . In: Twitter . ( twitter.com [accessed November 15, 2016]).
31. ↑ ECHOSMITH on Twitter . In: Twitter . ( twitter.com [accessed November 15, 2016]).
32. ↑ ^{a b} Chart sources: DE AT CH UK US

Web links

Commons : Echosmith  - Collection of Images

• Official website
• Echosmith at Discogs (English)
• Sydney Sierota in the Internet Movie Database (English)