Ella Mai

Ella May (2019)

Chart positions Explanation of the data

Albums

Ready (EP)   US 29 05/12/2018 (24 weeks) Ella Mai   UK 18th  silver 10/25/2018 (12 weeks)   US 5  platinum October 27, 2018 (84 weeks)

Singles

Boo'd Up   UK 52  silver 07/12/2018 (9 weeks)   US 5  × 5 Quintuple platinum 04/14/2018 (35 weeks) Trip   UK 47  silver 09/20/2018 (12 weeks)   US 11  × 3 Triple platinum 08/18/2018 (27 weeks) Whatchamacallit (feat. Chris Brown )   UK 84 10/25/2018 (1 week) 24/7 ( Meek Mill feat. Ella Mai)   UK 66 December 13, 2018 (1 week)   US 54  gold December 24, 2018 (19 weeks) Shot clock   US 62  gold 02/09/2019 (16 weeks) What You Did (Mahalia feat. Ella Mai)   UK 90 11/14/2019 (3 weeks)

Ella Mai Howell (born November 3, 1994 in London ) is a British R&B musician.

biography

Ella Mai is the daughter of a Jamaican mother and an Irish father and grew up in south-west London . She moved to Queens, New York when she was twelve, but returned to England after graduating from high school. Together with two other singers, she formed the R&B group Arize . They applied to The X Factor in 2014 , but were not accepted by the jury and disbanded a little later.

In 2015 she released four of her own songs on the music platform SoundCloud and was discovered by DJ Mustard and signed to the 10 Summers label . The first official EP Time was released in early 2016 . She was supported by Ty Dolla Sign as a guest. In the same year EP number two followed, Change , with which she already made it to number 20 on the US R&B charts. The third EP Ready , produced by DJ Mustard, was released in 2017, but it took a year before the breakthrough came with the song Boo'd Up on it . In the US, it rose to number 1 on the R&B charts and was certified quadruple platinum . In the official charts in the USA and Great Britain and other English-speaking countries, the song was also able to place. Another R&B hit followed with Trip , which was released as a precursor to their debut album Ella Mai , which was released in October 2019 . The album reached number 5 on the official album charts and reached platinum status . It was also nominated for an award in the Best R&B Album category at the Grammy Awards .

Discography

Albums

• Time (EP, 2016)
• Change (EP, 2016)
• Ready (EP, 2017)
• Ella May (2018)

Songs

• She Don't ( feat.Ty Dolla Sign , 2016, US:gold)
• Lay Up (2017)
• Naked (2017, US:platinum)
• Boo'd Up (2018)
• Trip (2018)
• Whatchamacallit (feat. Chris Brown , 2018, US:gold)
• 10,000 Hours (2018, US:gold)
• Don't Waste My Time (2019, Usher feat. Ella Mai)

Awards for music sales

Golden record  Canada 2018: for the single trip  New Zealand 2018: for the single Boo'd Up 2018: for the single trip 2019: for the album Ella Mai Platinum record  Canada 2018: for the single Boo'd Up

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

Country / Region	silver	gold	platinum	Sales	swell
Awards for music sales (country / region, awards, sales, sources)
Canada (MC)	-	gold1	platinum1	120,000	musiccanada.com
New Zealand (RMNZ)	-	3 × gold3	-	37,500	nztop40.co.nz
United States (RIAA)	-	5 × gold5	10 × platinum10	12,500,000	riaa.com
United Kingdom (BPI)	3 × silver3	-	-	260,000	bpi.co.uk
All in all	3 × silver3	9 × gold9	11 × platinum11

swell

1. ↑ ^{a b} Chart sources: UK US

Web links

• Official Homepage (English)
• Official YouTube channel
• Ella Mai at SoundCloud
• Ella Mai at Allmusic (English)