Elle King

Elle King (2015)

Chart positions Explanation of the data

Albums

Love stuff   DE 45 01/01/2016 (11 weeks)   AT 29 January 15, 2016 (7 weeks)   UK 18th  silver 01/28/2016 (12 weeks)   US 26th  gold 07.03.2015 (66 weeks) Shake the spirit   US 68 03/11/2018 (1 week)

Singles

Ex's & Oh's   DE 10  gold December 25, 2015 (29 weeks)   AT 5  gold December 25, 2015 (23 weeks)   CH 30th 12/27/2015 (15 weeks)   UK 15th  gold 01/08/2016 (19 weeks)   US 10  × 3 Triple platinum 07/25/2015 (38 weeks) Different for Girls (with Dierks Bentley )   US 42  gold 06/18/2016 (20 weeks)

Elle King (* 3. July 1989 in Los Angeles , California as Tanner Elle Schneider ) is an American singer , songwriter and actress . She describes her style of music as a mixture of country , soul , rock and blues . Elle King likes variability and never wanted to serve just one genre.

biography

Elle King is the daughter of comedian Rob Schneider and the former model London King. She grew up in Ohio . As she aged nine years music of punk rock - girl band The Donnas heard she decided to become a singer. She started playing guitar when she was 13 . The banjo was added later. At the age of 16, King trampled through New York and the surrounding area as a street musician , but then moved to Philadelphia to attend the local art school for painting and film. After her apprenticeship, she spent some time in Copenhagen and Los Angeles, but then returned to New York, settled in Brooklyn and worked, among other things, in a tattoo shop on the Lower East Side .

In 2010 King starred in the documentary Legends of La La . In March 2012 their first single Good to Be a Man was released on the independent label Fat Possum Records . She then got a contract with RCA Records and released The Elle King EP with four tracks in June of that year , including the song of her first single, Good to Be a Man . That year, King made television appearances on Big Morning Buzz Live and the Late Show with David Letterman .

In September 2014, the single Ex's & Oh’s hit the stores as the harbinger of the February 2015 debut album Love Stuff . After the album was placed in the US album charts in March 2015 and moved up to the top 30, in July 2015, 10 months after its release, the single also entered the US charts and reached number 10. Further releases of 2015 are the digital singles Catch Us If You Can in April and American Girl in May. Both songs can be heard in the action comedy Miss Bodyguard - In High Heels on the Run . American Girl is a cover version of the 1977 hit written by Tom Petty and released with his band The Heartbreakers .

Also in 2015, King appeared on various television shows including The Tonight Show , The Late Late Show with James Corden , Live with Regis and Kathie Lee , Jimmy Kimmel Live! , The Talk and Late Night with Seth Meyers . She had her first TV appearances in Germany in November of that year on the show Inas Nacht and in December at the finale of the fifth season of The Voice of Germany , where she sang Ex's & Oh’s with all the candidates. Immediately thereafter, the single and a week later the album entered the German charts.

Discography

Albums

• 2015: Love Stuff
• 2018: Shake the Spirit

EPs

• 2012: The Elle King EP

Singles

• 2012: Good to Be a Man
• 2012: Playing for Keeps
• 2014: Ex's & Oh’s
• 2015: Catch Us If You Can
• 2015: American Girl
• 2015: Under the Influence
• 2016: America's Sweetheart (US:gold)
• 2016: Good Girls
• 2017: Wild Love
• 2018: Shame
• 2018: Baby Outlaw

Guest Posts

• 2013: I Don't Mind (Epick feat. Elle King)
• 2016: Different for Girls ( Dierks Bentley feat. Elle King)
• 2016: Not Easy ( Alex da Kid feat. X Ambassadors , Elle King & Wiz Khalifa )
• 2019: The Upside ( Lindsey Stirling feat. Elle King)

Filmography

• 1999: Rent a Man - A man for a few seconds (as Cookie Girl)
• 2006: The Bench Press (as Goth Kids friend)
• 2009: Wilde Kirschen - The Power of the Pussy (as Sabrina)
• 2010: Legends of La La (documentary, as Elle King)

Awards for music sales

Golden record  Denmark 2016: for the single Ex's & Oh’s  Italy 2016: for the single Ex's & Oh’s  Sweden 2016: for the single Ex's & Oh’s Platinum record  Canada 2017: for the single Different for Girls 2018: for the single America's Sweetheart  New Zealand 2016: for the single Ex's & Oh’s

3 × platinum record  Australia 2016: for the single Ex's & Oh’s 5 × platinum record  Canada 2018: for the single Ex's & Oh’s

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)
Australia (ARIA)	-	-	3 × platinum3	210,000	aria.com.au
Denmark (IFPI)	-	gold1	-	30,000	ifpi.dk
Germany (BVMI)	-	gold1	-	200,000	musikindustrie.de
Italy (FIMI)	-	gold1	-	25,000	fimi.it
Canada (MC)	-	-	7 × platinum7th	560,000	musiccanada.com
New Zealand (RMNZ)	-	-	platinum1	15,000	nztop40.co.nz
Austria (IFPI)	-	gold1	-	15,000	ifpi.at
Sweden (IFPI)	-	gold1	-	20,000	sverigetopplistan.se
United States (RIAA)	-	3 × gold3	3 × platinum3	4,500,000	riaa.com
United Kingdom (BPI)	silver1	gold1	-	460,000	bpi.co.uk
All in all	silver1	9 × gold9	14 × platinum14th

swell

1. ↑ ^{a b} Chart sources: DE AT CH UK US singles US albums
2. ↑ Elle King at sonymusic.de-News ( memento of the original from December 19, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) 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.  

Web links

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• Elle King website
• Elle King at Allmusic (English)
• Elle King at Discogs (English)
• Elle King in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Elle King at laut.de