Family of the Year

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Family of the Year (2013)
Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Loma Vista
  DE 31 10/11/2013 (17 weeks)
  CH 80 02.03.2014 (2 weeks)
Singles
Hero
  DE 7th 
platinum
platinum
06.09.2013 (35 weeks)
  AT 7th 10/11/2013 (21 weeks)
  CH 6th 
gold
gold
10/27/2013 (28 weeks)

Family of the Year is an American indie pop - band from Los Angeles .

Band history

Joseph Keefe at the Southside Festival 2014 in Neuhausen ob Eck

The band was founded in California in 2009 , and in the same year they released their self-produced debut, the EP Where’s the Sun and in September the LP Our Songbook with Volvox Music . Also in 2009 they were hired to support Ben Folds .

More EPs followed, but the breakthrough came with the second album Loma Vista , released in mid-2012 , which made it into the US Heatseekers chart and contained the hit Hero , which was successful in the rock charts . In the summer of 2013, the song also found its way to Europe and via radio broadcasts into the German single charts , where it made it into the top 10. The album was also able to place itself in the German charts.

Her song Hero was heard in the film Boyhood by director Richard Linklater in 2014 , previously in the original soundtrack of the film Frau Ella (2013).

Members

Discography

Albums

  • Songbook / Our Songbook (2009/2010)
  • Loma Vista (2012)
  • Family of the Year (2015)
  • Goodbye Sunshine, Hello Nighttime (2018)

EPs

  • Where's the Sun (2009)
  • Through the Trees (2010)
  • St. Croix (2011)
  • Diversity (2012)

Songs

  • Diversity (2012)
  • The Stairs (2012)
  • Hero (2013, US:platinumplatinum)
  • St. Croix (2013)
  • Hold Me Down (2018)
  • Let Her Go (2018)

Awards for music sales

Golden record

  • BelgiumBelgium Belgium
    • 2016: for the single Hero
  • DenmarkDenmark Denmark
    • 2019: for the single Hero
  • ItalyItaly Italy
    • 2016: for the single Hero
  • SpainSpain Spain
    • 2016: for the single Hero

Platinum record

  • CanadaCanada Canada
    • 2016: for the single Hero

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

Country / Region Gold record icon.svg gold Platinum record icon.svg platinum Sales swell
Awards for music sales
(country / region, awards, sales, sources)
Belgium (BEA) Belgium (BEA) Gold record icon.svg gold1 0! P- 15,000 ultratop.be
Denmark (IFPI) Denmark (IFPI) Gold record icon.svg gold1 0! P- 45,000 ifpi.dk
Germany (BVMI) Germany (BVMI) 0! G- Platinum record icon.svg platinum1 300,000 musikindustrie.de
Italy (FIMI) Italy (FIMI) Gold record icon.svg gold1 0! P- 25,000 fimi.it
Canada (MC) Canada (MC) 0! G- Platinum record icon.svg platinum1 80,000 musiccanada.com
Switzerland (IFPI) Switzerland (IFPI) Gold record icon.svg gold1 0! P- 15,000 hitparade.ch
Spain (Promusicae) Spain (Promusicae) Gold record icon.svg gold1 0! P- 20,000 elportaldemusica.es
United States (RIAA) United States (RIAA) 0! G- Platinum record icon.svg platinum1 1,000,000 riaa.com
All in all Gold record icon.svg 5 × gold5 Platinum record icon.svg 3 × platinum3

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  1. ↑ a b Chart sources: DE AT CH
  2. ↑ Folk-Newcomer Family Of The Year: Beautiful Woman for the Black Forest , Spiegel online Kultur, September 1, 2013

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