Frans (singer)

Frans, May 2016

Frans Jeppsson-Wall (born December 19, 1998 in Ystad , Skåne län ), known by his first name Frans , is a Swedish singer .

life and career

Jeppsson-Wall was born in December 1998 in Ystad in Skåne County . His Nigerian- born father, Mark Wall, is half British and half Nigerian and his mother is Swedish. Frans grew up bilingual ( English / Swedish ) and spent part of his life in London , where he also studied music for a year at the age of 15. He lives in Ystad.

Frans Jeppsson-Wall (May 2008)

In 2006 he made his breakthrough together with the Swedish rock band Elias . The soccer anthem Who's da Man , which is dedicated to soccer player Zlatan Ibrahimović , quickly reached number one in the single charts and stayed there for 13 weeks. In December of the same year Jeppsson-Wall published the song Kul med Jul . For the European Football Championship in 2008 he again cooperated with Elias and published the song Fotbollsfest , which also took first place and was intended to support the Swedish national football team .

Eurovision Song Contest

After a break of several years, Jeppsson-Wall returned to the music business in 2016 and took part in the Swedish preliminary round for the Eurovision Song Contest , the 2016 Melodifestivalen . With his song If I Were Sorry he prevailed against his competitors in the fourth semi-final on February 27th and qualified directly for the final on March 12th in the Friends Arena in Stockholm . The song reached number one on the download charts after its release and set a record for the most streams in one day in Sweden with more than 500,000 streams a day. The following week If I Were Sorry topped the Swedish singles charts . In the final round of the state decision, he prevailed against Oscar Zia and therefore represented Sweden in the Eurovision Song Contest. With this successful song, Frans Jeppsson-Wall finally achieved fifth place in the final of the Eurovision Song Contest on May 14, 2016 with 261 points.

Discography

Albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	SE
2006	Because man	-	-	-	-	SE20 (3 weeks) SE	First published: December 2006

Singles

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	SE
2006	Kul med Jul Da Man	-	-	-	-	SE24 (3 weeks) SE	First published: December 2006
2008	Fotbollsfest	-	-	-	-	SE1 gold (8 weeks)SE	First release: May 2008 feat. Elias
2016	If I were sorry	DE12 gold (23 weeks)DE	AT2 gold (18 weeks)AT	CH25 (18 weeks) CH	UK61 (1 week) UK	SE1 × 7 Seven times platinum (25 weeks)SE	First published: February 28, 2016
	Young Like Us	-	-	-	-	SE89 (1 week) SE	First published: June 2016

more publishments

• 2017: Liar
• 2019: One Floor Down
• 2019: Snakes
• 2019: Do It Like You Mean It (feat.Yoel905)
• 2019: Amsterdam

Chart placements as a guest musician

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	SE
2006	Who's da 'Man Da Man	-	-	-	-	SE1 platinum (28 weeks)SE	First release: December 2006 Elias feat. Frans

Further guest contributions

• 2018: Loving U (Nicole Cross feat. Frans)

Awards for music sales

2 × platinum record  Poland 2017: for the single If I Were Sorry

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)
Germany (BVMI)	gold1	-	200,000	musikindustrie.de
Austria (IFPI)	gold1	-	15,000	ifpi.at
Poland (ZPAV)	-	2 × platinum2	40,000	bestsellery.zpav.pl
Sweden (IFPI)	gold1	8 × platinum8th	310,000	sverigetopplistan.se
All in all	3 × gold3	10 × platinum10

Web links

Commons : Frans Jeppsson Wall  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.ystadsallehanda.se/sport/fodd-i-nigeria-bott-i-england-bosatt-i-sverige/
2. ↑ http://www.ystadsallehanda.se/kultur-noje/frukost-med-mello-frans/
3. ↑ http://sverigesradio.se/sida/artikel.aspx?programid=86&artikel=5898017
4. ↑ http://www.aftonbladet.se/nojesbladet/melodifestivalen/article22401400.ab
5. ^ NDR: Sweden: Frans - "If I Were Sorry". May 14, 2016, accessed on November 27, 2017 (German). 
6. ↑ ^{a b c} Chart sources: DE SE