Gavin James

Gavin James on Radio Pilatus (2018)

Gavin James (born July 6, 1991 in Dublin ) is an Irish pop musician .

Career

Gavin James comes from a family with a long musical tradition, his great-grandparents were both well-known Irish opera singers and his sister is a singer in the Dublin Gospel Choir. At the age of eight he learned to play the guitar, as a teenager he was a singer in a rock band and when he came of age he started performing in the pubs of the Irish capital. In 2012 the singer released the EP Say Hello with the falsetto tones . The title song became a hit on the Internet, made it into the Irish charts and eventually even won Irish Song of the Year at the Choice Music Prize . After entering the charts a second time with the song Remember Me , he signed a recording deal with Capitol Records and released his first CD in 2014, Live at Whelans, with a recording of an unplugged performance. He was not only successful in Ireland, he also hit the charts in Belgium and the Netherlands. In the United States, he was invited to appear on the television show Dancing with the Stars . This was followed by the release of the EP For You and appearances in support of Ed Sheeran and Sam Smith on their respective tours.

Then James went into the studio and recorded the songs from the live album and two new songs with studio technology. His first studio album was released in late 2015 under the title Bitter Pill . It reached the top 5 in Ireland and stayed in the charts for over a year. It achieved platinum status. With the title song he was the first Irishman to win the Choice Song Award for the second time and the album was one of the ten nominees for the album price. In the spring of 2016 it was also released internationally, and it made it into the official charts in Great Britain and Switzerland , among others . In the US, it was ranked 21st on folk albums. The song Nervous was also internationally successful later in the year, in particular through the remix by Irish DJ Mark McCabe, and reached number 5 in Norway and 10 in France as well as several gold and platinum awards. At the end of the year he released an EP with Christmas classics like Fairytale of New York .

Discography

Albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)			Remarks
		CH	UK	IE
2014	Live at Whelans	-	-	IE12 (10 weeks) IE
2015	Bitter pill	CH28 (1 week) CH	UK52 (1 week) UK	IE5 platinum (149 weeks)IE
2016	Winter Songs (EP)	-	-	IE50 (3 weeks) IE
2018	Only Ticket Home	CH31 (1 week) CH	-	IE2 (42 weeks) IE

More EPs

• Remember Me (2014)
• For You (2015)
• The Book of Love (2015)

Singles

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)			Remarks
		CH	UK	IE
2012	Say hello	-	-	IE31 (5 weeks) IE
2013	Remember Me Bitter Pill	-	-	IE47 (1 week) IE
2015	For You Bitter Pill	-	-	IE50 (8 weeks) IE
	Bitter Pill Bitter Pill	-	-	IE49 (5 weeks) IE
2016	Nervous bitter pill	-	UK79 silver (2 weeks)UK	IE28 platinum (34 weeks)IE
	Fairytale of New York Winter Songs	-	-	IE77 (1 week) IE
2017	I Don't Know Why Bitter Pill	-	-	IE42 (9 weeks) IE
	Hearts on Fire	-	-	IE92 (1 week) IE
2018	Always	CH15th gold (29 weeks)CH	-	IE53 (12 weeks) IE
	Glow	-	-	IE65 (9 weeks) IE
2020	Boxes	-	-	IE48 (... weeks) IE

More singles

• The Book of Love (2015)
• 22 (2015)
• Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas (2016)

Guest Posts

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)				Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	IE
2017	Tired	DE66 (14 weeks) DE	AT35 (19 weeks) AT	CH64 (9 weeks) CH	IE78 (9 weeks) IE	First published: May 19, 2017 Alan Walker feat. Gavin James

Awards for music sales

Golden record  Australia 2018: for the single Nervous 2018: for the single Tired  Denmark 2019: for the single Nervous  France 2017: for the single Nervous  Italy 2018: for the single Tired 2018: for the single Nervous  Norway 2016: for the single Nervous  Poland 2018: for the single Tired

Platinum record  France 2020: for the single Always  Canada 2020: for the single Tired  Netherlands 2016: for the single The Book of Love 2017: for the single Nervous  Sweden 2016: for the single Nervous 2 × platinum record  Norway 2017: for the single Tired  Sweden 2017: for the single Tired 3 × platinum record  Australia 2019: for the single Moments

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)	-	2 × gold2	3 × platinum3	280,000	aria.com.au
Denmark (IFPI)	-	gold1	-	45,000	ifpi.dk
France (SNEP)	-	gold1	platinum1	275,000	snepmusique.com
Italy (FIMI)	-	2 × gold2	-	50,000	fimi.it
Canada (MC)	-	-	platinum1	80,000	musiccanada.com
Ireland (IRMA)	-	-	2 × platinum2	30,000	Individual evidence
Netherlands (NVPI)	-	-	2 × platinum2	80,000	nvpi.nl
Norway (IFPI)	-	gold1	2 × platinum2	25,000	ifpi.no
Poland (ZPAV)	-	gold1	-	10,000	bestsellery.zpav.pl
Switzerland (IFPI)	-	gold1	-	10,000	hitparade.ch
Sweden (IFPI)	-	-	3 × platinum3	120,000	sverigetopplistan.se
United Kingdom (BPI)	silver1	-	-	200,000	bpi.co.uk
All in all	silver1	9 × gold9	14 × platinum14th

swell

1. ↑ King James (interview), Hotpress, October / November 2012
2. ^ Brudenell presents ... Gavin James , Brudenell Social Club, announcement for February 13, 2016
3. ↑ And the Winners Are ... , Choice Music Prize (homepage), March 10, 2013
4. ↑ Galway International Arts Festival and Róisín Dubh present Gavin James ( Memento of the original from January 29, 2017 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. (Gig announcement), accessed on January 29, 2017 
5. ↑ Past Prizes - The 2015 winner ... , Choice Music Prize (homepage), March 2016
6. ↑ ^{a b c} Chart sources: IE UK US DE AT CH
7. ↑ Platinum in Ireland for Bitter Pill
8. ^ ^{A b} Awards in Ireland and Norway for Nervous

Web links

• official homepage
• Gavin James at Allmusic (English)