Gnarls Barkley

Cee-Lo (front) and Danger Mouse (back)

Gnarls Barkley is a music project by the US hip-hop producer Danger Mouse and the singer Cee-Lo Green (member of Goodie-Mob ). It was founded in Georgia in 2005 . The band name is a play on words and is derived from the English verb "to gnarl" (roughly: growl) and the name of the well-known basketball player Charles Barkley , who is visually similar to Cee-Lo.

Career

Chart positions Explanation of the data

Albums

St. Elsewhere   US 4th  platinum 05/27/2006 (47 weeks)   UK 1  × 2 Double platinum 05/06/2006 (35 weeks)   DE 6th  gold 06/09/2006 (24 weeks)   AT 2 06/02/2006 (19 weeks)   CH 2  platinum 05/28/2006 (26 weeks) The odd couple   US 12 04/05/2008 (11 weeks)   UK 19th 04/06/2008 (3 weeks)   DE 58 04/18/2008 (3 weeks)   AT 32 04/18/2008 (4 weeks)   CH 16 04/20/2008 (9 weeks)

Singles

Crazy   US 2  × 4 Quadruple platinum 05/27/2006 (29 weeks)   UK 1  platinum 04/08/2006 (18 weeks)   DE 3  platinum 05/12/2006 (37 weeks)   AT 1  gold 05/12/2006 (42 weeks)   CH 1  gold 05/21/2006 (61 weeks) Smiley Faces   UK 10 07/16/2006 (14 weeks)   DE 32 09/22/2006 (9 weeks)   AT 37 10/13/2006 (11 weeks)   CH 37 10/22/2006 (7 weeks) Who Cares? / Gone Daddy Gone   UK 60 11/12/2006 (1 week)   DE 84 05/01/2007 (4 weeks) run   UK 32 02/17/2008 (8 weeks)   DE 72 04/11/2008 (4 weeks)   AT 51 04/11/2008 (4 weeks)   CH 65 04/20/2008 (3 weeks) Going on   US 88 04/05/2008 (1 week)

With their first single, Crazy , the two landed an international hit. It was first chosen as the record of the week by several BBC DJs and then used as a jingle for the show by Zane Lowe , the flagship in the evening program on BBC Radio 1 . In early April 2006, a week before it was released as a single, the song debuted at number 1 on the UK charts. Crazy was the first title to make it to the top of the British single charts (shortly after the corresponding chart rule was changed) solely on the basis of downloads . On September 1, 2006, they received the MTV Video Music Award 2006 twice for their hit Crazy : in the categories Best Direction In A Video and Best Editing In A Video . Crazy is also the theme song for Birdman .

Gnarls Barkley's debut album, St. Elsewhere , was released in Germany on May 26th, 2006. On May 29th, Danger Mouse and Cee-Lo announced that they would take Crazy's maxi CD off the shelf in England with immediate effect. When asked about the reasons, they told the Daily Mirror newspaper that they feared people would get tired of the song. In addition, they want to focus on the second single Smiley Faces , which was released on July 17, 2006.

On April 4, 2008, the follow-up album The Odd Couple was released , but received less commercial attention. The first single was Run (I'm a Natural Disaster) .

Discography

Albums

• 2006: St. Elsewhere
• 2008: The Odd Couple

Singles

• 2006: Crazy
• 2006: Smiley Faces
• 2006: Who Cares? / Gone Daddy Gone
• 2008: Run
• 2008: Going On
• 2008: Who's Gonna Save My Soul

Awards for music sales

Golden record  Australia 2006: for the single Crazy  Belgium 2006: for the single Crazy 2008: for the album St. Elsewhere  France 2006: for the album St. Elsewhere  New Zealand 2006: for the album St. Elsewhere 2006: for the single Crazy

Platinum record  Australia 2007: for the album St. Elsewhere  Italy 2019: for the single Crazy  Canada 2006: for the album St. Elsewhere  Sweden 2008: for the single Crazy  United States 2006: for the single Crazy (Ringtone) 2 × platinum record  Canada 2007: for the Ringtone Crazy

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)
Australia (ARIA)	gold1	platinum1	105,000	aria.com.au
Belgium (BEA)	2 × gold2	-	50,000	ultratop.be
Germany (BVMI)	gold1	platinum1	400,000	musikindustrie.de
France (SNEP)	gold1	-	75,000	infodisc.fr snepmusique.com
Italy (FIMI)	-	platinum1	50,000	fimi.it
Canada (MC)	-	3 × platinum3	180,000	musiccanada.com
New Zealand (RMNZ)	2 × gold2	-	15,000	nztop40.co.nz
Austria (IFPI)	gold1	-	15,000	ifpi.at
Sweden (IFPI)	-	platinum1	20,000	sverigetopplistan.se
Switzerland (IFPI)	gold1	platinum1	45,000	hitparade.ch
United States (RIAA)	-	6 × platinum6th	6,000,000	riaa.com
United Kingdom (BPI)	-	3 × platinum3	1,200,000	bpi.co.uk
All in all	9 × gold9	17 × platinum17th

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1. ↑ Charts DE Charts AT Charts CH Charts UK Charts US

Web links

Commons : Gnarls Barkley  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Gnarls Barkley at laut.de
• Gnarls Barkley on Allmusic (English)