Guy Sebastian

Guy Sebastian, 2014

Guy Theodore Sebastian (born October 26, 1981 in Klang , Malaysia ) is an Australian pop singer .

Career

Guy Sebastian is of Malaysian- English descent. He was born in Malaysia, where he grew up until he was six, then his family moved to Melbourne , Victoria and four years later to Adelaide , South Australia . At the age of 14 he joined the youth choir of his church and performed with it as a solo singer nationally and internationally. After finishing school he worked as a singing teacher and sound engineer before participating in the first season of the casting show Australian Idol , the Australian edition of Pop Idol , in 2003 .

Sebastian emerged as the winner of the competition in November 2003 and was signed by BMG . His debut single Angels Brought Me Here , released shortly afterwards , immediately rose to number 1 on the Australian charts and became the best-selling single from Australian production. It also reached the top of the charts in New Zealand and was successful in several Asian countries. His debut album Just as I Am achieved the highest sales figures in the first week of sales that an album had reached in Australia by then and was ultimately awarded six times platinum for almost half a million copies sold.

At the end of 2003 he represented Australia at the only World Idol event to date and finished seventh out of eleven participants. The second single All I Need Is You reached number 1 in Australia in 2004 as did Out with My Baby , which was the forerunner for the second album. Beautiful Life was published in October 2004 and came in second. After these quick initial successes, which also had their downsides with numerous hostilities, Sebastian first had to overcome a crisis of meaning. After that, he was unable to achieve number one placements, but established himself at a high level over the years. His third album Closer to the Sun at the end of 2006 was followed a year later with The Memphis Album, a collection of cover versions of soul classics dating back to the 1960s. It reached double platinum.

Guy Sebastian 2008 with Olivia Newton-John

Guy Sebastian also planned to move to the United States for his fifth album . A download EP was released there in May 2009. Due to internal turmoil at his US label, the original plans were abandoned. The single Like It Like That was released in Australia in August and became his fourth number-one single. The album of the same name will be released in Australia in October 2009.

From 2010 to 2012 Guy Sebastian was part of the jury for X-Factor Australia . After a two-year break, Sebastian returned in 2015 for the seventh season.

In 2012 he released his most successful single to date, Battle Scars , which he recorded together with rapper Lupe Fiasco . He returned the favor to the American in 2015 by participating in his piece Blur My Hands .

In 2015 he represented Australia at the Eurovision Song Contest in Vienna . With the song Tonight Again he made it to number 5 with 196 points.

Discography

Albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)		Remarks
		AU	NZ
2003	Just as I Am	AU1 × 6 Six-fold platinum (17 weeks)AU	NZ3 × 2 Double platinum (12 weeks)NZ
2004	Beautiful life	AU2 platinum (10 weeks)AU	-
2006	Closer to the Sun	AU4th platinum (9 weeks)AU	-
2007	The Memphis Album	AU3 × 2 Double platinum (18 weeks)AU	-
2009	Like It Like That	AU6th platinum (19 weeks)AU	NZ28 (1 week) NZ
2010	Twenty Ten	AU4th × 2 Double platinum (18 weeks)AU	NZ24 (8 weeks) NZ
2012	Armageddon	AU1 × 2 Double platinum (31 weeks)AU	NZ20 (4 weeks) NZ
2014	Madness	AU6th gold (16 weeks)AU	-
2017	Conscious	AU4 (8 weeks) AU	-

EPs

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChartsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)	Remarks
		AU
2007	Your song	-
2009	Guy Sebastian EP	-
2016	Part 1	AU31 (2 weeks) AU

Singles

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)						Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	US	AU	NZ
2003	Angels Brought Me Here Just as I Am	-	-	-	-	AU1 × 5 Quintuple platinum (12 weeks)AU	NZ1 platinum (22 weeks)NZ
2004	All I Need Is You Just as I Am	-	-	-	-	AU1 platinum (12 weeks)AU	NZ5 (14 weeks) NZ
	Out with My Baby Beautiful Life	-	-	-	-	AU1 platinum (14 weeks)AU	-
	Kryptonite Beautiful Life	-	-	-	-	AU15 (8 weeks) AU	-
2005	Oh oh beautiful life	-	-	-	-	AU11 (11 weeks) AU	-
2006	Taller, Stronger, Better Closer to the Sun	-	-	-	-	AU3 gold (13 weeks)AU	-
	Elevator Love Closer to the Sun	-	-	-	-	AU11 gold (15 weeks)AU	-
2007	Cover on My Heart Closer to the Sun	-	-	-	-	AU32 (1 week) AU	-
2009	Like It Like That Like It Like That	-	-	-	-	AU1 × 4 Quadruple platinum (25 weeks)AU	NZ30th gold (6 weeks)NZ
	Art of Love Like It Like That	-	-	-	-	AU8th × 2 Double platinum (21 weeks)AU	NZ7th gold (16 weeks)NZ	featuring Jordin Sparks
2010	Who's That Girl Twenty Ten	-	-	-	-	AU1 × 5 Quintuple platinum (19 weeks)AU	NZ1 platinum (24 weeks)NZ	featuring Eve
2011	All Night Long 2011	-	-	-	-	AU26 (1 week) AU	NZ12 (2 weeks) NZ	Lionel Richie feat. Guy Sebastian benefit single for victims of natural disasters in Australia and New Zealand
	Don't Worry Be Happy Armageddon	-	-	-	-	AU5 × 4 Quadruple platinum (19 weeks)AU	NZ26 (1 week) NZ
2012	Gold Armageddon	-	-	-	-	AU10 platinum (6 weeks)AU	-
	Battle Scars Armageddon	-	-	-	US71 platinum (20 weeks)US	AU1 × 11 Eleven times platinum (25 weeks)AU	NZ2 × 2 Double platinum (22 weeks)NZ	featuring Lupe Fiasco
	Get Along Armageddon	-	-	-	-	AU5 × 3 Triple platinum (14 weeks)AU	NZ9 gold (7 weeks)NZ
2013	Like a drum madness	-	-	-	-	AU4th × 4 Quadruple platinum (18 weeks)AU	NZ13 gold (14 weeks)NZ
2014	Come Home with Me Madness	-	-	-	-	AU13 platinum (7 weeks)AU	-
	Mama Ain't Proud Madness	DE92 (2 weeks) DE	-	-	-	AU17th gold (6 weeks)AU	-	featuring 2 Chainz
2015	Linger Madness	-	-	-	-	AU17th platinum (10 weeks)AU	-	featuring Lupe Fiasco
	Tonight Again Madness	DE44 (1 week) DE	AT16 (3 weeks) AT	CH47 (1 week) CH	-	AU12 gold (4 weeks)AU	-	Australia's contribution to the 2015 Eurovision Song Contest
	Black & Blue	-	-	-	-	AU17th platinum (10 weeks)AU	-
2016	Set in stone	-	-	-	-	AU11 platinum (7 weeks)AU	-
2018	Before I Go	-	-	-	-	AU43 platinum (4 weeks)AU	-
2019	Choir	-	-	-	-	AU7th × 3 Triple platinum (27 weeks)AU	-
2020	Standing with you	-	-	-	-	AU10 gold (… Where.)AU	-

Awards for music sales

Golden record

•  Sweden
  • 2013: for the single Battle Scars
  • 2015: for the single Tonight Again

Platinum record

•  Australia
  • 2019: for the single Bloodstone
•  Netherlands
  • 2019: for the single Before I Go
•  Sweden
  • 2015: for the single Like a Drum

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)	6 × gold6th	65 × platinum65	4,760,000	aria.com.au
New Zealand (RMNZ)	4 × gold4th	6 × platinum6th	120,000	nztop40.co.nz
Netherlands (NVPI)	-	platinum1	80,000	nvpi.nl
Sweden (IFPI)	2 × gold2	platinum1	80,000	sverigetopplistan.se
United States (RIAA)	-	platinum1	1,000,000	riaa.com
All in all	12 × gold12	74 × platinum74

swell

1. ↑ Susan Boyle's album smashes sales records , news.com.au, December 29, 2009
2. ↑ Biography at PX Drive
3. ↑ Info at Oz Music Scene ( Memento of the original from July 9, 2009 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. 
4. ↑ Guy Sebastian Wraps Up Recording Of New Album ( Memento of the original from October 15, 2009 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. , Undercover.com.au, August 13, 2009  
5. ↑ Short review of Lupe Fiasco's album , created on February 4, 2015, accessed on May 24, 2015.
6. ↑ Guy Sebastian to sing Tonight Again in Vienna , escunited.com, March 16, 2015
7. ↑ ^{a b c} Chart sources: AU NZ DE AT CH US

Web links

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• Official Homepage (English)
• Biography at last.fm (English)
• Guy Sebastian at Allmusic (English)