Iyaz
Iyaz (* 14. April 1987 in the US Virgin Islands ; bourgeois Keidran Jones ) is an American R & B - singer and rapper .
Career
Iyaz was born Keidran Jones in the US Virgin Islands . However, he grew up on Tortola , which is part of the British Virgin Islands . His father was a singer in a band and his mother led the church choir. At the age of eleven he performed at a Christmas concert and during his college years studying image and sound engineering, he recorded music with classmates. They had a hit in the Caribbean with the song Island Girls .
Sean Kingston found him on Iyaz's MySpace page . Kingston brought him to the United States, where he signed him to his Time Is Money label . Iyaz recorded an album with producer JR Rotem in 2009. In February 2010, the single Replay was released , which rose to number 2 in the US charts and reached number one in Great Britain and Switzerland .
Before the album was released, the second single Solo was released in August of the same year , but except in England, where it reached number three, it was unable to build on the success of the debut. The album Replay also fell well short of expectations and did not even make it into the charts in many countries such as the USA and Germany.
The first pre-single of the second album was released in 2011 Pretty Girls (feat. Travie McCoy ). In 2013 the second single Da Da Da was released.
Discography
Studio albums
year | title |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) |
Remarks | ||||
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DE | AT | CH | UK | US | |||
2010 | Replay | - | - |
CH35 (6 weeks) CH |
UK26 (3 weeks) UK |
- |
First published: June 8, 2010
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Singles
year | Title album |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes) |
Remarks | ||||
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DE | AT | CH | UK | US | |||
2009 |
Replay replay |
DE7th
gold
(28 weeks)DE |
AT3
gold
(17 weeks)AT |
CH1 (32 weeks) CH |
UK1
platinum
(24 weeks)UK |
US2 × 3
(34 weeks)US |
First published: July 7, 2009
|
2010 | Solo replay |
DE25 (6 weeks) DE |
AT28 (3 weeks) AT |
- |
UK3
silver
(11 weeks)UK |
US32
gold
(18 weeks)US |
First published: February 8, 2010
|
So big replay |
- | - | - |
UK40 (6 weeks) UK |
- |
First published: June 21, 2010
|
|
2011 | Pretty girls | - | - | - | - |
US43 (14 weeks) US |
First published: June 24th, 2011
feat. Travie McCoy |
2013 | Da da da | - | - | - | - | - |
First published: 2013
|
Chart placements as a guest musician
year | Title album |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes) |
Remarks | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
DE | AT | CH | UK | US | |||
2010 | We Are the World 25 for Haiti | - | - | - |
UK50 (1 week) UK |
US2 (5 weeks) US |
First published: February 12, 2010
with Artists for Haiti |
Pyramid Charice |
- | - | - |
UK17 (4 weeks) UK |
US56 (2 weeks) US |
First published: March 2nd, 2010
Charice feat. Iyaz |
|
La La La | - | - | - | - |
US51
gold
(13 weeks)US |
First published: June 1st, 2010
Auburn feat. Iyaz |
|
Break My Bank Too Cool to Care |
- | - | - | - |
US68 (11 weeks) US |
First published: July 13th 2010
New Boyz feat. Iyaz |
|
Gonna Get This Hannah Montana Forever |
- | - | - | - |
US66 (1 week) US |
First published: October 5th, 2010
Hannah Montana feat. Iyaz |
|
2011 | The Mack Mann’s World |
- | - | - |
UK28 (8 weeks) UK |
- |
more publishments
- 2010: Slow Motion ( Lil Uno feat.Fingazz & Iyaz)
- 2010: Blow Up (Pill feat.Iyaz)
- 2011: If I Ruled the World ( Big Time Rush feat.Iyaz)
- 2011: You're My Only Shorty ( Demi Lovato feat.Iyaz)
- 2011: Fight for You (Stevie Hoang feat.Iyaz)
- 2018: One Puff (with B-Case & Jowell y Randy )
Awards for music sales
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Note: Awards in countries from the chart tables or chart boxes can be found in these.
Country / Region | silver | gold | platinum | Sales | swell |
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Awards for music sales (country / region, awards, sales, sources) |
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Australia (ARIA) | - | - | 3 × platinum3 | 210,000 | aria.com.au |
Belgium (BEA) | - | gold1 | - | 15,000 | ultratop.be |
Denmark (IFPI) | - | - | platinum1 | 90,000 | ifpi.dk |
Germany (BVMI) | - | gold1 | - | 150,000 | musikindustrie.de |
Italy (FIMI) | - | - | platinum1 | 30,000 | fimi.it |
New Zealand (RMNZ) | - | - | platinum1 | 15,000 | nztop40.co.nz |
Austria (IFPI) | - | gold1 | - | 15,000 | ifpi.at |
United States (RIAA) | - | 2 × gold2 | 3 × platinum3 | 4,000,000 | riaa.com |
United Kingdom (BPI) | silver1 | - | platinum1 | 800,000 | bpi.co.uk |
All in all | silver1 | 5 × gold5 | 10 × platinum10 |
swell
- ↑ Biography at aceshowbiz.com
- ^ A b Iyaz Climbing to the Top , BVI Platinum News, October 23, 2009
- ↑ a b c Chart sources: DE AT CH UK US
Web links
- Official MySpace page (English)
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Iyaz |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Jones, Keidran (real name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American R&B singer |
DATE OF BIRTH | April 14, 1987 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | American Virgin Islands |