Jhené Aiko

Jhene Aiko performing in Canada in 2016

Jhené Aiko (born March 16, 1988 in Los Angeles ; full name Jhené Aiko Efuru Chilombo ) is an American R&B singer.

Career

Jhené Aiko comes from a musical family. Two of her older sisters sang in a girl group, she herself appeared in music videos as a teenager and was a background singer for the boy group B2K in the early 2000s .

After she finished school, she released her first own mixtape in 2011, entitled Sailing Soul (s) . She had written the songs on it herself and received prominent support from Drake , Kanye West and Gucci Mane, among others . She signed a record deal with Def Jam and released the first single 3:16 AM in 2012 . The breakthrough came with two collaborations the following year. She was a guest singer on Big Sean's single Beware , made it into the top 40 of the US charts and achieved gold status. From Time by Drake, in which she also participated, was even an international chart hit . In November she released the EP Sail Out , which entered the US album charts at number 8 and brought her gold. It contained the song The Worst , which became her first own chart hit and even became a million seller.

In September 2014, Jhené Aiko's debut album Souled Out was released . It topped the R&B charts and came in at number 3 on the official charts. It didn't bring her another hit single, but this year she had two successful collaborations with Chris Brown and Omarion , the Omarion single Post to Be sold three million times.

In 2016 she teamed up again with Big Sean. They recorded a joint album of jointly written songs, album and project name were Twenty88 . The album was released in early April and took her to the top of the R&B charts and number 5 on the album charts for the second time.

In September 2017 Jhené Aiko released the album Trip . Big Sean also worked on this work. While We're Young was released in advance as the first single and a 20-minute short film was also released, which uses pieces from the album as a soundtrack. In October, she got a Big Sean tattoo on her left arm.

Discography

Albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)				Remarks
year	title	CH	UK	US	R&B	Remarks
2013	Sail Out (EP)	-	-	US8th gold (46 weeks)US	R&B2 (64 weeks) R&B
2014	Souled out	-	UK23 (2 weeks) UK	US3 (11 weeks) US	R&B1 (38 weeks) R&B
2016	Twenty88	-	UK69 (1 week) UK	US5 (9 weeks) US	R&B1 (12 weeks) R&B	with Big Sean
2017	Trip	-	UK56 (1 week) UK	US5 gold (53 weeks)US	R&B4 (20 weeks) R&B
2020	Chilombo	CH72 (1 week) CH	UK13 (... weeks) UK	US2 gold (… Where.)US	R&B2 (2 weeks) R&B

Singles

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)			Remarks
year	Title album	UK	US	R&B	Remarks
2014	The Worst Sail Out	-	US43 × 2 Double platinum (20 weeks)US	R&B9 (27 weeks) R&B	Author: JAE Chilombo
	Bed Peace Sail Out	-	US- platinum US	R&B25 (1 week) R&B	feat. Childish Gambino Authors: JAE Chilombo, D. Glover
	To Love & Die Souled Out	-	-	R&B20 (2 weeks) R&B	feat. Cocaine 80s Authors: JAE Chilombo, M. Robinson, B. Warfield, JE Fauntleroy II, CJ Jackson, Jr., FJ Perren, LE Resto, K. St. Lewis
	The Pressure Souled Out	-	-	R&B23 (2 weeks) R&B
2016	Deja vu Twenty88	-	-	R&B21 (3 weeks) R&B	as Twenty88 with Big Sean Authors: SM Anderson , JAE Chilombo, DM Weir II, C. Osteen, M. Powell
2017	While We're Young Trip	-	US- platinum US	R&B46 (2 weeks) R&B
2018	Sativa trip	-	US74 × 2 Double platinum (16 weeks)US	R&B32 (14 weeks) R&B	feat. Rae Sremmurd Authors: Chilombo, Warfield, Robinson, Aaquil Brown, Khalif Brown
2019	Triggered (Freestyle) Chilombo	-	US51 platinum (4 weeks)US	R&B19 (5 weeks) R&B
2019	None of Your Concern Chilombo	UK97 (1 week) UK	US55 gold (3 weeks)US	R&B26 (2 weeks) R&B	feat. Big Sean
2020	P * $$ Y Fairy (OTW) Chilombo	UK84 (1 week) UK	US40 gold (25 weeks)US	R&B23 (... weeks) R&B
2020	Happiness Over Everything (HOE) Chilombo	-	US65 (1 week) US	R&B41 (1 week) R&B	feat. Future & Miguel
The following songs did not appear as single, but were made available for download and streaming through the album and were thus able to achieve a placement:
2020	BS Chilombo	UK64 (2 weeks) UK	US24 gold (7 weeks)US	R&B15 (7 weeks) R&B	feat. HER

More singles

2012: 3:16 AM
2013: Stay Ready (What A Life) (US:gold)
2014: Wading
2014: Promises (US:gold)
2015: Spotless Mind (US:gold)
2015: Sorry to Interrupt (with Jessie J & Rixton )
2016: Maniac
2017: Comfort Inn Ending (Freestyle) (US:gold)
2017: Never Call Me (US:gold)
2019: Trigger Protection Mantra

Guest Posts

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)			Remarks
year	Title album	UK	US	R&B	Remarks
2013	Beware Hall of Fame	-	US38 × 2 Double platinum (20 weeks)US	R&B10 (23 weeks) R&B	Big Sean feat. Jhené Aiko & Lil Wayne Authors: SM Anderson , DM Weir II, A. Izquierdo, JAE Chilombo, D. Carter , D. Lambert, B. Potter, M. Dean
2013	From Time Nothing Was the Same	UK56 silver (1 week)UK	US67 (2 weeks) US	R&B26 (14 weeks) R&B	Drake feat. Jhené Aiko Authors: A. Graham , JAE Chilombo, N. Shebib, J. Beck
2014	Post to Be Sex Playlist	UK74 gold (16 weeks)UK	US13 × 3 Triple platinum (37 weeks)US	R&B5 (38 weeks) R&B	Omarion feat. Chris Brown & Jhené Aiko Authors: O. Grandberry, D. McFarlane, M. Adams, M. Powell, S. Jean, CM Brown, JAE Chilombo, E. Bonner, L. Dunbar, J. Taylor, L. Willis
2017	It's a Vibe Pretty Girls Like Trap Music	-	US44 × 2 Double platinum (20 weeks)US	R&B20 (20 weeks) R&B	2 Chainz feat. Ty Dolla Sign , Trey Songz & Jhené Aiko
The following songs did not appear as single, but were made available for download and streaming through the album and were thus able to achieve a placement:
2014	Drunk Texting X	-	-	R&B46 (7 weeks) R&B	Chris Brown feat. Jhené Aiko
2019	I'll kill you over it	-	US61 (3 weeks) US	R&B29 (3 weeks) R&B	Summer Walker feat. Jhené Aiko
2020	Change Your Life It Was Good Until It Wasn't	-	US80 (1 week) US	R&B37 (1 week) R&B	Kehlani feat. Jhené Aiko

Further guest contributions

2012: Terrorist Threats / Ab-Soul feat. Danny Brown & Jhené Aiko
2015: I Know / Big Sean feat. Jhené Aiko (US:gold)

swell

↑ Popshot: Das Platten-Sammelsurium September 2017 (short reviews on, among others, Ammo and Jhene Aiko) . In: Popshot . ( over-blog.de [accessed on October 9, 2017]).
↑ Jhene Aiko now has a Big Sean tattoo! · Boutblank.com. Retrieved October 11, 2017 .
↑ Love gets under your skin: Jhené Aiko presents a new Big Sean tattoo . In: bigFM . October 10, 2017 ( bigfm.de [accessed October 11, 2017]).
↑ Jhene Aiko Tattoos New BF Big Sean's Mug on Her Arm !!! In: TMZ . ( tmz.com [accessed October 11, 2017]).
↑ ^a ^b ^c Chart sources: CH UK US
↑ ^a ^b ^c Jhene Aiko in the gold / platinum database of the RIAA (USA)
↑ ^a ^b Chart sources for Twenty88: US / UK
↑ Jhené Aiko in the gold / platinum database of the BPI (UK)

Web links

Commons : Jhené Aiko - collection of images, videos and audio files

personal data
SURNAME	Jhené Aiko
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Chilombo, Jhné Aiko Efuru (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American R&B singer
DATE OF BIRTH	March 16, 1988
PLACE OF BIRTH	Los Angeles , California , United States

[1] Popshot: Das Platten-Sammelsurium September 2017 (short reviews on, among others, Ammo and Jhene Aiko) . In: Popshot . ( over-blog.de [accessed on October 9, 2017]).

[2] Jhene Aiko now has a Big Sean tattoo! · Boutblank.com. Retrieved October 11, 2017 .

[3] Love gets under your skin: Jhené Aiko presents a new Big Sean tattoo . In: bigFM . October 10, 2017 ( bigfm.de [accessed October 11, 2017]).

[4] Jhene Aiko Tattoos New BF Big Sean's Mug on Her Arm !!! In: TMZ . ( tmz.com [accessed October 11, 2017]).

[charts-5] Chart sources: CH UK US

[riaa-6] Jhene Aiko in the gold / platinum database of the RIAA (USA)

[chartsT88-7] Chart sources for Twenty88: US / UK

[8] Jhené Aiko in the gold / platinum database of the BPI (UK)