John Newman (singer)

John Newman (2014)

John Newman (born June 16, 1990 in Settle , North Yorkshire , England ) is a British soul singer . He first gained fame in 2012 when he recorded the two singles Feel the Love and Not Giving In with Rudimental . Newman is currently under contract with Island Records .

Life

At the age of 14, Newman began playing guitar and writing and producing his own songs. Among other things, he also created house songs and learned to DJ .

When Newman moved to London at the age of 20 and signed a contract with Island Records, he started his own band . A little later he was able to contact Rudimental and it was decided to record the two tracks Feel the Love and Not Giving In together. With Feel the Love scored a surprise success, the single reached the charts, for example, was in Germany or Austria and the United Kingdom to the number-one hit. Also Not Giving In was a place in the top 20 of the British charts posted. Love Me Again reached number 1 in the UK singles chart in July 2013 . On September 11, 2013, he announced his debut album Tribute , which was released in Germany on October 11.

In autumn 2014, Newman received the European Border Breakers Award .

Newman was in a relationship with English singer Ella Eyre in 2013 and later with model Kayla Cadorna. His brother James Newman was supposed to represent the UK at the Eurovision Song Contest 2020 in Rotterdam .

Discography

Studio albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
2013	tribute	DE21 (4 weeks) DE	AT20th gold (2 weeks)AT	CH11 gold (19 weeks)CH	UK1 platinum (47 weeks)UK	US24 (3 weeks) US	First published: October 11, 2013
2015	Revolve	DE61 (1 week) DE	-	CH29 (3 weeks) CH	UK3 (4 weeks) UK	-	First published: October 16, 2015

EPs

• 2019: ANiMAL (first published: September 27, 2019)

Singles

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
2013	Love Me Again Tribute	DE6th platinum (35 weeks)DE	AT5 (24 weeks) AT	CH5 platinum (37 weeks)CH	UK1 platinum (52 weeks)UK	US30th × 2 Double platinum (18 weeks)US	First published: May 17, 2013
	Cheating tributes	DE53 (10 weeks) DE	AT44 (6 weeks) AT	CH56 (2 weeks) CH	UK9 (5 weeks) UK	-	First published: October 6, 2013
	Losing Sleep Tribute	DE57 (5 weeks) DE	-	CH29 (5 weeks) CH	UK48 (10 weeks) UK	-	First published: December 15, 2013
2014	Out of My Head Tribute	-	-	-	UK91 (1 week) UK	-	First published: April 6, 2014
2015	Come and Get It Revolve	DE70 (4 weeks) DE	AT43 (6 weeks) AT	CH29 (3 weeks) CH	UK5 silver (10 weeks)UK	-	First published: July 17, 2015

More singles

• 2015: Tiring Game (feat. Charlie Wilson )
• 2016: Olé
• 2018: Fire in Me
• 2019: Feelings
• 2019: Without You (with Nina Nesbitt )
• 2020: Stand by Me

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
2012	Feel the love home	DE59 (6 weeks) DE	AT14 (16 weeks) AT	-	UK1 × 2 Double platinum (67 weeks)UK	-	First published: May 14, 2012 Rudimental feat. John Newman
	Not Giving In Home	-	-	-	UK14th gold (12 weeks)UK	-	First published: November 18, 2012 Rudimental feat. John Newman & Alex Clare
2014	Blame motion	DE4th gold (32 weeks)DE	AT4 (21 weeks) AT	CH4th gold (33 weeks)CH	UK1 platinum (34 weeks)UK	US19th × 2 Double platinum (20 weeks)US	First published: September 5th, 2014 Calvin Harris feat. John Newman
2016	Give Me Your Love Brighter Days	DE55 (5 weeks) DE	AT50 (2 weeks) AT	-	UK9 gold (16 weeks)UK	-	First published: April 8, 2016 Sigala feat. John Newman & Nile Rodgers
2017	Bridge over Troubled Water	-	AT32 (3 weeks) AT	CH28 (2 weeks) CH	UK1 silver (5 weeks)UK	-	First published: June 21, 2017 with Artists for Grenfell; Sales: + 200,000 Original: Simon & Garfunkel
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:
2017	Never Let You Go Stargazing	-	-	CH64 (1 week) CH	-	-	First published: October 27, 2017 Kygo feat. John Newman

Awards for music sales

Golden record  Belgium 2012: for the single Feel the Love 2013: for the single Love Me Again  Denmark 2013: for streaming Feel the Love  Italy 2017: for the single Give Me Your Love  New Zealand 2012: for the single Not Giving In 2013: for the single Love Me Again 2014: for the single Blame  Norway 2013: for the Streaming Not Giving In  Poland 2014: for the album Tribute 2016: for the single Give Me Your Love Platinum record  Denmark 2014: for the streaming blame  Canada 2015: for the single Blame  New Zealand 2012: for the single Feel the Love  Norway 2013: for streaming Feel the Love

2 × platinum record  Australia 2012: for the single Feel the Love 2013: for the single Not Giving In  Denmark 2014: for streaming Love Me Again  Italy 2014: for the single Love Me Again 2015: for the single Blame  Sweden 2014: for the single Love Me Again 3 × platinum record  Australia 2015: for the single Love Me Again 2018: for the single Blame  Norway 2015: for the single Blame 4 × platinum record  Mexico 2017: for the single Blame

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)	-	-	10 × platinum10	700,000	aria.com.au
Belgium (BEA)	-	2 × gold2	-	30,000	ultratop.be
Denmark (IFPI)	-	gold1	3 × platinum3	-	ifpi.dk
Germany (BVMI)	-	gold1	platinum1	500,000	musikindustrie.de
Italy (FIMI)	-	gold1	4 × platinum4th	145,000	fimi.it
Canada (MC)	-	-	platinum1	80,000	musiccanada.com
Mexico (AMPROFON)	-	-	4 × platinum4th	240,000	amprofon.com.mx
New Zealand (RMNZ)	-	3 × gold3	platinum1	37,500	nztop40.co.nz
Norway (IFPI)	-	gold1	3 × platinum3	30,000	ifpi.no
Austria (IFPI)	-	gold1	-	7,500	ifpi.at
Poland (ZPAV)	-	2 × gold2	-	20,000	bestsellery.zpav.pl
Sweden (IFPI)	-	-	2 × platinum2	80,000	sverigetopplistan.se
Switzerland (IFPI)	-	2 × gold2	platinum1	55,000	hitparade.ch
United States (RIAA)	-	-	3 × platinum3	3,000,000	riaa.com
United Kingdom (BPI)	silver1	2 × gold2	6 × platinum6th	4,300,000	bpi.co.uk
All in all	silver1	16 × gold16	39 × platinum39

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1. ↑ General information. Facebook , accessed May 2, 2013.
2. ^ ^{A b} About John Newman. John Newman, accessed May 2, 2013 . 
3. Jump up ↑ Hot: That's what "Tribute" sounds like, John Newman's debut album. (No longer available online.) Universal Music Group on September 20, 2013, archived from the original on June 10, 2015 ; Retrieved October 11, 2013 . 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.  
4. ↑ ^{a b c} Chart sources: DE AT CH UK US

Web links

• Official website
• John Newman at Discogs (English)