Josh Groban

Josh Groban in February 2009

Chart positions Explanation of the data

Albums

Josh Groban   UK 28  gold 02/08/2003 (9 weeks)   US 8th  × 4 Quadruple platinum 12/29/2001 (101 weeks) Josh Groban in concert   US 34  gold 12/21/2002 (17 weeks) Closer   DE 13 03/15/2004 (4 weeks)   AT 10 03/14/2004 (7 weeks)   CH 44 03/14/2004 (3 weeks)   UK 91  gold 12/13/2003 (2 weeks)   US 1  × 5 Quintuple platinum 11/29/2003 (98 weeks) Live at the Greek   US 24  gold 12/18/2004 (12 weeks) Awake   DE 27 December 8, 2006 (6 weeks)   AT 49 December 8, 2006 (4 weeks)   CH 33 11/19/2006 (15 weeks)   UK 12  gold 02/10/2007 (18 weeks)   US 2  × 2 Double platinum 11/25/2006 (71 weeks) Noël   CH 69 01/13/2008 (1 week)   UK 58  silver 12/22/2007 (2 weeks)   US 1  × 6 Six-fold platinum 10/27/2007 (94 weeks) Awake - live   UK 22nd 05/24/2008 (2 weeks)   US 8th 05/24/2008 (9 weeks) Josh Groban - A Collection   DE 53 05.12.2008 (7 weeks)   AT 26th 05.12.2008 (9 weeks)   CH 19th 12/14/2008 (10 weeks)   UK 22nd  gold 12/13/2008 (8 weeks) Illuminations   DE 42 December 03, 2010 (4 weeks)   AT 29 December 03, 2010 (3 weeks)   CH 46 05.12.2010 (6 weeks)   UK 30th  silver 04/12/2010 (6 weeks)   US 4th  platinum 04/12/2010 (36 weeks) All that echoes   DE 18th 03/22/2013 (4 weeks)   AT 18th 03/22/2013 (2 weeks)   CH 21st 03/24/2013 (4 weeks)   UK 9  silver 03/09/2013 (13 weeks)   US 1  gold 02/23/2013 (29 weeks) Stages   DE 31 05/05/2015 (1 week)   AT 48 05/08/2015 (1 week)   CH 13 05/03/2015 (3 weeks)   UK 1  gold 05/02/2015 (12 weeks)   US 2  gold 05/16/2015 (40 weeks) Stages: Live   US 149 02/27/2016 (1 week) Bridges   DE 14th 09/28/2018 (5 weeks)   AT 32 05.10.2018 (1 week)   CH 17th 09/30/2018 (2 weeks)   UK 6th 04.10.2018 (5 weeks)   US 2 06.10.2018 (9 weeks)

Singles

You raise me up   US 73  platinum 03/20/2004 (17 weeks) I'll Be Home for Christmas   US 95 12/30/2006 (1 week) You Raise Me Up (with the African Children's Choir )   AT 54 December 19, 2008 (3 weeks)   CH 54 December 21, 2008 (2 weeks)   UK 74 06/09/2007 (1 week)   US 76 05/12/2007 (2 weeks) The Prayer (Live) (with Celine Dion )   US 70 03/01/2008 (1 week) To Where You Are   UK 53 11/08/2008 (2 weeks) Brave   DE 99 05/17/2013 (1 week)   UK 64 03/09/2013 (3 weeks)

Joshua Winslow "Josh" Groban (born February 27, 1981 in Los Angeles ) is an American actor and singer with a classically trained baritone voice. By 2012 he had sold over 25 million records worldwide.

biography

Initially Groban sang in the school choir, but after his talent was recognized, he was accepted at the prestigious Interlochen Center for the Arts , where he participated in various school performances. After graduating from high school, he studied at Los Angeles County High School for the Arts.

Josh Groban was dating Mad Men actress January Jones from 2002 to 2006 . From October 2014 to August 2016 he was with the actress Kat Dennings .

Career

1998, music producer David Foster looking for a singer for the inauguration ceremony of the Governor of California; Groban sent him a demo tape and was hired. A year later Andrea Bocelli dropped out for his rehearsals at the Grammy Awards, Groban stepped in and sang a duet with Celine Dion . In 2000, Groban got a guest role on the television series Ally McBeal . In 2002 he sang the song The Prayer with Charlotte Church at the closing ceremony of the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City , and he also appeared on Broadway and in 2004 in the opening act for the Super Bowl final. In May 2008 he was seen in Chess in Concert , a concert version of the musical Chess , at the Royal Albert Hall in London as Anatoly Sergievsky alongside Idina Menzel . That same year he performed with many other artists at the celebration of Nelson Mandela's 90th birthday in Hyde Park , London. Groban's musical spectrum ranges from classical to pop, he sings in English , Italian , Spanish and French . His debut album Josh Groban sold over four million copies in the US and went platinum 4 times. His second studio album Closer has sold over five million times in the US so far. His live album Live at the Greek sold over 500,000 copies in the United States. His studio album Awake , released in 2006, sold almost two million copies in the US and is one of the most successful albums released in 2006. In 2007 he released his Christmas album Noël . After three weeks in the USA, the album already sold over a million times, making it one of the few Christmas albums to have exceeded this mark. With around twelve million albums sold in the US, he was one of the most successful male solo artists of the decade.

Groban also worked on the soundtracks of the films AI ( For Always , duet with Lara Fabian ), Troja ( Remember , duet with Tanja Tzarovska ), Der Polarexpress ( Believe ) and Beauty and the Beast from 2017 ( Evermore ). In November 2010 his album Illuminations was released . Since October 2016, Groban has played the title role of Pierre Bezhukov in the Broadway musical Nathasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812, which is based on an excerpt from War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy . For this role he was nominated for a Tony Award in the category "Best Actor" in 2017 . Since September 2018, Groban can be seen on Netflix in the crime series The Good Cop alongside Tony Danza .

social commitment

Not least because of the influence of his mentor David Foster, Groban sang again and again at benefit events such as the Concert of Hope for Tsunami Victims or Live 8 . After a trip to Nelson Mandela in South Africa , which made a lasting impression on him, he founded the Josh Groban Foundation in 2004 (since 2011: Find Your Light Foundation), which supports children in need.

Discography

• Josh Groban (2001)
• Closer (2003)
• Awake (2006)
• With You (Hallmark) (2007) (US: gold)
• Noël (2007)
• Josh Groban - A Collection (2008)
• Illuminations (2010)
• All That Echoes (2013)
• Stages (2015)
• Bridges (2018)

CD / DVD compilations

• Josh Groban in Concert (2002) (US: × 6Six-fold platinum )
• Closer “Special Edition” (2003)
• Live at the Greek (2004) (US: × 6Six-fold platinum )
• Awake "Special Edition" (2006)
• Noël (2007)
• Awake Live (2008)
• An Evening in New York City (2009)
• Stages: Live (2016)

Filmography

• 2001: Ally McBeal (2 episodes: 4/23 solo for Ally , 5/07 Oh God, Pastor )
• 2005: American Dad
• 2009, 2010: Glee (2 episodes)
• 2011: Crazy, Stupid, Love.
• 2011: Robot Chicken
• 2011, 2012: The Office (2 episodes)
• 2013: Coffee Town
• 2013: The Crazy Ones (1 episode: 1/7 A song for Sydney )
• 2014: The Muppets - Most Wanted
• 2016: The Hollars (The Hollars)
• 2018: The Good Cop

Awards for music sales

Golden record  Australia 2007: for the album Awake 2015: for the album Stages  Belgium 2008: for the album Awake  Denmark 2009: for the album Josh Groban - A Collection  Finland 2002: for the album Josh Groban  France 2007: for the album Awake 2008: for the album Josh Groban - A Collection  Ireland 2005: for the album Closer 2006: for the album Awake 2010: for the album Illuminations  Canada 2013: for the album All That Echoes 2015: for the album Stages  New Zealand 2002: for the album Josh Groban 2004: for the album Closer 2006: for the album Awake 2010: for the album Illuminations  Sweden 2003: for the album Josh Groban 2006: for the album Closer 2007: for the album Noël 2008: for the album Josh Groban - A Collection

Platinum record  Australia 2005: for the album Closer 2007: for the album Josh Groban  Ireland 2008: for the album Josh Groban - A Collection  Canada 2010: for the album Illuminations  New Zealand 2008: for the album Josh Groban - A Collection  Norway 2009: for the album Awake 2009: for the album Noël 2 × platinum record  Canada 2007: for the album Awake 4 × platinum record  Canada 2003: for the album Josh Groban 2005: for the album Closer 6 × platinum record  Canada 2015: for the album Noël

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)	-	2 × gold2	2 × platinum2	210,000	aria.com.au
Belgium (BEA)	-	gold1	-	25,000	ultratop.be
Denmark (IFPI)	-	gold1	-	20,000	ifpi.dk
Finland (IFPI)	-	gold1	-	15,107	ifpi.fi
France (SNEP)	-	2 × gold2	-	150,000	snepmusique.com
Ireland (IRMA)	-	3 × gold3	platinum1	37,500	irishcharts.ie
Canada (MC)	-	2 × gold2	17 × platinum17th	1,640,000	musiccanada.com
New Zealand (RMNZ)	-	4 × gold4th	platinum1	45,000	nztop40.co.nz
Norway (IFPI)	-	-	2 × platinum2	60,000	ifpi.no
Sweden (IFPI)	-	4 × gold4th	-	100,000	sverigetopplistan.se
United States (RIAA)	-	5 × gold5	31 × platinum31	22,700,000	riaa.com
United Kingdom (BPI)	3 × silver3	5 × gold5	-	680,000	bpi.co.uk
All in all	3 × silver3	30 × gold30th	54 × platinum54

swell

1. ↑ ^{a b} Chart sources: DE AT CH UK US1 US2 US3
2. ↑ Music Sales Awards: UK US
3. ^ Josh Groban sings his way into the hearts of festival crowd , Napa Valley Register . 
4. ↑ Chess in Concert. Retrieved November 17, 2018 . 
5. ↑ [1]

Web links

Commons : Josh Groban  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website
• Josh Groban in the Internet Movie Database (English)