Kaleo

Chart positions Explanation of the data

Albums

FROM   DE 9 01/13/2017 (25 weeks)   AT 27 02/17/2017 (13 weeks)   CH 6th 06/19/2016 (53 weeks)   UK 27  silver 06/23/2016 (5 weeks)   US 16  gold 07/02/2016 (37 weeks)

Singles

Way Down We Go   DE 6th  platinum 01/13/2017 (22 weeks)   AT 10  gold 02/03/2017 (19 weeks)   CH 10 December 25, 2016 (37 weeks)   UK 96  gold 05/05/2016 (1 week)   US 54  × 2 Double platinum 01/14/2017 (8 weeks)

Kaleo is a four-piece Icelandic rock band formed in Mosfellsbær in 2012 . The band is composed of the singer and guitarist Jökull Júlíusson, the drummer Davíð Antonsson, the bassist Daníel Ægir Kristjánsson and the guitarist Rubin Pollock.

Kaleo have so far released a studio album, A / B (2016), an EP and a few singles.

history

The band first appeared in public at the Iceland Airwaves Music Festival in November 2012. Her national breakthrough came shortly afterwards with the reinterpretation of the popular Icelandic ballad Vor í Vaglaskógi , which became one of the most played songs on the Icelandic radio station Rás 2. The song can also be heard in the first episode of the Icelandic mystery series Trapped - Gefangen in Iceland .

With her single All the Pretty Girls in 2014, Kaleo was able to attract attention beyond national borders for the first time. The song had already been heard over 28 million times on the music streaming platform Spotify by August 2016.

Kaleo signed with Atlantic Records in early 2015 and then relocated to Austin , Texas. As the year went on, the band became more widely known in the United States and media interest increased. This is made clear, among other things, by the ninth place that All The Pretty Girls achieved in the US Adult Alternative Charts.

She achieved another notable success with the single Way Down We Go , which served as background music in numerous television series, including the lawyer series Suits , and also appeared in the playlist of the popular soccer simulation FIFA 16 . The song made it into the top 10 of the local hot rock single charts in both the United States and Canada. In the German-speaking countries the single reached the top 20 of the charts and rose to number 6 in Germany. Way Down We Go is also used as the soundtrack in a trailer for the movie Logan .

The single No Good , also released in 2015, became the trailer song of the HBO series Vinyl . The song can also be heard in the racing game The Crew 2 .

Tour NO FILTER of The Rolling Stones came in 2017 Kaleo as the opening act at the concerts Hamburg City Park , Olympic Stadium Munich and Red Bull Ring in Spielberg on.

style

Kaleo mainly play rock music with influences from folk and blues .

Discography

Albums

• 2013: Kaleo
• 2016: A / B
• 2020: Surface Sounds

EPs

• 2013: Glasshouse

Singles

• 2013: Before í Vaglaskógi
• 2013: Rock 'n' Roller
• 2013: Glass House
• 2013: automobiles
• 2013: Broken Bones
• 2014: I Walk On Water
• 2014: All the Pretty Girls
• 2015: No Good
• 2016: Way Down We Go
• 2016: I Can't Go On Without You
• 2020: I Want More / Break My Baby

Awards for music sales

Golden record  Belgium 2017: for the single Way Down We Go  Denmark 2020: for the single Way Down We Go  France 2017: for the album A / B  Italy 2018: for the single Way Down We Go  Canada 2017: for the single All the Pretty Girls  Norway 2020: for the album A / B  Poland 2017: for the single Way Down We Go  Spain 2017: for the single Way Down We Go  United States 2018: for the single All the Pretty Girls

Platinum record  Australia 2017: for the single Way Down We Go 2 × platinum record  Canada 2017: for the single Way Down We Go Diamond record  France 2020: for the single Way Down We Go

Note: Awards in countries from the chart tables or chart boxes can be found in these.

Country / Region	silver	gold	platinum	diamond	Sales	swell
Awards for music sales (country / region, awards, sales, sources)
Australia (ARIA)	-	-	platinum1	-	700,000	aria.com.au
Belgium (BEA)	-	gold1	-	-	15,000	ultratop.be
Denmark (IFPI)	-	gold1	-	-	45,000	ifpi.dk
Germany (BVMI)	-	-	platinum1	-	400,000	musikindustrie.de
France (SNEP)	-	gold1	-	diamond1	383,333	snepmusique.com
Italy (FIMI)	-	gold1	-	-	25,000	fimi.it
Canada (MC)	-	gold1	2 × platinum2	-	200,000	musiccanada.com
Norway (IFPI)	-	gold1	-	-	15,000	ifpi.no
Austria (IFPI)	-	gold1	-	-	15,000	ifpi.at
Poland (ZPAV)	-	gold1	-	-	10,000	bestsellery.zpav.pl
Spain (Promusicae)	-	gold1	-	-	20,000	elportaldemusica.es
United States (RIAA)	-	2 × gold2	2 × platinum2	-	3,000,000	riaa.com
United Kingdom (BPI)	silver1	gold1	-	-	460,000	bpi.co.uk
All in all	silver1	12 × gold12	6 × platinum6th	diamond1

swell

1. ↑ ^{a b} Chart sources: Germany Austria Switzerland United Kingdom USA
2. ↑ New 'Logan' Trailer Features Powerful Music from Kaleo. Archived from the original on January 23, 2017 ; accessed on March 7, 2017 . 
3. ↑ 20th Century Fox: Logan - Trailer 2 (HD). January 19, 2017. Retrieved March 7, 2017 . 

Web links

• Official website
• Kaleo at Discogs (English)