Mabel (singer)

Mabel in September 2018

Mabel (* 20th February 1996 as Mabel McVey in Malaga , Spain ) is a British - Swedish R & B - singer and songwriter .

biography

Mabel McVey is a daughter of the Swedish singer Neneh Cherry and the British music producer Cameron McVey and came into contact with music at an early age. She was born in Málaga and grew up in Stockholm . She learned to play the piano in her childhood and studied music production and music theory , after graduating she moved to London .

In September 2015, Mabel released her first single Know Me Better on the SoundCloud platform . She later signed a recording deal and appeared on the Sound of 2016 list . She achieved her first hit with the single Finders Keepers released in March 2017 in collaboration with rapper Kojo Funds , which reached the top 10 of the British music charts and later went platinum . In May she released her first EP Bedroom and in October the mixtape Ivy to Roses . At the beginning of 2018 she achieved another top 20 success with the Single Fine Line . The song was recorded with the rapper Not3s , Mabel worked with him the previous year and was involved as a songwriter on his hit My Lover .

Mabel had her big international breakthrough at the beginning of 2019 with the song Don't Call Me Up . He reached the top 10 in numerous countries, including in her native Sweden, and also made it into the US singles charts . In England, it brought her her highest ranking with 3rd place and her third platinum award. The single Mad Love was able to build on the success and with the two songs her debut album High Expectations also made it to number 3 in the UK and in numerous other countries, including the USA again, in the official charts in the summer .

In early 2020, Mabel received the award for best British solo artist at the Brit Awards .

Discography

Studio albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)						Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US	SE
2019	High expectations	DE58 (1 week) DE	-	CH29 (1 week) CH	UK3 gold (… Where.)UK	US198 (1 week) US	-	First published: August 2, 2019

Mix tapes

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)						Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US	SE
2018	Ivy to Roses	-	-	-	UK28 gold (44 weeks)UK	-	-	First published: October 5, 2018 Sales: + 100,000

EPs

• 2017: Bedroom (first published May 26, 2017)

Singles

Chart placements

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)						Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US	SE
2017	Finders Keepers Bedroom (EP)	-	-	-	UK8th platinum (31 weeks)UK	-	-	First published: March 10, 2017 with Kojo Funds ; Sales: + 600,000
2018	Fine line single track	-	-	-	UK11 platinum (16 weeks)UK	-	-	First published: January 19, 2018 feat. Not3s ; Sales: + 600,000
	Cigarette single track	-	-	-	UK41 silver (16 weeks)UK	-	-	First published: February 22nd, 2018 with RAYE & Stefflon Don ; Sales: + 200,000
	Ring Ring single track	-	-	-	UK12 gold (15 weeks)UK	-	-	First release: June 22nd, 2018 with Jax Jones feat. Rich the kid ; Sales: + 400,000
	One shot single track	-	-	-	UK44 silver (11 weeks)UK	-	-	First published: August 31, 2018
2019	Don't Call Me Up Ivy to Roses / High Expectations	DE10 (39 weeks) DE	AT10 platinum (32 weeks)AT	CH9 (57 weeks) CH	UK3 × 2 Double platinum (50 weeks)UK	US66 platinum (10 weeks)US	SE10 platinum (37 weeks)SE	First published: January 18, 2019 Sales: + 3,080,000
	Mad Love High Expectations	DE54 (17 weeks) DE	AT56 (8 weeks) AT	CH46 (21 weeks) CH	UK8th platinum (20 weeks)UK	-	SE75 (1 week) SE	First published: June 7th, 2019 Sales: + 600,000
	God Is a Dancer The London Sessions	DE95 (2 weeks) DE	-	-	UK15th silver (13 weeks)UK	-	SE56 (1 week) SE	First published: September 20, 2019 Sales: + 200,000; with Tiësto
	Loneliest Time of Year single track	-	-	-	-	-	SE78 (1 week) SE	First published: November 22, 2019
2020	Boyfriend High Expectations	-	-	-	UK10 gold (21 weeks)UK	-	-	First published: February 26, 2020
	West Ten single track	-	-	-	UK5 silver (… Where.)UK	-	-	First published: July 3, 2020 with AJ Tracey
	Tick ​​Tock single track	DE- 1DE	-	CH66 (... weeks) CH	UK36 (... weeks) UK	-	-	First release: August 21, 2020 with Clean Bandit feat. 24k gold
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:
2019	Bad Behavior High Expectations	-	-	-	UK94 (1 week) UK	-	-	Chart entry: August 8, 2019

¹ Tick ​​Tock was unable to place in the official German single charts, but reached third place in the single trend charts (August 28, 2020).

More singles

• 2015: Know Me Better
• 2015: My Boy My Town
• 2016: Thinking of You
• 2017: Bedroom
• 2017: Begging
• 2017: My Lover (Remix) (with Not3s)

As a guest singer

• 2018: Plug Walk ( Rich the Kid feat. Mabel)

Author participation

year	Title artist	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, artist , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)						Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US	SE
2017	My Lover Not3s	-	-	-	UK14th platinum (30 weeks)UK	-	-	First published: October 27, 2017 Sales: + 600,000

Awards for music sales

Golden record  New Zealand 2019: for the single Don't Call Me Up  Portugal 2019: for the single Don't Call Me Up  Spain 2019: for the single Don't Call Me Up Platinum record  Australia 2019: for the single Don't Call Me Up  France 2019: for the single Don't Call Me Up

2 × platinum record  Belgium 2020: for the single Don't Call Me Up  Denmark 2019: for the single Don't Call Me Up  Italy 2019: for the single Don't Call Me Up  Canada 2019: for the single Don't Call Me Up  Poland 2020: for the single Don't Call Me Up

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)	-	-	platinum1	70,000	aria.com.au
Belgium (BEA)	-	-	2 × platinum2	80,000	ultratop.be
Denmark (IFPI)	-	-	2 × platinum2	180,000	ifpi.dk
France (SNEP)	-	-	platinum1	200,000	snepmusique.com
Italy (FIMI)	-	-	2 × platinum2	100,000	fimi.it
Canada (MC)	-	-	2 × platinum2	160,000	musiccanada.com
New Zealand (RMNZ)	-	gold1	-	15,000	nztop40.co.nz
Austria (IFPI)	-	-	platinum1	30,000	ifpi.at
Poland (ZPAV)	-	-	2 × platinum2	40,000	bestsellery.zpav.pl
Portugal (AFP)	-	gold1	-	5,000	Individual evidence
Sweden (IFPI)	-	-	platinum1	40,000	sverigetopplistan.se
Spain (Promusicae)	-	gold1	-	20,000	elportaldemusica.es
United States (RIAA)	-	-	platinum1	1,000,000	riaa.com
United Kingdom (BPI)	4 × silver4th	4 × gold4th	6 × platinum6th	5,400,000	bpi.co.uk
All in all	4 × silver4th	7 × gold7th	21 × platinum21st

Web links

Commons : Mabel McVey  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

• Mabel at Discogs (English)
• Official website (English)
• Mabel on Apple Music
• Biography at Allmusic
• Mabel on MusicBrainz
• Author participations at austriancharts.at

swell

1. ↑ Neneh Cherry's Daughter Mabel McVey Strikes Her Own Buffalo Stance , Vogue
2. ↑ Mabel: 'I wrote a hit song on my way to the gym' , bbc.com
3. ↑ 'Growing up, I felt I wasn't black enough to be black, but not white enough to be white' - RnB starlet Mabel , heraldscotland.com
4. ↑ ^{a b c} Chart sources: DE AT CH UK US SE
5. ↑ Official single trending charts. mtv.de, August 28, 2020, accessed on August 28, 2020 . 
6. ↑ Gold for Don't Call Me Up in Portugal