Mac Miller

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Mac Miller (2017)

Mac Miller (born January 19, 1992 in Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania , † September 7, 2018 in Los Angeles , California ; real name is Malcolm James McCormick ) was an American rapper . He also worked as a music producer under the pseudonym Larry Fisherman . He also produced a season of his own reality TV show Mac Miller and the Most Dope Family .

Life

Miller was self-taught and was able to play the piano , guitar , drums and bass by the age of 6 . He started rapping at 14 and released his first mixtape, But My Mackin 'Ain't Easy , in 2007 at the age of 15 . The mixtape How High and the preview album The Jukebox followed in 2009 . In early 2010 Mac Miller signed a record deal with Rostrum Records. On August 13th, 2010 he released his mixtape KIDS (Kickin 'Incredibly Dope Shit). This was followed in 2011 by the mixtape Best Day Ever and the EP On and On and Beyond .

On November 8th of the same year his first album Blue Slide Park was released , named after a park in his hometown. The album deals with the places of his youth. The album debuted at number 1 on the Billboard 200 with sales of 144,000 copies in its first week. In 2013, Miller starred on his own reality television show, Mac Miller and the Most Dope Family , produced by MTV . The show followed the production of his second album, Watching Movies with the Sound Off, which was released on June 18, 2013.

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Mac Miller at the splash! Festival 2017

On May 11, 2014, Miller's 10th mixtape came out, Faces , which dealt with topics of drug use, celebrities and the past. The next album, GO: OD AM , was released in September 2015 and was Miller's first major label record. The album debuted at number 4 on the Billboard 200. Less than a year later, Miller released his next album, The Divine Feminine , which was about love and sex. On August 3, 2018, he released his fifth album, Swimming , which debuted at number 3 on the Billboard 200, with sales of 66,000 copies in the first week. The album was nominated for the Award for Best Rap Album at the Grammy Awards 2019.

On September 7, 2018, Mac Miller was found dead at his home in Studio City , a borough of Los Angeles, at the age of 26 . An accidental, combined overdose of painkillers, alcohol and other drugs has been found to be the cause of death. The autopsy revealed residues of fentanyl and cocaine, among other things .

On January 8, 2020, Miller's first posthumous album was announced by his family, Circles , which was released on January 17. At the time of his death, Miller was still working on the album, which was to be released as a companion album to Swimming . The production was completed by Jon Brion, who also worked on the production of Swimming .

Discography

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Mac Miller in Ferropolis (2017)

Studio albums

year title Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE AT AT CH CH UK UK US US
2011 Blue Slide Park - - - UK143 (1 week)
UK 		US1
gold
gold

(19 weeks)US
First published: November 8, 2011
2013 Watching Movies with the Sound Off DE50 (1 week)
DE 		- CH42 (1 week)
CH 		UK56 (1 week)
UK 		US3
gold
gold

(14 weeks)US
First published: June 18, 2013
2015 GO: OD AM DE72 (1 week)
DE 		- CH55 (1 week)
CH 		UK76 (1 week)
UK 		US4th
gold
gold

(18 weeks)US
First published: September 18, 2015
2016 The Divine Feminine DE67 (1 week)
DE 		- CH35 (1 week)
CH 		UK59 (1 week)
UK 		US2 (11 weeks)
US
First published: September 16, 2016
2018 Swimming DE54 (3 weeks)
DE 		AT35 (1 week)
AT 		CH23 (3 weeks)
CH 		UK17th
silver
silver

(4 weeks)UK 		US3
gold
gold

(… Where.)Template: chart table / maintenance / preliminary / 2018US
First published: August 3, 2018
2020 Circles DE13 (4 weeks)
DE 		AT8 (6 weeks)
AT 		CH9 (6 weeks)
CH 		UK8 (... weeks)
Template: chart table / maintenance / provisional / 2020UK 		US3 (... weeks)
Template: chart table / maintenance / provisional / 2020US
First published: January 17, 2020

Web links

Commons : Mac Miller  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mac Miller Dead at 26 of Apparent Drug Overdose . In: TMZ . ( spin.com [accessed September 7, 2018]).
  2. ↑ Patrick Bowman: Allderdice degree Mac Miller garners national attention with his latest mixtape. Retrieved January 20, 2020 .
  3. ↑ jesse: Mac Miller Talks Best Day Ever - XXL. Accessed January 20, 2020 (English).
  4. ^ Lists: Mac Miller "On and On". Accessed January 20, 2020 (English).
  5. ^ Mac Miller and the Most Dope Family | Season 1 Episodes (TV Series). Retrieved January 20, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Colin Stutz: Mac Miller on New Mixtape 'Faces': 'Don't Tell My Mama I Got a Drug Problem' . In: Billboard . May 11, 2014. Retrieved December 29, 2018.
  7. ↑ Paul Thompson: Mac Miller's new album drops September 18 . In: XXL . August 6, 2015. Accessed December 29, 2018.
  8. ↑ Jessie Morris: Mac Miller Announces 'The Divine Feminine' Album and Shares New Song "DANG!" f / Anderson .Paak . July 28, 2016. Retrieved July 28, 2016.
  9. ↑ Awards Nominations & Winners. April 30, 2017, accessed January 20, 2020 .
  10. ↑ Mac Miller died of accidental overdose. Spiegel Online, November 6, 2018, accessed November 10, 2018
  11. ↑ Mac Miller's last album: Family releases posthumous record "Circles". Retrieved January 20, 2020 .
  12. ↑ Jon Blistein, Jon Blistein: Mac Miller's Family Details Posthumous Album 'Circles'. In: Rolling Stone. January 8, 2020, accessed January 20, 2020 (American English).
  13. ↑ Chart sources: DE AT CH UK US
personal data
SURNAME Miller, Mac
ALTERNATIVE NAMES McCormick, Malcolm (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-American rapper
DATE OF BIRTH January 19, 1992
PLACE OF BIRTH Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania , USA
DATE OF DEATH September 7, 2018
Place of death Los Angeles , California , USA