Plain White T's

Plain White T's
Plain White T's in an appearance in 2005
General information
origin	Villa Park , Illinois , United States
Genre (s)	Alternative rock , pop-punk , power pop
founding	1997
Website	plainwhitets.com
Current occupation
Lead vocals , electric guitar	Tom Higgenson
Lead guitar	Dave Tirio
Rhythm guitar , background vocals	Tim Lopez
Drums , percussion	De'Mar Hamilton
E-bass , background vocals	Mike Retondo
former members
Lead guitar , background vocals	Steve Mast (1997-2002)
Electric bass	Ken Fletcher (1997-2002)

Plain White T's is an American pop punk - band from Villa Park ( Illinois ), a suburb of Chicago . The band had a surprise hit in 2007 with Tom Higgenson's song Hey There Delilah from 2005.

history

Plain White T's play an up-beat pop music style with songs like A Lonely September or Take Me Away and have so far produced six studio albums.

Her album Every Second Counts was released on September 12, 2006 and contains a re-release of the song Hey There Delilah, which was released in 2005 on the album All That We Needed . In 2007 the single from the song rose to number 1 in the charts in Germany and the USA. She also received a 2008 Grammy nomination for the song Hey There Delilah . Thus, Hey There Delilah until today successful single of Plain White T's.

The band contributed with Our Time Now, the title song for the TV series Greek . In the series, they also appear more often at parties of one of the connections . She also had a guest appearance in the US series iCarly .

Discography

Albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
2000	Come on over	-	-	-	-	-	First published: 2000
2002	stop	-	-	-	-	-	First published: August 20, 2002
2005	All that we needed	-	-	-	-	US- gold US	First published: January 25, 2005
2006	Every second counts	DE26 (12 weeks) DE	AT27 (11 weeks) AT	CH66 (9 weeks) CH	UK3 gold (17 weeks)UK	US10 gold (50 weeks)US	First published: September 12, 2006
2008	Big Bad World	-	-	-	-	US33 (5 weeks) US	First published: September 23, 2008
2010	The Wonders of the Younger	-	-	-	-	US149 (1 week) US	First published: December 7, 2010
2015	American Nights	-	-	-	-	-	First published: March 31, 2015
2018	Parallel Universe	-	-	-	-	-	First published: August 24, 2018

EPs

• 2001: Rip Off the Hits
• 2006: Hey There Delilah EP
• 2013: Should've Gone to Bed

Singles

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
2006	Hate (I Really Don't Like You) Every Second Counts	-	-	-	UK53 (6 weeks) UK	US68 (6 weeks) US	First published: 2006
2007	Hey There Delilah Every Second Counts	DE1 platinum (26 weeks)DE	AT2 (22 weeks) AT	CH9 (35 weeks) CH	UK2 platinum (35 weeks)UK	US1 × 4 Quadruple platinum (35 weeks)US	Reissue of the 2005 Hey There Delilah publication: August 30, 2007
	Our Time Now Every Second Counts	DE87 (1 week) DE	-	-	-	US90 (1 week) US	First published: November 6, 2007
2008	1, 2, 3, 4 (I Love You) Big Bad World	DE27 (13 weeks) DE	AT22 (6 weeks) AT	-	-	US34 × 2 Double platinum (20 weeks)US	First published: December 2008
2010	Rhythm of Love The Wonders of the Younger	-	-	-	UK60 (7 weeks) UK	US38 platinum (21 weeks)US	First published: October 3, 2010

More singles

• 2005: All That We Needed
• 2005: Take Me Away
• 2005: Hey There Delilah
• 2008: Natural Disaster
• 2011: Boomerang
• 2011: Nuttin 'for Christmas
• 2013: Should've Gone to Bed
• 2013: The Giving Tree
• 2015: break
• 2017: Land of the Living
• 2018: Your Body

Awards for music sales

Platinum record  Australia 2007: for the single Hey There Delilah  Denmark 2020: for the single Hey There Delilah  Italy 2019: for the single Hey There Delilah

3 × platinum record  Canada 2010: for the single Hey There Delilah

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

Country / Region	gold	platinum	Sales	swell
Awards for music sales (country / region, awards, sales, sources)
Australia (ARIA)	-	platinum1	70,000	aria.com.au
Denmark (IFPI)	-	platinum1	90,000	ifpi.dk
Germany (BVMI)	-	platinum1	300,000	musikindustrie.de
Italy (FIMI)	-	platinum1	50,000	fimi.it
Canada (MC)	-	3 × platinum3	240,000	musiccanada.com
United States (RIAA)	2 × gold2	7 × platinum7th	8,000,000	riaa.com
United Kingdom (BPI)	gold1	platinum1	700,000	bpi.co.uk
All in all	3 × gold3	15 × platinum15th

swell

1. ^ Grammy.com: 2008 Nominations and Winners
2. ↑ ^{a b} Chart sources: DE AT CH UK US

Web links

Commons : Plain White T's  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website (German)
• Official website (English)
• Plain White T’s at laut.de.
• Plain White T’s at Discogs (English)