Plan B (musician)

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Plan B (2012)
Plan B (2012)
Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Who Needs Actions When You Got Words
  UK 30th 
gold
gold
07/08/2006 (4 weeks)
The Defamation of Strickland Banks
  DE 7th 08/13/2010 (10 weeks)
  AT 11 08/13/2010 (7 weeks)
  CH 41 05/30/2010 (23 weeks)
  UK 1Template: Infobox chart placements / maintenance / NR1 link 
Quadruple platinum
× 4
Quadruple platinum
04/24/2010 (126 weeks)
Ill Manors
  UK 1Template: Infobox chart placements / maintenance / NR1 link 
gold
gold
08/04/2012 (32 weeks)
Heaven Before All Hell Breaks Loose
  UK 5 05/17/2018 (3 weeks)
Singles
Mama (Loves a Crackhead)
  UK 41 07/15/2006 (3 weeks)
Pieces (with chase & status )
  UK 70 10/11/2008 (2 weeks)
End credits (with chase & status)
  UK 9 
platinum
platinum
11/14/2009 (36 weeks)
Stay Too Long
  UK 9 
silver
silver
01/23/2010 (23 weeks)
She said
  DE 10 
gold
gold
07/30/2010 (31 weeks)
  AT 9 07/30/2010 (19 weeks)
  CH 16 07/18/2010 (21 weeks)
  UK 3 
platinum
platinum
04/10/2010 (43 weeks)
Prayin '
  UK 16 
silver
silver
07/03/2010 (14 weeks)
The Recluse
  UK 35 10/09/2010 (4 weeks)
Love goes down
  UK 62 December 18, 2010 (2 weeks)
She said prayin '
  UK 72 02/26/2011 (1 week)
Ill Manors
  UK 6th 
silver
silver
04/07/2012 (16 weeks)
Deepest Shame
  UK 27 09/15/2012 (4 weeks)
Playing with Fire
  UK 78 December 15, 2012 (1 week)
Heartbeat
  UK 100 11/09/2017 (1 week)

Plan B (* 22. October 1983 in London , England ; bourgeois Benjamin Paul Drew ) is a British hip-hop - soul musician and actor . He became internationally known in 2010 with the song She Said .

Life

Drew grew up in Forest Gate, London . His father Paul Ballance played in a local punk rock band and his mother worked for a local authority. When Ben was six years old, the father left the family. Young Ben Drew often felt like a social outcast as his family was neither middle nor working class.

At the age of 14, Drew began teaching himself to play the guitar. Shortly thereafter, he wrote his first own R&B songs, but turned to hip-hop and rap when he was 18. His first single, Kidz / Dead and Buried , inspired by the death of ten-year-old Damilola Taylor , gave him the attention he needed to get a record deal.

Drew's first mixtape, It's Time 4 Plan B , was published in Hip Hop Connection magazine in May 2006. This was followed by a first television appearance by Plan B on the show Later ... , in which he played an acoustic version of the song "Mama (Loves a Crackhead)". In the same year Plan B released his debut album Who Needs Actions When You Got Words , which immediately entered the UK album charts at number 30. The album received consistently positive reviews, including The Guardian giving it all five possible stars. With End Credits , a collaboration with Chase & Status , he placed his first Top 10 hit in Great Britain .

Four years later he reached with his album The Defamation of Strickland Banks , the number one in the UK. In mid-2010 Drew had his international breakthrough with the single She Said , which was also a success in German-speaking countries.

At the BRIT Awards 2011, Plan B received the British male solo artist award .

At the end of 2017, Plan B announced its newest album " Heaven Before All Hell Breaks Loose " for spring 2018.

Personal

He and his long-time girlfriend have a daughter (* 2013).

Filmography

  • 2005: Walking After Acconci: Redirected Approaches
  • 2008: Streets of London - Retribution Day
  • 2009: Harry Brown
  • 2010: Plan B: Prayin '
  • 2010: 4.3.2.1
  • 2010: Relentless Boardmasters
  • 2012: Ill Manors
  • 2012: The Crime

Discography

Albums

  • 2006: Who Needs Actions When You Got Words
  • 2010: The Defamation of Strickland Banks
  • 2011: The Ballad of Belmarsh
  • 2012: Ill Manors
  • 2018: Heaven Before All Hell Breaks Loose

Singles

Collaborations

  • 2007: No Hats No Trainers (with Shameless )
  • 2008: Pieces (with Chase & Status )
  • 2009: Shifty (with Riz MC & Sway )
  • 2009: End Credits (with Chase & Status)
  • 2018: Ella Fuma (with Chencho Corleone, Farruko, Darell and Brytiago) (US:platinumplatinum)

swell

  1. ↑ a b Chart sources: DE AT CH UK
  2. ↑ Music Sales Awards: DE UK US
  3. ^ "Shocked? Try listening to this, Mr Cameron," in The Telegraph, June 15, 2006. Accessed October 1, 2010.
  4. ↑ "Not Ready to Die: An Interview with Plan B" . Pop Matters. Accessed October 1, 2010.
  5. ↑ Petridis, Alexis (December 14, 2005). "Eminem meets the Arctic Monkeys" . In: The Guardian . Accessed October 1, 2010.
  6. ↑ "Plan B - Discography on Discogs.com" . Accessed October 1, 2010.
  7. ^ "Acoustic Hip-Hop from East London!" ( Memento of the original from December 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.tourdates.co.uk
  8. ↑ "Plan B - Music Charts" on αCharts.us. Accessed December 27, 2009.
  9. ↑ Petridis, Alexis (June 23, 2006): "Plan B, Who Needs Actions When You Got Words?" in: The Guardian. Accessed October 1, 2010.
  10. ↑ Plan B: In April 2018 the new album comes out, here is the first single "Heartbeat" . In: Warner Music Germany . October 27, 2017 ( warnermusic.de [accessed April 26, 2018]).
  11. ↑ Rapper Plan B reveals he has secretly had a baby daughter . In: Mail Online . ( dailymail.co.uk [accessed April 26, 2018]).
  12. ↑ Plan B has revealed he is now a dad - NME . In: NME . January 5, 2014 ( nme.com [accessed April 26, 2018]).

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personal data
SURNAME Plan B
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Drew, Benjamin Paul (real name); Ballance-Drew, Benjamin Paul (full name); Drew, Ben
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British hip hop, soul musician and actor
DATE OF BIRTH October 22, 1983
PLACE OF BIRTH London