Post Malone
Post Malone (born July 4, 1995 in Syracuse , New York ; actually Austin Richard Post ) is an American trap and pop artist and music producer .
Malone became known in the mid-2010s after the release of his debut single, White Iverson . The song, which went to number 14 on the Billboard Hot 100 and later went four times platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), earned Malone a recording deal with Republic Records . He released his debut studio album Stoney in 2016 , which debuted at number 6 on the Billboard 200. The album with the top 10 hit Congratulations soon got certified double platinum.
Career
Post Malone was born Austin Richard Post in Syracuse , New York , in 1995 . At the age of ten he and his family moved to Grapevine, Texas, near Dallas . His father, Rich Post, listened to a lot of music and that made him pick up the guitar and write his own songs. First he wanted to be a band of musicians, but then became a fan of hip-hop crew Terror Squad and joined a local crew as MC at. At the age of 15, Malone took part in an audition with the post-hardcore band Crown the Empire in order to be able to become a guitarist, but this attempt failed. In high school he played in a metalcore band.
Mail went to Los Angeles in the 2010s . There he began to publish his own music on the Internet. Post's father was an employee of the Dallas Cowboys and he himself was not only football, but also basketball enthusiastic and wrote the play White Iverson in reference to NBA star Allen Iverson . At the beginning of 2015 he put the song online and achieved a high number of views. The Republic Records label noticed him, signed him and released the song as a single that same year. It made it to the chart straight away, reaching number 14 in the US charts and number 3 in the US rap charts. The song has been bought or streamed over three million times and has been awarded four times platinum . With Go Flex he was able to follow up with a second single, which also made it into the charts and went gold. He also became known beyond North America, in particular through his collaboration on the song Deja Vu with Justin Bieber , on whose tour he appeared in the opening act , and on Kanye West's song Fade . Both songs hit the charts in Great Britain, among others.
At the end of 2016, Post Malone released his debut album Stoney , with which he entered the US album charts at number 6 . On April 27, 2018, he released his second studio album Beerbongs & Bentleys . The tour for the new album started on October 28, 2018.
In the summer of 2019, the single Goodbyes with the rapper Young Thug was released as the second single of his third album Hollywood's Bleeding , which he released on September 6 of the same year. A week before the album was released, his third single, Circles, was released . At the end of 2019, Post Malone won the award for the best hip-hop album of 2019.
Discography
Studio albums
| year | Title music label |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, music label , placements, weeks, awards, notes) |
Remarks | ||||
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| 2016 | Stoney Republic |
DE72 (13 weeks) DE |
AT58  (6 weeks)AT |
CH48 (2 weeks) CH |
UK10  (… Where.)UK |
US4th × 3
(… Where.)US |
First published: December 9, 2016
Sales: + 4,012,500 |
| 2018 | Beerbongs & Bentleys Republic |
DE4 (39 weeks) DE |
AT2 (78 weeks) AT |
CH3 (56 weeks) CH |
UK1 (… Where.)UK |
US1 × 3
(… Where.)US |
First published: April 27, 2018
Sales: + 4,500,000 |
| 2019 | Hollywood's Bleeding Republic |
DE7 (... weeks) DE |
AT5 (... weeks) AT |
CH3 (... weeks) CH |
UK1 (… Where.)UK |
US1 (... week) US |
First published: September 6, 2019
Sales: + 585,000 |
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- ^ Post Malone, rapper from Syracuse, seen choking Justin Bieber in photo , Geoff Herbert, Syracuse.com, April 13, 2016
- ↑ Bram Teitelman: Metalinsider.net : Post Malone once tried out for Crown The Empire, covered Asking Alexandria
- ↑ Music Sales Awards: UK US
- ↑ headlineplanet.com ; Retrieved July 10, 2017
Web links
- official homepage
- Post Malone at SoundCloud
- Post Malone at Allmusic (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Post Malone |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Post, Austin Richard (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | US-American rapper |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 4th July 1995 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Syracuse (New York) , United States |