Powfu

Chart placements (preliminary) Explanation of the data

Singles

Death Bed (feat. Beabadoobee)   CA 9  gold April 13, 2020 (...  where.)   DE 18th March 13, 2020 (20 weeks)   AT 11 March 13, 2020 (...  where.)   CH 13 March 8th, 2020 (...  where.)   UK 4th  platinum 02/27/2020 (...  where.)   US 23  platinum March 28, 2020 (...  where.)

Powfu (born March 31, 1999 in Vancouver ; real name Isaiah Faber ) is a Canadian musician and rapper from Mission in British Columbia . In 2020 he had an international hit called Death Bed .

biography

Isaiah Faber is the son of Dave Faber from the pop-punk band Faber Drive . As a result, he was confronted with music very early, but it wasn't until he was 17 that he started writing songs himself. In 2018 he published his music for the first time under the name Powfu. He started a series of EPs called Some Boring Love Stories with melancholy, piano-accompanied, lo-fi, hip-hop songs. For the second EP he took a beat with a sample from the song Coffee British singer Beabadoobee in 2017 and made it his play Death Bed (English for deathbed ). After it was published on SoundCloud in February 2019, it was adopted by the YouTube channel Promoted Sounds . A challenge at Tik Tok made the song very popular. Almost a million response videos with confessions of love, backed up with the music, were created afterwards and also drove up the views on SoundCloud and YouTube. Many other posts, including farewell messages on the death of Kobe Bryant in January 2020, also used the song. Due to the lack of rights to the sample, Powfu could not officially release the song, so he looked for a label. Columbia signed him and after the release of Death Bed (Coffee for Your Head) as a commercial single in February 2020, the song quickly hit the charts worldwide. In Canada it reached the top 10, in the UK charts at number 4 and achieved gold status in each case . In Malaysia and Singapore it was even a number one hit. In many other countries it was placed in the top 20 and in the US it went platinum.

Discography

EPs

• Some Boring Love Stories (2018)
• Some Boring Love Stories, Pt. 2 (2019)
• Some Boring Love Stories, Pt. 3 (2019)
• Some Boring Love Stories, Pt. 4 (2019)
• Poems of the Past (2020)

Songs

• Letters in December (with Rxseboy, 2019)
• Dead Eyes (with Promoting Sounds & Ouse !, 2019)
• Laying on My Porch While We Watch the World End (with Rxseboy & Slipfunc, 2020)
• Don't Fall Asleep Yet (with Enra, 2020)
• Death Bed (featuring Beabadoobee, 2020)
• I'm Used to It (2020)
• I'll Come Back to You (2020)
• Eyes (with Lilyung & Chrisbeats, 2020)

Awards for music sales

Golden record  Belgium 2020: for the single Death Bed  Denmark 2020: for the single Death Bed  France 2020: for the single Death Bed  Spain 2020: for the single Death Bed Platinum record  Italy 2020: for the single Death Bed  New Zealand 2020: for the single Death Bed

3 × gold record  Mexico 2020: for the single Death Bed 2 × platinum record  Australia 2020: for the single Death Bed

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)	-	2 × platinum2	140,000	aria.com.au
Belgium (BEA)	gold1	-	20,000	ultratop.be
Denmark (IFPI)	gold1	-	45,000	ifpi.dk
France (SNEP)	gold1	-	100,000	snepmusique.com
Italy (FIMI)	-	platinum1	70,000	fimi.it
Canada (MC)	gold1	-	40,000	musiccanada.com
Mexico (AMPROFON)	gold1	platinum1	90,000	amprofon.com.mx
New Zealand (RMNZ)	-	platinum1	30,000	nztop40.co.nz
Spain (Promusicae)	gold1	-	40,000	elportaldelmusicas.es
United States (RIAA)	-	platinum1	1,000,000	riaa.com
United Kingdom (BPI)	-	platinum1	600,000	bpi.co.uk
All in all	6 × gold6th	7 × platinum7th

swell

1. ↑ Chart sources: CA DE AT CH UK US
2. ↑ Powfu's “death bed” Has People Confessing Their Love , Krista Marina Apardian, Ones to Watch, February 25, 2020
3. ^ Death bed (coffee for your head). Powfu & beabadoobee , Genius, accessed July 3, 2020

Web links

• How a song goes viral: Powfu on 'Death Bed' and its steady rise to the top , Jesse Kinos-Goodin, CBC Music, June 11, 2020
• Powfu at SoundCloud
• Powfu on YouTube
• Powfu at Allmusic (English)