Rachel Platten

Rachel Platten (2015)

Chart positions Explanation of the data

Albums

Fight Song (EP)   US 20th 08/29/2015 (27 weeks) Wildfire   CH 85 10/01/2016 (1 week)   UK 35 01/08/2016 (3 weeks)   US 5  gold 01/23/2016 (36 weeks) Waves   US 73 11/18/2017 (1 week)

Singles

Fight song   DE 76 October 02, 2015 (7 weeks)   AT 13 09/25/2015 (24 weeks)   CH 38 08/30/2015 (16 weeks)   UK 1  platinum 08/20/2015 (33 weeks)   US 6th  × 6 Six-fold platinum 05/02/2015 (31 weeks) Stand by you   US 37  platinum 11/28/2015 (20 weeks)

Rachel Platten (born May 20, 1981 in Newton Center , Massachusetts ) is an American R&B and pop singer .

biography

Rachel Platten grew up in Massachusetts . She started playing the piano at the age of four and later began writing her own songs in school . After graduating from Trinity College in Connecticut in 2003 , she released her first album, Trust in Me, with R&B music at her own expense . Two years later she performed as a backup singer in front of a large audience during a stay in Trinidad and then decided to pursue her music career in New York .

In the following years she was mainly on the road as a live musician and was also hired for the accompanying program by performers such as the Strokes , Regina Spektor and Ziggy Marley . Her song Seven Weeks was featured in the 2009 soundtrack for The Good Guy . Her second album, entitled Be Here , was released in 2011 on the Rock Ridge Music label . With the song 1,000 Ships she had a respectable success that opened further doors for her. She sang the theme song Work of Art for the television series Jane by Design and other songs were used in series such as Pretty Little Liars and the 2014 film Annie . At the end of the same year she was featured in the Christmas episode of Pretty Little Liars with her Fight Song , which she wrote with producer Dave Bassett .

In early 2015, Rachel signed plates with Columbia Records and supported Andy Grammer on his US tour. In March the Fight Song was released in Australia. It reached number 2 there and shortly afterwards number 8 in New Zealand. In June it also appeared in North America and also made it into the top ten in the USA and Canada. It has sold over a million times in their homeland alone. When it was finally released in the UK in August, it even became a number one hit there .

Discography

Albums

• 2003: Trust in Me
• 2011: Be Here
• 2016: Wildfire
• 2017: Waves

EPs

• 2015: Fight Song

Singles

• 2009: Seven Weeks
• 2011: 1,000 ships
• 2011: Work of Art
• 2014: Smile
• 2015: Fight Song
• 2015: Stand by You
• 2016: Better Place
• 2016: Siempre estaré ahí (feat. Diego Torres)
• 2017: Broken Glass
• 2018: You Belong

Guest Posts

• 2019: Little Bit of Love (Tritonal feat.Rachel Platten)

Awards for music sales

Golden record  Denmark 2018: for the single Fight Song  Italy 2017: for the single Fight Song  Canada 2016: for the single Stand By You  Norway 2015: for the single Fight Song  Poland 2016: for the single Stand By You  Sweden 2015: for the single Fight Song

Platinum record  Australia 2016: for the single Stand By You 2 × platinum record  Poland 2017: for the single Fight Song 3 × platinum record  Canada 2016: for the single Fight Song 5 × platinum record  Australia 2017: for the single Fight Song

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)	-	6 × platinum6th	420,000	aria.com.au
Denmark (IFPI)	gold1	-	45,000	ifpi.dk
Italy (FIMI)	gold1	-	25,000	fimi.it
Canada (MC)	gold1	3 × platinum3	280,000	musiccanada.com
Norway (IFPI)	gold1	-	5,000	ifpi.no
Poland (ZPAV)	gold1	2 × platinum2	50,000	bestsellery.zpav.pl
Sweden (IFPI)	gold1	-	40,000	sverigetopplistan.se
United States (RIAA)	gold1	7 × platinum7th	7,500,000	riaa.com
United Kingdom (BPI)	-	platinum1	600,000	bpi.co.uk
All in all	7 × gold7th	19 × platinum19th

Web links

Commons : Rachel Platten  - Collection of Images

• Official Homepage (English)
• Rachel Platten at Allmusic (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Chart sources: DE AT CH UK US
2. ↑ Platten, Rachel | SWR3 . In: SWR3.de . ( swr3.de [accessed October 31, 2017]).