Saygrace

Grace Sewell (born April 8, 1997 in Brisbane ) is an Australian singer who gained international fame in 2015 with her hit You Don't Own Me . In 2019 she gave herself the stage name Saygrace (also spelled SayGrace or SAYGRACE ).

biography

Grace Sewell was born in Brisbane and grew up in a musical family. Her influences include Smokey Robinson , Aretha Franklin and Dionne Warwick .

In 2015 Sewell was signed to RCA Records and in March her single You Don't Own Me was released under the stage name Grace , which was recorded together with the US rapper G-Eazy . It is a cover version of the song of the same name by the singer Lesley Gore , who died about a month before it was released. The song developed into an international hit from May 2015 and rose to number 1 in the singles charts in Australia and into the top 5 of the New Zealand music charts . He also achieved several placements in European countries, including he was particularly successful in the United Kingdom , where it reached number 4 in the charts. Sewell received an ARIA Music Award nomination for the song .

On May 26th, their debut EP Memo was released, which entered the Billboard 200 . The artist's first album, FMA, followed in July 2016 , which also reached several international chart positions. However , the singer could not follow the success of You Don't Own Me .

In 2019 she released two more singles under the stage name Saygrace .

Her brother Conrad Sewell is also successful as a musician.

Discography

Albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)			Remarks
		UK	US	AU
2016	FMA	UK42 (1 week) UK	US34 (6 weeks) US	AU32 (1 week) AU	First published: July 1, 2016

Extended plays

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChartsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)	Remarks
		US
2015	memo	US149 (8 weeks) US	First published: May 26, 2015

Singles

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		AT	CH	UK	US	AU
2015	You don't own me	AT55 (2 weeks) AT	CH60 (5 weeks) CH	UK4th platinum (21 weeks)UK	US57 platinum (20 weeks)US	AU1 × 4 Quadruple platinum (16 weeks)AU	First published: March 17, 2015 Sales: + 2,040,000; feat. G-Eazy

More singles

• 2015: Dirty Harry
• 2015: The Honey
• 2015: boyfriend jeans
• 2016: Bang Bang (My Titan shot him down)
• 2016: Hell of a Girl
• 2017: Honor ( DJ Cassidy feat. Grace & Lil Yachty )
• 2019: Boys Ain't Shit
• 2019: Doin 'Too Much

Awards for music sales

Golden record  Denmark 2020: for the single You Don't Own Me  Italy 2016: for the single You Don't Own Me Platinum record  Canada 2016: for the single You Don't Own Me  New Zealand 2015: for the single You Don't Own Me

2 × platinum record  Poland 2017: for the single You Don't Own Me

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)	-	4 × platinum4th	280,000	aria.com.au
Denmark (IFPI)	gold1	-	45,000	ifpi.dk
Italy (FIMI)	gold1	-	25,000	fimi.it
Canada (MC)	-	platinum1	80,000	musiccanada.com
New Zealand (RMNZ)	-	platinum1	15,000	nztop40.co.nz
Poland (ZPAV)	-	2 × platinum2	40,000	bestsellery.zpav.pl
United States (RIAA)	-	platinum1	1,000,000	riaa.com
United Kingdom (BPI)	-	platinum1	600,000	bpi.co.uk
All in all	2 × gold2	10 × platinum10

Web links

• Official website (English)
• Label side RCA
• Grace Sewell at Discogs (English)

swell

1. ↑ Grace on BBC Music
2. ↑ Saygrace Wants the Girls Who Are Told They're "Doin 'Too Much" to Hear Her, Anthem of Authenticity' , Stephen Daw, Billboard, November 22, 2019
3. ↑ Grace - The 19-year-old's long-awaited debut album is here , sonymusic.at
4. ↑ RCA Singer Grace Recreates “You Don't Own Me” With G-Eazy & Quincy Jones , thesource.com
5. ^ Aria awards 2015: list of winners , The Guardian
6. ↑ ^{a b c} Chart sources: AT CH UK (single) UK (album) US AU