Seinabo Sey

Seinabo Sey (2014)

Chart positions Explanation of the data

Albums

Pretend   CH 87 07/31/2016 (1 week)   SE 4th  gold 10/30/2015 (27 weeks)   NO 29  platinum 44/2015 (1 week) I'm a dream   SE 6th 14.09.2018 (7 weeks)

Singles

Younger   AT 54 09/12/2014 (1 week)   UK 61  silver 05/23/2015 (2 weeks)   SE 14th  × 4 Quadruple platinum 31/01/2014 (68 weeks)   NO 1  × 7 Seven times platinum 18/2014 (32 weeks) I Owe You Nothing   SE 66 03/23/2018 (1 week) Never Get Used To   SE 57 14.09.2018 (1 week) Shores (with Vargas & Lagola )   SE 61 39/2019 (1 week)

Seinabo Sey [ seɪnabo siː ] (born October 7, 1990 in Halmstad ) is a Swedish soul pop singer .

biography

Seinabo Sey grew up partly in Gambia, the home of her father, who is himself a singer. She returned to Sweden and moved to the capital Stockholm . As a teenager she wrote her own songs and later worked with Swedish musicians such as rappers Stor and Linda Pira. Maskinen and Oskar Linnros accompanied her on tour. Together with producer Frank Nobel, she formed the duo Def Chronic . They made their first publications in 2010 and received a lot of attention, but they didn't make a breakthrough.

Eventually, Sey was signed by Universal Music . Magnus Lidehäll, who among other things had produced a number one album for Veronica Maggio , recorded the solo debut single Younger with her , which was released in late 2013. In particular, the remix by Norwegian DJ Kygo from Bergen was a great success. Within three months, the song was viewed over 4 million times as a stream on the Swedish market leader Spotify and was named Spotlight 2014 . On the own Soundcloud page, there were again as many views. She was also successful in the Swedish single charts.

At the end of February she performed at the By: Larm Festival in Oslo, Norway . After the single was released in the neighboring country, it reached number one on the charts in Norway at the end of May . Outside of Scandinavia, the song could only be placed in Austria.

In September the single Pistols at Dawn was released . The song was also very popular in advertising and was used by Mercedes in car advertising and by Ubisoft in the trailer for the computer game Assassin's Creed Unity .

Discography

album

• Pretend (2015)
• I'm a Dream (2018)

Songs

• Younger (2014) (DE:gold)
• Hard Time (2014) (NO:gold)
• Pistols at Dawn (2014)

Awards

year	Award	category	plant	Result
2015	Grammis 2015	Artist of the year 2015		Nominated
		Song of the year 2015	Younger	Nominated
		Music video of the year 2015	Pistols at Dawn	Nominated
		Newcomer of the year 2015	For Madeleine	Won
2016	Grammis 2016	Album of the year 2016	Pretend	Nominated
		Artist of the year 2016		Nominated
		Pop of the year 2016		Won
2019	Grammis 2019	Copywriter of the year 2019	I'm a dream	Won
		Pop of the year 2019		Nominated
		Music video of the year 2019	I owe you nothing	Nominated
		Artist of the year 2019	I'm a dream	Nominated
		Album of the year 2019		Won

Awards for music sales

Golden record

•  Denmark
  • 2014: for the Streaming Younger
•  Italy
  • 2017: for the single Younger

Platinum record

•  Denmark
  • 2016: for the single Younger

Note: Awards in countries from the chart tables or chart boxes can be found in these.

Country / Region	silver	gold	platinum	Sales	swell
Awards for music sales (country / region, awards, sales, sources)
Denmark (IFPI)	-	gold1	platinum1	60,000	ifpi.dk
Germany (BVMI)	-	gold1	-	150,000	musikindustrie.de
Italy (FIMI)	-	gold1	-	25,000	fimi.it
Norway (IFPI)	-	gold1	8 × platinum8th	105,000	ifpi.no
Sweden (IFPI)	-	gold1	4 × platinum4th	180,000	sverigetopplistan.se
United Kingdom (BPI)	silver1	-	-	200,000	bpi.co.uk
All in all	silver1	5 × gold5	13 × platinum13

swell

1. ↑ ^{a b} Chart sources: Austria - Switzerland - UK - Sweden - Norway
2. ↑ Music: Q&A With Swedish Soul-Pop Songstress, Seinabo Sey , Interview with Karen Labuca, The 405, May 1, 2014
3. ↑ Seinabo Sey (biography) , Scandinavian Soul, accessed June 1, 2014
4. ^ Bounce-Worthy: Seinabo Sey , Soulbounce, January 13, 2011
5. ↑ Seinabo Sey - Young (Kygo Remix) , Trevor Shumka, Salacious Sound, December 29, 2013
6. ↑ Seinabo Sey (SE) ( Memento of the original from June 1, 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. , Biography of participants of the By: Larm Festival, accessed June 1, 2014 
7. ↑ View here: Seinabo Sey Introduces Lyric Video for "Pistols At Dawn" , Universal Music, September 23, 2014

Web links

Commons : Seinabo Sey  - Collection of Images

• Official Homepage (English)
• German label page (Universal)
• Seinabo Sey at SoundCloud
• Music Sales Awards: SE , NO