The Script

The Script
The Script (2008)
General information
Genre (s)	Pop rock
founding	2001
Website	www.thescriptmusic.com
Current occupation
Vocals , keyboard	Daniel O'Donoghue
guitar	Mark Sheehan
Drums	Glen Power

The Script is a pop-rock - group from Ireland . According to the sources, they have sold more than 18.8 million records in their careers. The Script's most successful release is the Single Hall of Fame with over 5.8 million units sold.

history

Daniel O'Donoghue ( vocals , keyboards ) and Mark Sheehan ( guitar ) met early on in the shabby James Street area of Dublin . During this time they both found inspiration in black music from the USA .

The singing of Stevie Wonder was something of an initial spark for Daniel. He tried to completely sing the records of the music legend and thus approach Wonder's vocal technique. “I tried to sing whole records, even the string arrangements. Many good singers imitate a musical instrument - Amy Winehouse is, for example, B. been a saxophone. My instrument is the violin. Vibrato - with it you can express incredibly deeply felt feelings. "

Shortly after Danny and Mark entered into their songwriting and production partnership, their talent was discovered. You have been invited to the United States to work with some of your great studio role models, including Dallas Austin , Teddy Riley , The Neptunes, and Rodney Jerkins . Danny and Mark were now a "backroom team," producing demos for other artists, but when they met Dublin-born drummer Glen, they immediately invited him to a work weekend in Los Angeles . Glen had been playing sessions since he was fifteen and put the money into solo projects and his home studio. He put all of that on hold for the first time when his collaboration with Mark and Danny produced three songs in just one week.

Career

The band's debut single was titled We Cry . In the UK charts it rose to number 15 and in the Irish charts it rose to 9. In Germany, We Cry was released on May 16, 2008 and The Man Who Can't Be Moved on August 29, 2008. In 2009 they were awarded the European Border Breakers Award (EBBA).

The third album # 3 was released on September 7, 2012 in Ireland, on September 10 in Great Britain and on October 9, 2012 in North America, before it was finally officially released on January 25, 2013 in Germany.

The single Hall of Fame , extracted from # 3 , was used as the title song of the film Kokowääh 2 , which was started on February 7, 2013 and directed by and with Til Schweiger . The song was created in collaboration with US rapper will.i.am from the Black Eyed Peas .

From January 16, 2015, the band embarked on the No Sound Without Silence Tour , which opened in Tokyo and then continued in Europe , North and South America , Asia , Africa and Oceania . At the same time, the fourth studio album of the same name was presented.

Discography

Studio albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)						Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US	IE
2008	The Script	DE32 (6 weeks) DE	AT39 (6 weeks) AT	CH16 (18 weeks) CH	UK1 × 4 Quadruple platinum (146 weeks)UK	US64 (49 weeks) US	IE1 × 5 Quintuple platinum (199 weeks)IE	First published: August 8, 2008
2010	Science & Faith	DE40 (1 week) DE	AT70 (1 week) AT	CH15 (7 weeks) CH	UK1 × 2 Double platinum (68 weeks)UK	US3 (40 weeks) US	IE1 × 5 Quintuple platinum (81 weeks)IE	First published: September 10, 2010
2012	# 3	DE11 (8 weeks) DE	AT18 (2 weeks) AT	CH4 (11 weeks) CH	UK2 × 2 Double platinum (57 weeks)UK	US13 (7 weeks) US	IE1 platinum (… Where.)IE	First published: October 9, 2012
2014	No sound without silence	DE12 (4 weeks) DE	AT11 (2 weeks) AT	CH2 (14 weeks) CH	UK1 platinum (35 weeks)UK	US10 (5 weeks) US	IE1 (74 weeks) IE	First published: September 12, 2014
2017	Freedom Child	DE43 (1 week) DE	AT61 (1 week) AT	CH10 (4 weeks) CH	UK1 gold (21 weeks)UK	US58 (1 week) US	IE1 (32 weeks) IE	First published: September 1, 2017
2019	Sunsets & Full Moons	DE92 (1 week) DE	-	CH28 (1 week) CH	UK1 silver (17 weeks)UK	-	IE1 (... week) IE	First published: November 8, 2019

EPs

year	title	Remarks
2008	We Cry (Remixes)	First published: April 18, 2008
	iTunes Festival: London 2008	First published: July 25, 2008
2010	iTunes session	First published: May 11, 2010
2011	iTunes Festival: London 2011	First published: July 11, 2011
2018	Acoustic sessions	First published: April 18, 2018

Singles

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)						Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US	IE
2008	We Cry The Script	DE61 (9 weeks) DE	-	CH56 (4 weeks) CH	UK15th silver (18 weeks)UK	-	IE9 (20 weeks) IE	First published: April 29, 2008
	The Man Who Can't Be Moved The Script	DE28 (12 weeks) DE	AT33 (11 weeks) AT	CH17 (21 weeks) CH	UK2 × 2 Double platinum (64 weeks)UK	US86 platinum (6 weeks)US	IE2 (47 weeks) IE	First published: July 25, 2008
	Breakeven (Falling to Pieces) The Script	DE71 (6 weeks) DE	AT75 (1 week) AT	CH66 (6 weeks) CH	UK21st platinum (44 weeks)UK	US12 × 2 Double platinum (43 weeks)US	IE10 (35 weeks) IE	First published: November 24, 2008
2009	Talk You Down The Script	-	-	-	UK47 (4 weeks) UK	-	IE19 (5 weeks) IE	First published: March 16, 2009
	Before the Worst The Script	-	-	-	UK96 (1 week) UK	-	IE37 (9 weeks) IE	First published: June 20, 2009
2010	For the First Time Science & Faith	DE83 (1 week) DE	-	CH37 (9 weeks) CH	UK4th platinum (23 weeks)UK	US23 platinum (29 weeks)US	IE1 (15 weeks) IE	First published: August 20, 2010
	Nothing Science & Faith	-	-	-	UK42 (9 weeks) UK	US32 gold (20 weeks)US	IE15 (13 weeks) IE	First published: November 19, 2010
2012	Hall of Fame # 3	DE2 × 3 Triple gold (36 weeks)DE	AT1 gold (24 weeks)AT	CH3 × 2 Double platinum (46 weeks)CH	UK1 × 2 Double platinum (49 weeks)UK	US25th × 2 Double platinum (25 weeks)US	IE1 (... week) IE	First published: August 19, 2012 feat. will.i.am
	Six Degrees of Separation # 3	-	-	-	UK32 (8 weeks) UK	-	IE25 (19 weeks) IE	First published: November 25, 2012
2013	If You Could See Me Now # 3	DE45 (15 weeks) DE	AT16 (17 weeks) AT	-	UK20th silver (15 weeks)UK	-	IE13 (10 weeks) IE	First published: March 4, 2013
	Millionaires # 3	-	-	-	UK91 (3 weeks) UK	-	IE74 (4 weeks) IE	First published: June 13, 2013
2014	Superheroes No Sound Without Silence	DE8th gold (23 weeks)DE	AT9 (22 weeks) AT	CH8 (25 weeks) CH	UK3 platinum (27 weeks)UK	US73 gold (9 weeks)US	IE1 (40 weeks) IE	First published: July 22, 2014
	No Good in Goodbye, No Sound Without Silence	-	-	CH69 (1 week) CH	UK26 (5 weeks) UK	-	IE62 (6 weeks) IE	First published: October 15, 2014
2015	Paint the Town Green No Sound Without Silence	-	-	-	-	-	IE62 (1 week) IE	First published: June 2015
2017	Rain Freedom Child	-	AT63 (3 weeks) AT	CH87 (1 week) CH	UK15th gold (17 weeks)UK	-	IE13 (20 weeks) IE	First published: June 14, 2017
2019	The Last Time Sunsets & Full Moons	-	-	CH95 (1 week) CH	UK32 silver (11 weeks)UK	-	IE29 (10 weeks) IE	First published: September 20, 2019
The following songs did not appear as single, but were made available for download and streaming through the album and were thus able to achieve a placement:
2010	You Won't Feel a Thing Science & Faith	-	-	-	-	-	IE48 (1 week) IE	First published: September 10, 2010
2014	It's Not Right for You No Sound Without Silence	-	-	-	UK49 (1 week) UK	-	IE40 (1 week) IE	First published: September 12, 2014

More singles

• 2011: If You Ever Come Back
• 2011: Science & Faith
• 2014: Army of Angels
• 2014: Hail Rain or Sunshine
• 2015: Man on a Wire
• 2017: Arms Open
• 2018: Freedom Child
• 2019: Something Unreal

As a guest musician

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)						Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US	IE
The following songs did not appear as single, but were made available for download and streaming through the album and were thus able to achieve a placement:
2014	Goodbye friend lists	DE93 (1 week) DE	-	-	-	-	-	Chart entry: December 5, 2014 David Guetta feat. The Script

Video albums

• 2011: Homecoming - Live at the Aviva (IE:platinum)

Awards for music sales

→ Main article : The Script / Awards for Music Sales

Country / Region	silver	gold	platinum	Sales	swell
Awards for music sales (country / region, awards, sales, sources)
Australia (ARIA)	-	3 × gold3	28 × platinum28	2,065,000	aria.com.au
Belgium (BEA)	-	gold1	-	15,000	ultratop.be
Denmark (IFPI)	-	6 × gold6th	6 × platinum6th	95,000	ifpi.dk
Germany (BVMI)	-	2 × gold2	platinum1	650,000	musikindustrie.de
Europe (IFPI)	-	-	platinum1	(1,000,000)	ifpi.org
Finland (IFPI)	-	gold1	-	5,524	ifpi.fi
Ireland (IRMA)	-	-	12 × platinum12	169,000	irishcharts.ie
Italy (FIMI)	-	3 × gold3	4 × platinum4th	275,000	fimi.it
New Zealand (RMNZ)	-	2 × gold2	3 × platinum3	60,000	nztop40.co.nz
Netherlands (NVPI)	-	2 × gold2	platinum1	70,000	nvpi.nl
Norway (IFPI)	-	-	6 × platinum6th	60,000	ifpi.no
Austria (IFPI)	-	gold1	-	15,000	ifpi.at
Philippines (PARI)	-	gold1	-	20,000	pari.com.ph
Sweden (IFPI)	-	gold1	5 × platinum5	220,000	sverigetopplistan.se
Switzerland (IFPI)	-	-	2 × platinum2	60,000	hitparade.ch
United States (RIAA)	-	2 × gold2	6 × platinum6th	7,000,000	riaa.com
United Kingdom (BPI)	4 × silver4th	2 × gold2	16 × platinum16	8,060,000	bpi.co.uk
All in all	4 × silver4th	26 × gold26th	91 × ​​platinum91

swell

1. ↑ Band portrait of The Script at musik-base.de
2. ↑ We Cry Info
3. ↑ Bandhomepage Releases ( Memento of the original from September 15, 2008 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. 
4. ↑ https://twitter.com/thescript/status/209008956604022784
5. ↑ Interview with the Hamburger Morgenpost in January 2013
6. ↑ ^{a b c} Chart sources: IE DE AT CH UK US

Web links

Commons : The Script  - collection of images

• Official website (English)
• The Script at laut.de
• The Script at Allmusic (English)
• The Script at Discogs (English)