The vamps

The vamps
The Vamps at Fanfest London (2015)
General information
origin	Great Britain
Genre (s)	Pop rock
founding	2012
Website	http://www.thevamps.net/
Current occupation
Lead singer , guitar , piano	Bradley Simpson
Lead guitar , vocals	James McVey
Bass , vocals	Connor Ball
Drums	Tristan Evans

The Vamps is a four-piece British pop rock band . It was founded in 2012 and consists of Bradley Simpson from Birmingham , James McVey from Bournemouth , Connor Ball from Aberdeen and Tristan Evans from Exeter .

Band history

James McVey met Brad Simpson through YouTube in 2011 and they both began writing songs together. The following year, they met Tristan Evans on Facebook and a mutual friend connected them to Connor Ball. The four formed a band and uploaded cover songs to their own channel on the video platform YouTube.

At the end of 2012, the four musicians were signed by the record company Mercury Records . With her support as the opening act for McFly on their Memory Lane Tour in early 2013, the number of fans grew rapidly. This was followed by other appearances at festivals and in support of bands such as The Wanted , JLS , Little Mix and Lawson .

On July 22, 2013, the band released their first song, Wild Heart, on their YouTube account. In early August, the official music video for their debut single Can We Dance was released there , which had over a million views in two weeks. The single was released on September 29, 2013 and then rose to number 2 in the UK Top 40 . With the previously released Wild Heart and Last Night , they had two more top 3 hits in the following months. Last Night was also the pre-release single for the debut album Meet the Vamps . At the end of April 2014, it reached number 2 on the British album charts. On April 1, 2016, Can We Dance became the first vamps single to go gold in the UK for 400,000 sales.

In February 2015 they founded their own label Steady Records . Here they recorded two new bands, The Tide and New Hope Club , which they had founded themselves.

On November 27, 2015, they released their second album Wake Up , from which songs like Wake Up and I Found a Girl come from.

In 2016 they recorded Kung Fu Fighting for the new Kung Fu Panda movie. In the same year they also traveled to India and worked with the Indian music duo Vishal Shekhar for the song Beliya .

Members

• Bradley Will Simpson (born July 28, 1995)
• James Daniel McVey (born April 30, 1994)
• Connor Samuel John Ball (born March 15, 1996)
• Tristan Oliver Vance Evans (born August 15, 1994)

Discography

Studio albums

year	Title music label	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, music label , placements, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
2014	Meet the Vamps Mercury / Virgin EMI	-	-	CH70 (1 week) CH	UK2 platinum (45 weeks)UK	US40 (3 weeks) US	First published: April 15, 2014 Sales: + 300,000
2015	Wake Up Mercury / Virgin EMI	-	-	-	UK10 gold (11 weeks)UK	US186 (1 week) US	First published: November 27, 2015 Sales: + 100,000
2017	Night & Day Mercury / Virgin EMI	DE85 (1 week) DE	AT40 (1 week) AT	CH88 (1 week) CH	UK1 gold (12 weeks)UK	-	First published: July 14, 2017 Sales: + 100,000

Video albums

year	Title music label	Remarks
2014	Story of the Vamps Mercury / Virgin EMI	First published: April 22, 2014
	Meet the Vamps: Live in Concert Mercury / Virgin EMI	First published: December 1, 2014
2015	Access All Areas Mercury / Virgin EMI	First published: December 8, 2015

EPs

year	Title music label	Remarks
2014	Somebody to You Island	First published: May 18, 2014
2015	Live Iceland	First published: September 4th, 2015
	The Christmas EP Virgin EMI	First published: November 20, 2015
2017	All Night Virgin EMI	First published: August 4, 2017
2019	Missing You Virgin EMI	First published: April 19, 2019

Singles

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
2013	Can We Dance Meet the Vamps	-	-	-	UK2 gold (23 weeks)UK	-	First published: September 29, 2013 Sales: + 470,000
2014	Wild Heart Meet the Vamps	-	-	-	UK3 silver (13 weeks)UK	-	First published: Jan 19, 2014 Sales: + 200,000
	Last Night Meet the Vamps	-	-	-	UK2 silver (12 weeks)UK	-	First published: April 6, 2014 Sales: + 200,000
	Somebody to You Meet the Vamps	-	-	-	UK4th gold (17 weeks)UK	US- gold US	First published: May 18, 2014 Sales: + 1,017,500; feat. Demi Lovato
	Oh Cecilia (Breaking My Heart) Meet the Vamps	-	-	-	UK9 silver (12 weeks)UK	-	First published: October 12, 2014 Sales: + 200,000; feat. Shawn Mendes
2015	Wake Up Wake Up	-	-	-	UK12 (4 weeks) UK	-	First published: October 2, 2015
2016	I found a girl wake up	-	-	-	UK30 (2 weeks) UK	-	First published: April 1st, 2016 feat. Granny
	All Night Night & Day	DE60 (12 weeks) DE	AT55 (8 weeks) AT	CH63 (13 weeks) CH	UK24 platinum (26 weeks)UK	US- gold US	First published: October 14, 2016 Sales: + 1,355,000; with Matoma
2017	Middle of the Night Night & Day	-	-	-	UK44 silver (3 weeks)UK	-	First published: April 1, 2016 Sales: + 200,000; with Martin Jensen
	Staying up	-	-	-	UK80 (1 week) UK	-	First published: September 1st, 2017 with Matoma
	staff	-	-	-	UK76 (2 weeks) UK	-	First published: October 13, 2017 feat. Maggie Lindemann

More singles

• 2015: Rest Your Love
• 2017: Hands (with Mike Perry & Sabrina Carpenter )
• 2017: Paper Hearts
• 2018: Too Good to Be True (with Danny Ávila feat. Machine Gun Kelly )
• 2018: Hair Too Long
• 2018: Just My Type
• 2018: We Don't Care (with Sigala )
• 2019: All the Lies (with Alok & Felix Jaehn )

Guest Posts

• 2016: Beliya (Vishal Dadlani & Shekhar Ravjiani feat. The Vamps)

Awards for music sales

Golden record  Australia 2017: for the single All Night  Denmark 2017: for the single All Night  Canada 2015: for the single Somebody to You  New Zealand 2014: for the single Somebody to You 2017: for the single All Night  Sweden 2017: for the single All Night 2018: for the single hands

Platinum record  Australia 2014: for the single Can We Dance 2014: for the single Somebody to You  Italy 2017: for the single All Night  Canada 2017: for the single All Night 2 × platinum record  Norway 2017: for the single All Night Diamond record  Brazil 2019: for the single All the Lies

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

Country / Region	silver	gold	platinum	diamond	Sales	swell
Awards for music sales (country / region, awards, sales, sources)
Australia (ARIA)	-	gold1	2 × platinum2	-	175,000	aria.com.au
Brazil (PMB)	-	-	-	diamond1	160,000	pro-musicabr.org.br
Denmark (IFPI)	-	gold1	-	-	45,000	ifpi.dk
Italy (FIMI)	-	-	platinum1	-	50,000	fimi.it
Canada (MC)	-	gold1	platinum1	-	120,000	musiccanada.com
New Zealand (RMNZ)	-	2 × gold2	-	-	22,500	nztop40.co.nz
Norway (IFPI)	-	-	2 × platinum2	-	20,000	ifpi.no
Sweden (IFPI)	-	2 × gold2	-	-	40,000	sverigetopplistan.se
United States (RIAA)	-	2 × gold2	-	-	1,000,000	riaa.com
United Kingdom (BPI)	4 × silver4th	4 × gold4th	2 × platinum2	-	2,700,000	bpi.co.uk
All in all	4 × silver4th	13 × gold13	8 × platinum8th	diamond1

swell

1. ^ British Phonographic Industry First Gold single for The Vamps, April 1, 2016, accessed May 4, 2016
2. ↑ ^{a b} Chart sources: DE AT CH UK US

Web links

• Official website