The wiggles

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The Wiggles (concert in Washington, DC , 2007)

The Wiggles are an Australian musical group known internationally for children's music and entertainment. In addition to successful music and audio albums, the Wiggles have also produced films and television programs and their themes and characters are represented in theme parks in Australia and the USA.

history

In the early 1990s, pre-school education students Anthony Field , Murray Cook , Greg Page and Phillip Wilcher started an educational project with children's songs. Together with Jeff Fatt, who had already been successful with Field in the late 80s in the band The Cockroaches , they recorded an album with the title The Wiggles with self-written children's songs, which was released in 1991 by ABC Music and was immediately very successful. In particular, the song Here Comes a Song sold over 35,000 copies and was awarded gold .

Initially, the band members still worked in their educational professions, while they produced further albums and gave performances (but without Wilcher, who was aiming for a career of his own as a classical composer). They created recurring characters like Captain Feathersword, Dorothy the Dinosaur, Henry the Octopus, and Wags the Dog, and built stories and scenes with them into their recordings and performances between their nursery rhymes. Eventually it became a full-time occupation for the quartet, which expanded the whole thing into a film and television series for Australian television in the mid-1990s.

From 1998 the wiggles appeared for the first time in the United States and became very popular there very quickly. In 2003 they gave 12 sold out concerts at Madison Square Garden. In the same year they expanded their activities to Asia and published a Taiwanese version of the wiggles. After the successful course, they also became active in Latin America. The Wiggles are now broadcast in over 100 countries. The Wiggles project has also grown beyond the stage and screen. They are represented in the amusement parks on the Gold Coast with Wiggles World and Wiggle Bay , and two Play Centers with entertainment for young children have been set up in Sydney . Wiggles World is also represented in three Six Flags theme parks in the USA .

After the quartet had been successful together for 15 years, Greg Page had to retire in 2006 for health reasons. Sam Moran, who had worked with the four Wiggles since 1998 and replaced Page on stage before leaving, became a new permanent member.

By 2010, the Wiggles had sold 23 million DVDs and 7 million CDs worldwide. They are among the most successful Australian entertainers with annual revenues of A $ 45 million in 2009. From 2004 to 2008 they headed the Australian Entertainment Rich List .

2011, the year of its 20th anniversary, they were into the ARIA Hall of Fame added

Discography

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
The Wiggles (Soundtrack)
  AU 36 11/23/1997 (2 weeks)
It's a Wiggly Wiggly World!
  AU 39 04/16/2000 (3 weeks)
Hot potatoes! The best of the wiggles
  AU 32 04/05/2014 (4 weeks)
Rock & Roll Preschool
  AU 43 02/16/2015 (1 week)
Wiggle Town!
  AU 41 02/15/2016 (1 week)
The best of
  AU 16 06/12/2016 (49 weeks)
Nursery Rhymes
  AU 15th 05.03.2017 (7 weeks)
Och Aye the G'nu (with Jimmy Barnes )
  AU 34 04/16/2017 (1 week)
Wiggly, Wiggly Christmas!
  AU 29 December 03, 2017 (5 weeks)
Nursery Rhymes 2
  AU 3 03/19/2018 (1 week)
Wiggle Pop!
  AU 24 09/10/2018 (1 week)
Party time!
  AU 30th 07/01/2019 (1 week)
Fun and Games
  AU 44 04/06/2020 (1 week)

Albums

  • The Wiggles (1991, platinum)
  • Here Comes a Song (1992)
  • The Adventures of Captain Feathersword, the Friendly Pirate (1993)
  • Yummy Yummy (1994, double platinum)
  • Big Red Car (1995, double platinum, Aria Award)
  • Wake up Jeff! (1996, double platinum, Aria Award)
  • The Wiggles Movie Soundtrack (1997, Platinum)
  • Toot! Toot! (1998, platinum, Aria Award)
  • Wiggly Wiggly Christmas (Double Platinum)
  • It's a Wiggly Wiggly World! (2000, gold)
  • Wiggle Time (2000, gold)
  • Hoop-Dee-Doo - It's a Wiggles Party (2001, Gold)
  • Yule Be Wiggling (Gold)
  • Wiggly Safari (2002, gold)
  • Whoo Hoo! Wiggly Gremlins (2003)
  • Go to Sleep Jeff (2003)
  • Top of the Tots (2004, gold)
  • Live Hot Potatoes (2005, Gold, Aria Award)
  • Racing to the Rainbow (2006, Aria Award)
  • Pop Go the Wiggles! (2007, Aria Award)
  • You Make Me Feel Like Dancing (2008, Aria Award)
  • Go bananas! (2009, Aria Award)
  • Let's eat! (2010, Aria Award)
  • Hot potatoes! The Best of the Wiggles (2014)
  • Rock & Roll Preschool (2015)
  • Wiggle Town! (2016)
  • The Best Of (2016, platinum)
  • Nursery Rhymes (2017)
  • Och Aye the G'nu ( Jimmy Barnes and the Wiggles, 2017)
  • Duets (2017)
  • Wiggly, Wiggly Christmas! (2017)
  • Nursery Rhymes 2 (2018)
  • Wiggle Pop! (2018)
  • Party time! (2019)
  • Fun and Games (2020)

Awards since 1997 according to ARIA

Singles

  • Here Comes a Song (1991, gold)
  • Eagle Rock (The Wiggles with Ross Wilson ; EP, 2003)
  • Fruit salad

Filmography

  • Wally and the Wild Wiggles (1997)

Members

  • Murray James Cook (* 1960 in Cowra )
  • Jeffrey Wayne Fatt (* 1953 in Casino )
  • Anthony Donald Field (* 1963 in Sydney )
  • Sam Moran (* 1978 in Sydney), since 2006

until 2006

  • Gregory John Page (* 1972 in Sydney), until 2006
  • Phillip Wilcher, until 1992

Awards

  • 9 × ARIA Award in the Best Children's Album category (and six other nominations)
  • Induction into the ARIA Hall of Fame (2011)
  • 4 × APRA Song Award in the Best Children's Song category
  • UNICEF ambassador since 2008
  • Members of the Order of Australia (AM) , January 26, 2010 (Cook, Fatt, Field and Page)

Web links

Commons : The Wiggles  - collection of images, videos and audio files

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  1. ↑ a b c The Wiggles On Singstar! , ABC, May 28, 2010
  2. ^ AC / DC tops BRW entertainment rich list, ahead of Kylie Minogue and the Wiggles , Herald Sun, November 4, 2009
  3. ↑ Two Huge ARIA Awards Announcements ( Memento of the original from March 25, 2012 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. , October 30, 2011 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ariaawards.com.au
  4. ↑ The Wiggles in the Australian charts
  5. ↑ Accreditations ( English ) ARIA. Retrieved November 11, 2019.
  6. ↑ Database of the Aria Awards ( Memento of the original dated February 13, 2009 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. , accessed November 24, 2010 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ariaawards.com.au
  7. ^ Australian Honors: Member of the Order of Australia / Australia Day 2010 (database extract), government website