Tom Walker (singer-songwriter)

Tom Walker (2018)
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Tom Walker (born December 17, 1991 ) is a British singer-songwriter who gained international fame in late 2017 with his hit Leave a Light On .

biography

Tom Walker was born in Scotland and grew up in Manchester . He developed an interest in music in his childhood and then taught himself to play several musical instruments .

Walker graduated from the London College of Contemporary Music and then moved into a home with a home studio, where he was discovered during a rehearsal by the music label Rentless Records . In March 2017 he became Elvis Duran's Artist of the Month chosen and led for the first time his song Just You And I in the NBC's Today Show live on. The song reached over 21 million streams on Spotify . In May 2017, Walker released his first EP Blessings . The single Heartland , which was produced in collaboration with Naughty Boy , was added to the BBC Radio 1 playlist in August . At the beginning of 2018 he was included in the list of nominees for Sound of 2018 .

On October 13th, the single Leave a Light On was released. This achieved high chart positions in many European countries, including the top 10 in Germany , Austria , Switzerland and the United Kingdom .

Discography

Studio albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)				Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK
2019	What a Time to Be Alive	DE19 (3 weeks) DE	AT34 (1 week) AT	CH8th gold (8 weeks)CH	UK1 platinum (… Where.)UK	First published: March 1, 2019 Sales: + 325,000

Extended plays

• 2017: Blessings (first published May 19, 2017)

Singles

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)				Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK
2017	Leave a Light On What a Time to Be Alive	DE8th platinum (28 weeks)DE	AT2 gold (22 weeks)AT	CH3 × 3 Triple platinum (47 weeks)CH	UK7th × 2 Double platinum (63 weeks)UK	First published: October 13, 2017 Sales: + 2,225,000
2019	Just You and I What a Time to Be Alive	DE93 (3 weeks) DE	AT64 (5 weeks) AT	CH57 gold (14 weeks)CH	UK3 × 2 Double platinum (45 weeks)UK	First published: Jan 11, 2019 Sales: + 1,295,000; Remix feat. Lena Meyer-Landrut
	Now You're Gone What a Time to Be Alive	-	-	-	UK79 silver (7 weeks)UK	First published: May 31, 2019 Sales: + 200,000; feat. Zara Larsson
	Better Half of Me What a Time to Be Alive	-	-	-	UK30th silver (16 weeks)UK	First published: October 4th, 2019 Sales: + 200,000
2020	Wait for you	-	-	-	UK47 (... weeks) UK	First published: June 12, 2020

More singles

• 2016: Sun Goes Down (feat.Kojey Radical)
• 2016: Fly Away with Me
• 2016: Play Dead
• 2017: Blessings
• 2017: Rapture
• 2017: Heartland
• 2017: Karma
• 2017: What a Time to Be Alive
• 2018: My Way
• 2018: Angels
• 2019: All That Matters
• 2019: Not Giving In
• 2019: Heartbeats

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
2018	Walk Alone Toast to Our Differences	-	-	-	UK80 (2 weeks) UK	First published: October 26, 2018 Rudimental feat. Tom Walker

Further guest contributions

• 2018: Human (dodie feat. Tom Walker)
• 2018: Hola (I say) ( Marco Mengoni feat. Tom Walker)
• 2018: Leave a Light On ( Red Hot Chilli Pipers feat. Tom Walker)

Awards for music sales

Golden record  Australia 2019: for the single Just You and I  Netherlands 2018: for the single Leave a Light On  New Zealand 2018: for the single Leave a Light On  Norway 2019: for the album What a Time to Be Alive  Spain 2018: for the single Leave a Light On

Platinum record  Belgium 2018: for the single Leave a Light On  Italy 2019: for the single Just You and I  Poland 2019: for the single Leave a Light On 2 × platinum record  Italy 2018: for the single Leave a Light On

3 × platinum record  Australia 2020: for the single Leave a Light On  Italy 2019: for the single Hola (I Say) Diamond record  France 2019: for the single Leave a Light On

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	3 × platinum3	-	245,000	aria.com.au
Belgium (BEA)	-	-	platinum1	-	40,000	ultratop.be
Germany (BVMI)	-	-	platinum1	-	400,000	musikindustrie.de
France (SNEP)	-	-	-	diamond1	333,333	snepmusique.com
Italy (FIMI)	-	-	6 × platinum6th	-	300,000	fimi.it
New Zealand (RMNZ)	-	gold1	-	-	15,000	nztop40.co.nz
Netherlands (NVPI)	-	gold1	-	-	20,000	nvpi.nl
Norway (IFPI)	-	gold1	-	-	15,000	ifpi.no
Austria (IFPI)	-	gold1	-	-	15,000	ifpi.at
Poland (ZPAV)	-	-	platinum1	-	20,000	bestsellery.zpav.pl
Switzerland (IFPI)	-	2 × gold2	3 × platinum3	-	80,000	musikwoche.de
Spain (Promusicae)	-	gold1	-	-	20,000	elportaldemusica.es
United Kingdom (BPI)	2 × silver2	-	5 × platinum5	-	3,240,000	bpi.co.uk
All in all	2 × silver2	8 × gold8th	20 × platinum20th	diamond1

swell

1. ↑ Tom Walker at BBC Music
2. ↑ Tom Walker added to BBC Radio 1 Playlist
3. ↑ Leave a Light On on Apple Music
4. ↑ ^{a b c} Chart sources: DE AT CH UK

Web links

• Official website (English)
• Tom Walker at laut.de
• Biography at Allmusic
• Tom Walker at Discogs