Tones and I

Tones and I (2020)

Tones and I (born Toni Watson in Mount Martha on May 13, 1993 ) is an Australian singer-songwriter . Her international breakthrough came in 2019 with the song Dance Monkey , which reached number one in her home country and in several European charts.

life and career

Watson comes from Mornington Peninsula in the Australian state of Victoria . In high school she learned to play the keyboard and drum pad . At that time she was already making her first appearances under her real name in her home country, including at the Let Go Fest festival . 2017 Watson received by the stage name sound and I permission to street music in the center of Melbourne . In the same year she also performed in Byron Bay and became a popular street musician. She quit her retail job and moved to Byron Bay. At the end of 2018 she won the street musician competition at Buskers by the Creek , Australia's largest street music festival.

In March 2019, she released her debut single Johnny Run Away , which entered the ARIA charts in May and reached number 12. The two follow-up singles Dance Monkey and Never Seen the Rain also hit the single charts immediately after their releases. After several live performances, including at the Splendor in the Grass festival , Dance Monkey rose to the top of the Australian singles charts in August 2019 as the first song by an Australian artist in a year . Dance Monkey placed in the music charts worldwide, among others in several Scandinavian countries on the top position. The song also reached number one in the singles charts in Germany, Austria and Switzerland in September 2019. In August 2019 she released her debut EP The Kids Are Coming with six titles.

Discography

EPs

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)						Remarks
		AU	DE	AT	CH	UK	US
2019	The kids are coming	AU3 gold (… Where.)AU	-	AT48 (5 weeks) AT	CH82 (4 weeks) CH	-	US30 (... weeks) US	First published: August 30, 2019 Sales: + 125,000

Singles

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)						Remarks
		AU	DE	AT	CH	UK	US
2019	Johnny Run Away The Kids Are Coming	AU12 × 2 Double platinum (22 weeks)AU	-	-	-	-	-	First published: March 1st, 2019 Sales: + 140,000
	Dance Monkey The Kids Are Coming	AU1 × 12 Twelve times platinum (… Where.)AU	DE1 diamond (… Where.)DE	AT1 × 2 Double platinum (… Where.)AT	CH1 × 3 Triple platinum (… Where.)CH	UK1 × 4 Quadruple platinum (… Where.)UK	US4th × 3 Triple platinum (36 weeks)US	First published: May 10, 2019 Sales: +11,400,000
	Never Seen the Rain The Kids Are Coming	AU7th × 4 Quadruple platinum (43 weeks)AU	DE51 (12 weeks) DE	AT70 (1 week) AT	CH49 (18 weeks) CH	UK99 (2 weeks) UK	-	First published: July 16, 2019 Sales: + 475,000
2020	Bad Child	AU15th platinum (15 weeks)AU	-	-	CH73 (1 week) CH	-	-	First published: March 12, 2020 Sales: + 70,000
	Ur So F ** king Cool	AU44 (6 weeks) AU	DE37 (... weeks) DE	AT21 (... weeks) AT	CH93 (1 week) CH	-	-	First published: May 29, 2020

More singles

• The Kids Are Coming (2019)
• Can't Be Happy All the Time (2020)

Awards for music sales

Golden record  France 2020: for the single Never Seen the Rain 2020: for the album The Kids Are Coming  Canada 2020: for the single Never Seen the Rain 2020: for the album The Kids Are Coming  New Zealand 2020: for the single Never Seen the Rain  Portugal 2019: for the single Dance Monkey Platinum record  Belgium 2020: for the single Never Seen the Rain 2 × platinum record  Netherlands 2019: for the single Dance Monkey

3 × platinum record  Denmark 2020: for the single Dance Monkey 4 × platinum record  Belgium 2020: for the single Dance Monkey  Italy 2020: for the single Dance Monkey  New Zealand 2020: for the single Dance Monkey 5 × platinum record  Spain 2020: for the single Dance Monkey

Diamond record  France 2019: for the single Dance Monkey  Canada 2020: for the single Dance Monkey  Poland 2020: for the single Dance Monkey 2 × diamond records  Brazil 2020: for the single Dance Monkey

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

Country / Region	gold	platinum	diamond	Sales	swell
Awards for music sales (country / region, awards, sales, sources)
Australia (ARIA)	gold1	19 × platinum19th	-	1,365,000	aria.com.au
Belgium (BEA)	-	5 × platinum5	-	200,000	ultratop.be
Brazil (PMB)	-	-	2 × diamond2	320,000	pro-musicabr.org.br
Denmark (IFPI)	-	3 × platinum3	-	270,000	ifpi.dk
Germany (BVMI)	-	-	diamond1	1,000,000	musikindustrie.de
France (SNEP)	2 × gold2	-	diamond1	483,333	snepmusique.com
Italy (FIMI)	-	4 × platinum4th	-	280,000	fimi.it
Canada (MC)	2 × gold2	-	diamond1	880,000	musiccanada.com
New Zealand (RMNZ)	gold1	4 × platinum4th	-	135,000	nztop40.co.nz
Netherlands (NVPI)	-	2 × platinum2	-	160,000	nvpi.nl
Austria (IFPI)	-	2 × platinum2	-	60,000	ifpi.at
Poland (ZPAV)	-	-	diamond1	100,000	bestsellery.zpav.pl
Portugal (AFP)	gold1	-	-	10,000	Individual evidence
Switzerland (IFPI)	-	3 × platinum3	-	60,000	hitparade.ch
Spain (Promusicae)	-	5 × platinum5	-	200,000	elportaldemusica.es
United States (RIAA)	-	3 × platinum3	-	3,000,000	riaa.com
United Kingdom (BPI)	-	4 × platinum4th	-	2,400,000	bpi.co.uk
All in all	7 × gold7th	54 × platinum54	6 × diamond6th

Web links

Commons : Tones and I  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Tones and I website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Mystery over Dance Monkey star Tones and I's real age . November 21, 2019, ISSN  1170-0777 ( nzherald.co.nz [accessed November 26, 2019]).
2. ↑ Tones and I at Allmusic (English)
3. ↑ ianzogby: live street performance. January 19, 2019, accessed June 15, 2020 . 
4. ↑ Declan Byrne: Meet Tones And I, the busker who got Unearthed buzzing. February 21, 2019, accessed September 6, 2019 . 
5. ↑ Tones And I releases new single Johnny Run Away, and it's going gangbusters. In: Blank Gold Coast. February 28, 2019, Retrieved September 6, 2019 (American English). 
6. ↑ abc.net.au
7. ↑ theindustryobserver.thebrag.com
8. ↑ ^{a b c} Chart sources: AU DE AT CH UK US
9. ↑ bad guy by Billie Eilish Named Biggest Global Single of 2019. ifpi.org, March 10, 2020, accessed on March 11, 2020 . 
10. ↑ Gold for Dance Monkey in Portugal ( Memento from November 19, 2019 in the Internet Archive )