Tove Lo

Tove Lo (2014)

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Ebba Tove Elsa Nilsson , better known as Tove Lo , (born October 29, 1987 in Stockholm ) is a Swedish singer and songwriter , best known for her single Habits (Stay High) . She has released four studio albums so far.

Life

Ebba Tove Elsa Nilsson was born the daughter of a psychologist and an entrepreneur. She also has an older brother. Her stage name Tove Lo was given to her by her godmother at the age of 3, as she allegedly had a certain inclination towards lynxes (in Swedish Io ). Lo grew up in the more affluent Djursholm in the municipality of Danderyd , which is about 7 km north of Stockholm. According to her own statements, she had enjoyed a happy childhood because of the well-protected upbringing of her parents and their elegant way of life. In addition to her commendable school performance, she came into contact with literature, whereupon she created her own poems and short stories.

In the course of her youthful development, music became more and more an integral part of her life, so she founded a girl group with a few friends . At the age of 10 or 11 she wrote the first songs with her band. At the age of 15, she made her first compilation , which consisted mainly of poetry , and performed it. Then she enrolled for the Rytmus Musikergymnasiet , a music school in Stockholm. During her stay at Rytmus, she made friends with Caroline Hjelt , who later founded the band Icona Pop with Aino Jawo . After two years of intensive musical training, she decided to pursue a music career from now on, but one that did not meet the expectations of her parents.

Career

2006–2013: career start

In 2006 Lo started writing songs with Christian Bjerring, a guitarist from the band Rytmus. The two formed a rock band called Tremblebee along with three other students from their school. They played together in bars in Sweden for a couple of years and released some of their songs before they split up. During Tremblebee's time, performing on stage became a passion for Lo. She met the Swedish production duo The Struts. After breaking up with her former band, Lo went in the direction of pop music . Then she decided to focus on her own music and stayed in her own studio for six months, recording some demo songs. During this time she learned how to play the drums and also learned a lot about music programming and production. She later lived with Icona Pop in a suburb of Stockholm .

Lo later met an A&R whom she passed a demo to . She met him again at the celebration of Icona Pop's first record deal. The A&R liked the demo and introduced her to a team of songwriters that included The Struts and Hjelt. In 2011 Lo decided to start a career as a songwriter. She got a contract with Warner / Chappell Music and traveled to Los Angeles to work with producer Max Martin . In 2012 she worked with the British production team Xenomania and the Swedish producer Alexander Kronlund. She wrote with them the Something New by Girls Aloud , We Got the World Icona Pop and a few songs for the first album of Xenomania.

Then Lo decided to start a side career as an indie singer. Lo wrote and published much more personal songs. She released her first single, Love Ballad, in October 2012 and her second single, Habits, in March 2013. The latter brought her a lot of attention on the internet. Lo was heard in the song Ron On Love by Lucas Nord, which was released in June 2013 for his album Islands . She was also on the single Strangers by Seven Lions and Myon & Shane 54 for the soundtrack of the 2013 film Chronicles of the Underworld - City of Bones and Seven Lions EP Worlds Apart from 2014. In 2013 she was released by Max Martin and the Swedish Shellback supports producers . She wrote the song Gold by Victoria Justice and a few songs from Tal's album l'infini and Icona Pop's album This Is ... Icona Pop.

2014–2015: Queen of the Clouds

Tove Lo in Helsinki (2014)

After getting attention on the Internet, she was offered a recording contract with Island Records and Polydor Records . Then she focused on an international career as a singer and therefore appeared in a few shows in London and at the South by Southwest Festival in the United States. On March 3, 2014, she released her first EP Truth Serum , which even made it into the Swedish charts. The EP made it to 13th place. It got good reviews for the EP and attention grew to it. Two singles were released from the EP. First the song Out of Mind and the second single was a re-release of their 2013 song Habits as Habits (Stay High) . A remix was released by the American duo Hippie Sabotage under the name Stay High , which became Los breakthroughs in international mainstream music. The song was ranked 13th in Sweden and sixth in the UK. She first appeared on television when she sang her song Habits (Stay High) on Late Night with Seth Meyers in June 2014 . Her debut album Queen of the Clouds was released on September 24, 2014 and received good reviews. It entered the Billboard 200 charts at number 14 and sold 19,000 times in the first week. The album reached number 17 in Great Britain and number 6 in Sweden, where it was awarded platinum by the Swedish Recording Industry Association (GLF), as the album has sold over 40,000 times there. A total of four singles were released from Queen of the Clouds . First, Habits (Stay High) was released again, but this time in the United States, where the song reached number three. The second single Talking Body was placed there at number 12, in Sweden at number 12 and in Great Britain at number 17. Timebomb was released as the third single and Moments was released as the fourth and final single from the album.

Lo can also be heard on the track Heroes (We Could Be) by the Swedish DJ Alesso . The song later appeared on his album Forever . In Sweden, the song was able to place up to fifth place, while it was able to place sixth in Great Britain and 31st in the United States. She played a time in the opening act of Katy Perry's Prismatic World Tour in November 2014. She recorded the song Scream My Name for the soundtrack of the film The Hunger Games - Mockingjay Part 1 , which was also released in November 2014. At the end of 2014 she was added to a songwriting group of Max Martin. She wrote songs for the album Sorry I'm Late by Cher Lloyd , Louder by Lea Michele and 1 by Zara Larsson , among others . Lo also wrote What Are You Waiting For? by The Saturdays . In December 2014, Lo said that she was taking time off because she needed to have surgery on her vocal cords. The operation took place on January 3, 2015 and was successful.

Tove Lo at the Melt! in Germany (2015)

At the Grammis she won in the categories Artist of the Year and Song of the Year with the song Habits (Stay High) . Lo could be heard in the song by Swedish group Urban Cone Come Back to Me , released in March 2015 for their album Polaroid Memories . In May 2015 it was announced that she and singer Adam Lambert had recorded a song for his next album The Original High . She wrote, among other things, the song Love Me Like You Do by Ellie Goulding , which debuted in the German charts at number 1, and the song Sparks by Hilary Duff . Lo also wrote other songs for Duff's fifth album Breathe In. Breathe out. namely Stay In Love and One in A Million . With Love Me Like You Do , Lo was able to record another Grammy nomination. On October 2nd, 2015, a new version of their first album Queen of the Clouds was released as a blueprint version. It contains all the songs from the original, plus the songs Over , Out of Mind and Paradise from their EP Truth Serum . Heroes (We Could Be) was also added. In order to promote this edition or the whole album, she made a tour through North America in September and October 2015, during which Lo played a total of 16 concerts.

At the end of 2015 she won the STIM platinum guitar award. You heard Lo on the track Fun from the band Coldplay's seventh studio album A Head Full of Dreams , which was released on December 4th, 2015. Tove Lo was also featured on Close , the first single from Nick Jonas' third album . The song was released on March 25, 2016. Say It , a song by Flume , was also sung by Tove Lo and released on April 20, 2016.

2016–2018: Lady Wood and Blue Lips

In an interview during the 2016 Billboard Music Awards, Lo confirmed that she has finished recording her second studio album, which is much darker and more dreamy than the first album. To promote this, she sang 18 times as the opening act for the Maroon V Tour in the United States. On August 4, 2016 she released the first single Cool Girl from her second studio album Lady Wood , which was released on October 28, 2016. On October 23, 2016, five days before the album's release, Lo announced a tour that would see her touring North America and Europe on 21 dates in early 2017 to promote the album.

She released her short film Fairy Dust on October 28, 2016. It is a kind of music video in which the songs Fairy Dust , Influence , Lady Wood , True Disaster , Cool Girl , Vibes and a new song, namely What I Want For the Night ( Bitches) appear in it. The song True Disaster was released as the second single in November of the same year, but it was not successful. In February 2017 Lo contributed the song Lies in the Dark for the soundtrack of the film Fifty Shades Darker . She wrote the song Homemade Dynamite with Lorde , which was then released on Lorde's second studio album Melodrama in June 2017. A remix of the song was later released as a single. From June to October 2017 she will support Coldplay on their A Head Full of Dreams Tour . The second short film Fire Fade was released on August 25, 2017 and contains the songs Fire Fade , Don't Talk About It , Imaginary Friend , Keep It Simple , Flashes and WTF Love Is .

Her third album is titled Blue Lips and is the second half of her previous album . The first single Disco Tits was released on September 7, 2017. The album was finally released on November 17, 2017. It could not bring in the success of its predecessor.

On June 7, 2018, the remix for the song Bitches was released as the second single from the album. It includes guest posts from Charli XCX , Icona Pop , Alma and Elliphant . A short film was also released for Blue Lips in 2018, which contains almost all (except one) songs on the album. In October of the same year she was heard on the song Blowin 'Smoke by Major Lazer .

2019-present: New album

For 2019, Tove Lo announced new music in December 2018. On May 1st, 2019 the song Win Win by Diplo was released on which she can also be heard. The single Glad He's Gone was released on May 31, 2019.

Discography

Albums

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	SE
2014	Queen of the Clouds Island	DE49 (1 week) DE	AT47 (1 week) AT	-	UK17th silver (2 weeks)UK	US14th platinum (65 weeks)US	SE6th platinum (79 weeks)SE	First published: September 24, 2014 Sales: + 1,210,000
2016	Lady Wood Island	DE66 (1 week) DE	-	CH40 (1 week) CH	UK40 (1 week) UK	US11 (3 weeks) US	SE1 (26 weeks) SE	First published: October 28, 2016
2017	Blue Lips (Lady Wood Phase II) Island	-	-	-	-	US138 (1 week) US	SE15 (2 weeks) SE	First published: November 17, 2017
2019	Sunshine Kitty Universal	-	-	CH88 (1 week) CH	UK59 (1 week) UK	US61 (1 week) US	SE19 (3 weeks) SE	First published: September 20, 2019

EPs

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	SE
2014	Truth Serum Universal / Island / Neon Gold / Polydor	-	-	-	-	-	SE13 (29 weeks) SE	First published: March 3, 2014

Singles

Chart placements

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)						Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US	SE
2013	Habits (Stay High) Truth Serum / Queen of the Clouds	DE14th × 3 Triple gold (53 weeks)DE	AT3 gold (42 weeks)AT	CH3 gold (44 weeks)CH	UK6th platinum (33 weeks)UK	US3 × 5 Quintuple platinum (39 weeks)US	SE13 × 3 Triple platinum (70 weeks)SE	First published: March 13, 2013 Sales: + 4,468,600
2015	Talking Body Queen of the Clouds	DE100 (1 week) DE	-	-	UK17th platinum (19 weeks)UK	US12 × 2 Double platinum (30 weeks)US	SE16 (32 weeks) SE	First published: Jan 13, 2015 Sales: + 2,485,000
2016	Cool girl Lady Wood	DE43 gold (15 weeks)DE	AT53 (13 weeks) AT	CH49 (15 weeks) CH	UK46 silver (14 weeks)UK	US84 (5 weeks) US	SE15th platinum (16 weeks)SE	First published: August 4th, 2016 Sales: + 745,000
	True Disaster Lady Wood	-	-	-	-	-	SE56 (2 weeks) SE	First published: November 15, 2016
	Influence Lady Wood	-	-	-	-	-	SE78 (1 week) SE	Chart entry: September 9, 2016 feat. Wiz Khalifa
2017	Disco Tits Blue Lips (Lady Wood Phase II)	-	-	-	-	-	SE55 (1 week) SE	First published: September 7, 2017
2019	Glad He's Gone Sunshine Kitty	-	-	-	-	-	SE38 (2 weeks) SE	First published: May 31, 2019
	Jacques Sunshine Kitty	-	-	-	UK67 (2 weeks) UK	-	SE61 (1 week) SE	First published: August 28, 2019 with Jax Jones
	Sweettalk My Heart Sunshine Kitty	-	-	-	-	-	SE48 (10 weeks) SE	First published: September 18, 2019
2020	Bikini Porn	-	-	-	-	-	SE76 (1 week) SE	First published: January 15, 2020
	Calling on Me	-	-	-	-	-	SE97 (1 week) SE	Chart entry: February 14, 2020 with Sean Paul
	I'm coming	-	-	-	-	-	SE12 (... weeks) SE	Chart entry: March 27, 2020

More singles

• 2012: Love Ballad
• 2013: Habits
• 2013: Out of Mind
• 2013: Stay High (Hippie Sabotage Remix)
• 2014: Not on Drugs
• 2015: Timebomb
• 2015: Moments
• 2016: Scars
• 2018: Bitches ( feat.Charli XCX , Icona Pop , Elliphant & Alma )
• 2019: Bad As the Boys (feat.Alma)
• 2019: Really Don't Like U ( feat.Kylie Minogue )

Guest Posts

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)						Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US	SE
2014	Heroes (We Could Be) Forever	DE71 (14 weeks) DE	AT41 (10 weeks) AT	CH47 (16 weeks) CH	UK6th platinum (28 weeks)UK	US31 platinum (20 weeks)US	SE5 × 4 Quadruple platinum (39 weeks)SE	First published: Aug 25, 2014 Sales: + 1,647,500; Alesso feat. Tove Lo
2016	Desire Communion	-	-	-	UK27 platinum (23 weeks)UK	-	-	First published: March 4, 2016 Sales: + 600,000; Years & Years feat. Tove Lo
	Close Last Year Was Complicated	DE61 (10 weeks) DE	AT54 (7 weeks) AT	CH39 (14 weeks) CH	UK25th gold (19 weeks)UK	US14th platinum (20 weeks)US	SE41 platinum (12 weeks)SE	First published: March 25, 2016 Sales: + 1,455,000; Nick Jonas feat. Tove Lo
	Say It Skin	-	-	-	UK69 silver (1 week)UK	US60 gold (4 weeks)US	-	First published: April 29, 2016 Sales: + 1,035,000; Flume feat. Tove Lo
2018	Blow That Smoke Major Lazer Essentials	-	-	-	-	-	SE71 (1 week) SE	First published: October 17th, 2018 Major Lazer feat. Tove Lo

Further guest contributions

• 2013: Run on Love (Lucas Nord feat.Tove Lo)
• 2014: Strangers (Steven Lions, Myon & Shane 54 feat.Tove Lo)
• 2015: Come Back to Me ( Urban Cone feat.Tove Lo)
• 2015: Rumors ( Adam Lambert feat.Tove Lo)
• 2015: Fun ( Coldplay feat.Tove Lo)
• 2017: Out of My Head ( Charli XCX feat.Tove Lo & ALMA )
• 2018: Colorblind (Karma Fields feat.Tove Lo)
• 2018: Heart Attack (Phoebe Ryan feat.Tove Lo)
• 2019: Diva (Aazar feat.Swae Lee & Tove Lo)

Music videos

year	title	Director (s)
2012	Love Ballad	Motellet
2013	Habits (first version)
	Out of Mind	Andreas Öhman
2014	Habits (second version)	Motellet
	Habits (Stay High) (Hippie Sabotage Remix)
	Not on drugs	Rikkard Häggbom
	Over	Rankin
2015	Talking body	Andreas Weman and Johan Lydén
	Timebomb	Emil Nava
	Moments	Tim Erem
2016	Cool girl
	True disaster

Awards

year	Award	category	plant	Result
2015	Grammis 2015	Artist of the year 2015		Won
		Song of the year 2015	Habits (Stay High)	Won
		Pop of the year 2015	Queen of the Clouds	Nominated
2017	Grammis 2017	Artist of the year 2018	Lady Wood	Nominated
		Pop of the year 2018		Nominated
2018	Grammis 2018	Album of the year 2018	Blue Lips (Lady Wood Phase II)	Nominated
		Artist of the year 2018		Nominated
		Pop of the year 2018	Blue Lips (Lady Wood Phase II)	Won
		Producer of the year 2018 (together with Jakob Jerlström / Ludvig Söderberg / Ali Payami )		Nominated
		Copywriter of the year 2018		Won

Awards for music sales

Golden record  Australia 2016: for the single Cool Girl  Belgium 2014: for the single Habits (Stay High) 2016: for the single Close  Denmark 2016: for the single Cool Girl 2017: for the single Desire  France 2015: for the single Habits (Stay High) 2017: for the single Cool Girl  Italy 2016: for the single Talking Body 2016: for the single Close 2016: for the single Cool Girl 2019: for the song Fun  Canada 2015: for the single Heroes (We Could Be) 2016: for the single Say It  Mexico 2016: for the album Queen of the Clouds

Platinum record  Australia 2014: for the single Heroes (We Could Be)  Denmark 2014: for Streaming Habits (Stay High) 2015: for the single Talking Body 2015: for the single Heroes (We Could Be) 2019: for the album Queen of the Clouds  Italy 2015: for the single Heroes (We Could Be) 2016: for the single Habits (Stay High)  Poland 2015: for the album Queen of the Clouds 2020: for the single Cool Girl 2 × platinum record  Australia 2014: for the single Habits (Stay High)  Canada 2014: for the single Habits (Stay High) 4 × platinum record  Australia 2017: for the single Say It

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

Country / Region	silver	gold	platinum	Sales	swell
Awards for music sales (country / region, awards, sales, sources)
Australia (ARIA)	-	gold1	7 × platinum7th	525,000	aria.com.au
Belgium (BEA)	-	2 × gold2	-	30,000	ultratop.be
Denmark (IFPI)	-	2 × gold2	4 × platinum4th	200,000	ifpi.dk
Germany (BVMI)	-	2 × gold2	platinum1	650,000	musikindustrie.de
France (SNEP)	-	2 × gold2	-	150,000	infodisc.fr snepmusique.com
Italy (FIMI)	-	4 × gold4th	2 × platinum2	200,000	fimi.it
Canada (MC)	-	2 × gold2	2 × platinum2	240,000	musiccanada.com
Mexico (AMPROFON)	-	gold1	-	30,000	amprofon.com.mx
Austria (IFPI)	-	gold1	-	15,000	ifpi.at
Poland (ZPAV)	-	-	2 × platinum2	40,000	bestsellery.zpav.pl
Sweden (IFPI)	-	-	10 × platinum10	400,000	sverigetopplistan.se
Switzerland (IFPI)	-	gold1	-	15,000	hitparade.ch
United States (RIAA)	-	gold1	10 × platinum10	10,500,000	riaa.com
United Kingdom (BPI)	3 × silver3	gold1	4 × platinum4th	3,260,000	bpi.co.uk
All in all	3 × silver3	20 × gold20th	42 × platinum42

swell

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2. ↑ ^{a b} Mark Savage: Tove Lo: A Swedish pop star in waiting. In: BBC. April 11, 2014, accessed March 27, 2017 . 
3. ↑ Brennan Carley: Primer: Everything to Know About Tove Lo, Sweden's Newest Pop Sensation. In: Vulture. June 23, 2014, accessed March 27, 2017 . 
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5. ^ ^{A b} John D. Buchanan: Tove Lo Biography. In: AllMusic. Retrieved March 27, 2017 . 
6. ^ Geoffrey Rowlands: Musical high for the 'saddest girl in Sweden'. In: Gulf Times. June 2, 2015, accessed March 27, 2017 . 
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12. ↑ vulture.com Tove Lo - Sweden's new pop sensation
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14. ↑ mtv.com 20 songs written by Tove Lo
15. ↑ billboard.com Tove Lo gets a record deal
16. ↑ Timebomb ( memento from December 26, 2015 on WebCite ) - single
17. ↑ Moments ( Memento from January 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) - single
18. ↑ pastemagazine.com Lo about her operation
19. ↑ grammis.se Tove Lo wins two Grammis
20. ↑ josepvinaixa.com ( Memento of the original from November 17, 2016 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. Lo about their second album 
21. ^ Rollingstone.com Lady Wood Tour
22. ↑ ^{a b c d} Chart sources: SE DE AT CH UK US
23. ^ Michael Cragg: New music: Tove Lo - Love Ballad . In: The Guardian . October 11, 2012. Retrieved June 18, 2015.
24. ↑ Frida Tobiasson: PREMIERE: Tove Lo - "Habits" ( Swedish ) Sveriges Television . March 15, 2013. Archived from the original on September 23, 2015. Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved June 18, 2015. 
25. ↑ Out Of Mind - Tove Lo . Vevo . Retrieved June 18, 2015.
26. ↑ Steven Gottlieb: Tove Lo "Habits" (Motellet, dir.) . VideoStatic. March 17, 2014. Retrieved June 18, 2015.
27. ↑ Habits (Stay High) - Hippie Sabotage Remix - Tove Lo . Vevo. Retrieved June 18, 2015.
28. ^ Tove Lo | Not On Drugs | Video ( German ) Universal Music Germany . Retrieved June 18, 2015.
29. ↑ Exclusive: Tove Lo - Over . Hunger TV. November 13, 2014. Retrieved July 22, 2015.
30. ^ Tove Lo | Talking Body | Video ( German ) Universal Music Germany. Retrieved June 18, 2015.
31. ↑ Jessie Morris: Watch Tove Lo's New "Timebomb" Video . In: Complex . June 22, 2015. Accessed June 23, 2015.
32. ↑ Natalie Weiner: Watch Tove Lo's Wild New Video for 'Moments' . In: Billboard . October 21, 2015. Retrieved October 26, 2015.
33. ↑ Brian Josephs: Tove Lo Is a 'Cool Girl' in the Desert in Latest Video . In: Spin . August 19, 2016. Retrieved October 25, 2016.
34. ↑ The video for 'True Disaster' . In: laut.de . Retrieved December 7, 2016.

Web links

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• official website (English)
• Tove Lo at Allmusic (English)