Twenty One Pilots

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Twenty One Pilots (2015).
Twenty One Pilots (2015).
General information
origin Columbus , Ohio , United States
Genre (s) Alternative rock ,
alternative hip-hop ,
electro-rock ,
rap-rock ,
crossover ,
indie-rock ,
indie-pop ,
pop-rock
founding 2009
Website www.twentyonepilots.com
Current occupation
Tyler Joseph
Josh Dun (since 2011)
former members
Bass, keyboard
Nick Thomas (until 2011)
Drums
Chris Salih (until 2011)

Twenty One Pilots (proper spelling: Twenty One Pilots or Twenty One Pilots , abbreviation: TOP ) is an American musician - Duo from Columbus , Ohio .

history

The band was formed in 2009 and today consists of Tyler Joseph and Josh Dun . Other former members were Nick Thomas (bass, piano, keyboard; vocals) and Chris Salih (drums).

Twenty One Pilots released the albums Twenty One Pilots (2009) and Regional at Best (2011) before being signed to the Fueled by Ramen record label in 2012 , which has also been recognized for the success of bands like Panic! at the Disco and Paramore is responsible.

Her third studio album, Vessel , was released in 2013 and was very successful. With their fourth album, Blurryface , which was released in May 2015, the duo achieved their international breakthrough. It entered the German, Austrian, Swiss and British charts. In the USA, the album reached number 1 in the album charts with almost 150,000 records sold. The album Blurryface received the award of most successful rock album of the decade of 2010 at the end of 2019. In June 2016, they released the song Heathens , which became one of their greatest commercial hits and was used as the soundtrack for the film Suicide Squad . Her fifth album Trench , which contains 14 tracks, was released in October 2018 .

For the song Stressed Out , Twenty One Pilots were recognized at the Grammy Awards 2017 for best pop performance by a duo / group . In 2017 they were also nominated for the Billboard Music Awards and won them in the categories of Best Rock Song , Best Rock Artist , Best Duo / Group , Top Radio Songs Artist and Billboard Music Chart Achievement .

During the COVID-19 pandemic , Twenty One Pilots released the song Level of Concern , which was written while the two musicians were in complete self-isolation. The song includes the COVID-19 pandemic and is intended to spread hope during this difficult time.

Fan base

Skeleton clique logo

The band's fan base is known as the Skeleton Clique ( clique for short ). Your logo consists of two long lines with three short ones overlapping the long ones. The left figure has an alien-like head (this figure is supposed to represent Josh Dun), the right one has a skeletal head (this figure is supposed to represent Tyler Joseph).

Discography

Studio albums

year Title
music label
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placementsTemplate: chart table / maintenance / without sources
(Year, title, music label , placements, weeks, awards, notes)
Remarks
DE DE AT AT CH CH UK UK US US
2009 Twenty One Pilots
self-distribution
- - - - US139 (15 weeks)
US
First published: December 29, 2009
2011 Regional at best
self-distribution
- - - - -
First published: July 8, 2011
2013 Vessel
Fueled by Ramen
- - - UK39
gold
gold

(55 weeks)UK
US21st
Double platinum
× 2
Double platinum

(167 weeks)US
First published:
Jan 8, 2013 Sales: + 2,140,000
2015 Blurryface
Fueled by Ramen
DE27
gold
gold

(63 weeks)DE
AT12
platinum
platinum

(55 weeks)AT
CH22nd
platinum
platinum

(63 weeks)CH
UK5
platinum
platinum

(120 weeks)UK
US1
Quadruple platinum
× 4
Quadruple platinum

(… Where.)Template: chart table / maintenance / preliminary / 2015US
First published: May 17, 2015
Sales: + 5,085,000
2018 Trench
Fueled by Ramen
DE4 (13 weeks)
DE
AT3 (19 weeks)
AT
CH4 (19 weeks)
CH
UK2
gold
gold

(30 weeks)UK
US2
platinum
platinum

(64 weeks)US
First published: October 5, 2018
Sales: + 1,180,000

Awards for music sales

Individual evidence

  1. ^ ITunes Music Twenty One Pilots . Retrieved April 14, 2014.
  2. Twenty One Pilots Laut.de biography . Retrieved April 14, 2014.
  3. Vessel Album criticism Laut.de . Retrieved April 14, 2014.
  4. Tyler Sharp: twenty one pilots debut at No. 1 with 'Blurryface' ( Memento of the original from May 29, 2015 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. , Alternative Press @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.altpress.com
  5. Twenty One Pilots: "Blurryface" reaches new streaming milestone. In: MoreCore. March 21, 2020, accessed June 19, 2020 .
  6. Trench. Accessed October 10, 2018 .

Web links

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