Vanessa Carlton

Vanessa Carlton (2009)

Vanessa Lee Carlton (born August 16, 1980 in Milford , Pennsylvania ) is an American pop singer , songwriter and pianist .

biography

Carlton's mother is also a pianist and teacher; her father a pilot and her uncle Larry Carlton a musician and producer. She took ballet lessons from a young age until she began dance training at the School Of American Ballet in New York at the age of 14 . After successfully completing her training, however, she did not continue her career as a dancer, but instead focused on the profession of singer and songwriter.

At the beginning of her musical career at the age of 17, she worked as a waitress in the Manhattan borough of New York . In addition, she performed there in various clubs, where she performed the songs she wrote and composed.

Carlton's very successful debut album Be Not Nobody was released in 2002 and went platinum . It included, among other things, the releases Ordinary Day and A Thousand Miles , which in 2003 even brought her a nomination for the Grammy Award for the "Single of the Year".

In 2003, the title Rinse also appeared on the soundtrack for the TV series Charmed - Magic Witches .

Her second album Harmonium , the success of which did not match that of her debut, was released in October 2004. The single White Houses was the first to be released from it. In the accompanying video, Carlton can be seen as a ballet dancer.

On October 9, 2007, the third album entitled Heroes & Thieves was released. In addition to the track of the same name Heroes & Thieves , the CD also includes the tracks Put Your Hands on Me (album title: Hands on Me ), Best Behavior and All is Well as well as This Time (co-written by Linda Perry ), which were presented live in 2005 . .

The pre-release single, Nolita Fairytale , was sent to US radio stations on July 17, 2007 and has been available on the iTunes Store since that day . The video for the single was shot on July 28, 2007 in Lafayette Street and Bond Street in upstate New York's Little Italy district .

On July 26, 2011, Vanessa Carlton's fourth album entitled "Rabbits on the run" was released. In the first week of its release, it peaked at number 62 on the US Billboard 200 .

Vanessa Carlton has been married to John McCauley (* 1986), the singer-songwriter of the band Deer Tick , since December 2013 . The couple have a daughter named Sidney Aoibheann Carlton-McCauley, who was born in January 2015.

Discography

Studio albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
2002	Be Not Nobody	DE7 (13 weeks) DE	AT13 (9 weeks) AT	CH15 (21 weeks) CH	UK7th gold (17 weeks)UK	US5 platinum (51 weeks)US	First published: April 30, 2002
2004	harmonium	-	-	-	-	US33 (7 weeks) US	First published: November 9, 2004
2007	Heroes & Thieves	-	-	-	-	US44 (3 weeks) US	First published: October 9, 2007
2011	Rabbits on the Run	-	-	-	-	US62 (1 week) US	First published: July 26, 2011
2015	Liberman	-	-	-	-	-	First published: October 23, 2015
2020	Love is an art	-	-	-	-	-	First published: March 27, 2020

Compilations

year	title	Remarks
2011	Icon: Best of	First published: January 4, 2011

Singles

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
2002	A Thousand Miles Be Not Nobody	DE14 (16 weeks) DE	AT12 (20 weeks) AT	CH8 (32 weeks) CH	UK6th platinum (23 weeks)UK	US5 (41 weeks) US	First published: February 12, 2002
	Ordinary Day Be Not Nobody	-	-	CH64 (8 weeks) CH	UK53 (2 weeks) UK	US30 (18 weeks) US	First published: April 14, 2002
2003	Pretty Baby Be Not Nobody	-	-	CH62 (2 weeks) CH	UK94 (1 week) UK	-	First published: February 11, 2003
2004	White Houses Harmonium	-	-	-	-	US86 (6 weeks) US	First published: August 30, 2004

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	US
2003	Big Yellow Taxi Hard Candy	DE67 (9 weeks) DE	AT40 (10 weeks) AT	CH63 (5 weeks) CH	UK16 (10 weeks) UK	US42 gold (20 weeks)US	First published: February 2003 Counting Crows featuring Vanessa Carlton
2004	Everybody's Got to Learn Sometime Zu & Co.	-	AT56 (7 weeks) AT	-	-	-	First published: May 2004 Zucchero featuring Vanessa Carlton

Awards for music sales

Silver record  United Kingdom 2019: for the author participation Good Life ( G-Eazy & Kehlani ) Golden record  Australia 2002: for the album Be Not Nobody  Belgium 2002: for the single A Thousand Miles  Denmark 2019: for the author participation Good Life (G-Eazy & Kehlani) 2019: for the single A Thousand Miles  Germany 2018: for the author participation Good Life (G-Eazy & Kehlani)  France 2003: for the single A Thousand Miles  Italy 2017: for the author participation Good Life (G-Eazy & Kehlani)  Canada 2003: for the album Be Not Nobody  New Zealand 2002: for the single A Thousand Miles  United States 2017: for the author participation Good Life (G-Eazy & Kehlani)

Platinum record  Australia 2018: for the author participation Good Life (G-Eazy & Kehlani) 2 × platinum record  Australia 2002: for the single A Thousand Miles

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	3 × platinum3	245,000	aria.com.au
Belgium (BEA)	-	gold1	-	15,000	ultratop.be
Denmark (IFPI)	-	2 × gold2	-	90,000	ifpi.dk
Germany (BVMI)	-	gold1	-	200,000	musikindustrie.de
France (SNEP)	-	gold1	-	250,000	infodisc.fr snepmusique.com
Italy (FIMI)	-	gold1	-	25,000	fimi.it
Canada (MC)	-	gold1	-	50,000	musiccanada.com
New Zealand (RMNZ)	-	gold1	-	7,500	nztop40.co.nz
United States (RIAA)	-	2 × gold2	platinum1	2,000,000	riaa.com
United Kingdom (BPI)	silver1	gold1	platinum1	900,000	bpi.co.uk
All in all	silver1	12 × gold12	5 × platinum5

swell

1. ↑ Rabbits on the run on Billboard.com (chart placement)
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Chart sources: DE AT CH UK US

Web links

Commons : Vanessa Carlton  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Official Website of Vanessa Carlton (English)
• Vanessa Carlton in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Vanessa Carlton at MusicBrainz (English)
• Vanessa Carlton at Discogs (English)