Wheatus

Wheatus
Brendan Brown, lead singer for Wheatus
General information
origin	Long Island , United States
Genre (s)	Pop rock , pop punk , alternative rock , power pop
founding	1998
Website	www.wheatus.com
Current occupation
Vocals , guitar	Brendan B. Brown
Drums	Kevin Garcia
Electric bass	Matt Milligan
Keyboard	Gerard Hoffmann
Backing song	Johanna Cranitch
Backing song	Georgia Haege
former members
Keyboard, percussion	Phil Jiminez (until 2001)
Keyboard	Shannon Harris (until 2004)
bass	Rich Leigey
bass	Mike McCabe (until 2005)
Drums	Pete Brown (until 2006)
Backing song	Kathryn Froggat (until 2006)
Backing song	Connie Renda (until 2007)
Backing song	Liz Brown (until 2007)

Wheatus is a pop rock band from Long Island , New York . Her most famous song is Teenage Dirtbag from 2000.

history

Wheatus was founded in 1998 by singer and guitarist Brendan B. Brown. Together with his brother Pete Brown (drums) and Rich Leigey (bass), he recorded the album Wheatus (2000), for which he had composed most of the pieces himself.

Her biggest hit was the song Teenage Dirtbag , the theme song of the film Loser - Even Losers Have Luck , which was successful in the charts worldwide in 2000 and 2001. The following single A Little Respect (a cover of Erasure ) was already less successful. The double A-side Leroy  / Wannabe gang star remained completely without a chart placement in Germany .

Due to disagreements between her record label and the band (Brendan Brown wanted to produce the album himself), the second album, Hand over your loved ones, sold very poorly without a promotion , the single American in Amsterdam did not even reach the top 100 in the US Releases could not achieve significant success, so the band remained a one-hit wonder .

The second album was re-released in 2005 (title now: Suck Fony, Montauk Mantis label) and two new songs were recorded. However, outside of the UK, this album is only available online.

In October 2005 the band released their fourth album, Too Soon Monsoon , which was written and produced by Brendan Brown himself, paying almost all costs out of pocket. In 2006 drummer Pete Brown and backing vocalist Kathryn Froggate left the band to start their own.

Discography

Studio albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
2000	Wheatus	DE13 (27 weeks) DE	AT7 (26 weeks) AT	CH22 (20 weeks) CH	UK7th platinum (34 weeks)UK	US76 (9 weeks) US	First published: August 15, 2000

More albums

• 2003: Hand Over Your Loved Ones
• 2005: Suck Fony
• 2005: TooSoonMonsoon
• 2013: The Valentine

EPs

year	title	Remarks
2004	Lemonade	First published: June 28, 2004
	Live at XM	First published: December 14, 2004
2009	The Lightning	First published: June 2, 2009
2010	The Jupiter	First published: December 23, 2010

Singles

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
2000	Teenage Dirtbag Wheatus	DE2 platinum (25 weeks)DE	AT1 platinum (19 weeks)AT	CH3 gold (25 weeks)CH	UK2 × 2 Double platinum (39 weeks)UK	-	First published: July 17, 2000
2001	A Little Respect Wheatus	DE32 (9 weeks) DE	AT19 (15 weeks) AT	CH84 (7 weeks) CH	UK3 silver (15 weeks)UK	-	First published: July 9, 2001
	Wannabe Gangstar / Leroy Wheatus	-	-	-	UK22 (8 weeks) UK	-	First published: December 2001
2003	American in Amsterdam Hand Over Your Loved Ones	-	-	-	UK59 (1 week) UK	-	First published: August 2003

Awards for music sales

Golden record  Denmark 2001: for the single Teenage Dirtbag  Norway 2001: for the single Teenage Dirtbag Platinum record  Belgium 2001: for the single Teenage Dirtbag  Sweden 2001: for the single Teenage Dirtbag

3 × platinum record  Australia 2001: for the single Teenage Dirtbag

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)	-	-	3 × platinum3	210,000	aria.com.au
Belgium (BEA)	-	-	platinum1	50,000	ultratop.be
Denmark (IFPI)	-	gold1	-	4,000	musik.org ( Memento of October 5, 2002 in the Internet Archive )
Germany (BVMI)	-	-	platinum1	500,000	musikindustrie.de
Norway (IFPI)	-	gold1	-	5,000	ifpi.no ( Memento from November 5, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
Austria (IFPI)	-	-	platinum1	40,000	ifpi.at
Sweden (IFPI)	-	-	platinum1	30,000	sverigetopplistan.se
Switzerland (IFPI)	-	gold1	-	20,000	hitparade.ch
United Kingdom (BPI)	silver1	-	3 × platinum3	1,560,000	bpi.co.uk
All in all	silver1	3 × gold3	10 × platinum10

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1. ↑ ^{a b} Chart sources: DE AT CH UK US

Web links

• Official website (English)
• Wheatus on MusicBrainz (English)
• Wheatus at Discogs (English)
• Wheatus at Myspace