X ambassadors

X Ambassadors (2015)

Chart positions Explanation of the data

Albums

VHS   DE 56 02/12/2016 (1 week)   UK 41 01/21/2016 (1 week)   US 7th  platinum 07/18/2015 (84 weeks) Orion   US 125 06/29/2019 (1 week)

Singles

Jungle (with Jamie N Commons)   DE 44 04/07/2014 (5 weeks)   UK 18th  silver 08/02/2014 (3 weeks)   US 87  platinum 06/28/2014 (2 weeks) Renegades   DE 10  platinum 12/11/2015 (29 weeks)   AT 25th 06/12/2015 (35 weeks)   CH 2 10/11/2015 (32 weeks)   UK 38  gold 01/08/2016 (6 weeks)   US 17th  × 3 Triple platinum 05/02/2015 (35 weeks) Unsteady   US 20th  × 4 Quadruple platinum 06/04/2016 (34 weeks) Sucker for Pain ( Lil Wayne , Wiz Khalifa & Imagine Dragons feat. Logic , Ty Dolla $ ign & X Ambassadors)   DE 8th  platinum 07/01/2016 (29 weeks)   AT 6th 07/08/2016 (26 weeks)   CH 16  gold 07/31/2016 (22 weeks)   UK 11  platinum 08/05/2016 (22 weeks)   US 15th  × 3 Triple platinum 07/16/2016 (22 weeks) Home (with Machine Gun Kelly & Bebe Rexha )   DE 27 11/24/2017 (19 weeks)   AT 32 December 01, 2017 (16 weeks)   CH 39 11/26/2017 (21 weeks)   UK 64  silver 11/01/2018 (5 weeks)   US 90  gold 09.12.2017 (5 weeks) Bad Husband (with Eminem )   DE 69 12/22/2017 (1 week)

X Ambassadors is an American alternative rock - band from Brooklyn .

Band history

The brothers Sam and Casey Harris and Noah Feldshuh had known each other since childhood. They then formed a band at college and went to New York after leaving school . There they met the drummer Adam Levin and from 2010 the four of them performed as X Ambassadors . They came to Interscope Records and released their first EP after only two years with the title Love Songs, Drug Songs on the major label Universal . As a guest they were in 2013 on the Marshall Mathers LP 2 of Eminem represented. But it was another year before she, in collaboration with Jamie N Commons and thanks to a commercial for the Beats headphones by Dr. Dre had their breakthrough. The song Jungle used in it not only became a chart hit in the USA, but also made it into the Top 50 in Germany and the Top 20 in Great Britain.

From then on they worked with producer Alex da Kid , who also worked for Dr. Dre, Eminem and the Imagine Dragons had worked on their first album. First the EP The Reason was released in 2014 . The following year they had their second big hit with the previously released single Renegades : It reached the top 20 of the official US singles charts and number 1 on the alternative charts. It also went platinum for one million sales. The debut album VHS soon reached number 7 on the Billboard 200 .

Members

• Sam Harris, singer, songwriter
• Casey Harris, keyboardist
• Noah Feldshuh, guitarist
• Adam Levin, drummer

Discography

Albums

• 2012: Litost
• 2015: VHS
• 2019: Orion

EPs

• 2009: Ambassadors
• 2013: Love Songs Drug Songs
• 2014: The Reason

Singles

• 2009: Tropisms
• 2012/2013: Unconsolable
• 2013: Jungle ( Jamie N Commons & X Ambassadors)
• 2015: Renegades
• 2015: American Oxygen
• 2015: Fear ( feat.Imagine Dragons )
• 2015: Unsteady (UK:gold)
• 2016: Collider (with Tom Morello )
• 2017: Hoping
• 2017: Torches
• 2017: The Devil You Know
• 2017: Ahead of Myself
• 2017: Home (with Machine Gun Kelly & Bebe Rexha )
• 2018: Joyful
• 2018: Don't Stay
• 2019: BOOM
• 2019: Hey Child
• 2019: Hold You Down
• 2019: Optimistic
• 2020: Everything Sounds Like A Love Song

As a guest musician

• 2013: Comfortable (The Knocks feat. X Ambassadors)
• 2013: Love of a Life (Keljet feat. X Ambassadors)
• 2015: Cannonball ( Skylar Gray feat. X Ambassadors)
• 2016: Sucker for Pain ( Lil Wayne , Wiz Khalifa & Imagine Dragons feat. Logic , Ty Dolla $ ign & X Ambassadors)
• 2016: Heat (The Knocks feat. Sam Nelson Harris )
• 2016: Not Easy ( Alex da Kid feat. X Ambassadors, Elle King & Wiz Khalifa)
• 2017: Bad Husband ( Eminem feat. X Ambassadors)

Awards for music sales

Golden record  Australia 2019: for the single Jungle  Belgium 2016: for the single Sucker for Pain 2016: for the single Renegades  Denmark 2020: for the single Unsteady  France 2016: for the single Renegades  Italy 2018: for the single Unsteady  Poland 2018: for the album VHS

Platinum record  Australia 2016: for the single Sucker for Pain 2019: for the single Renegades 2019: for the single Unsteady  Denmark 2018: for the single Sucker for Pain  France 2017: for the single Sucker for Pain  Canada 2019: for the album VHS 2.0 2020: for the single jungle  Sweden 2016: for the single Renegades

2 × platinum record  Italy 2018: for the single Sucker for Pain  Canada 2020: for the album VHS 3 × platinum record  Poland 2018: for the single Renegades 4 × platinum record  Italy 2019: for the single Renegades 5 × platinum record  Canada 2019: for the single Unsteady 7 × platinum record  Canada 2019: for the single Renegades

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)	-	2 × gold2	-	30,000	ultratop.be
Denmark (IFPI)	-	gold1	platinum1	135,000	ifpi.dk
Germany (BVMI)	-	-	2 × platinum2	800,000	musikindustrie.de
France (SNEP)	-	gold1	platinum1	225,000	snepmusique.com
Italy (FIMI)	-	gold1	6 × platinum6th	325,000	fimi.it
Canada (MC)	-	-	16 × platinum16	1,280,000	musiccanada.com
Poland (ZPAV)	-	gold1	3 × platinum3	70,000	bestsellery.zpav.pl
Sweden (IFPI)	-	-	platinum1	40,000	sverigetopplistan.se
Switzerland (IFPI)	-	gold1	-	15,000	hitparade.ch
United States (RIAA)	-	gold1	12 × platinum12	12,500,000	riaa.com
United Kingdom (BPI)	2 × silver2	2 × gold2	platinum1	1,800,000	bpi.co.uk
All in all	2 × silver2	11 × gold11	46 × platinum46

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Chart sources: DE AT CH UK1 UK2 US

Web links

• official homepage
• X Ambassadors at Allmusic (English)