Blonde (duo)

Blonde
Origin Bristol, England
Genres Deep house
Years active 2014 (2014)–present
Labels
Website soundcloud.com/blondesound
Members
  • Jacob Manson
  • Adam Englefield

Blonde are an English deep house production duo from Bristol, consisting of Jacob Manson and Adam Englefield.[1] They are signed to Parlophone.[2]

Career

Blonde premiered the track "It's You" via Englefield's dance music YouTube channel Eton Messy in July 2013.[3] In May 2014, Blonde released their debut single "Foolish", which features vocals from Ryan Ashley. In July 2014, they released their second single "Higher Ground", which features vocals from Charli Taft. They came to prominence in the UK after BBC Radio 1 playlisted their single "I Loved You", which the station named their track of the day in October 2014[4][5] and was heavily praised by Radio 1 DJ Greg James on his dance anthems programme.[6] "I Loved You", which features reggae and pop singer Melissa Steel, and received favourable coverage in Clash and Heat magazines.[7][8] The song entered the UK Singles Chart at number seven and the Scottish Singles Chart at number ten.

Blonde released a fourth single, "All Cried Out", featuring vocals from Glee actor Alex Newell; it reached number four in the UK.[9] The duo's fifth single, "Feel Good (It's Alright)", features Karen Harding.

When it came into 2016, they collaborated with returning record producer and star to the music industry Craig David on the song "Nothing Like This". It was part of David's collaborative period which included artists such as Big Narstie, Katy B and Kaytranada and is also a single off of his sixth studio album, entitled Following My Intuition.

Blonde also featured as well as co-written Imani Williams's debut single, entitled "Don't Need No Money", alongside rising house record producer and DJ Sigala. Together, they took part in first ever major featured project as independent musicians. Imani got the inspiration of the track after she exploded into the music industry with Sigala on his 2016 single "Say You Do", alongside drum and bass music producer DJ Fresh.

Discography

Singles

As lead artist

Title Year Peak chart positions Certifications Album
UK
[10]		 UK Dance
[10]		 AUT
[11]		 BEL
(FL)
[12]		 GER
[13]		 IRE
[14] 		SCO
[15]		 SWI
[16]
"Foolish"
(featuring Ryan Ashley)		 2014 — — — 82 — — — — Non-album singles
"Higher Ground"
(featuring Charli Taft)		 — — — — — — — —
"I Loved You"
(featuring Melissa Steel)		 7 5 60 31 25 65 10 56
"All Cried Out"
(featuring Alex Newell)		 2015 4 1 — 59 — 74 4 —
"Feel Good (It's Alright)"
(featuring Karen Harding)		 76 19 — 99 — — — —
"Nothing Like This"
(with Craig David)		 2016 15 5 — 94 — 34
[18] 		— — Following My Intuition
"—" denotes a single that did not chart or was not released.

As featured artist

Title Year Peak chart positions Certifications Album
UK
[10]		 AUS
[19]		 AUT
[20]		 GER
[21]		 IRE
[22]		 ITA
[23]		 NLD
[24]		 NZ
[25]		 SWE
[26]		 SWI
[27]
"Don't Need No Money"
(Imani featuring Sigala and Blonde)		 2016 67 — — — 77 — — — — — Non-album single
"—" denotes single that did not chart or was not released in that territory.

References

  1. ↑ New Noise Blonde, Wonderland Magazine, Retrieved 21 November 2014.
  2. ↑ Blonde sign with Parlophone, Parlophone records, retrieved 21 November 2014.
  3. ↑ "Blonde - "It's You"".
  4. ↑ BBC Radio One Twitter feed, retrieved 22 November 2014.
  5. ↑ BBC Radio 1 playlist, BBC, retrieved 22 November 2014.
  6. ↑ BBC Radio One's Dance Anthems Friday 17 October Music Playlist, BBC, retrieved 21 November 2014.
  7. ↑ Blonde's Bonfire Night Bangers, Clash Magazine, retrieved 21 November 2014,
  8. ↑ Sarah's Shiny New Thing : Blonde - I Loved You, Heat Magazine. Retrieved 21 November 2014
  9. ↑ , retrieved 13 May 2015.
  10. 1 2 3 Peaks in the UK:
  11. ↑ Austriancharts.at – Blonde feat. Melissa Steel – I Loved You Archived 23 March 2015 at the Wayback Machine. Ö3 Austria Top 40. Retrieved 11 February 2015.
  12. ↑ Ultratop.be – Blonde feat. Melissa Steel – I Loved You Ultratop 50. Retrieved 11 February 2015.
  13. ↑ Officialcharts.de – Blonde feat. Melissa Steel – I Loved You GfK Entertainment. Retrieved 9 February 2015.
  14. ↑ Chart Track: Week 3, 2015 Irish Singles Chart. Retrieved 15 January 2015.
  15. ↑ Archive Chart: 2014-12-13 Scottish Singles Top 40. Retrieved 7 December 2014.
  16. ↑ Swisscharts.com – Blonde feat. Melissa Steel – I Loved You Archived 19 February 2015 at the Wayback Machine. Swiss Singles Chart. Retrieved 8 February 2015.
  17. 1 2 3 "BPI Certified Awards > Search". British Phonographic Industry. Retrieved 2015-02-14.
  18. ↑ "GFK Chart-Track".
  19. ↑ Hung, Steffen. "Discography Sigala". Australian Charts Portal. Hung Medien (Steffen Hung). Archived from the original on 15 March 2016.
  20. ↑ Hung, Steffen. "Discographie Sigala". Austrian Charts Portal. Hung Medien (Steffen Hung). Archived from the original on 17 November 2015.
  21. ↑ Hung, Steffen. "Discographie Sigala". German Charts Portal. Hung Medien (Steffen Hung).
  22. ↑ Hung, Steffen. "Discography Sigala". Irish Charts Portal. Hung Medien (Steffen Hung). Archived from the original on 24 June 2016.
  23. ↑ Hung, Steffen. "italiancharts.com - Italian charts portal".
  24. ↑ Hung, Steffen. "Discografie Sigala". Dutch Charts Portal. Hung Medien (Steffen Hung). Archived from the original on 24 February 2016.
  25. ↑ Hung, Steffen. "charts.org.nz - New Zealand charts portal".
  26. ↑ Hung, Steffen. "Discography Sigala". Swedish Charts Portal. Hung Medien (Steffen Hung).
  27. ↑ Hung, Steffen. "Discographie Sigala". Swiss Charts Portal. Hung Medien (Steffen Hung). Archived from the original on 2 October 2015.

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