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JESSICA MAUBOY feat. IZ

    Genre : Pop / R&B

    Performances :
    Saturday October 31, 2009
    AVOLUTION STAGE

    Website :
    http://www.jessicamauboy.com.au


  

About This Act :

Jessica Mauboy is an Indigenous Australian singer and songwriter who rose to prominence on the fourth season of Australian Idol in 2006, placing second behind winner Damien Leith. Since Idol she has released two solo albums that have been certified gold and platinum respectively, and has had multiple singles that have charted extremely well, including the number one hit "Burn". From 2007 to 2008 she was also a member of Australian multi-platinum selling girl group, Young Divas.

Mauboy's debut solo single "Running Back" featuring American rapper Flo Rida was released for download on 23 September 2008 and physical sales commenced on 11 October 2008. The single peaked at number 3, spent nineteen weeks on the singles chart and achieved double platinum status for sales of over 140,000 copies. It has also peaked at number 1 on the ARIA Urban Charts. Her debut studio album Been Waiting was released on 22 November and debuted at number 16 peaking at number 11 on the ARIA Album Charts in its ninth week. It peaked at number 1 on the ARIA Urban Charts and was certified platinum for sales of over 70,000 copies. The album was released in Japan on April 22, 2009 and she will promote the album there later in the year. In March 2009, it was announced that Mauboy would release her debut album in the UK and would start promotion in June after signing a contract with the Ministry of Sound label. The deal made Mauboy the second Australian Idol contestant ever to sign a UK record deal, after Ricki-Lee.

Mauboy's second single, "Burn" was released on December 6, 2008 and debuted at number 30 but after 7 weeks of rising up the ARIA singles chart it hit the number 1 spot, making it Mauboy's first number one single. It spent over twenty weeks on the chart and achieved platinum status. Like her first single, it too peaked at number 1 on the ARIA Urban Charts. The single made its debut on the Japan Hot 100 at number ninety-two on April 25, 2009.

On January 26, 2009 at the annual Australia Day concert Mauboy announced that the title track of her album "Been Waiting" would be her next single. The song was meant to make its debut on radio on February 16, 2009 but was pushed forward due to Burn being removed from most radio playlists in light of the bushfires in Victoria. The single was officially released on 14 March 2009 and Mauboy performed it live on Funniest Home Videos on Saturday 4 April.

The single has so far peaked at number 12 and at #6 on the ARIA Urban Charts.

Mauboy is set to return to the recording studio to re-record a track from her album entitled "Because" which will be released as the fourth single on June 12, 2009. On the week of May 25, 2009 "Because" was the number-one most added track on Australian radio.