Guy Sebastian
Guy Sebastian is the only Australian male artist to have ever achieved six number one singles and two number one albums in chart history. Over the course of his career Guy has received 22 ARIA Award Nominations .
Six of those singles have achieved multi-platinum certification, including the 8x platinum Battle Scars. With 42 platinum, three gold certifications and combined album and single sales over 3 million in Australia, Guy has one of Australia’s best success stories. And in August 2013, Battle Scars went Platinum in the US, with Guy being one of few artists in Australian music history to achieve this.
In 2003, Guy became the first Australian Idol winner, capturing the hearts of Australians with his uniqueness and incredible vocal talent. His debut album Just As I Am once again dominated with record breaking sales.
In October 2008 The Memphis Album became Guy’s third album to be nominated for the Highest Selling Album category at the prestigious ARIA Awards.
In 2010 Guy toured the US and Australia, worked as a judge on Channel 7’s hit television show The X Factor, and also received six ARIA nominations for the 2010 ARIA Awards. In November 2010 Guy released a retrospective ‘greatest hits’ hits package called Twenty Ten. The single Who’s That Girl and the album both went straight to the top of the ARIA and National Airplay charts and within four weeks had both reached Platinum sales. Twenty Ten was Guy’s sixth consecutive Platinum selling album.
In 2011 and 2012 Guy continued with the judging team on the highest rating show The X Factor. In doing this he showed Australia what a fantastic mentor he is, with contestants Reece Mastinfrom his team in 2011 winning and Samantha Jade from his team in 2012 also winning the title.
2013 saw Guy‘s national Get Along Tour sell out across all 47 show dates in all markets across Australia, running from March until the end of June. Guy has spent the majority of 2013 between Sydney and Los Angeles writing his 8th studio album.
In August 2014, Guy released Come Home With Me, the follow up single to the hugely successful Like A Drum, and the second single off the forthcoming album.