{"id":41939,"date":"2018-10-27T20:53:44","date_gmt":"2018-10-27T19:53:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/?p=41939"},"modified":"2018-10-27T21:06:09","modified_gmt":"2018-10-27T20:06:09","slug":"ella-mai-goes-gold-in-one-week-with-self-titled-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2018\/10\/ella-mai-goes-gold-in-one-week-with-self-titled-album\/","title":{"rendered":"Ella Mai Goes Gold In One Week With Self Titled Album"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>The accolades keep coming for UK singer-songwriter, Ella Mai, who recently dropped her self-titled album to critical acclaim. In just one week, the extraordinary R&amp;B debut has already attained gold status, while the smash hit that started it all, &#8216;Boo\u2019d Up&#8217;, is triple platinum. The follow up single &#8216;Trip&#8217; has now been certified platinum.<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Earlier this week, BET revealed the nominees for the 2018 Soul Train Awards. The first lady of 10 Summers\/Interscope Records racked up four generous nods: Best R&amp;B\/Soul Female Artist; The Ashford and Simpson Songwriter\u2019s Award for &#8216;Boo\u2019d Up&#8217;; Song of the Year for &#8216;Boo\u2019d Up&#8217;; and Video of the Year for &#8216;Boo\u2019d Up&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- Random Ad stuff --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-2076862002005673\" data-ad-slot=\"3107208401\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins><\/p>\n<p><script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Executive produced by Ella Mai\u2019s musical director, Mustard, the album elegantly straddles the worlds of R&amp;B, hip-hop and pop with such infectious tracks as &#8216;Good Bad&#8217;, and &#8216;Shot Clock&#8217;, &#8216;Ella Mai&#8217; also features well-curated collaborations with EGOT-winner John Legend on &#8216;Everything&#8217;, alternative R&amp;B diva H.E.R. on the girl\u2019s anthem, &#8216;Gut Feeling&#8217;, and R&amp;B bad boy Chris Brown on &#8216;Whatchamacallit&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ella Mai will hit the road in support of the new album beginning in early 2019. Tickets for &#8216;The Debut Tour&#8217; are <a href=\"https:\/\/ellamai.com\/pages\/tour\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">on sale now<\/a>. Stream and download &#8216;Ella Mai&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/smartURL.it\/EllaMai\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"41666\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2018\/10\/ella-mai-announces-the-debut-tour\/debut\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/debut.jpg?fit=403%2C512&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"403,512\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"debut\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/debut.jpg?fit=403%2C512&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-41666\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/debut.jpg?resize=403%2C512&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"403\" height=\"512\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The accolades keep coming for UK singer-songwriter, Ella Mai, who recently dropped her self-titled album to critical acclaim. In just one week, the extraordinary R&#038;B debut has already attained gold status, while the smash hit that started it all, &#8216;Boo\u2019d Up&#8217;, is triple platinum. The follow up single &#8216;Trip&#8217; has now been certified platinum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":41665,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[264,7,9],"tags":[17482,111,6716,15138,2424,394,15137,8229,17480,17007,17008,12541,1217,14252,240,17479,17481,17262,103,3196,17261],"class_list":["post-41939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-concerts","category-music","category-new-releases","tag-10-summers-records","tag-album","tag-bet","tag-bood-up","tag-chris-brown","tag-concerts","tag-ella-mai","tag-everything","tag-good-bad","tag-gut-feeling","tag-h-e-r","tag-interscope-records","tag-john-legend","tag-mustard","tag-rb","tag-shot-clock","tag-soul-train-awards","tag-the-debut-tour","tag-tour","tag-trip","tag-whatchamacallit"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yMhl-aUr","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":41287,"url":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2018\/10\/ella-mais-self-titled-debut-album-is-available-now\/","url_meta":{"origin":41939,"position":0},"title":"Ella Mai&#8217;s Self-Titled Debut Album Is Available Now","author":"Lisa Hafey","date":"14\/10\/2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Ella Mai's self-titled debut was released worldwide on Friday, October 12. 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