Tones and I

Australian pop singer

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2024 Released multiple singles from the upcoming album 'Beautifully Ordinary', including 'Dreaming', 'I Get High', 'Down Under', 'Wonderful', 'Dance with Me', '(Can't Get You) Off My Mind' with Chaii and Young Franco, 'To Be Loved', and 'Hallelujah'.
June 2024 Announced the release of her second album 'Beautifully Ordinary' for 2 August 2024.
March 2024 Released the single 'I Get High'.
February 2024 Became the first female artist to reach over 3 billion streams for a single song on Spotify with 'Dance Monkey'.
February 9 2024 Began supporting Pink's Australian leg of her Summer Carnival tour.
February 2 2024 Released the single 'Dreaming'.
August 20 2023 Performed at the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup closing ceremony, playing songs including 'I Am Free', 'I Made It', 'Fly Away', 'Dance Monkey', and 'The Greatest'.
July 2023 Watson's company and Bedford were fined A$25,000 for undertaking unpermitted renovations on their investment property.
March 2023 Watson and Bedford married in Bali.
February 2023 Released the single 'I Made It', which was used for the biopic True Spirit.
2022 Released non-album single 'Eyes Don't Lie' and collaborated with Macklemore on the single 'Chant' from his album 'Ben'. Also released non-album single 'Charlie'.
2022 Served as musical director for a tribute performance honoring Olivia Newton-John at the ARIA Music Awards, performing with Natalie Imbruglia, Kye, and Peking Duk.
2022 Won Song of the Year at the ARIA Music Awards for 'Cloudy Day'.
August 2022 Released the solo single 'Charlie', an ode to her pet dogs.
July 2022 Released a collaboration single 'Chant' with Macklemore.
May 2022 Performed a critically acclaimed rendition of Amyl and the Sniffers' 'Guided by Angels' at the APRA Music Awards, backed by a choir.
March 2022 Renovations on the Frankston property were completed by subcontractors.
March 2022 Released the lead single 'Eyes Don't Lie' from her upcoming album.
January 2022 Tones and I announced plans for a new album to be released in August, describing it as 'very different'.
2021 Tones and I released the single 'Just a Mess' from the album 'Welcome to the Madhouse', which peaked at chart position 36.
2021 Named top songwriter of 2020 by music rights company Blokur, due to the success of her self-written and produced song 'Dance Monkey'.
December 2021 Toni Watson and Jason Bedford became engaged.
July 16 2021 Released debut album 'Welcome to the Madhouse', which debuted at number one on the ARIA Albums Chart.
June 2021 Released the single 'Cloudy Day'.
May 14 2021 Released the single 'Won't Sleep'.
April 2021 Restarted her Australian national tour in Melbourne, visiting east coast capitals and Cairns through May.
2020 Released single 'Bad Child' and 'Fly Away', the latter peaking at #4 on Australian charts
2020 Received three nominations at the ARIA Music Awards and performed in an all-female ensemble tribute to Helen Reddy.
November 24 2020 Performed her single 'Fly Away' live for the first time at the Newcastle Civic Theatre.
October 2020 Jason Bedford began renovations on the Frankston property without obtaining proper building permits.
September 2020 Watson purchased an investment property in Frankston for A$720,000.
September 6 2020 Second virtual concert fundraiser with Gary Clark Jr. for the Equal Justice Initiative, streamed live on various media channels.
September 5 2020 Co-headlined a virtual concert with Gary Clark Jr. as a fundraiser for the Equal Justice Initiative, streamed live on various media channels.
September 2 2020 The finalists of 'That One Song' competition were selected, with the public voting from 20 previously showcased artists. Monatomic won with their entry 'They're Playing My Song'.
August 2020 Tones and I sponsored an Instagram-based music competition called 'That One Song', featuring a different developing artist each day.
May 2020 Won the Grand Prize of the 2019 International Songwriting Competition and appeared on the cover of Rolling Stone (Australia).
May 20 2020 'Dance Monkey' reached 1 billion views on YouTube.
May 7 2020 Premiered a new song 'We Can't Wait to Go Back to a Festival When This Is Over' on Triple J as part of a COVID-19 self-isolation musical challenge.
February 1 2020 Started her Kids Are Coming World Tour with five Laneway Festival dates in Australia and seven dates in North America.
January 2020 Toni Watson began dating Jason Scott 'Jimmy' Bedford, a bricklayer and footballer who plays for Frankston Bombers.
January 2020 Three tracks from her EP were listed on the Triple J Hottest 100, 2019: 'Dance Monkey' (No. 4), 'Never Seen the Rain' (No. 15), and 'Johnny Run Away' (No. 26).
2019 Tones and I released the single 'Jimmy', which achieved Gold certification from ARIA and peaked at chart positions 79 and 29 in different regions.
2019 Became the most awarded artist at the ARIA Music Awards, winning four out of eight nominations.
September 2019 Performed 'Dance Monkey' and 'The Kids Are Coming' at the AFL Grand Final in front of 100,000 audience members.
August 30 2019 Released debut extended play 'The Kids Are Coming', which peaked at number three in Australia and top 10 in several countries.
May 2019 Performed at the Big Pineapple Music Festival and opened Splendour in the Grass 2019 as the Triple J Unearthed winner, breaking the record for the biggest crowd at an opening set.
May 10 2019 Released her second single 'Dance Monkey', which she wrote in just 30 minutes in a dark closet and would go on to reach number one on music charts in over 30 countries.
February 2019 Tones and I signed to Bad Batch Records/Sony Music Australia and uploaded her debut single 'Johnny Run Away' to Triple J's Unearthed website, which quickly became a viral sensation.
2018 Lived between the Gold Coast hinterland and her van in Byron Bay, fully committed to writing music and busking full-time.
2018 The Australian Women in Music Awards was first established, recognizing outstanding women in the Australian music industry.

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