Key facts
- Origin
- Salford , Greater Manchester , England
- Genres
- Indie pop indie rock dance-punk synth-pop dance-pop
- Years active
- 2007–present
- Labels
- Columbia RED Ink Roc Nation Finca Wonderful
- Members
- Katie White Jules De Martino
- Website
- thetingtings .com
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- musical group
- Genre
- post-punk revival
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Record label
- Roc Nation
- Discography
- The Ting Tings discography
- Official website
- www.thetingtings.com
- Image
- The Ting Tings.jpg
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- Commons category
- The Ting Tings
- inception
- 2007-00-00
- location of formation
- Salford
- topic has template
- Template:The Ting Tings
- start of work period
- 2004-00-00
- nominated for
- Grammy Award for Best New Artist
- social media followers
- 35880
- name
- The Ting Tings
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Encyclopedic overview
The Ting Tings are an English indie pop duo formed in Salford, Greater Manchester, in 2007. The band consists of Katie White (vocals, guitar, bass drums, bass guitar, cowbells) and Jules De Martino (drums, lead guitar, bass guitar, keyboards, vocals).
The duo's debut studio album, We Started Nothing, was released in 2008 by Columbia Records to positive reviews and commercial success, peaking at number one on the UK Albums Chart and number 78 on the US Billboard 200. It spawned four singles, including "That's Not My Name", which topped the UK Singles Chart in May 2008 and reached number 39 on the US Billboard Hot 100, and “Shut Up and Let Me Go”, which earned them a MTV Video Music Award. They received two Brit Award nominations, including for British Album of the Year and a nomination for the Grammy Award for Best New Artist in 2010.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “The Ting Tings” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.