Tones and I

Toni Watson better known by her stage name Tones and I was born and raised in Mount Martha on the Mornington Peninsula. She learned how to play keyboards and drum pads at high school and later gathered experience performing local gigs and festivals. In September 2017, Tones travelled to Byron Bay, New South Wales to try busking for the first time. On her first night busking she met Jackson Walkden-Brown who soon later became her manager. Tones’ busking success led her to quit her retail job in Melbourne and fully commit to her new career. Tones spent 2018 living between Walkden-Brown’s home in the Gold Coast hinterland and out of her van in Byron Bay, writing music and busking full time. Later in 2018, Tones and I won Battle of the Buskers at Buskers by the Creek. In February 2019, Tones signed a co-management deal with Artists Only and Lemon Tree Music.

On 15th February 2019, Tones and I uploaded her debut single "Johnny Run Away" to an Australian website that publishes the music of unsigned artists. The track was recorded with Australian producer and songwriter Konstantin Kersting. "Johnny Run Away" was added to full rotation on Australian alternative radio station triple j the following week and received positive reviews from staff and presenters. Two weeks later, on 1st March 2019, Tones and I officially released "Johnny Run Away". The song reached a peak of #12 on the Australian music chart and #83 in Ireland. On 10th May 2019, Tones and I released her song entitled "Dance Monkey". The song reached #1 in 23 countries' official charts including Australia, Austria, Belgium, China, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, South Africa, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. In Australia, she broke the record for the most weeks atop the ARIA Singles Chart by an Australian artist. Due to the worldwide success of her song "Dance Monkey", she was nominated for 8 ARIA music awards. In May 2019, she also performed at the Big Pineapple Music Festival, as well as opening Splendour in the Grass 2019 as the triple j Unearthed Splendour in the Grass' competition winner, where she broke the record for the biggest crowd of an opening set at Splendour. In July 2019, Tones and I released "Never Seen the Rain" and announced the release of her debut extended play The Kids Are Coming. In September 2019, Tones and I performed "Dance Monkey" and "The Kids Are Coming" at Australia’s premier sporting event - the 2019 AFL Grand Final with 100,000 people in attendance. At an unspecified point in 2019 she released a song entitled 'Jimmy' which peaked at #79 in Australia, and #24 on the New Zealand Hot 100. On Friday 13th December 2019 Dance Monkey remained top of the UK Singles Chart for a eleventh consecutive week, becoming the longest running number one single of the year 2019, and the longest held UK #1 single by a female artist breaking the record of ten weeks held by Whitney Houston's 'I Will Always Love You' and Rihanna's single featuring rapper Jay Z entitled Umbrella. Despite breaking the aforementioned record she failed to get to 12 consecutive weeks as UK Official #1 Single, instead slipping down nine places to #10 on Friday 20th December 2019, which was the Christmas placements chart, thus missing out on being the Christmas #1 of 2019 to LadBaby's I Love Sausage Rolls. The following week on Friday 27th December 2019 the song fell down another ten places on the official Top 40 Singles chart to #20. On Friday 3rd January 2020 Dance Monkey went back up fifteen places to #5. On Friday 10th January 2020 Dance Monkey fell down a place to #6. On Friday 17th January 2020 Dance Monkey fell down yet another four places to #10. On Friday 24th January 2020 Dance Monkey fell down a further four places to #14. On Friday 31st January 2020 Dance Monkey rose up two places from #14 to #12. On Friday 7th February 2020 Dance Monkey fell down two places from #12 to #14. On Friday 14th February 2020 Dance Monkey fell down one place from #14 to #15. On Friday 21st February 2020 Dance Monkey fell down three places from #15 to #18. On Friday 28th February 2020 Dance Monkey fell down another two places from #18 to #22. On Friday March 6th 2020 Dance Monkey rose up three places from #22 to #19. On Friday March 13th 2020 Dance Monkey rose up a place from #19 to #18. On Friday March 20th 2020 Dance Monkey rose up two places from #18 to #16. On Friday March 27th 2020 Dance Monkey rose up a further two places from #16 to #14. On Friday April 3rd 2020 Dance Monkey fell down a place from #14 at #15. On Wednesday April 8th 2020 Tones and I released a new single entitled BAD CHILD. On Friday April 10th 2020 Dance Monkey rose back up a place from #15 back up to #14. On Friday April 17th 2020 Dance Monkey remained at #14. On Friday April 24th 2020 Dance Monkey fell down five places from #14 to #19. On Friday May 1st 2020 Dance Monkey fell down four places from #19 to #23. On Friday May 8th 2020 Dance Monkey rose up a place from #23 to #22. On Friday 15th May 2020 Dance Monkey rose up another place from #22 to #21. On Friday 22nd May 2020 Dance Monkey fell down a place once again from #21 back to #22. On Friday May 29th 2020 Dance Monkey fell down four places from #22 to #26. On the same day she released a new single entitled You are so ****ing cool. On Friday June 5th 2020 Dance Monkey rose up a place from #26 to #25. On Friday June 12th 2020 Dance Monkey rose up yet another place from #25 to #24. The following week on Friday June 19th 2020 Dance Monkey fell down four places from #24 to #28. The following week on Friday June 26th 2020 Dance Monkey rose up two places from #28 to #26. The following week on Friday July 3rd 2020 Dance Monkey remained at #26. The following week on Friday July 10th 2020 Dance Monkey fell down a further seven places from #26 to #33. The following week on Friday 17th July 2020 Dance Monkey fell down a further place from #33 to #34. The following week on Friday 24th July 2020 Dance Monkey rose back up a place from #34 to #33. The following week on Friday 31st July 2020 Dance Monkey fell down four places from #33 to #37. The following week on Friday 7th August 2020 Dance Monkey fell down three places from #37 to #40. The following week on Friday 14th August 2020 Dance Monkey departed from the chart. On Friday 18th September 2020 Dance Monkey Re-entered the chart at #40. On Friday 25th September 2020 Dance Monkey once again departed from the chart. On Friday 8th January 2021 Dance Monkey Re-entered the chart at #38. On Friday 15th January 2021 Dance Monkey once again departed from the chart. On Friday 2nd July 2021 Tones and I's new single Fly Away entered the Official Chart Top 40 at #33. On Friday 9th July 2021 Fly Away rose up eight places from #33 to #25. The following week on Friday 16th July 2021 Fly Away fell down a place from #25 to #26. The following week on Friday 23rd July 2021 Fly Away rose up ten places from #26 to #16. The following week on Friday 30th July 2021 Fly Away fell down three places from #16 to #19. The following week on Friday 6th August 2021 Fly Away remained at #19. The following week on Friday 13th August 2021 Fly Away once again remained at #19. The following week on Friday 20th August 2021 Fly Away rose up eight places from #19 to #11. The following week on Friday 27th August 2021 Fly Away fell down two places from #11 to #13. The following week on Friday 3rd September 2021 Fly Away fell down three places from #13 to #16. The following week on Friday 10th September 2021 Fly Away fell down five places from #16 to #21. The following week on Friday 17th September 2021 Fly Away departed from the chart.

Track Discography

 * Johnny Run Away (Tones and I)
 * Dance Monkey (Tones and I)
 * Never Seen the Rain (Tones and I)
 * The Kids are Coming (Tones and I)
 * Jimmy (Tones and I)
 * BAD CHILD (Tones and I)
 * You are so **** ing Cool (Tones and I)
 * Fly Away (Tones and I)