Chris Willman Music WriterGirl in Red, aka Marie Ulven, the Norwegian singer/songwriter who has achieved considerable acclaim and racked up solid streaming results in the indie realm, has signed with Columbia Records.The label confirmed the signing to Variety.
The news was first reported by Hits.After a series of digital songs and EPs, Girl in Red released her first full-length album, “If I Could Make It Go Quiet,” last spring.
Variety named it one of the top 10 albums of 2021.Two of the 22-year-old performer’s earlier singles, 2017’s “I Wanna Be Your Girlfriend” and 2018’s “We Fell in Love With October,” both recorded when she was a teenager, have been certified gold in the U.S.
The latter song has racked up about 370 million streams on Spotify. Coming into 2022, she’s just been nominated for a GLAAD Media Award for outstanding breakthrough media artist.A U.S.
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