Autumn Hill was a Canadian country music duo composed of Mike Robins (from Toronto, Ontario) and Tareya Green (from Calgary, Alberta).[1]

Autumn Hill
Autumn Hill performing at Boots and Hearts Music Festival 2013
Autumn Hill performing at Boots and Hearts Music Festival 2013
Background information
OriginCanada
GenresCountry
Years active2012–2017
LabelsWax Records
MembersMike Robins
Tareya Green
Websitehttp://autumnhillmusic.com/ (defunct)

History edit

Green studied multi-media at Southern Alberta Institute of Technology in Calgary, Alberta and was developing websites for entertainers, but she was a songwriter and pianist and began posting performances on YouTube, where Wax Records co-founder Jamie Appleby discovered her. In January 2012, she moved to Toronto, where Appleby brought in several songwriters to co-write what was meant to be her first album. One of those songwriters was Mike Robins. Robins was an established singer/songwriter who had spent 2010 touring with Hope Sandoval then had his 2011 solo single "No Mercy"[2] top the adult contemporary chart on iHeartRadio.[citation needed] When Appleby heard the two singing together, he saw their potential as a duet and Autumn Hill was born.[3]

Their debut single, "Anything At All," entered the Canadian Hot 100 in January 2013.[4] It is included on their debut album Favourite Mistake, released September 10, 2013.[5][6] With two of their singles gaining substantial airplay on both country and adult contemporary formats, the pair were touted as the first Canadian country act since Shania Twain to successfully crossover to pop radio.[7][8] The record's three subsequent singles experienced diminishing returns on the Canada Country airplay chart; the third single "Fire" became the group's highest-charting entry on the Canadian Hot 100 at number 73. "Blame" was released in March 2015 as the lead single for the group's second and final album, Anchor. Reaching a peak position of four on the Canadian country airplay chart, it remains the group's only top ten hit. In total, seven of their singles charted.

In 2017, at the end of their promotion for Anchor, the pair decided to split up and pursue solo careers.[9][10]

Green adopted the mononym 'Tareya' and released her debut solo single, "Summer Wheels", in June 2017.[11] In March 2018, she released her debut album, Stained Glass Heart.[12][13] Robins co-founded the band East Adelaide[14] and, in October 2020, released the solo single "Lightning Don’t Strike Twice".[15][16]

Discography edit

Studio albums edit

Title Details
Favourite Mistake
  • Release date: September 10, 2013
  • Label: Wax Records
Anchor
  • Release date: June 16, 2015
  • Label: Wax Records

Singles edit

Year Single Peak chart positions Album
CAN
[17]
CAN Country
[18]
CAN
AC

[19]
CAN Hot AC
[20]
2012 "Anything At All" 79 12 30 37 Favourite Mistake
2013 "Can't Keep Waiting" 19
"Fire" 73 22 38
2014 "If She Wants This Town" 24
2015 "Blame" 4 Anchor
"Return Policy" 22
2016 "Mixtape" 19
"Good Night for Going Nowhere"[21]
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

Christmas singles edit

Year Single Peak chart positions Album
CAN
AC

[19]
2013 "It Ain't Christmas"[22] 3 Now! Christmas 6
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

Guest singles edit

Year Single Artist Album
2014 "Karolina" Jann Arden Everything Almost

Music videos edit

Year Video Director
2012 "Anything at All" Margaret Malandruccolo
2013 "Can't Keep Waiting" Marc André Debruyne
"Fire"
"It Ain't Christmas" Joel Stewart
2014 "If She Wants This Town"
"Karolina" (with Jann Arden)[23] Heidi Groff
2015 "Blame" Aaron A
"Return Policy"

Awards and nominations edit

Year Association Category Nominated work Result
2013 Canadian Country Music Association Rising Star Nominated
2014 Juno Awards Breakthrough Group of the Year
Canadian Country Music Association Group or Duo of the Year
2015 Group or Duo of the Year
2016 Group or Duo of the Year
Juno Awards Country Album of the Year Anchor
2017 Country Music Association of Ontario Group or Duo of the Year
Fan's Choice

References edit

  1. ^ "Autumn Hill Biography". CMT. Archived from the original on December 3, 2013. Retrieved January 18, 2013.
  2. ^ "MIKE ROBINS - No Mercy". youtube.com. YouTube. Retrieved 17 January 2022.
  3. ^ Volmers, Eric. "On her own: Calgary-born Tareya...Mar 2018". calgaryherald.com. Calgary Herald. Retrieved 17 January 2022.
  4. ^ "Autumn Hill - Music Charts". acharts.us. Retrieved January 18, 2013.
  5. ^ Pederson, Casadie (January 15, 2013). "Fresh Find: Autumn Hill". Top Country. Retrieved January 18, 2013.
  6. ^ Burke, Vince. "Autumn Hill ready to climb". Camrose Canadian News. Archived from the original on 14 February 2015. Retrieved 20 August 2013.
  7. ^ Cheevers, Melinda (13 November 2014). "Autumn Hill ready to rock Brock's Centre for the Arts". Niagara This Week. Metroland Media. Retrieved 14 February 2015.
  8. ^ Banerjee, Nilabjo (27 November 2014). "Interview: Autumn Hill". Ride the Tempo. Archived from the original on 14 February 2015. Retrieved 14 February 2015.
  9. ^ Volmers, Eric. "On her own: Calgary-born Tareya...Mar 2018". calgaryherald.com. Calgary Herald. Retrieved 17 January 2022.
  10. ^ "Tareya - About". Tareya Official. Retrieved May 15, 2017.[permanent dead link]
  11. ^ "Summer Wheels". youtube.com. YouTube. Retrieved 17 January 2022.
  12. ^ Kubackova, Lucia. "One day in Toronto: Singer and songwriter Tareya, Mar 2018". eatnorth.com. Eatnorth. Retrieved 17 January 2022.
  13. ^ Volmers, Eric. "On her own: Calgary-born Tareya...Mar 2018". calgaryherald.com. Calgary Herald. Retrieved 17 January 2022.
  14. ^ "EAST ADELAIDE RELEASES NEW SINGLE". umusic.ca. U Music. Retrieved 17 January 2022.
  15. ^ "Mike Robins - Lightning Don't Strike Twice". youtube.com. YouTube. Retrieved 17 January 2022.
  16. ^ "Re-Introducing Mike Robins, Sept 2020". frontporchmusic.ca. Front Porch Music. Retrieved 17 January 2022.
  17. ^ "Autumn Hill Chart History (Canadian Hot 100)". Billboard. Archived from the original on May 24, 2018. Retrieved April 10, 2018.
  18. ^ "Autumn Hill Chart History (Canada Country)". Billboard. Archived from the original on May 24, 2018. Retrieved April 10, 2018.
  19. ^ a b "Autumn Hill Chart History (Canada AC)". Billboard. Archived from the original on May 24, 2018. Retrieved April 10, 2018.
  20. ^ "Autumn Hill Chart History (Canada Hot AC)". Billboard. Archived from the original on May 24, 2018. Retrieved April 10, 2018.
  21. ^ Autumn Hill (May 17, 2016). "Autumn Hill on Facebook" (photo). Facebook. Retrieved 28 August 2016. Our brand new single #GoodNightForGoingNowhere arrives at radio tomorrow!
  22. ^ "Autumn Hill - It Ain't Christmas". youtube.com. YouTube. Retrieved 17 January 2022.
  23. ^ "Jann Arden | Karolina | VEVO – Yahoo Screen". Yahoo! Screen. Retrieved November 12, 2014.

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