Nina Katrin Kaiser (born 14 October 1998), known professionally as Nina Chuba, is a German singer and actress.[2] She was born in Wedel, Schleswig-Holstein and rose to prominence in 2022 with her single "Wildberry Lillet", reaching number one on both the Austrian and German charts.[3][4]
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Born | Nina Katrin Kaiser 14 October 1998 Wedel, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany |
Occupations |
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Years active | 2008–present |
Musical career | |
Genres | [1] |
Instrument | Vocals |
Labels | Jive Germany |
At the age of seven, she began her acting career in the children's television series Die Pfefferkörner.[5] Following a move to Berlin in 2018, Chuba began releasing music, with the English-language EPs Power and Average. In October 2021, she released her first German-language single "Neben mir".[6] Her debut album Glas was released on 24 February 2023.[7] It reached sixth place in the global album debut charts on Spotify and topped the album charts of Germany and Austria.[8][9][10] Following a 13-month hiatus, she returned with the self-titled single "Nina" on 12 April 2024.[11]
Career
edit2018–2021: Power and Average
editFollowing a move to Berlin in 2018, Nina Chuba began to release music. Initially performing in English, she expressed her reluctance to sing in German as "everything sounds cheesy more quickly", whereas in English, "you can have whack lyrics and a nice melody, and it's fine".[6] Her first single "White Shirt" was released in July 2019, and was followed by a further five singles over the next year. These six singles were released as the Power extended play on 31 July 2020.[12]
On 27 November 2020, Chuba released the single "Babylon Fall", her first since Power. The track saw her leaning further into a hip hop sound.[13] It was included on the Average EP, released on 4 June 2021.[14]
2021–present: Glas
editOn 1 October 2021, Nina Chuba released her first German-language single, "Neben mir" about a toxic love affair.[15] On 12 August 2022, Chuba released the single "Wildberry Lillet". On the track, she raps about her desire to get rich and gain further commercial success.[16] The song quickly achieved virality on TikTok.[6] Debuting at number two in Germany, the song became her first single to chart in her home country. The following week, it rose to number one, where it would spend four non-consecutive weeks.[3] A remix was released of the song with rapper Juju, for which a music video was released on 16 September 2022.[17] The singles "Ich hass dich", "Glatteis" and "Mangos mit Chili" were also released in promotion of her debut studio album Glas, released via Jive Records on 24 February 2023.[18] The album topped the charts in Germany and Austria, and was certified gold in Germany for shipments exceeding 300,000 copies.[9][10][19]
Following the release of Glas, Chuba took a 13-month break, before releasing the self-titled single "Nina" on 12 April 2024.[11] In April and May 2024, she embarked on the Glas Tour, with 16 sold-out arena dates in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.[20] On 24 May 2024, she released the single "80qm". A music video for the track was released on the same day. It is a break-up song, with the title referring to her reclamation of the 80 square metres of apartment space she previously shared with her partner.[21] In late 2025, she will embark on her first large-scale arena tour with dates in Germany and Switzerland.[20]
Discography
editStudio albums
editTitle | Details | Peak chart positions | Certifications | ||
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GER [9] |
AUT [10] |
SWI [22] | |||
Glas |
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1 | 1 | 5 |
Singles
editAs lead artist
editTitle | Year | Peak chart positions | Certifications | Album | |||||
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GER [9] |
AUT [10] |
SWI [22] | |||||||
"My Time" | 2018 | — | — | — | Non-album single | ||||
"White Shirt" | 2019 | — | — | — | Power EP | ||||
"I Owe You Nothing" | — | — | — | ||||||
"Lips Shut" | — | — | — | ||||||
"I Can't Sleep" | 2020 | — | — | — | |||||
"Power" | — | — | — | ||||||
"King" | — | — | — | Non-album single | |||||
"Jungle" | — | — | — | Power EP | |||||
"Trying Not to Think About You" (with Filous) |
— | — | — | Non-album single | |||||
"Babylon Fall" | — | — | — | Average EP | |||||
"Yellow Black Blue" | 2021 | — | — | — | |||||
"Who Hurt You" | — | — | — | ||||||
"22s" (with Dillistone & Kiko) |
— | — | — | Non-album single | |||||
"Levitating" | — | — | — | Average EP | |||||
"Neben mir" | — | — | — | Glas | |||||
"Molly Moon" | — | — | — | Non-album single | |||||
"Alles gleich" | — | — | — | Glas | |||||
"Nicht allein" | 2022 | — | — | — | Non-album single | ||||
"Femminello" | — | — | — | Glas | |||||
"Tracksuit Velours" | — | — | — | ||||||
"Wildberry Lillet" | 1 | 1 | 6 | ||||||
"Ich hass dich" (with Chapo102) |
8 | 12 | 31 | ||||||
"Glatteis" | 19 | 54 | 74 |
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"Mangos mit Chili" | 2023 | 4 | 13 | 56 | |||||
"Ich glaub ich will heut nicht mehr gehen" (featuring Provinz) |
13 | 16 | 28 | ||||||
"Nina" | 2024 | 15 | 26 | 28 | TBA | ||||
"80qm" | 15 | 25 | 38 | ||||||
"Randali" (with Chapo102) |
28 | 44 | — | Helldunkel | |||||
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory. |
As featured artist
editTitle | Year | Peak chart positions | Album | ||||||
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GER [9] |
AUT [10] |
SWI [22] | |||||||
"Zorn & Liebe" (Provinz featuring Nina Chuba) |
2022 | 55 | — | — | Zorn & Liebe | ||||
"AMG" (RIN featuring Nina Chuba) |
2023 | 8 | 14 | 19 | Non-album single | ||||
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory. |
Awards
edit1 Live Krone
- 2022: in the category „Hip-Hop/R&B-Song“(Wildberry Lillet)[25]
- 2022: in the category „Newcomer-Act“[26]
HipHop.de-Awards
- 2022: Best female newcomer national[27]
References
edit- ^ Luca Mosbacher. ""HipHop sollte kein engstirniges Genre sein" - Nina Chuba im Interview". LYRICS magazin. Retrieved 24 February 2023.
- ^ "Castupload - Nina Kaiser" (in German). Retrieved 2023-01-26.
- ^ a b "Nina Chuba - Wildberry Lillet". Offizielle Deutsche Charts (in German). Retrieved 24 May 2024.
- ^ "Wildberry Lillet by Nina Chuba - Music Charts". acharts.co. Retrieved 2023-01-31.
- ^ Wienke, Dagmar (9 December 2022). "Porträt: Von der Schauspielerin zur Musikerin - das ist Nina Chuba". Rheinische Post (in German). Retrieved 31 January 2023.
- ^ a b c Karger, Lena (4 November 2022). "Wie werde ich ein Superstar? Wie sich Nina Chuba auf TikTok zum Popwunder macht". Die Welt (in German). Retrieved 26 January 2023.
- ^ Kej, Enwie (2023-01-02). "Nina CHUBA veröffentlicht ihr Album GLAS". Der Vinylist (in German). Retrieved 2023-01-26.
- ^ "Top Albums Debut Global (February 24–26)". Instagram. Retrieved 2023-02-28.[dead link]
- ^ a b c d e "Nina Chuba - Offizielle Deutsche Charts". www.offiziellecharts.de. Retrieved 2023-01-26.
- ^ a b c d e "Discographie Nina Chuba - austriancharts.at". austriancharts.at. Retrieved 2024-06-05.
- ^ a b Schneider, Pia (2024-04-11). "Nina Chuba ist wieder da!". DIFFUS (in German). Retrieved 2024-04-12.
- ^ McIntyre, Cal (30 April 2020). ""Power" by Nina Chuba". Notion. Retrieved 24 May 2024.
- ^ Fulton, Robin (6 December 2020). "Nina Chuba watches "Babylon Fall" on latest single". Earmilk. Retrieved 24 May 2024.
- ^ "Nina Chuba Levitating". The Lowdown. 7 June 2021. Retrieved 24 May 2024.
- ^ Niang, Yannick (4 October 2021). ""Neben mir": Nina Chuba gesteht sich ihr inneres Durcheinander ein". Diffus (in German). Retrieved 24 May 2024.
- ^ Kropfitsch, Johanna (8 April 2023). ""Wildberry Lillet" mit Nachgeschmack: Warum der Hass gegen Nina Chuba ungerechtfertigt ist". DIFFUS (in German). Retrieved 24 May 2024.
- ^ "Wer ist "Wildberry Lillet"-Sängerin Nina Chuba?". bigFM (in German). 16 September 2022. Retrieved 24 May 2024.
- ^ Sager, Eva (24 February 2023). "Nina Chuba: Gelived, gelaughed, geloved". Die Zeit (in German). ISSN 0044-2070. Retrieved 24 May 2024.
- ^ a b c d e "Gold-/Platin-Datenbank (Nina Chuba)" (in German). Bundesverband Musikindustrie. Retrieved 6 July 2023.
- ^ a b Hofmann, Marc R. (18 May 2024). "Star-Allüren? Nina Chuba lässt sich an diesem Abend in Berlin bitten". Berliner Morgenpost (in German). Retrieved 24 May 2024.
- ^ "Nina Chuba: "80 QM" frisch gewonnene Freiheit". laut.de (in German). 24 May 2024. Retrieved 24 May 2024.
- ^ a b c "Discographie Nina Chuba - hitparade.ch". hitparade.ch. Retrieved 2024-06-05.
- ^ a b c d "Austrian certifications – Nina Chuba" (in German). IFPI Austria. Retrieved 16 March 2023.
- ^ a b c "The Official Swiss Charts and Music Community: Awards (Nina Chuba)". IFPI Switzerland. Hung Medien. Retrieved 16 March 2023.
- ^ "Nina Chuba gewinnt die 1LIVE Krone 2022". 1.wdr.de. Westdeutscher Rundfunk. 2022-12-09. Retrieved 2022-12-09.
- ^ "Nina Chuba gewinnt die 1LIVE Krone 2022". 1.wdr.de. Westdeutscher Rundfunk. 2022-12-09. Retrieved 2022-12-09.
- ^ "Alle Gewinner*innen der Hiphop.de Awards 2022". hiphop.de (in German). Retrieved 2023-01-28.