Introduction
Emma Louise Blackery (born 11 November 1991) is a British singer-songwriter and YouTube vlogger from Basildon, Essex. Her main YouTube channel has over 1.3 million subscribers and over 149 million video views.She also has a Vevo channel for her music videos which has over 930,000 views and over 38,000 subscribers.
Early life and education
Blackery attended The Bromfords School.
Music
Emma Blackery's first EP, Human Behaviour, was released in early 2012. Blackery initially created her YouTube channel, emmablackery, to promote her music. In July 2013, Blackery released her second EP, Distance, accompanied by a music video for the lead track, "Go the Distance". The music video was uploaded to her main YouTube channel and currently has more than 1,000,000 views. The EP reached No. 1 on the iTunes Rock chart within the first week of its release. Blackery released her third EP, Perfect, on 11 November 2014, her 23rd birthday, and the song "Perfect" entered the UK Rock & Metal Singles Chart at number 8. Her fourth EP, Sucks to Be You, came out in early 2016. The single peaked at No.85 on the Scottish Singles Chart.She launched her Vevo channel in April 2017 with the videos for "Nothing Without You, "Don't Come Home", and "Magnetised".On 26 May 2017, Blackery released her fifth EP, Magnetised. The EP debuted at No.63 on the UK Albums Chart on 2 June 2017, becoming her first EP to chart on the Official Album Chart. The EP peaked at No.5 on the UK Independent Album Chart and No.2 on the Official Independent Album Breakers.
On 4 April 2016, Blackery announced that she would be joining pop punk band Busted as a special guest on their Pigs Can Fly Tour 2016. She toured by herself in October 2016 and May - June 2017She also occasionally performs at YouTube events.
YouTube
Blackery currently has three active YouTube channels, and multiple previously active channels which have either been deleted, left inactive, or re-branded into new channels.
- emmablackery – Blackery's main channel, created in May 2012, on which she hosts her primary content including vlogs, music videos, comedy sketches and other miscellaneous content. She began to gain a following from reading excerpts from Fifty Shades of Grey on her channel, but these videos were later removed due to copyright complaints. During her Fifty Shades of Grey series, Blackery also began uploading comedy vlogs, inspired by Shane Dawson and Dan Howell. One of her most viewed videos to date is "My Thoughts on Google+", a comedy song complaining about the site's integration with YouTube.
- Vloggery – Blackery's second active channel which is dedicated to daily, weekly and monthly vlogs, advice, tips and serious talk subjects and up until April 2017 was used as a platform to release her music videos.
- EmmaBlackeryVEVO – Blackery's third channel. As a new channel created solely to upload her own music videos, currently there are only three videos on there, "Nothing Without You (Official Video)", "Magnetised (Official Video)" and "Don't Come Home (Official Lyric Video)".