Che'Nelle

**Cheryline Ernestine Lim** (born March 10, 1983), known by her stage name **Che'Nelle**, is an Australian singer-songwriter.

She gained popularity in Japan with the release of her debut studio album, _Things Happen for a Reason_ (2007). Her debut single "I Fell in Love with the DJ" released in 2007, reached the top twenty in France.

## Beginning, early career with the _Dear Summer_ albums and _Things Happen for a Reason_

Lim moved to Perth, Western Australia at age 10. Before breaking out on the music scene in 2007, Che'Nelle was featured on English hip hop and R&B music producer S4DK's "Dear Summer" albums including the first installment in 2005 with a R&B ballad called "Slow Down" which sampled fellow R&B singer Bobby V's song of the same name, two years later she appeared on the second and final installment called "Dear Summer Volume Two" with the R&B ballad "Hooked Up".

Her debut album _Things Happen for a Reason_ was released on 25 September 2007 in Japan and 29 October 2007 in Australia.
The first single from this album was "I Fell in Love with the DJ" featuring reggae artist Cham.

## 2008 - 2010: Songwriting, _Feel Good_

Che'Nelle has written songs for herself and also co-wrote Carmit Bachar's single "Fierce", Ricki-Lee's debut single "Hell No!" and Leona Lewis's song "Can't Breathe".

Her second album was later confirmed as _Feel Good_, which it was named after the first single from the album, the song and album was strongly influenced by R&B and reggae much like _Things Happen for a Reason_, however _Feel Good_ and (to date) all her other albums wre only released in Japan.

## 2011: _Luv Songs_

In 2011, Che'Nelle released her third album _Luv Songs_ which saw a departure from Che'Nelle's reggae sound for an R&B, soul sound. The album consisted of mainly R&B cover ballads from American singers like Ne-Yo, Whitney Houston and Minnie Riperton as well as cover of many Japanese known songs.

## 2012: _Believe_

In 2012, Che'Nelle released her forth album _Believe_; much like 2011's _Luv Songs_ it was heavily rooted in an R&B and Japanese music sound.

## 2013: _Aishiteru (I Love You)_

In 2013, Che'Nelle released her fifth album _Aishiteru_ which is Japanese for the phrase "I Love You", the album was her first album to be mainly recorded in Japanese with a few English songs.

## 2014: _Luv Songs 2_

In 2014, Che'Nelle released her sixth album _Luv Songs 2_; it was her second installment in the _Luv Songs_ series and like 2011's _Luv Songs_, it features a mixture of traditional Japanese love songs with several covers of R&B songs including "We Found Love" by Barbadian R&B singer Rihanna.

## 2015: _@chenelleworld_

In 2015, Che'Nelle released her seventh album _@chenelleworld_, it is her most recent album.

### Studio albums

|style="text-align:center;" rowspan="2"|Year|style="text-align:center;" rowspan="2"|Album|style="text-align:center;"|Peak position|rowspan="2" style="text-align:center; width:125px;"|Sales|rowspan="2" style="text-align:center; width:125px;"|Certifications|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|style="text-align:center;"|2007|align="left"|***Things Happen for a Reason*** * 1st International Album * Released: 22 August 2007 * Label: EMI, Capitol, USM Japan * Formats: CD, digital download|style="text-align:center;"|12|* JPN: 65,000+||||
|2010|align=left|***Feel Good*** * 1st Japanese Album * Released: 10 February 2010 * Label: EMI Japan, USM Japan * Formats: CD, digital download|style="text-align:center;"|41|* JPN: 5,500+|||||
|2011|align=left|***Luv Songs*** * 1st Cover Album * Released: 20 July 2011 ** Re-Released: 13 November 2013 * Label: EMI Japan, USM Japan * Formats: CD, digital download|style="text-align:center;"|3 231|* JPN: 360,000+ * JPN: 400+|* RIAJ: Platinum||||
|2012|align=left|***Believe (ビリーヴ)*** * 2nd Japanese Album * Released: 4 July 2012 * Label: Universal International * Formats: CD, digital download|style="text-align:center;"|2|* JPN: 280,000+|* RIAJ: Platinum||||
|rowspan="2"|2013|align=left|***Aishiteru (I Love You)*** * 3rd Japanese Album * Released: 7 August 2013 * Label: Universal International * Formats: CD, CD+DVD, digital download|style="text-align:center;"|2|* JPN: 65,000+|* RIAJ: Gold|||
|align=left|***Best Songs*** * 1st Japanese Best Album * Released: 4 December 2013 * Label: Universal International * Formats: CD, digital download|style="text-align:center;"|4|* JPN: 78,000+|* RIAJ: Gold|||||
||2014|align=left|***Luv Songs 2*** * 2nd Cover Album * Released: 4 June 2014 * Label: Delicious Deli Records, Virgin Music * Formats: CD, CD+DVD, digital download|style="text-align:center;"|12|* JPN: 32,000+||||
||2015|align=left|***@chenelleworld*** * 4th Japanese Album * Released: 11 February 2015 * Label: Delicious Deli Records * Formats: 2 CDs, CD, digital download|style="text-align:center;"|6|* JPN: 50,000+||||

### Extended plays

|style="text-align:center;" rowspan="2"|Year|style="text-align:center;" rowspan="2"|Album|style="text-align:center;"|Peak position|rowspan="2" style="text-align:center; width:125px;"|Sales|rowspan="2" style="text-align:center; width:125px;"|Certifications|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|2012|align=left|***Touch (Close to You)*** * 1st Japanese Digital EP * Released: 9 November 2012 * Label: EMI Japan * Formats: digital download|style="text-align:center;"|—|* JPN: —|||||

#### As lead artist

|scope="col" rowspan="2"|Year|scope="col" rowspan="2" style="width:16em;"|Title|scope="col" colspan="11"|Peak chart positions|scope="col" rowspan="2" style="width:20em;"|Sales and Certifications|scope="col" rowspan="2"|Album|||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|rowspan="2"|2007|||||||||||||
|62|98|30|35|—|—|—|—|33|11|47||rowspan="2"|_Things Happen for a Reason_|
|81|—|—|19|—|—|—|—|—|83|—||||
||2008|||||||||||||
|—|—|—|—|—|—|51|—|—|—|—||rowspan="2"|_Feel Good_|
|rowspan="2"|2010|||||||||||||
|—|—|—|—|—|—|23|81|—|—|—||||
|—|—|—|—|—|—|—|—|—|—|—|||_Feel Good / Luv Songs_|
|rowspan="3"|2011|||||||||||||
|—|—|—|—|—|—|84|—|—|—|—||rowspan="3"|_Luv Songs_|
|—|—|—|—|—|—|—|—|—|—|—||||
|—|—|—|—|32|—|21|5|—|—|—|* RIAJ Digital download ** PC downloads: Double Platinum ** Cellphone downloads: Double Platinum|||
|rowspan="4"|2012|||||||||||||
|—|—|—|—|—|15|30|7|—|—|—|* JPN: 13,000+ * RIAJ Digital download ** PC downloads: Gold|rowspan="2"|_Believe_|
|—|—|—|—|—|—|5|1|—|—|—|* RIAJ Digital download ** PC downloads: Double Platinum ** Cellphone downloads: Gold|||
|—|—|—|—|—|—|77|—|—|—|—|||_Touch (Close To You) EP_|
|—|—|—|—|—|—|79|—|—|—|—|||_Touch (Close To You) EP / Aishiteru_|
|rowspan="3"|2013|||||||||||||
|—|—|—|—|—|—|36|—|—|—|—||rowspan="3"|_Aishiteru_|
|—|—|—|—|—|—|9|—|—|—|—||||
|—|—|—|—|—|—|13|—|—|—|—||||
|rowspan="3"|2014|||||||||||||
|—|—|—|—|—|—|12|—|—|—|—|||_Luv Songs 2_|
|—|—|—|—|—|25|2|—|—|—|—|* JPN: 23,000+ * RIAJ Digital download ** PC downloads: Double Platinum|rowspan="3"|_@chenelleworld_|
|—|—|—|—|—|—|87|—|—|—|—||||
||2015|||||||||||||
|—|—|—|—|—|—|—|—|—|—|—||||
- * RIAJ Digital Track Chart was established in April 2009 and cancelled in July 2012.

#### As featured artist

|scope="col"|Year|scope="col"|Title|scope="col"|Artist|scope="col"|Album|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|rowspan="2"|2005|||||||
|rowspan="2"|Messiahbolical|rowspan="2"|_Throwaway Rhymes Pt. II_ (Mixtape)|||||
|rowspan="2"|2007|||||||
|rowspan="2"|Various Artists|_Powerful Music, Vol. 2_||||||
|_Powerful Music, Vol. 3_||||||||
|rowspan="2"|2008|||||||
|rowspan="2"|Hydro|rowspan="2"|_Crucial_|||||
|rowspan="7"|2009|||||||
|Israel|_The Legacy_|||||||
|Mýa|_Sugar & Spice_|||||||
|Peter Ram||||||||
|rowspan="2"|The III Ones|||||||
|Casely feat. Vein||||||||
|Lil' Eddie|_City of My Heart_|||||||
|rowspan="2"|2010|||||||
|Jaicko||||||||
|Akon feat. L.A.||||||||
|rowspan="3"|2011|||||||
|Chrishan|_Heart of a Lion_|||||||
|SEEDA|rowspan="2"|_In The Moment_||||||
|SEEDA feat. Hayashi Taka||||||||
|rowspan="4"|2012|||||||
|Davion Farris||||||||
|Jimmy Burney||||||||
|Knowledge Bones|_Eyes on the Prize_|||||||
|Bizoh||||||||
|rowspan="5"|2013|||||||
|Vein||||||||
|David Guetta|_Nothing But the Beat 2.0 (Japanese Edition)_|||||||
|AI|_Moriagaro_|||||||
|Dandee|_Building Bridges_|||||||
|TEE feat. LEO|_Francfranc presents Fun Fun Christmas / Best Songs_|||||||
||2014|||||||
|SPICY CHOCOLATE feat. MACO|_Shibuya Shunai Monogatari_|||||||

#### Non-album tracks

|scope="col"|Year|scope="col"|Title|scope="col"|Album|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
||2007|||||
|_Dear Summer, Vol. 2_||||||
||2011|||||
|_Elle: A Modern Cinderella Tale Soundtrack_||||||

## Awards and nominations

|scope="col"|Year|scope="col"|Award|scope="col"|Nomination|scope="col"|Nominated work|scope="col"|Result|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
||2008|rowspan="2"|Japan Gold Disc Award|||||||
|Che'Nelle||||||||||
|rowspan="2"|2012|||||||||
|Luv Songs||||||||||
||MTV Video Music Awards Japan|||||||||
|Baby I Love U||||||||||
|rowspan="4"|2013|rowspan="4"|Japan Gold Disc Award|||||||
|Che'Nelle||||||||||
|Believe||||||||||
|Believe||||||||||
|Believe||||||||||

## Infobox (musical artist)

- **name**: Che'Nelle
- **image**: YOU & I artwork (cropped).png
- **caption**: Che'Nelle in 2016
- **background**: solo_singer
- **birth name**: Cheryline Ernestine Lim
- **origin**: Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia
- **occupation**: Singer-songwriter
- **years active**: 2005–present
- **website**: [http://www.chenelle-world.com Chenelle-World.com]