Girlfriend Australia - April 2016__

The road

to success

Rewind right

back to the

start and you’ll

see how far

he’s come.

2006

Troye performs at the Channel

Seven Perth Telethon.

NOVEMBER 2007

Posts first ever video on his

YouTube channel, an acapella

cover of “Tell Me Why”.

MAY 2009

Plays a young James Howlett inX-Men

Origins: Wolverine.

SEPTEMBER 2012

Begins posting vlogs on his YouTube

channel to 27,000 followers.

AUGUST 2013

Posts his now famous “Coming Out”

video to YouTube. It receives more

than six million views. He’s also

involved in his first collab video

with Tyler Oakley.

MARCH 2014

Hits one million followers on his

YouTube channel.

AUGUST 2014

Releases EPTRXYE. Wins ‘Choice

Web Star: Male’ and ‘Choice Web

Collaboration’ with Tyler Oakley at the

Nickelodeon Kids Choice Awards.

OCTOBER 2014

Timenames him one of the 25 Most

Influential Teens of 2014.

SEPTEMBER 2015

Drops fourth EP,Wild. Taylor Swift tweets

“GO @troyesivan WILD IS STUNNING

AND AWESOME. (YES CAPS LOCK IS

NECESSARY HERE.) #EPgoals”.

DECEMBER 2015

Releases first studio albumBlue

Neighbourhood, which debuts at

number one on iTunes and sells

111,000 copies in the US alone.

FEBRUARY 2016

TheBlue Neighbourhoodtour kicks

off in Vancouver, Canada. He plays 44

shows across North America and Europe,

finishing in Stockholm, Sweden on May 20.

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WORDS

JESSICA LYNCH

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