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Tier 3 · vertical & regional
Molly Sterling
Person · female · Ireland · Puckane · born 1998
Irish singer
Also known as 莫莉·斯特灵
Timeline
1 events◦ Birth 1
1990s
Biography
English biography184 words · 5 sectionssource: wikipedia-en · licence CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1376521157
Biography
Molly Sterling (born 8 March 1998) is an Irish singer and songwriter who represented Ireland in the Eurovision Song Contest 2015 with the song "Playing with Numbers".
Biography
Sterling grew up in Puckane, County Tipperary. They were educated at Kilkenny College and then at St. Andrew's College, Dublin.
2011–14: Early beginnings
Molly Sterling first came to prominence after winning the Teen Idol contest in November 2011, winning a Popstar Studios recording prize. They won a second-place award for Girl's Vocal Solo at the 2012 Kilkenny Music Festival and supported Runaway GO at a gig in Nenagh Arts Centre on 9 June 2012. They finished second in TV3's All Ireland Schools' Talent Search in May 2014 and released her first EP, Strands of Heart, in November 2014.
2015–present: Eurovision Song Contest
On 27 February 2015 they were selected to represent Ireland in the Eurovision Song Contest 2015 with the song "Playing with Numbers". They performed in the second semi-final, but missed out on qualification for the final. At 17 years old, they were the youngest ever entrant to perform for Ireland in their history of participation.
Personal life
Sterling is non-binary and uses they/them pronouns.
Discography & profile
Normalised profile
Percentiles are computed over every artist in the database, so a tier-3 artist can still sit in the 95th percentile on a single axis.
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 27 | 88.3th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 0 | 0th |
| Studio albums | 0 | 0th |
| Awards recorded | 0 | 0th |
| Timeline events | 1 | 40.6th |
| Recording span (years) | — | no data |
| Genres | 1 | 56th |
Percentiles are computed at render time; missing values mean the artist has no data on that axis.
Discography (0 release groups)
No discography rows stored yet
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Stats & PK
Percentile within all 23,672 published artists.Put Molly Sterling head-to-head →
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 27 | 88.3th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 0 | 0th |
| Studio albums | 0 | 0th |
| Awards recorded | 0 | 0th |
| Timeline events | 1 | 40.6th |
| Recording span (years) | — | no data |
| Genres | 1 | 56th |
Awards & honours
Where this record comes from
portrait—Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0 at · retrieved 11 October 2026
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:20150513_ESC_2015_Molly_Sterling_5070.jpgaliases/urls—musicbrainz · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://musicbrainz.org/artist/639f8ed7-b9db-44ae-94dc-0c04c37a20d0discography—musicbrainz · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://musicbrainz.org/artist/639f8ed7-b9db-44ae-94dc-0c04c37a20d0core—wikidata · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19362932genre—wikidata · CC0 · retrieved 11 October 2026
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19362932seed-list—wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molly_Sterlingbiography—wikipedia-en · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molly_Sterling
Why this artist is in the database
- List of Irish musicians
Tier rule: notable long tail (listeners 0, 27 language versions)
Image: Ailura · CC BY-SA 3.0 at · Wikimedia Commons
Wikidata: Q19362932 · MusicBrainz: 639f8ed7-b9db-44ae-94dc-0c04c37a20d0
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