Medina rose to prominence in 2008 with her single ‘Kun for mig’, following her 2007 debut album ‘Tæt på’. ‘Kun for mig’ spent six weeks at number one on the Danish Singles Chart, achieving triple-platinum status. Its English version, ‘You and I’, reached number 39 on the UK Singles Chart and entered Germany’s top ten. Her 2009 album, ‘Velkommen til Medina’, topped Danish charts for five weeks, selling 200,000 adjusted units and accumulating 25 million streams in Scandinavia.
In 2016, Medina released her album ‘We Survive’. Her impact was recognized in 2017 with the ‘Lifetime Achievement Award’ at the Danish Music Awards. The following year, her 2018 album ‘Grim’ was released, and her collaboration ‘First Time’ with M22 became the most played song on UK radio by a non-English artist. Medina has consistently demonstrated her appeal through sold-out tours across Germany (GSA) and Denmark.
Across her career, Medina has amassed over 220,108 physical album sales, 88,883 album downloads, and 974,413 single downloads worldwide, with over 400,000,000 streams globally and 550,000 monthly listeners on Spotify. In 2020, Medina released the live album ‘Det Bliver Altid Forår’. Further diversifying her career, a documentary series about her life, titled ‘Medina’, premiered in 2022, chronicling her journey as an artist. With seven studio albums released, Medina continues to innovate, including her 2024 collaboration ‘Weightless’ with Dillistone, and has transitioned into acting.