Große Freiheit (album) explained

Type:Album
Artist:Unheilig
Cover:Grosse_Freiheit.jpg
Released:19 February 2010
Length:1:06:19
Language:German and English
Label:Vertigo (Universal)
Producer:Der Graf
Prev Year:2008
Next Year:2012

(German for 'Great Freedom') is the seventh album by the band Unheilig. It was released on 19 February 2010 as a standard 14-track album and a Fanbox Edition boxset which was limited to 5,000 copies that contains the following:

The album's title refers to a street in Hamburg-St. Pauli, the Große Freiheit, a side-street of the Reeperbahn.

Track listing

Bonus disc

  1. Human Nations (First Musical Steps in 1992)
  2. The Beast (First Musical Steps in 1992)
  3. Lost Heaven (Unpublished song from the early Unheiligzeit)
  4. Faded Times (Unpublished song from the early Unheiligzeit)
  5. Seenot (Demo)
  6. Für Immer (Demo)
  7. Unter deiner Flagge (Demo)
  8. Geboren um zu leben (Demo)
  9. Geboren um zu leben (Demo 2)

Live album

On 11 June 2010 a live album was released with the same name, which contains a boxset with a CD and the DVD featuring the show. A Limited Delux Edition contains four discs while the Special Edition contains two discs.

Chart performance

In Germany, it remained at No. 1 for 23 non-consecutive weeks, to date the longest stay of any album in the 21st century and the first album by a German artist to do so.[1]

is the second most downloaded album of all time in Germany behind Adele's 21, with digital sales between 100,000 and 140,000.[2] [3]

Spending 52 weeks in the German top ten, the album is the 17th album to spend a year or longer there and the first to do so since Ich + Ich's Vom selben Stern, which was released in July 2007.[4] left the top 5 of the German Albums Chart for the first time the week it achieved this feat.[5] [6]

Chart positions

Chart (2010)Peak
position
Austria (Ö3 Austria Top 40)[7] 1
Germany (Media Control Charts)[8] 1
Switzerland (Schweizer Hitparade)[9] 3
European Top 100[10] 5

Year-end charts

YearChartRank
2010European Top 100 Albums[11] 9
German Albums Chart[12] 1
2011Austrian Albums Chart[13] 7
German Albums Chart[14] 5
Swiss Albums Chart[15] 16

Decade-end charts

Große Freiheit (Winter Edition)

This album was re-released on 19 November 2010, with all of the standard 14 tracks from Große Freiheit, excluding the two bonus songs. A second disc contains "Winterland" and its remixes. There is a new cover to reflect the title.

Track listing

Grosse Freiheit Tour 2010-2011

2010

2011

See also

Notes and References

  1. [:de:Liste der Nummer-eins-Alben in Deutschland]
  2. Web site: Adele stellt Download-Rekord auf . Adele holds download record . German . Media Control. November 30, 2011.
  3. Web site: Download-LPs: "Stadtaffe" mit den höchsten Verkäufen - media control . Media-control.de . November 17, 2010 . March 10, 2012.
  4. Web site: Chartsurfer.de . Dauerbrenner Top 10 Auswertung (ab Monat 07/1962) . Chartsurfer.de . July 15, 1962 . February 20, 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20101208040122/http://www.chartsurfer.de/dauerbrenner/album/de/1/index.html . December 8, 2010 . dead .
  5. Web site: Unheilig: Chartverfolgung: Grosse Freiheit (Longplay) . musicline.de . February 20, 2012.
  6. Web site: Unheilig: Chartverfolgung: Grosse Freiheit Live (Longplay) . musicline.de . February 20, 2012.
  7. http://austriancharts.at/showitem.asp?interpret=Unheilig&titel=Grosse+Freiheit&cat=a Austrian charts
  8. Web site: German charts . 2010-08-24 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110105132230/http://musicline.de/de/chartverfolgung_summary/artist/Unheilig/?type=longplay . 2011-01-05 . dead .
  9. http://hitparade.ch/showitem.asp?interpret=Unheilig&titel=Grosse+Freiheit&cat=a Swiss charts
  10. http://www.billboard.com/#/charts/european-albums Billboard European Top 100 Albums
  11. Web site: 2010 European Top 100 Albums . . https://web.archive.org/web/20130413001400/https://www.billboard.com/charts/year-end/2010/european-top-100-albums . April 13, 2013.
  12. Web site: 2011 Jahres Album Charts . EinsLive . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110107101238/http://www.einslive.de/musik/charts/2011/jahresalbumcharts.jsp . January 7, 2011 .
  13. Web site: Ö3 Austria Top40 - Album Charts 2011 . oe3.ORF.at . February 20, 2012 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120104102925/http://oe3.orf.at/charts/stories/albumyear/ . January 4, 2012 .
  14. Web site: MTV | Album Jahrescharts 2011 | charts . Mtv.de . December 31, 2011 . February 20, 2012 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120111012418/http://www.mtv.de/charts/Album_Jahrescharts_2011 . January 11, 2012 .
  15. Web site: Steffen Hung . Schweizer Jahreshitparade 2011 . hitparade.ch . February 20, 2012 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20130815083859/http://hitparade.ch/year.asp?key=2011 . August 15, 2013 .
  16. Web site: Platz 2️⃣ der erfolgreichsten Singles und Alben des Jahrzehnts ++++++ "Despacito" von Luis Fonsi ft. Daddy Yankee stand 2017 insgesamt 17 Wochen auf Platz eins der Offiziellen Deutschen Single-Charts - genau so oft wie "Rivers Of Babylon" von Boney M. Es gibt keinen Song, der häufiger an der Spitze stand. +++ Auch bei "Große Freiheit" von Unheilig handelt es sich um einen echten Erfolgsgaranten. Mit 23 Nummer eins-Wochen ist es das auf häufigsten auf der Eins platzierte nationale Album. Nur "We Can't Dance" von Genesis stand einmal mehr an der Spitze. Universal Music Deutschland. Facebook. GfK Entertainment. German. 31 December 2019.

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