| Sonne | |
| Cover: | Sonnesingle.jpg |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | Rammstein |
| Album: | Mutter |
| Released: | 12 February 2001 |
| Recorded: | May and June 2000 |
| Studio: | Miraval (Correns, France) |
| Genre: | |
| Length: | 4:32 |
| Label: | Motor • Universal |
| Prev Title: | Asche zu Asche |
| Prev Year: | 2001 |
| Next Title: | Links 2 3 4 |
| Next Year: | 2001 |
"Sonne" (German for "sun") is a song by German rock band Rammstein. It was released in 12 February 2001, as the first single from their album Mutter. According to Till Lindemann, the song was originally written as an entrance song for the boxer Vitali Klitschko, whose surname was also the working title of the song.[1] The female vocal comes from Spectrasonic's "Symphony of Voices" sample library.[2] [3] The music video for the band's 2019 single "Deutschland" features a piano-based version of "Sonne" in the ending credits.[4]
The video features the band as the Seven Dwarfs mining gold for Snow White. According to Paul Landers in the Making of Sonne, the idea came from a video made by Oliver Riedel, who mixed the song with parts of Snow White.The role of Snow White was played by Yulia Stepanova. [5]
The song debuted as "Klitschko" on 16 April 2000. It was very different from the final version released in Mutter. It was played in some concerts on the Japanese/Australia-New Zealand leg of the Sehnsucht tour, before Mutter was released and its tour started. These concerts were the only time the third verse of the song was played; when played live, the band usually omits the final stanza, and instead plays a slightly longer intro and outro.
| Canada (Nielsen SoundScan)[6] | 47 |
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| Europe (Eurochart Hot 100)[7] | 13 |
| Poland (Music & Media)[8] | 14 |
| Lithuania (AGATA)[9] | 11 |
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| Austria (Ö3 Austria Top 40)[10] | 50 | |
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| Canada (Nielsen SoundScan)[11] | 198 | |
| Germany (Official German Charts)[12] | 41 |