Alexandra Stan

Alexandra Stan (2011)

Alexandra Ioana Stan (born June 10, 1989 in Constanța ) is a Romanian singer who became known in the summer of 2011 with the title Mr. Saxobeat and reached the top 10 of the charts in some countries.

Career

Alexandra Stan attended the Liceul Teoretic Traian in Constanța. She studies at the Faculty of Management Andrei Șaguna .

Alexandra Stan in Austria (2011)

Alexandra Stan in Sofia (2012)

2009–2012: Success with Mr. Saxobeat and Saxobeats

Stan participated in the Mamaia Festival in the Interpretation section. At the end of 2009 she released her first single Lollipop , which made it to number 18 in the Romanian charts.

The successor single Mr. Saxobeat was first released in late 2010 and became the most played number on Romanian radio stations. With the song she made it into the top 5 of the charts in 20 countries, including number 1 in over ten countries. She was also one of the few singers who could reach the US charts.

The debut album Saxobeats , released in late summer 2011, reached the top 30 of the album charts in Germany, Finland, Austria and Switzerland. It contains eight tracks, including the pre- release singles Lollipop and Mr. Saxobeat , five remixes and the third single Get Back (ASAP) .

Get Back was able to reach number one in Slovakia. The track moved up to fourth in Romania and eighth in Finland and Hungary. Since the song only appeared as a double single with Mr. Saxobeat in Germany , the track could not achieve its own placement in the charts.

With a remix to Mr. Saxobeat from the Michael Mind Project , which contains new vocals that were sung by the German rapper Carlprit, Stan decided to record his own song with Carlprit. This led to the development of the song One Million , which was released as a single in December 2011 and became another hit in several countries.

In 2012 she was awarded the European Border Breakers Award (EBBA).

2013: scandal with the manager

In June 2013 she went public to draw attention to grievances in the Romanian show industry. In addition, she showed herself with a swollen face on television there. The injuries are said to have resulted from the beatings of her manager, who, according to her, treated her "like a slave". In the meantime, Stan has separated from her manager and significant other and is now working with a new management team.

In August 2013, Baby, It's OK was released a new single. Here she worked with the German rap trio Follow Your Instinct . The track, which uses a sample of Give It Up by KC and the Sunshine Band in the chorus , was released with several remixes on August 16, 2013.

2014–2015: Unlocked

On April 28, 2014, she released the song Thanks for Leaving , which was recorded with her new team. Two more singles were then released, including Dance , which was released on July 18, 2014 and served to promote the third album. In the summer of 2014 she signed the record label Kontor Records . In July 2014 she presented her first release on the label. It is called Dance and was released worldwide on July 18, 2014. The singles Give Me Your Everything and Vanilla Chocolat were later released .

The album Unlocked was initially only released in Japan on August 27, 2014, and worldwide on November 25, 2014. Unlocked reached number 21 in Japan and was in the charts there for 17 weeks.

On June 8, 2015, the single We Wanna was released together with Inna and Daddy Yankee . The single made it to number 53 in Japan.

Since 2015: Alesta

The single I Did It, Mama! was released on November 25, 2015 and is the first single from their album Alesta , which was released in Japan on March 9, 2016. On March 2nd, the third single from the album was released, namely Balans together with Mohombi. The album also includes the single We Wanna , which was released in 2015 and featured on a re-release of their 2nd studio album Unlocked .

She became a member of the G Girls project , which is a band made up of singers Alexandra Stan, Inna , Antonia and Lori. Her debut single Call The Police was made available for download on June 14, 2016 and the video was released on YouTube on June 1, 2016. In 2017 she was replaced by the singer Lariss from the project.

Discography

Studio albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)			Remarks
		DE	AT	CH
2011	Saxobeats	DE29 (2 weeks) DE	AT25 (3 weeks) AT	CH24 (6 weeks) CH	First published: September 9, 2011
2013	Cliche (hush hush)	-	-	-	First published: October 23, 2013
2014	Unlocked	-	-	-	First published: August 27, 2014
2016	Alesta	-	-	-	First published: March 9, 2016
2018	Mommy	-	-	-	First published: April 25, 2018

Singles

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)						Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US	IT
2010	Mr. Saxobeat Saxobeats	DE1 × 3 Triple gold (41 weeks)DE	AT1 platinum (33 weeks)AT	CH1 × 2 Double platinum (47 weeks)CH	UK3 platinum (28 weeks)UK	US21st platinum (20 weeks)US	IT1 × 4 Quadruple platinum (82 weeks)IT	First published: November 15, 2010
2011	Get Back (ASAP) Saxobeats	DE- aDE	AT27 (3 weeks) AT	CH23 (8 weeks) CH	UK56 (4 weeks) UK	-	IT24 (19 weeks) IT	First published: March 19, 2011
2012	1,000,000 saxobeats	-	-	-	-	-	IT34 gold (13 weeks)IT	First release: December 6th, 2011 feat. Carlprit
	Lemonade Cliche (Hush Hush)	-	-	-	-	-	IT25 (17 weeks) IT	First published: June 12, 2012
	Cliche (Hush Hush) Cliche (Hush Hush)	-	-	-	-	-	IT28 (9 weeks) IT
2013	All My People Cliche (Hush Hush)	-	-	-	-	-	IT55 (2 weeks) IT	vs. Manilla maniacs
2014	Thanks for Leaving Unlocked	-	-	-	-	-	IT83 (2 weeks) IT	First published: April 28, 2014
	Dance Unlocked	-	AT70 (1 week) AT	-	-	-	-	First published: July 18, 2014
2015	We Wanna Unlocked / Alesta	-	-	-	-	-	IT60 gold (12 weeks)IT	First published: June 8th, 2015 feat. Inna & Daddy Yankee

More singles

• 2009: Lollipop (Param Pam Pam)
• 2014: Cherry Pop
• 2014: Give Me Your Everything
• 2014: Vanilla Chocolat ( feat.Connect-R )
• 2015: I Did It, Mama!
• 2016: Balans ( feat.Mohombi ) (AT:gold)
• 2016: Écoute (feat. Havana)
• 2016: Boom Pow
• 2017: 9 Lives (feat.Jahmmi)
• 2017: Boy Oh Boy
• 2017: Noi 2
• 2018: Mommy
• 2019: I Think I Love It

^aThe 2-track single Get Back (ASAP) / Mr. Saxobeat was rated in Germany as a re-release by Mr. Saxobeat and added to its chart. In the week of release, the combined single reached number 73 in the German charts.

Chart placements as a guest musician

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)			Remarks
		DE	AT	CH
2013	Baby it's ok	DE17 (6 weeks) DE	AT31 (5 weeks) AT	CH44 (2 weeks) CH	First published: August 16, 2013 with Follow Your Instinct

Further guest contributions

• 2014: Inima De Gheata (Trupa Zero feat. Alexandra Stan)
• 2014: Set Me Free (DJ Andi feat. Alexandra Stan)

Awards for music sales

Golden record  Belgium 2011: for the single Mr. Saxobeat  Denmark 2011: for streaming Mr. Saxobeat  Finland 2011: for the single Mr. Saxobeat  Italy 2012: for the single Lemonade 2018: for the single We Wanna  New Zealand 2011: for the single Mr. Saxobeat  Spain 2011: for the single Mr. Saxobeat

Platinum record  Australia 2011: for the single Mr. Saxobeat  Denmark 2011: for the single Mr. Saxobeat  Canada 2011: for the single Mr. Saxobeat  Japan 2014: for the single Mr. Saxobeat 4 × platinum record  Italy 2012: for the single Mr. Saxobeat  Sweden 2012: for the single Mr. Saxobeat

Note: Awards in countries from the chart tables or chart boxes can be found in these.

Country / Region	gold	platinum	Sales	swell
Awards for music sales (country / region, awards, sales, sources)
Australia (ARIA)	-	platinum1	70,000	aria.com.au
Belgium (BEA)	gold1	-	15,000	ultratop.be
Denmark (IFPI)	gold1	platinum1	30,000	ifpi.dk
Germany (BVMI)	gold1	platinum1	450,000	musikindustrie.de
Finland (IFPI)	gold1	-	7.175	ifpi.fi
Italy (FIMI)	2 × gold2	4 × platinum4th	160,000	fimi.it
Japan (RIAJ)	-	platinum1	250,000	riaj.or.jp
Canada (MC)	-	platinum1	80,000	musiccanada.com
New Zealand (RMNZ)	gold1	-	7,500	nztop40.co.nz
Austria (IFPI)	gold1	platinum1	45,000	ifpi.at
Sweden (IFPI)	-	4 × platinum4th	160,000	sverigetopplistan.se
Switzerland (IFPI)	-	2 × platinum2	60,000	hitparade.ch
Spain (Promusicae)	gold1	-	20,000	elportaldemusica.es
United States (RIAA)	-	platinum1	1,000,000	riaa.com
United Kingdom (BPI)	-	platinum1	600,000	bpi.co.uk
All in all	9 × gold9	18 × platinum18th

swell

1. ↑ Biography on their website ( Memento from January 15, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (English and Romanian) accessed on July 12, 2011
2. ↑ Biography on letssingit.com
3. ↑ Your manager beat up Mrs Saxobeat on http://www.welt.de/. Retrieved June 20, 2013 . 
4. ↑ Alexandra Stan - Dance on Discogs.com. Discogs , accessed October 2, 2014 . 
5. ↑ https://itunes.apple.com/de/album/unlocked/id944908995
6. ↑ Archive link ( Memento from February 21, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
7. ↑ ^{a b c} Chart sources: DE AT CH UK US
8. ↑ Italian single charts:
   • Guido Racca & Chartitalia: Top 100 FIMI Singoli . Lulu , 2013, p. 148 .
   • Archivio classifiche Top Singoli. FIMI , accessed June 28, 2018 (Italian). 
9. ↑ - ( Memento of the original from June 28, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 

Web links

Commons : Alexandra Stan  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Alexandra Stan at Allmusic (English)
• Alexandra Stan at Discogs (English)
• Podcast: Alexandra Stan
• Own website