Daniel Nitt

Daniel Nitt (2016)

Daniel Nitt (born October 29, 1981 in Pegnitz , Upper Franconia , Bavaria ) is a German composer and music producer specializing in dance-pop , pop-rock and R&B .

Life

Daniel Nitt's father was a music teacher and taught him to play the piano . After graduating from high school at the Margravine Wilhelmine Gymnasium in Bayreuth , he completed a course of studies at the Popakademie Baden-Württemberg in Mannheim , which he completed in 2006 with a bachelor's degree. He then devoted himself to songwriting .

Musical career

Solo career

Nitt first appeared as a singer in 2005. He was hired as a writer for the band Soweitsogut, with the song Will Already ... he appeared as a guest singer in addition to his writing. In 2009 he supported the German producer team Vandertone on their song Sleepliess . In the same year he appeared as producer and background singer for Rosanna Rocci's album Solo con te - Nur mit dich . In 2010 Nitt recorded the play Sonntag with Dwel and Neophil . In 2011 Nitt was part of the soundtrack to Til Schweiger's Kokowääh with the title The Falling . Two years later he was also part of the soundtrack for the second part of Kokowääh with Castles . In the same year Nitts' first album was released with the Hallelujah EP . In 2015, Nitt's first official single was Lovers Friends . The piece was created together with the Austrian DJ duo MÖWE . In the same year he appeared together with Samy Deluxe as a guest singer on Nico Suaves Walking .

Together with Dominik Kern, the cabaret duo Kern & Nitt performs .

Success as an author and music producer

At the same time as his musician career, Nitt also began writing and producing songs. He first appeared as a writer for the band Soweitsogut in 2005. A year later he wrote the song Succeed for this year's winner from Deutschland sucht den Superstar . The piece appeared as the B-side on Regner's single Cool Without You . The single was able to place itself in the German charts. Nitt achieved its first success in 2008 with the production of Perfect Day for King Family . The single reached position 68 in the German single charts and was Nitt's first chart success. The following year he wrote and produced songs for well-known artists such as Cinema Bizarre and Rosanna Rocci . In 2010 he wrote the song Juniherz for Christina Stürmer . At first Nitt did not have a second chart success and with the exception of a few productions it became quieter around Nitt. In 2014 he finally achieved his big breakthrough with the collaboration of Mark Forster . First the two top 10 successes in Germany , Austria and Switzerland celebrated with the single Au revoir . The piece was certified with gold and platinum awards in all three countries and has sold 645,000 times so far. The next top 10 success followed with Flash me . After Nitt achieved tenth place as an author for the song poem at the Bundesvision Song Contest together with Nico Suave and Flo Mega in 2014 , he succeeded in winning the title Bauch und Kopf together with Forster . In the following years, Nitt and Forster achieved further top 10 and chart successes with titles such as Wir sind Groß , Chöre and Sowieso .

Discography

Albums

• 2013: Hallelujah - EP

Singles

• 2015: Lovers Friends ( MÖWE & Daniel Nitt)

Guest Posts

• 2005: It 'll be fine ... (Soweitsogut feat. Daniel Nitt)
• 2009: Sleepliess (Vandertone vs. Daniel Nitt)
• 2010: Sonntag (Dwel feat.Neophil & Daniel Nitt)
• 2015: Walking ( Nico Suave feat. Samy Deluxe & Daniel Nitt)

Author participations and productions

→ Main article : List of author participations and productions by Daniel Nitt

Nitt in the charts as a writer and producer

year	Title artist	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, artist , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)			Remarks
		DE	AT	CH
2008	Perfect Day P King Family	DE68 (3 weeks) DE	-	-	First published: April 4, 2008
2014	Au revoir A, P Mark Forster feat. Sido	DE2 diamond (65 weeks)DE	AT2 gold (50 weeks)AT	CH6th platinum (41 weeks)CH	First published: May 9, 2014 Sales: + 1,045,000
	Poem A Nico Suave feat. Flo mega	DE78 (1 week) DE	-	-	First published: September 19, 2014
	Flash me A, P Mark Forster	DE11 platinum (47 weeks)DE	AT10 (33 weeks) AT	CH- platinum CH	First published: December 12, 2014 Sales: + 330,000
2015	Belly and head A, P Mark Forster	DE15th gold (24 weeks)DE	AT69 (2 weeks) AT	-	First published: August 21, 2015 Sales: + 150,000
2016	We're big A, P Mark Forster	DE3 platinum (29 weeks)DE	AT18th gold (20 weeks)AT	CH16 platinum (20 weeks)CH	First published: April 1, 2016 Sales: + 445,000
	Choirs A, P Mark Forster	DE2 platinum (37 weeks)DE	AT2 gold (24 weeks)AT	CH7th platinum (37 weeks)CH	First published: October 28, 2016 Sales: + 435,000
2017	Anyway A, P Mark Forster	DE22nd platinum (31 weeks)DE	AT7th gold (28 weeks)AT	CH23 gold (27 weeks)CH	First published: April 21, 2017 Sales: + 425,000
	Kogong A, Mark Forster P	DE34 gold (17 weeks)DE	AT7th gold (16 weeks)AT	CH9 gold (18 weeks)CH	First published: September 22nd, 2017 Sales: + 225,000
2018	Like a Lion A, P Mark Forster feat. gentleman	DE38 (5 weeks) DE	-	CH64 gold (1 week)CH	First published: April 13, 2018
	Once A, P Mark Forster	DE24 (18 weeks) DE	AT39 (9 weeks) AT	CH56 (8 weeks) CH	First published: October 5th, 2018 Sales: + 10,000
2019	194 countries A, P Mark Forster	DE13 (... weeks) DE	AT14 (... weeks) AT	CH48 (16 weeks) CH	First published: September 13, 2019
	Wait a minute A, P Fidi Steinbeck feat. Mark Forster	-	-	CH71 (1 week) CH	First published: November 10, 2019
2020	The day after tomorrow A, P Mark Forster	DE7 (... weeks) DE	AT10 (... wk.) AT	CH18 (... weeks) CH	First published: May 1, 2020
The following songs did not appear as single, but were made available for download and streaming through the album and were thus able to achieve a placement:
2017	Whispers A, P Mark Forster	-	-	CH93 (1 week) CH	Chart entry: May 28, 2017
	Number one writer / producer	DE-DE	AT-AT	CH-CH
	Top 10 writer / producer	DE4/4DE	AT6/6AT	CH3/3CH
	Writer / producer on the charts	DE12/12DE	AT9/9AT	CH11/11CH

Awards for music sales

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

Country / Region	gold	platinum	diamond	Sales	swell
Awards for music sales (country / region, awards, sales, sources)
Germany (BVMI)	2 × gold2	4 × platinum4th	diamond1	2,850,000	musikindustrie.de
Austria (IFPI)	5 × gold5	-	-	75,000	ifpi.at
Switzerland (IFPI)	3 × gold3	4 × platinum4th	-	130,000	hitparade.ch
All in all	10 × gold10	8 × platinum8th	diamond1

Web links

Commons : Daniel Nitt  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Short biography of Daniel Nitts .
• Website Daniel Nitts .
• Daniel Nitt in the Internet Movie Database .
• Daniel Nitt at Discogs (English).
• Songs by Daniel Nitt on hitparade.ch

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Heike Hauser: An Upper Franconian in a Gold Rush. Frankenpost, April 7, 2010, accessed June 8, 2014 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b} About us. Kern & Nitt, 2013, accessed June 8, 2014 . 
3. ↑ Chart successes: DE AT CH (search required)
4. ↑ Mark Forster picked up platinum in Switzerland. MusikWoche , December 5, 2014, accessed on October 19, 2019 (subscription required).