Great Freedom (album)

Lot of freedom
Unheilig studio album
Publication (s)	February 19, 2010
Label (s)	Vertigo Records , Universal
Format (s)	CD
Genre (s)	Rock , pop
Title (number)	14 + 2 bonus tracks
running time	57:16 66:32 (limited edition)
occupation	The Graf : compositions, texts, instrumentation, arrangements, programming and singing Christoph Termühlen ("Licky"): guitar Henning Verlage : Programming
production	The Earl
chronology Puppet show live - curtain up! (2008) Lot of freedom Great Freedom Live (2010)
Single releases February 19, 2010 Born to live May 21, 2010 Forever September 24, 2010 Under your flag

Große Freiheit is the sixth studio album by the German rock band Unheilig . It was released on February 19, 2010 and entered the German album charts at number 1. The album moves stylistically between pop and new German hardness , the latter especially in the pieces Abwärts and Unter Feuer . It was also released as a box set limited to 5,000 pieces. The album received nine platinum status in Germany, triple platinum in Austria and double platinum in Switzerland. In August 2010 it replaced Herbert Grönemeyer's Ö as the longest album by a German artist that had been at number one in the German album charts : with interruptions, it was at the top of the charts for 23 weeks. Große Freiheit finally became the most successful album of 2010 in Germany. It has sold over two million times to date.

Executions

The following versions of the album were released in the year of its appearance:

• Great Freedom (Ltd. Fan Edition)
• Great freedom (limited edition)
• Great Freedom (Winter Edition)

Track list

1. The sea - 3:39
2. Distress at sea - 4:23
3. Forever - 3:23
4. Born to Live - 3:51
5. Down - 3:31
6. Hold me - 3:48
7. Under fire - 5:05
8. Great freedom - 3:49
9. I belong to myself - 3:37
10. Home Star - 4:12
11. Constellation - 4:30
12. Under your flag - 4:12
13. Wanderlust - 4:52
14. Give me a miracle - 4:37 (only included in the limited edition)
15. On Course - 4:39 (Only included in the Limited Edition)
16. Neuland (instrumental) - 4:32

Early works & raw drafts

Bonus disc of the Limited Fan Edition from Große Freiheit

1. Human Nations (first musical steps 1992)
2. The Beast (Instrumental, mistakenly the Song Invader ) (First musical steps 1992)
3. Lost Heaven (unreleased song from earlier unholy times)
4. Faded Times (unreleased song from earlier unholy time)
5. Distress at sea (demo version)
6. Forever (demo version)
7. Under your flag (demo version)
8. Born to Live (demo version 1)
9. Born to Live (demo version 2)

Winter edition

Bonus disc from the Winter Edition of Große Freiheit

1. Winter land
2. Born to Live (Piano Version Live on Radio NRW)
3. Under your flag (Piano Version Live on Radio NRW)
4. Winterland (single version)
5. Winterland (Gregorian Version)
6. The Count Reads "Sleeping Beauty"

Single releases

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)			Remarks
		DE	AT	CH
2010	Born to live Great freedom	DE2 × 5 Quintuple gold (106 weeks)DE	AT8 (89 weeks) AT	CH13 platinum (84 weeks)CH	First published: Jan 29, 2010 Sales: + 780,000
	Forever great freedom	DE17 (24 weeks) DE	AT51 (7 weeks) AT	CH57 (1 week) CH	First published: May 21, 2010
	Great freedom under your flag	DE9 (21 weeks) DE	AT29 (12 weeks) AT	-	First published: September 24, 2010
	Winter / Winterland Great Freedom - Winter Edition	DE4th gold (20 weeks)DE	AT6 (16 weeks) AT	CH64 (2 weeks) CH	First published: November 19, 2010 Sales: + 150,000

tour

After the album was released, Unheilig went on tour in the spring, which can be seen on the CD and DVD Große Freiheit Live , which was released in June 2010 . The extended Große Freiheit II - anniversary tour in larger halls followed in winter .

→ Main article : Great Freedom Live

reception

Awards

• Echo pop
  • 2011: in the category "Album of the year (national / international)"

Reviews

The album was rated very differently by the critics: Tobias Hinrichs from Plattentests.de called the album "tonal tönern" and saw in it "nothing unusual, nothing outstanding". He criticized the " Rammstein doublets", but emphasized the title Born to Live , which was reminiscent of pieces by Silbermond and an "ace in the pump sleeve" of the singer "Der Graf". Two out of ten points were awarded. On Laut.de , Ulf Kubanke wrote that the “total Lindemannization ” would “ruin many good approaches.” The record could have been the best from Unheilig, but the band faces up to various role models, such as Joachim Witt , gladly "lyrically and musically a leg myself". The editors rated the album three out of five stars. In a review on www.c-net.de it was said that the band aimed less at the head than at the heart with the album. The result is "warmer and more believable" than on the previous album Puppenspiel (2008).

Charts and chart placements

Charts	Top ranking	Weeks
Chart placements
Germany (GfK)	1 (157 weeks)	157
Austria (Ö3)	1 (117 weeks)	117
Switzerland (IFPI)	3 (109 weeks)	109

Awards for music sales

Country / Region	Award	Sales
Awards for music sales (country / region, Award, Sales)
Germany (BVMI)	9 × platinum	1,800,000
Europe (IFPI)	platinum	(1,000,000)
Austria (IFPI)	3 × platinum	60,000
Switzerland (IFPI)	2 × platinum	60,000
All in all	15 × platinum	1,920,000

Trivia

The song Große Freiheit is the end song of the Mein Schiff fleet from TUI Cruises and is played every time it casts off. It was rearranged by James Last and Unheilig and presented in this version for the first time at the christening of Mein Schiff 2 .

See also

• List of the best-selling music albums certified by BVMI in Germany

Individual evidence

1. ↑ www.zeit.de: Unheilig with "Große Freiheit" in first place ( memento from March 5, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), accessed March 3, 2010
2. ↑ ^{a b} www.cnet.de: Review Große Freiheit  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed March 3, 2010.  
3. ↑ [1]
4. ↑ www.abendblatt.de: 15th place first: Unheilig set a record , accessed August 20, 2010
5. ↑ http://www.einslive.de/musik/charts/2011/jahresalbumcharts.jsp
6. ↑ Der Graf // Biography ( Memento of the original from July 14, 2011 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. 
7. ↑ Chart sources singles: DE AT CH
8. ↑ www.plattentests.de: Great Freedom Review by Tobias Hinrichs , accessed March 3, 2010.
9. ↑ www.laut.de: Review Große Freiheit by Ulf Kubanke , accessed March 3, 2010.
10. ↑ Unholy - Great Freedom. officialcharts.de, accessed on September 12, 2018 . 
11. ↑ Unholy - Great Freedom. austriancharts.at, accessed on September 12, 2018 . 
12. ↑ Unholy - Great Freedom. hitparade.ch, accessed on September 12, 2018 . 
13. ^ AfM-DE
14. ↑ AfM-EU
15. ^ AfM-AT
16. ^ AfM-CH
17. ↑ Report ( Memento of the original from April 10, 2013 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. on the launch of Mein Schiff 2. Accessed on August 14, 2014.