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

Helene Fischer (2013)

The list of the best-selling video albums certified by BVMI in Germany is an overview of all video albums that have received gold and platinum awards in Germany from the Federal Association of the Music Industry (BVMI). The most successful award-winning work comes from the American dancer Michael Flatley and was published in 1995. His first music film Lord of the Dance has sold over 450,000 copies so far. The oldest award-winning work dates from 1974 and comes from the British rock band The Rolling Stones , whose concert film Ladies & Gentleman: The Rolling Stones was awarded a gold record for the first time in 2010. With over 700,000 video albums sold, German pop singer Helene Fischer is the interpreter with the most certified sales in history, closely followed by Die Toten Hosen (650,000) as well as AC / DC and Andrea Berg (600,000 each).

Notes on interpreting the statistics listed

This list includes artists whose video albums have received a so-called "Music Video Award" from the BVMI. As a representative of the interests of the German music industry, this association has been awarding such certifications for commercially successful video albums since 1991. The record companies concerned must apply for the certifications; the awards are not automatically assigned. According to a guideline dated January 1, 1976, the number of rated sales is determined according to the units sold to GEMA or another collecting society of the authors as domestic sales. These guidelines apply to all awards, not just audio products.

The video albums can be found in the following table in descending order of their certified sales and in ascending order of the year of publication. The table contains information about the titles of the works, the performers, the year of publication (“Jahr VÖ”) and the year of the highest award (“Jahr Ausz.”) And the amount of certified sales with their award level. The list takes into account all types of video formats . In Germany it is common for the sales figures of different video formats of the same work to be added together, so that no awards are made separately for video formats such as Blu-Ray or DVD. Not included in the list are comedy recordings (for this see: List of the best-selling comedy recordings in Germany ) or children's radio plays . The information in the "Certified sales" column is a minimum number of phonograms sold for the respective work. Since there are fixed lending limits for the awards, the actual sales of the respective sound carriers can be somewhat higher - i.e. between the awarded and the next awarding limit. All physical video formats ( Blu-ray , DVD , HD DVD , VHS etc.) as well as video downloads count in the “Music Video Award” category .

Issues and conditions for the award

The "Music Video Award" is given to video albums whose music content is at least 50%. Other categories of video programs such as feature films , documentaries , special interest journalism or programs for children and young people can only be awarded on the basis of these guidelines if the product is based on its program content in accordance with the current "system description of the official charts" of the BVMI is chartable. It is also possible to register for a “Music Video Award” for audio and video carriers that have already been considered for achieving “Gold / Platinum for music products”. One of the problems associated with the award of gold and platinum awards is that only those high-selling audio and video carriers are awarded that have been registered with the BVMI and therefore received gold and / or platinum awards.

Limits to the award of phonograms

In Germany there is a special feature that gold records are awarded again between the platinum awards. Only AMPROFON in Mexico also follows this award system. Usually there are no further awards between the individual platinum records, until a diamond record is awarded. In Germany diamond records are only awarded in certain categories, the "Music Video Award" is not one of them.

With the introduction of the “Music Video Award”, all video products were initially awarded with the same. In 2009 the “Comedy Awards” and the “Kids Awards” for video products were introduced. With their introduction, all video products from these areas were awarded separately with the genre-specific and no longer with the “Music Video Award”. The award limits of all categories for video products are the same.

Music Video Award

Award	Sales
gold	25,000
platinum	50,000
3 × gold	75,000
2 × platinum	100,000
...

Video albums sorted by certified sound carrier sales

The following table contains all video albums that sold at least 50,000 copies and were awarded a platinum record as the lowest certification level. In addition to the listed works, there are another 193 video albums, which were awarded a gold record for 25,000 units sold (as of August 2018).

• Rank: shows the order of the video albums. This is determined by the amount of "certified sales".
• Release year: the year in which the work - regardless of its video format - was first published.
• Year Ausz .: the year in which a recording was last certified.
• Title: gives the title of the work.
• Artist: shows which interpreters are involved in the work.
• Certified sales: indicates the level of the award limit and the award limit.

rank	Year release	Year exc.	title	Interpreter	Certified sales
1	1995	2001	Lord of the Dance	Michael Flatley	9 × platinum (450,000+)
2	2003	2006	Human live	Herbert Grönemeyer	6 × platinum (300,000+)
3	2003	2004	What We Did Last Summer: Live at Knebworth	Robbie Williams	11 × gold (275,000+)
	2004	2011	Finally ... the First Farewell Tour	Phil Collins
5	2013	2015	Play of colors - Live from the Deutsches Theater Munich	Helene Fischer	5 × platinum (250,000+)
6th	1990	2008	Live at Wembley '86	Queen	4 × platinum (200,000+)
	1998	1999	The video	Backstreet Boys
	2000	2007	state of things	Herbert Grönemeyer & Symphony Orchestra
	2009	2011	live from Berlin	Peter Fox & Cold Steel
	2011	2015	Live at the Royal Albert Hall	Adele
	2011	2016	MTV Unplugged - Live from the Hotel Atlantic	Udo Lindenberg
12	1995	2006	PULSE	Pink Floyd	7 × platinum (175,000+)
	2003	2012	Emotions up close	Andrea Berg
	2005	2014	Bullet in a Bible	Green Day
	2005	2014	Family jewels	AC / DC
	2012	2016	Celebration Day	Led Zeppelin
17th	1992	2012	Live at Donington	AC / DC	3 × platinum (150,000+)
	1994	1995	Tough Road Vol. II	The Kelly Family
	2004	2005	The band they called horse	The doctors
	2011	2014	Live at River Plate	AC / DC
21st	1994	1995	Tough Road Vol. I.	The Kelly Family	7 × gold (125,000+)
	2004	2008	Queen on Fire - Live at the Bowl	Queen
	2006	2009	Live - the big concert in Oberhausen	Andrea Berg
	2009	2013	Pink: Funhouse Live in Australia	P nk
25th	1982	2004	Pink Floyd the Wall	Pink Floyd	2 × platinum (100,000+)
	1989	2006	Rattle and Hum	U2
	1994	1996	Tabaluga and Lilli live!	Peter Maffay
	1998	2000	Feet of Flames	Michael Flatley
	1999	2004	live from Berlin	Rammstein
	2001	2002	Thirty years ago today - Live	Peter Maffay
	2001	2003	Live at the Albert	Robbie Williams
	2002	2004	The Definitive Collection	ABBA
	2003	2011	Live 2003	Coldplay
	2003	2011	The Complex Rock Tour Live	Blue Man Group
	2005	2014	Caught in the Act	Michael Bublé
	2005	2017	In America	Rammstein
	2005	2007	La Ultima / Live in Berlin	Böhse Onkelz
	2005	2006	Live the Second - Behind the Scenes	Tokio Hotel
	2005	2011	Only to visit	The dead pants
	2006	2007	And Through It All: Robbie Williams Live 1997-2006	Robbie Williams
	2006	2008	Touring the Angel: Live in Milan	Depeche Mode
	2006	2007	Dodgeball	Rammstein
	2007	2010	Mothership	Led Zeppelin
	2007	2012	Pink: Live from Wembley Arena	P nk
	2007	2012	Plug Me In	AC / DC
	2007	2008	The Confessions Tour	Madonna
	2008	2011	Courage to feel (live)	Helene Fischer
	2013	2014	Metallica Through the Never	Metallica
	2014	2015	Nothing is forever - Live at the Hockenheimring 2014	Böhse Onkelz
50	1981	2008	Greatest Video Hits 1	Queen	3 × gold (75,000+)
	1994	2012	December dreams	Rolf Zuckowski
	1994	2007	Secret World Live	Peter Gabriel
	1995	2004	Video Greatest Hits - HIStory	Michael Jackson
	1996	1996	Videos, live & private	Caught in the Act
	2001	2006	20 years - Live in Frankfurt	Böhse Onkelz
	2002	2003	My Tribute to the King	Helmut Lotti
	2003	2012	Rolf's new way to school hit parade	Rolf Zuckowski
	2004	2005	Anywhere but Home	Evanescence
	2004	2004	Live & Off the Record	Shakira
	2004	2011	Rock am Ring 2004 - Live	The dead pants
	2005	2014	Farewell 1 Tour - Live from Melbourne	Eagles
	2005	2011	Home game! - Live in Düsseldorf	The dead pants
	2006	2009	live	Seeed
	2006	2012	Pink: Live in Europe	P nk
	2007	2008	12 live	Herbert Grönemeyer
	2007	2011	So close, so far	Helene Fischer
	2009	2012	The concert - between heaven and earth	Andrea Berg
	2009	2010	Live in Concert & in Private	David Garrett
	2009	2011	Magic Moon (live)	Helene Fischer
	2010	2011	360 ° at the Rose Bowl	U2
	2010	2011	Best of Helene Fischer live - The way I am	Helene Fischer
	2010	2017	Great freedom live	Unholy
	2011	2012	Weightless - Live	Andrea Berg
	2012	2013	For one day - Live 2012	Helene Fischer
	2014	2015	The crash of the republic	The dead pants
76	1982	2004	Live at Central Park	Simon & Garfunkel	Platinum (50,000+)
	1984	2010	Queen Rock Montreal	Queen
	1990	1991	In concert	The three tenors
	1990	1992	live	Marius Müller-Westernhagen
	1990	2008	Serious hits… Live!	Phil Collins
	1991	2008	Greatest Video Hits 2	Queen
	1992	2003	Live in Vienna	Böhse Onkelz
	1993	1997	Dangerous - The Short Films	Michael Jackson
	1993	2004	Rolf's song calendar	Rolf Zuckowski and his friends
	1994	2004	ABBA Gold - Greatest Hits	ABBA
	1994	1995	Live in Berlin	Take that
	1995	1995	Live at Loreley	The Kelly Family
	1995	1995	Searching for the Magic Golden Harp	The Kelly Family
	1996	2009	On behalf of the Lord	The dead pants
	1997	1998	Backstreet Boys - Behind the Scenes	Backstreet Boys
	1997	1997	Forever Friends Tour Video	Caught in the Act
	1997	2002	HIStory on Film - Volume II	Michael Jackson
	1997	2006	Live in Dortmund	Böhse Onkelz
	1998	1998	Live in concert	Backstreet Boys
	1998	2005	The Videos 86> 98+	Depeche Mode
	2000	2004	killer	The doctors
	2001	2005	En misión del Señor - Live in Buenos Aires	The dead pants
	2001	2001	Pur & Friends live at Schalke	Pure
	2001	2006	Tour 2000	Böhse Onkelz
	2002	2002	One night in Paris	Depeche Mode
	2002	2005	Rich & sexy II	The dead pants
	2002	2003	Rock 'n' Roll junior high school	The doctors
	2003	2006	... all the best before us ...	Xavier Naidoo
	2003	2006	Growing Up - Live	Peter Gabriel
	2003	2004	Movie theater	Rammstein
	2003	2011	live from Berlin	Rose pride
	2003	2004	Live in Barcelona	Bruce Springsteen
	2003	2003	Anthology	The Beatles
	2003	2003	The Robbie Williams Show	Robbie Williams
	2004	2016	A reality tour	David Bowie
	2004	2015	Mountain of no return	Kastelruther sparrows
	2004	2006	A journey through the soul	Andrea Berg
	2004	2011	Play - The Videos	Peter Gabriel
	2004	2005	PUR Classic - Live at Schalke 2004	Pure
	2004	2007	The Video Show	genesis
	2004	2011	Welcome to our world	Rose pride
	2005	2015	L'elisir d'amore	Rolando Villazón / Anna Netrebko
	2005	2005	Live 8	Various Artists
	2005	2006	Vertigo 2005 - Live from Chicago	U2
	2006	2007	Chasing Time: the Bedlam Sessions	James Blunt
	2006	2006	Here We Go - Live & Private	US5
	2006	2007	Metallica: The Videos 1989-2004	Metallica
	2007	2008	Buenos Dias - I'm back here	Semino Rossi
	2007	2012	I Told You I was Trouble - Live in London	Amy Winehouse
	2007	2010	Live in Vienna	Semino Rossi
	2007	2009	Nights from the Alhambra	Loreena McKennitt
	2008	2009	Cannons on sparrows	Beatsteaks
	2008	2010	come Dance With Me	The amigos
	2008	2010	Live from Texas	ZZ top
	2008	2010	Strong as two - live	Udo Lindenberg
	2008	2008	When in Rome 2007	genesis
	2009	2012	On the golden Rhine	In Extremo
	2009	2011	Flight 666	Iron Maiden
	2009	2013	Sometimes loud live	The dead pants
	2009	2015	Sing & Move Vol. 2	Detlev Jöcker
	2010	2014	Crossroads Guitar Festival 2010	Eric Clapton
	2010	2012	Moonlight	Light moon
	2010	2010	Rock Symphonies - Open Air live	David Garrett
	2010	2011	Tour of the Universe: Barcelona	Depeche Mode
2011	2018	The 30 best play and movement songs	Simone Sommerland, Karsten Glück and the daycare frogs
2011	2013	Live - Helene Fischer for the first time with band and orchestra	Helene Fischer
2011	2016	Live from Beyond Hell / Above Heaven	Volbeat
2012	2012	Andrea Berg - Adventure live!	Andrea Berg
2013	2014	I do my thing - the show	Udo Lindenberg
2013	2013	Sweet Summer Sun - Hyde Park Live	The Rolling Stones
2016	2016	Böhse for life	Böhse Onkelz
2017	2017	MTV Unplugged	Andreas Gabalier

Ranking of the most successful artists

The following ranking includes all artists - in descending order of their certified sales - who have received gold and platinum awards for more than 100,000 video albums sold. It also provides information about how many different video albums the performers have received and how many gold or platinum awards they have received. The maximum values ​​for each column are shown in bold.

rank	Interpreter	Video albums	Gold mark	Platinum award	Certified sales
1	Helene Fischer	7th	4th	12	700,000
2	The dead pants	13	8th	9	650,000
3	AC / DC	5	2	11	600,000
	Andrea Berg	8th	6th	9
5	Herbert Grönemeyer	3	1	11	575,000
6th	Michael Flatley	2	0	11	550,000
7th	Queen	6th	3	9	525,000
	Robbie Williams	4th	1	10
9	Böhse Onkelz	7th	1	9	475,000
10	The Kelly Family	5	2	7th	400,000
11	Rammstein	5	1	7th	375,000
12	Phil Collins	3	2	6th	350,000
	Udo Lindenberg	5	2	6th
14th	P nk	4th	3	5	325,000
15th	The doctors	5	2	5	300,000
	Backstreet Boys	3	0	6th
	Depeche Mode	6th	2	5
	Peter Maffay	6th	4th	4th
	Pink Floyd	3	2	5
20th	Led Zeppelin	2	1	5	275,000
21st	U2	4th	2	4th	250,000
	Rolf Zuckowski	5	4th	3
23	Pure	7th	5	2	225,000
24	ABBA	4th	2	3	200,000
	Adele	1	0	4th
	Cold Steel	1	0	4th
	Peter Fox	1	0	4th
	Green Day	2	2	3
	Madonna	5	4th	2
	Symphony orchestra	1	0	4th
	Take that	7th	6th	1
32	The flippers	7th	7th	0	175,000
	Metallica	3	1	3
	Michael Jackson	3	1	3
	Peter Gabriel	3	1	3
36	Eric Clapton	5	4th	1	150,000
	Iron Maiden	5	4th	1
	Kastelruther sparrows	5	4th	1
	The Rolling Stones	5	4th	1
40	Caught in the Act	2	1	2	125,000
	David Garrett	2	1	2
	genesis	3	1	2
	Helmut Lotti	3	3	1
	Rose pride	3	1	2
	Bruce Springsteen	4th	3	1
46	Blue Man Group	1	0	2	100,000
	Michael Bublé	1	0	2
	Coldplay	1	0	2
	In Extremo	3	2	1
	Light moon	3	2	1
	The lollipops	4th	4th	0
	Semino Rossi	1	0	2
	Shakira	2	2	1
	Tokio Hotel	1	0	2
	Unholy	2	2	1

See also

• German album charts → Number one albums / Top 10 albums
• List of artists with the highest number of BVMI certified recordings sales

Individual evidence

1. ↑ SCVC: Happy Birthday, Gold Record! . ( Memento from January 15, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) hr-online.de, February 10, 2012, accessed on August 12, 2020.
2. ↑ ^{a b c d} Guidelines for Gold / Platinum and Diamond Awards. musikindustrie.de, accessed on August 31, 2018 . 
3. ↑ ^{a b} Award limits. musikindustrie.de, accessed on August 31, 2018 . 

Web links

• BVMI gold / platinum database

This version was included in the selection of informative lists and portals on September 10, 2018 .