200 Po Wstrechnoi

200 Po Vstrechnoi / 200 Po Встречной
Studio album from tATu
Publication (s)	May 21, 2001
Label (s)	Interscope Russia
Format (s)	CD , cassette
Genre (s)	Dance pop , electro pop , rock
Title (number)	11
running time	43:04 min. (Re-release from 2002: 50:40 min.)
production	Ivan Nikolayevich Shapovalov
chronology - 200 Po Vstrechnoi / 200 Po Встречной 200 km / h in the Wrong Lane (2002)
Single releases December 19, 2000 Yes, soshla s uma May 21, 2001 Nas ne dogonjat September 2001 30 minutes

200 Po Wstretschnoi (Russian "200 По Встречной", German "200 in the opposite direction") is the debut album of the former Russian pop duo tATu. It was released on May 21, 2001 in Russia and developed into a great success in Russia and Eastern Europe . As the first album by Eastern European performers, 200 Po Wstretschnoi sold over a million times in Europe , for which tATu received the “ IFPI Platinum Europe Award ” in 2002 . Overall, the album achieved sales of over three million copies. In 2002 the English version of the album was released in Wrong Lane at 200 km / h , which also became a great success and made the duo famous worldwide.

production

Ivan Nikolajewitsch Schapovalov , a Moscow- based screenwriter for commercials, organized a casting for female singers in Moscow in the spring of 1999. From the more than 500 applicants, the ten best were selected in the end, among them Jelena Katina and Julija Wolkowa . Both already knew each other from the children's band “Neposedi”. In the end, Katina, then 14, won the casting, and Shapovalov recorded several demo recordings (including the anti-war song Yugoslavia ) with her. At the end of 1999, Shapovalov decided to form a duo, and to choose another girl, choosing Volkova. After the formation of the duo, "Тату" was chosen as the band name, and in 2000 the first album was recorded with 200 Po Wstrechnoi . Shortly before the studio recordings were finished, the piece Maltschik-Gei was also sung. An email from a Russian girl living in the United States of America to the management of the group contained the later song title Maltschik-Gei . The two words finally gave the production team the idea for a new song.

The group's recording studio was broken into late during the album recording. According to the management, several demo recordings were stolen, including those for the songs Nas ne dogonjat , Ja soschla s uma , 30 minut and Ja twoja ne perwaja . These demo versions later reappeared on an unofficially published black copy of the single Nas ne dogonjat on cassette. Since black copies were widespread in Russia at the time, it can be assumed that a large number of these cartridges were sold nationwide. These illegally acquired demo recordings are still circulating on the Internet today.

The budget made available to the production team was used up in full, and tATus then manager and producer Shapovalov had asked his financier Boris Renski, a Russian entrepreneur, for more funds several times. According to Shapovalov, the album eventually cost about $ 30,000 to produce, and the production of the first video clip of Ja soschla s around an additional $ 25,000 to $ 30,000.

success

The album was released in Russia on May 21, 2001. In the first two months after its release, the album sold a total of 500,000 times within Russia. Based on these numbers, it can be assumed that over two million black copies were circulated in a variety of ways. Overall, the album was sold legally over two million times in 2001 and an estimated four million copies as black copies in tATu's home country alone. It was the best-selling music album in Russia in 2001 and is still one of the most successful Russian albums of all time. In Eastern Europe the album was also very popular and successful; It was released there in most countries in November 2001. In December 2001 it was also number one in the album charts in the Czech Republic , Bulgaria and Slovakia . In Slovakia, 200 Po Wstrechnoi topped the charts for ten weeks, in the Czech Republic for a week.

In Poland , where the Cyrillic spelling was dispensed with and the publication was instead marketed under the Polish title 200 Po Vstriechnoy , the album was only released in the summer of 2002. On July 8, the album entered the national Polish charts at number 23. It improved quickly and reached the top 10 just three weeks later and top position for one week seven weeks after it was published. A total of 200 Po Vstriechnoy was in the top 10 in Poland for 21 weeks and was awarded gold for 20,000 copies sold in October 2002 and then platinum for 40,000 copies sold in December 2002.

Single releases

The release of the album was linked to the nationwide TV premiere of the music video for the song Nas ne dogonjat in Russia , which was thus released as the second single after Ja soschla s uma from 200 Po Wstrechnoi . Nas ne dogonjat is still the most expensive music video ever shot in Russia. The video shoot lasted three days and was largely recorded from a bird's eye view using cameras attached to helicopters.

In September 2001, the song 30 minut (also known as Poltschassa ) was released as a second single. The release was originally planned for August, but the music video could not be shown due to problems with the censorship. Therefore the video had to be re-cut and could finally be released in censored form in September. The single 30 minut was very well received and was played 30 to 35 times a week by well-known Eastern European radio stations. In total, the song was broadcast over 3,500 times on the radio. The music video also reached top positions and was played over 3000 times by various Russian music channels such as MTV Russia and MUZ-TV .

In October, Ja soschla s uma was officially released as a single in Eastern Europe ( Slovakia , Czech Republic , Bulgaria ), after the song was released in Russia in September 2000. In Bulgaria, the single rose to number one on the national charts of the youth broadcaster MM-Channel on the day it was released.

One month later, in November 2001, the single Nas ne dogonjat also made its debut in Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Bulgaria and Poland. The single reached top positions in the charts in all four countries.

To promote the album, the duo toured from November 26, 2000 to April 16, 2002 throughout Russia, Eastern Europe and Germany , under the title 200 Po Wstretschnoi Tour .

Track list

The album contains eleven songs, two of which are remix tracks. The last remix in the track list below is a hidden track that is not mentioned on the CD and begins at 5:04 minutes of track eleven. The CD also includes a photo gallery that can be called up on the computer and the music video for Nas ne dogonjat .

No.	title	Songwriter	length
1	Зачем я (Satschem Yes)	A. Voitinskiy, A. Vulih, I. Shapovalov, V. Polienko	4:07
2	Я сошла с ума ( Ja soschla s uma )	S. Galoyan, E. Kiper, V. Polienko	3:30
3	Нас не догонят ( Nas ne dogonjat )	S. Galoyan, E. Kiper, V. Polienko	4:38
4th	Досчитай до ста (Dostschitai do sta)	A. Voitinskiy, V. Polienko	4:37
5	30 minutes ( 30 minutes )	S. Galoyan, I. Shapovalov, V. Polienko	3:17
6th	Я твой враг (Ja twoi wrag)	R. Ryabtsev	4:16
7th	Я твоя не первая (Ja twoja ne perwaja)	S. Galoyan, V. Polienko	4:17
8th	Робот (Robot)	A. Voitinskiy, V. Polienko	3:53
9	Мальчик-гей (Maltschik-Gei)	S. Galoyan, A. Karaseva, V. Stepantsov	3:18
10	Нас не догонят (Nas ne dogonjat) [HarDrum Remix]	S. Galoyan, E. Kiper, V. Polienko	3:50
11	30 минут (30 minut) [HarDrum Remix]	S. Galoyan, I. Shapovalov, V. Polienko	4:02
12	Я сошла с ума (Ja soschla s uma) [HarDrum Remix]	S. Galoyan, E. Kiper, V. Polienko	4:13

Boycott attempts

Right -wing extremist nationalists and circles of the Russian Orthodox Church repeatedly called for a boycott against the album and the band. The big radio stations and music channels could not evade the audience's wishes and played the songs and music videos from the album without restrictions after initial hesitation. Only with the song Maltschik-Gei ("Мальчик-гей", in German "homosexual boy"), which was played in discos and at concerts of the band, the radio stations reported concerns. Although the piece was named the third most popular song on the album after Ja soschla s uma and Nas ne dogonjat in a listener survey by Universal Music , the radio stations in the country ignored all listeners' requests and requests for Maltschik-Gei . For this reason, instead of Maltschik-Gei , 30 minut including music video was released as the third single in September 2001 .

Re-release

On February 15, 2002, Universal Music Russia released an "Extended Edition" of the album. In addition to a new artwork, this also contains a new music title ("Клоуны", Klouny ) and two new remixes (Zu 30 minut and Maltschik-Gei ). The newly released album broke the sales record of the original album version from May 2001 and achieved sales of 60,000 legally sold units in Russia in the first week. The number of illegally sold black copies is likely to have been many times higher.

In December 2001 Universal Music Germany announced that it would also release 200 Po Wstretschnoi in Germany. A release in the United States of America was also planned for April 2002. Although singles were already planned ( Nas ne dogonjat in the United States and Ja soschla s uma in Germany), the release date in the USA was canceled, and the Publication in Germany postponed for the time being. Probably in favor of the English language version of the album, which production had started in January 2002. In 2003 the album was finally released in Germany, but did not enter the charts. This version of the album, available in Germany, was also sold in Taiwan. The album was also released in the United Kingdom , Japan and New Zealand , but only made it into the national album charts in Japan. In New Zealand it was the first Russian album ever released there, and together with Wesjolyje Ulybki , also from tATu, it is the only one to this day.

criticism

The album received very positive reviews in the Russian press and was mostly rated as “Good” to “Excellent”. The Neon magazine praised the "excellent quality of the music with high quality texts." The provocative video for Ja soschla s uma , for which tATu would later be heavily criticized by Western music critics, was justified as an attempt to attract attention from the major US record companies, who would otherwise never work with Eastern European artists. In the states of the former Eastern Bloc, the album also received mostly good reviews, even if there was a bit more criticism of the “Lolita lesbian image” among the music critics. The Estonian music critic Reis Zubov praised the energetic rhythms of the tracks on the album and particularly emphasized Ja soschla s uma , Nas ne dogonjat and 30 minut .

Awards

country	Top position	Award	Sales
Poland	1 (39 weeks)	platinum	40,000
Czech Republic	1 (55 weeks)	platinum	10,000
Japan	123 (4 weeks)	-	600,000
Russia	1 (... weeks)	diamond	2,060,000
Europe ( IFPI Platinum Europe Award )	-	platinum	1,000,000
Worldwide	-	3 × platinum 1 × diamond	3,660,000

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IFPI Platinum Europe Awards 2001
2. ↑ Entry about the IFPI Platinum Europe Award 2001 on the official band's homepage ( memento of the original from December 11, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ Documentation about tATu of the NTV station
4. ↑ ^{a b} About the TATU Group ( English ) tatu.ru. Archived from the original on October 15, 2002. Retrieved March 23, 2014.
5. ↑ TATU in 2001 ( English ) tatu.ru. Archived from the original on October 7, 2002. Retrieved March 23, 2014.
6. ↑ Polish charts for the week of July 8-14, 2002
7. ↑ Polish charts for the week of July 22nd to July 28th, 2002
8. ^ Polish charts for the week of August 19-25, 2002
9. ^ Golden Record in Poland
10. ↑ ^{a b} platinum record in Poland
11. ↑ ^{a b} Polish procurement guidelines of the ZPAV
12. ↑ Universal Music - radio and television are afraid of "Maltschik-Gei"
13. ↑ Publication in Taiwan
14. ↑ Dvesti Po Vstrechiy by tATu . iTunes. Retrieved March 23, 2014.
15. ↑ ミ ュ ー ジ ッ ク - tATu . iTunes. Retrieved March 23, 2014.
16. ↑ Dvesti Po Vstrechiy by tATu . iTunes. Retrieved March 23, 2014.
17. ↑ Журнал Неон, №12 . tatysite.net. Retrieved March 23, 2014.
18. ↑ Скандальные «Тату» завоевывают мир . tatysite.net. Retrieved March 23, 2014.
19. ↑ Award in Poland
20. ↑ Sales figures in the Czech Republic ( Memento of the original from October 10, 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. 
21. ↑ Chart placement in Japan
22. ↑ Sales in Japan
23. ↑ Award in Russia ( Memento from April 15, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
24. ↑ Platinum record