80 million
| 80 million | |
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| Max Giesinger | |
| publication | 19th February 2016 |
| length | 3:35 |
| Genre (s) | pop |
| Author (s) |
Martin Fliegenschmidt , Max Giesinger, David Juergens, Alexander Zuckowski |
| Award (s) | 1 live crown |
| album | The boy who runs |
80 million is a song by the German songwriter Max Giesinger . The piece is the first single from his second studio album The Boy Who Runs .
Creation and artwork
The song was written jointly by Martin Fliegenschmidt , Max Giesinger, David Jürgens and Alexander Zuckowski . The single was produced by Jens Schneider. The single was released under the music label BMG and distributed by Songreiter Musikverlag , Sony / ATV Music Publishing , Tinseltown Music Publishing and Universal Music Publishing . At the beginning all the music labels rejected the piece, but Giesinger believed in the piece and wanted to publish it through crowdfunding . Shortly before the start of the planned crowdfunding campaign, BMG became aware of Giesinger and published the song with him.
On the cover of the maxi single - next to the artist name and the song title - Giesinger can be seen running.
Publication and promotion
The first release of 80 million took place as a single download on February 19, 2016. In the run-up to the European Football Championship 2016 , the piece blossomed more and more into one of the EM hits, whereupon Giesinger published the song with a new refrain. The first release of 80 million (EM version) followed on June 10, 2016. The EM version initially includes the original sound of Tom Bartels from the final of the 2014 World Cup .
In order to promote the song, there followed, among other things, live appearances in prime time during the ESC Grand Prix Party 2016 , during the semi-final show of The Voice of Germany 2016 and in the annual chart edition of the ultimate chart show . On April 22nd, 2016, Giesinger made a guest appearance in the 5982nd episode of Gute Zeiten, Bad Zeiten . On March 4, 2017, Giesinger opened the 52nd award of the Golden Camera with a special version for 80 million , Giesinger changed the text and went into the content of the nominees.
background information
In September 2017, the alternative for Germany , in the course of the 2017 federal election , used the song without being asked at an election campaign event in Pforzheim . Giesinger announced legal steps and expressed himself with the following words: "It annoys me extremely that a party whose political views I do not share in any way, instrumentalizes my music for their election campaign and uses it without my knowledge." At the beginning of 2018 a confirmed AfD spokesman for the Badische Latest Nachrichten that Giesinger obtained a warning against the party. In addition, the AfD spokesman made the following statement: "Of course we are sticking to Mr. Giesinger's request, especially since we never intended to use the song regularly anyway".
content
The lyrics to 80 million are written in German. The music and the text were written jointly by Martin Fliegenschmidt, Max Giesinger, David Jürgens and Alexander Zuckowski. Musically, the song moves in the area of pop music . Lars Brand ( percussion and drums ) and Paul Sieferle ( electric bass ) were hired as instrumentalists .
In terms of content, the song deals with the first moment in which you find your supposedly perfect partner. In an interview with OK! Giesinger described the song in the following words: “ 80 million has a general message. Everyone is looking for their perfect lid. If you think about it carefully, with seven billion people the greatest coincidences simply have to come together to meet the right person at that very moment. It could also be good that this person stayed in bed ten minutes longer that day and then you would have missed yourself. In any case, moving from the village to the city, which I address in the first verse, is autobiographical. That the song has now created so much and that it is so well received, of course, I'm really happy. ”While participating in Sing my song - the exchange concert , Giesinger revealed that he wrote the song for his partner at the time. He sent her the piece and she was "blown away" by how much the song reflects the current situation of the two and their feelings. At the beginning, she heard the song on the radio every morning and was happy with it. With increasing success, a long-distance relationship developed , because Giesinger was permanently on the road and later the separation because music was the most important thing for Giesinger at that time.
- Refrain, original excerpt
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- Refrain, EM version
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Music video
To 80 million two music videos were shot. The original video was made in Berlin and premiered on February 19, 2016 on YouTube . It starts with a woman, played by Stefanie Giesinger , who leaves her apartment. Shortly afterwards, Max also leaves his apartment, which is in the same building. After that, scenes of both can be seen moving through Berlin. After a while their paths cross in a café , Stefanie is distracted with her cell phone and Max does not pay attention. As she leaves the café, she notices a tour poster from Max Giesinger, of which she takes a picture. In the evening she sits alone at home on the windowsill of her apartment and looks at the tour poster again. She then decides to attend the concert at the Auster Club. On site she goes to the first row of the audience, after a short time Max leaves the stage and sings the song to the end right in front of Stefanie. The total length of the video is 4:16 minutes. As with California and Forever , Maxim Abrossimow again directed.
The second music video for the EM version was shot in parts during the Rhineland-Palatinate Day and in the Wartberg Stadium in the Rhine-Hessian town of Alzey and premiered on June 10, 2016 on YouTube . The video can be divided into three sections. At the beginning Giesinger can be seen in the Wartberg Stadium, where he stands alone on the field under floodlights and sings the song. Afterwards, excerpts from the concert from the Rhineland-Palatinate Day can be seen. The third section shows a group of children moving through Hamburg playing football . A scene of the children was filmed on the roof terrace of Kostja Ullmann's apartment. The total length of the video is 3:37 minutes. Directed by Patrick Wulf.
To date, both music videos have over 34.9 million views on YouTube (as of July 2017).
Contributors
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Song production
Music video (EM version)
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Music video (original)
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reception
Awards
On December 1, 2016 Giesinger was awarded a 1 Live Krone in the category Best Single for 80 million . It is an audience award in which Giesinger was able to prevail against Philipp Poisel ( explain me love ), Eff ( voice ) and Mark Forster ( we are tall ), among others .
Charts and chart placements
80 million reached position two in the singles charts in Germany and stayed in the top 10 for four weeks and in the charts for 38 weeks. In Austria the single reached position 52 in six chart weeks and in Switzerland position 53 in three chart weeks. Although the song did not make it to number one, it was still the most successful German-language song in the German single charts for a period of two weeks . In 2016, the single placed 31st in the German annual single charts. In the German airplay annual charts , 80 million occupied position 13, making it the second most played German-language title on the radio after We are tall ( Mark Forster ).
For Giesinger as an interpreter, this is already the third chart success in Germany and the second in Austria and Switzerland. It is his first top 10 success in Germany. As an author, 80 million is Giesinger's first chart success. To date, none of Giesinger's single has made it higher or longer in the German single charts. In Switzerland, too, no single could rank higher.
For Zuckowski as an author this is already the 18th chart success in Germany and the tenth in Austria and Switzerland. It is his fifth top 10 success in Germany. To date, no work by Zuckowski has been able to stay higher or longer in the German single charts, so the piece replaced the predecessors Rise Like a Phoenix (highest ranking: five) and El mismo sol (length of stay: 21 weeks). For Jürgens as an author, this is the tenth chart success in Germany, the sixth in Austria and the fifth in Switzerland. It's after I'm Here by David Pfeffer his second top 10 hit in Germany. For Fliegenschmidt as an author, this is already the seventh chart success in Germany and Austria, as well as the fourth in Switzerland. After I Care for You by Jennifer Braun and Hurt Lovers by Blue, it is his third top 10 success in Germany.
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Awards for music sales
In January 2020, 80 million in Germany was awarded a triple golden record for over 600,000 units sold.
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 Germany (BVMI)
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 3 × gold
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600,000 |
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1 × gold  1 × platinum |
600,000 |
Cover versions
Version of MoTrip
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The German- Lebanese rapper MoTrip covered the piece during the seventh season of the VOX show Sing mein Song - Das Tauschkonzert . He kept the composition, but largely changed the lyrics. Instead of looking for and finding great love, he raps or sings about how he and his family had to flee Lebanon before the war and how he found his identity and his great love in Germany as one of "80 million". While appearing on the show, he moved Giesinger and the other participants to tears, for which Giesinger chose his cover version as the “song of the evening”.
“Come so far and seen so much,
so much happens that we don't understand.
Climbed mountains to stand here today.
Swim seas to avoid war.
Crossing borders, marching through tears.
But I found my identity here.
Lost everything the night we fled
And then found me here.
As one of 80 million. "
The piece was released as a promo single on May 6, 2020, one day after it was first broadcast. On May 22, 2020, the cover version appeared on the associated label sampler. After the track missed the charts due to the shortened first week of sales, the track made it to position 60 in the German single charts in the chart week of May 15, 2020. In the chart week of May 8, 2020, the single made it to position 22 in the German download charts . In addition, the single reached number 90 on the German streaming charts . With 80 million , MoTrip reached the German single charts for the ninth time. In Switzerland , the single also entered the charts in its second week of sales and reached position 81. The single became MoTrip's second chart success in Switzerland, the first being As You Are in 2015.
More cover versions
- 2017: Spongebob SquarePants , the music project around Spongebob SquarePants released a version on April 7, 2017 under the title Just like a son of his own on the album Der Meiser grills .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Sony / ATV wins Jens Schneider and Constantin Krieg. mediabiz.de, accessed on December 13, 2016 .
- ↑ a b Repertoire search. online.gema.de, accessed on December 12, 2016 .
- ^ A b Max Giesinger: Max Giesinger in an interview with Michael Patrick Kelly . Talpa Germany, VOX, S7E1, May 5, 2020.
- ↑ Max Giesinger: Preliminary single # 80Millionen becomes a hit. mix1.de, accessed on December 12, 2016 .
- ↑ Max Giesinger presents the EM version of '80 million '. mix1.de, accessed on December 12, 2016 .
- ↑ Mannequin Challenge: Max Giesinger feat. Semi-finalists: “80 million”. the-voice-of-germany.de, accessed on December 13, 2016 .
- ↑ a b The ultimate chart show - Best of 2016 !, RTL Television , December 16, 2016.
- ↑ GZSZ: The chart topper Max Giesinger appears in “Masonry”. rtl.de, accessed on December 13, 2016 .
- ↑ Golden Camera, ZDF, March 4, 2017.
- ↑ Giesinger prevailed in the dispute with the AfD. 1deutsch.de, accessed on March 3, 2018 .
- ↑ Max Giesinger - The boy who runs. discogs.com, accessed December 12, 2016 .
- ↑ “80 million” singer Max Giesinger: “I stick to the fame of women”. ok-magazin.de, accessed on December 13, 2016 .
- ↑ SG RWO Alzey eV - Max Giesinger with us on the Wartberg. facebook.com, accessed December 12, 2016 .
- ↑ “80 million” by Max Giesinger is the “best single”! wdr.de, accessed on December 13, 2016 .
- ↑ Michael Schmich: Top 25 of the Official German Airplay Annual Charts. radioszene.de, January 5, 2017, accessed on May 27, 2020 .
- ↑ Max Giesinger - 80 million. officialcharts.de, accessed on December 13, 2016 .
- ↑ Max Giesinger - 80 million. austriancharts.at, accessed on December 13, 2016 .
- ↑ Max Giesinger - 80 million. hitparade.ch, accessed on December 13, 2016 .
- ↑ Single year charts 2016. officialcharts.de, accessed on January 6, 2017 .
- ↑ Gold / platinum database. musikindustrie.de, accessed on January 30, 2020 .
- ↑ a b c MoTrip - 80 million. officialcharts.de, accessed on May 16, 2020 .
- ↑ a b MoTrip - 80 million. hitparade.ch, accessed on May 16, 2020 .
- ↑ Sing my song 2020: Max Giesinger selects MoTrip's “80 million” as the “song of the evening”. vox.de, May 6, 2020, accessed on May 7, 2020 .
- ↑ On what's to come (from Sing my song, Vol. 7) / Nico Santos. listen.tidal.com, accessed May 7, 2020 .
- ↑ Official download charts single. mtv.de, May 11, 2020, accessed on May 2, 2020 .
- ↑ Official Top 100 Music Streaming. mtv.de, May 19, 2020, accessed on May 26, 2020 .
- ↑ Spongebob SquarePants - Just like your own son. austriancharts.at, accessed on April 7, 2017 .