To us
| To us | |
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| Andreas Bourani | |
| publication | April 25, 2014 |
| length | 4:01 |
| Genre (s) | pop |
| Author (s) | Andreas Bourani, Julius Hartog, Tom Olbrich |
| Award (s) | ECHO Pop , Radio Regenbogen Award |
| album | Hey |
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| 2014 | Victory dance |
| 2015 | Sing my song 2 Allstars |
On us is a song by the German pop singer Andreas Bourani . The track is the first single from his second studio album Hey .
Creation and artwork
The song was written jointly by Andreas Bourani, Julius Hartog and Tom Olbrich. The single was mixed and produced by Peter "Jem" Seifert ; Andreas Bourani, Julius Hartog, Andreas Herbig and Tom Olbrich were at his side as co-producers. The single was mastered in the Kirchhundemer Blacksheep-Studio under the direction of Jem and the Skyline Tonfabrik under the direction of Kai Blankenberg. The instrumentalists were Julius Hartog on guitar and piano, Andreas Herbig on synthesizer, Jem on bass and percussions, Tim Lorenz and Jürgen Stiehle on drums, Boris Matchin on cello, Tom Olbrich on keyboard and Rodrigo Reichel and Stefan Pintev on violin involved. The song was released under the music label Vertigo Records . On the cover of the maxi singles you can see - in addition to the artist name and song title - Bourani, whose body has been horizontally separated in the middle and put together upside down. The cover picture was shot by Harald Hoffmann and Dirk Rudolph and designed by the latter.
Publication and promotion
Auf uns was first published on April 15, 2014, as a download and as a CD in Germany, Austria and Switzerland . The maxi single is available as a 2-track single with an acoustic version of Auf uns as the B-side .
Prior to the 2014 FIFA World Cup was on us by the ARD chosen as "World Cup song" for the daily reports. Thus, the song could be heard in all advertising trailers and summaries around the World Cup on ARD. In the ARD WM Club, which ran every day at the end of a match day, Bourani played the song twice live. After the victory of the German national team in the final against Argentina , the song was played in the Maracanã Stadium . On July 15, 2014 Bourani played the song live at the reception of the German national team on the fan mile in front of the Brandenburg Gate .
Apart from the football World Cup, Auf uns also accompanies the campaign film (TV and cinema commercial) for “50 Years of Aktion Mensch ”. In order to further promote the song, there followed, among other things, live appearances during prime time in the run-up to the Eurovision Song Contest 2014 , during the Grand Prix countdown from the Hamburg Reeperbahn and during the single annual chart edition of the ultimate chart show .
content
The lyrics to Auf uns is written in German. The music and the text were written and composed jointly by Andreas Bourani, Julius Hartog and Tom Olbrich. Musically, the song moves in the area of pop music . The song is about the future and how it will develop for each individual. The text was written in optimistic, positive language throughout. The main message is that "giving up" is not the solution.
“A cheer for what lies ahead,
that there is the best for us.
A cheer for what unites us,
for this time. (At this time)
Cheers for us (us), for this life,
for the moment that will always remain.
Cheers for us (us), for now and forever,
for an infinite day. "
In various interviews, Bourani emphasized that he did not write the song especially for the World Cup. But he is proud that the song developed into a football anthem during the 2014 World Cup. About the creation of the piece, he said the following to the Bunter : “I wrote the song with our guitarist over a year ago, after a great evening with my friends. It was a fun night full of euphoria and the next day I still had the line "To us" in my head - because we toasted each other. We are a big clique. "
Music video
The music video for Auf uns was filmed both in and around Berlin and Hamburg and celebrated its premiere on April 23, 2014 on YouTube . The video begins with a look at some of Berlin's landmarks ( Berlin Victory Column , Berlin TV Tower , high-rise blocks and a view over the city). After that, Bourani can be seen at Alexanderplatz , Potsdamer Platz and many other locations, where he sings the song. In between, you can always see excerpts of people in happy situations that match the key words in the text. The total length of the video is 4:03 minutes. Kim Frank is the director and producer .
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Reviews
Levi Kießling from the German-language music portal dance-charts.de assessed the piece as follows: “ We have a nicely written pop number with sophisticated text and a beautiful background. The track rightly entered the German single charts at number one and with its numerous bootlegs available on the Internet, EDM fans will also get their money's worth here. Definitely a buy recommendation. "
The song is an "unbearable self-adulation", judged the music journalist Samir H. Köck in the daily newspaper Die Presse .
Awards
At the 2015 Echo Awards , Auf uns was awarded an ECHO Pop in the Radio ECHO category. This award was chosen by the audience during the award ceremony via telephone and SMS voting. On April 24, 2015 Auf uns received a Radio Rainbow Award in the Song of the Year category.
Charts and chart placements
We reached position one in the singles charts in Germany and stayed in position one for two weeks and in the top 10 for 19 weeks . In Austria the single also reached position one and was able to stay at the top for a week, 12 weeks in the top 10 and 72 weeks in the charts. In Switzerland, the single reached position two and was able to stay in the top 10 for a total of five weeks and in the charts for 55 weeks. We had the most successful German-language song in the German single charts for a period of six weeks and the most successful German-language song in the Austrian single charts for three weeks . Auf uns ranked fourth in the 2014 single annual charts in Germany, ninth in Austria and 28th in Switzerland. In 2015 Auf uns ranked 76th in the German annual single charts and 66th in Austria.
For Bourani as an interpreter and composer, this is the fourth chart success in Germany and Austria, as well as the second in Switzerland. In Germany and Austria it is his first number one success and including Switzerland his first top 10 success. After Nur in mein Kopf , a single Bouranis was in the charts in all DA-CH countries for the second time . In Germany, no single Bouranis has been able to place higher in the charts. In Austria and Switzerland, no single has been able to place higher or longer in the charts.
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Awards for music sales
In June 2018 Auf uns in Germany was awarded a diamond record for over one million copies sold. Thus one on us on the best-selling singles in Germany . In Austria the single was awarded platinum on September 29, 2014 for over 30,000 units sold and in Switzerland in 2015 it was platinum for over 30,000 units sold. In total, the single sold over 1,060,000 times across Europe and was awarded two platinum and one diamond awards, making it Bourani's best-selling record to date.
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 Germany (BVMI)
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 diamond
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1,000,000 |
 Austria (IFPI)
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 platinum
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30,000 |
 Switzerland (IFPI)
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platinum
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30,000 |
| All in all |
2 × platinum 1 × diamond |
1,060,000 |
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- 2014: Siegestanz (A cheer for us), a single released on June 17, 2014 on the Allmusica label . For Siegestanz this is the first and to date only chart success. For Bourani this is the fifth chart success as a composer in Austria.
- 2015: Opus Sanctus, the German church choir recorded the song for their debut album Opus Sanctus .
- 2015: Scala & Kolacny Brothers , the Belgian girls' choir, released the song on their second German-language album Infinite .
- 2015: Xavier Naidoo , the German soul singer sang the song in the second season of Sing mein Song - Das Tauschkonzert and was voted song of the evening with its cover version . It was released as the song of the evening on May 26, 2015 as a download single.
- 2015: Sing my song 2 Allstars , the performers Andreas Bourani, Yvonne Catterfeld , Hartmut Engler (from Pur ), Sebastian Krumbiegel and Tobias Künzel (from the Prinzen ), Xavier Naidoo, Christina Stürmer and Daniel Wirtz recorded the song together for the sampler TV show on. Due to the high number of downloads, this version rose to position 60 in the single charts in Germany and to position 56 in Austria. At the end of the season everyone sang the song together.
- 2015: Adoro , they re-recorded the song for their seventh studio album Lichtblicke .
- 2015: SpongeBob SquarePants , on the album Das SuperBob Album , well-known pop songs with new lyrics are interpreted from the point of view of the cartoon character (sung by the German voice actor Santiago Ziesmer ), including Auf uns under the title Am Meeresgrund .
See also
Web links
- On us at Discogs (English)
- Music video for Auf uns on YouTube
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Andreas Bourani - Auf uns (Song). austriancharts.at, accessed on July 18, 2014 .
- ↑ Andreas Bourani - Hey. discogs.com, accessed July 18, 2014 .
- ↑ Andreas Bourani: "Auf uns" is the ARD World Cup song / with video. ( Memento from July 16, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) musikmarkt.de, June 6, 2014, accessed on May 3, 2019.
- ↑ Football World Cup 2014: Championship celebration with Andreas Bourani and Helene Fischer. ( Memento from July 18, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) musikmarkt.de, July 15, 2014, accessed on May 3, 2019.
- ↑ "Making life tangible". aktion-mensch.de, accessed on July 18, 2014 .
- ↑ ESC Eurovision Song Contest 2014 - Countdown for Copenhagen - with Barbara Schöneberger - ARD HD. youtube.com, accessed July 18, 2014 .
- ↑ Andreas Bourani - On us. dance-charts.de, accessed on July 18, 2014 .
- ↑ Andreas Bourani - “Player women are no longer up to date”. Bunte.de, accessed on July 18, 2014 .
- ↑ Andreas Bourani - Auf uns (2014). crew-united.com, accessed July 17, 2014 .
- ↑ Andreas Bourani - On Us. www.dance-charts.de, June 16, 2014, accessed on August 18, 2020 .
- ↑ New record: Grönemeyer conjures up the German essence. diepresse.com, accessed on November 22, 2014 .
- ↑ That was the Radio Regenbogen Award 2015 ( Memento from April 26, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Andreas Bourani, Auf uns. officialcharts.de, accessed on July 18, 2014 .
- ↑ Andreas Bourani - On us. hitparade.ch, accessed on July 18, 2014 .
- ↑ Annual charts 2014 - Singles. mix1.de, accessed on January 8, 2015 .
- ↑ Annual Singles Singles 2014. austriancharts.at, accessed on March 31, 2018 .
- ↑ Swiss Year-End Charts 2014. swisscharts.com, accessed on January 1, 2015 .
- ↑ Top 10 single year charts. officialcharts.de, accessed on January 8, 2016 .
- ↑ Annual Singles Hit Parade 2015. austriancharts.at, accessed on January 4, 2016 .
- ↑ Diamond for "Auf uns" in Germany. musikindustrie.de, accessed on June 5, 2018 .
- ^ Platinum for "Auf uns" in Austria. ifpi.at, accessed on May 19, 2018 .
- ↑ Platinum for "Auf uns" in Switzerland. swisscharts.com, accessed April 12, 2015 .
- ↑ Siegestanz - A cheer for us. austriancharts.at, accessed on November 22, 2014 .
- ↑ official charts (search required). officialcharts.de, accessed on June 12, 2015 .
- ↑ Sing my song Allstars - Auf uns. austriancharts.at, accessed on June 18, 2015 .
- ↑ Adoro release the album 'Lichtblicke'. mix1.de, accessed on November 27, 2015 .