Dario G
| Dario G | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| Genre (s) | Trance , dance , house |
| founding | 1996 |
| Website | www.facebook.com/Dario-G |
| Founding members | |
| Paul Spencer | |
Producer, DJ |
Stephan Spencer (until 1999) |
Producer, DJ |
Scott Rosser (until 2002) |
| Current occupation | |
Producer, DJ |
Paul Spencer |
| former members | |
| Ingfrid Straumstøyl (1999-2002) | |
Dario G is a dance and trance music project by British DJ and producer Paul Spencer. The name goes back to Dario Gradi, the manager of the Crewe Alexandra football club .
Career
In 1996 Dario G was founded as a project as a trio of the three DJs Paul and Stephan Spencer and Scott Rosser, Paul and Stephan are not related, in Crewe , England . One year after their founding, they released their debut single called Sunchyme and reached high chart positions across Europe, including number 2 in the UK single charts . Sunchyme contains samples from the song Life in a Northern Town by The Dream Academy from 1985. The subsequent single Carnaval de Paris was able to build on the successes, the song was also selected by ZDF as an accompaniment to the 1998 World Cup in France. The first album Sunmachine and the third single of the same name, a cover version of David Bowie's Memory of a Free Festival , followed in 1998. In early 2000, the fourth single Voices was finally released after the song was included in the soundtrack of the film The Beach .
After the departure of Stephan Spencer, 1999, the remaining Scott studied Rosser and Paul Spencer for a singer and eventually found in Manchester living Norwegian Ingfrid Straumstøyl. Together with her the second album In Full Color was created . The first single Dream to Me , a cover of the song Dreams der Cranberries , (based on Ennio Morricone's Once Upon a Time in the West ), was released in early 2001 and reached number 9 in the British and German singles charts. This was followed by the release of the album and the second single Say What's on Your Mind in the same year.
For the soccer World Cup 2002 a remix of the song Carnaval de Paris was released as Carnaval 2002 , also in this year the song Heaven Is Closer , a cover version of the song (Feels Like) Heaven by Fiction Factory . With both songs the trio managed to get back into the official single charts.
After Rosser left that same year, the project took a longer break. In 2006 Paul Spencer tried again under the same pseudonym Dario G to use a World Cup to publish a single. Ring of Fire , a cover of the Johnny Cash classic of the same name , was denied chart success, which made the future of the music project uncertain.
In 2010, just in time for the World Cup, the song Game On was released in collaboration with the American rapper Pitbull .
Discography
Albums
| year | title |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) |
Remarks | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 DE
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 AT
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 CH
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 UK
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| 1998 | Sunmachine |
DE59 (7 weeks) DE |
- |
CH43 (5 weeks) CH |
UK26 (6 weeks) UK |
First published: May 1998
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| 2001 | In full color |
DE58 (1 week) DE |
AT41 (5 weeks) AT |
CH66 (5 weeks) CH |
- |
First published: June 18, 2001
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More albums
- 2020: Hola (first published June 26, 2020)
Singles
| year | Title album |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes) |
Remarks | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
DE
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AT
|
CH
|
UK
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| 1997 | Sunchyme Sunmachine |
DE3  (24 weeks)DE |
AT4 (14 weeks) AT |
CH2 (21 weeks) CH |
UK2 (18 weeks)UK |
First published: September 15, 1997
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| 1998 | Carnaval de Paris Sunmachine |
DE2  (16 weeks)DE |
AT24 (7 weeks) AT |
CH7 (16 weeks) CH |
UK5  (10 weeks)UK |
First published: May 1998
|
| Sunmachine Sunmachine |
DE98 (2 weeks) DE |
- | - |
UK17 (6 weeks) UK |
First published: August 31, 1998
|
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| 2000 | Voices Sunmachine |
- | - | - |
UK37 (2 weeks) UK |
First published: March 1, 2000
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| 2001 | Dream to Me In Full Color |
DE9 (16 weeks) DE |
AT8 (24 weeks) AT |
CH15 (24 weeks) CH |
UK9 (9 weeks) UK |
First published: January 22, 2001
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| Say What's on Your Mind In Full Color |
DE68 (8 weeks) DE |
- |
CH100 (1 week) CH |
- |
First published: August 2001
|
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| 2002 | Carnaval 2002 single track |
- | - |
CH96 (2 weeks) CH |
UK34 (3 weeks) UK |
First published: June 2002
|
|
Heaven Is Closer (Feels Like Heaven) single track |
DE57 (4 weeks) DE |
AT42 (6 weeks) AT |
CH87 (3 weeks) CH |
UK39 (2 weeks) UK |
First release: September 2002
with Mythos 'n' DJ Cosmo |
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More singles
- 2001: Don't You Cry
- 2005: Made of Stone
- 2006: Ring of Fire
- 2008: The Final Countdown (Medleys)
- 2009: Unknown Title ( The Real Booty Babes vs. Dario G)
- 2010: Game On (The Official 2010 Fifa World Cup (Tm) Mascot Song) (with Pitbull & TKZee)
- 2014: We Got Music (with Shirley Bassey )
- 2018: Cry
- 2019: ¡Hola!
- 2020: High (feat. Leslie P George)
- 2020: If You Love Me (with Danny Dearden)
- 2020: Real Love × Sunchyme (with Clean Bandit feat. Jess Glynne )
- 2020: You Make the Sunrise (feat. Leslie P George)
Awards for music sales
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Belgium
- 1998: for the single Sunchyme
Note: Awards in countries from the chart tables or chart boxes can be found in these.
| Country / Region |
silver |
gold |
platinum
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Sales | swell |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Awards for music sales (country / region, awards, sales, sources) |
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Belgium (BEA)
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- |
gold1
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- | 25,000 | ultratop.be |
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Germany (BVMI)
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- |
gold1
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platinum1
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750,000 | musikindustrie.de |
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United Kingdom (BPI)
|
silver1
|
- |
platinum1
|
800,000 | bpi.co.uk |
| All in all |
silver1
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2 × gold2
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2 × platinum2
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