Darude

Darude (2014)

Darude (born July 17, 1975 in Eura , Finland ; actually Ville Virtanen ) is a Finnish DJ .

biography

In 1996 Darude began producing his own songs. When he gave the music producer Jaako Salovaara a demo tape with the track Sandstorm , he was able to sign a contract with the label 16 Inch Records . Sandstorm became a worldwide hit in 2000, reached the top 10 in numerous countries and even made it into the US pop charts (# 86). In the Finnish charts the piece stayed at number 3, but with platinum status and 42 chart weeks - only two songs had been in the charts longer there since 1995 - it was an unusual success.

The successor Feel The Beat was able to build on its success internationally and reached placements around 20 in many countries and number 5 in Great Britain. In Finland it was the first number 1 hit and the following album Before The Storm also reached im same year number 1 among the albums. It took three years until the next album, Rush . It also only reached number 4 in Finland, but it had two number 1 hits : Music and Next To You . Internationally, however, there was little interest in the Finn and his music. In 2007 Darude returned with the title Tell Me and had his fourth number 1 hit in his homeland. The album Moments was released in 2015 and entered the Finnish album charts at number 31.

On January 29, 2019 it was announced that he would represent Finland at the Eurovision Song Contest 2019 in Tel Aviv together with the singer Sebastian Rejman . The song Look Away of the two was determined by the preliminary decision Uuden Musiikin Kilpailu 2019 . After taking part in the first semi-final, the duo landed in last place and thus missed the finals of the competition.

Internet phenomenon Darude - Sandstorm

By 2013 at the latest, the title Sandstorm became a viral video after the song was broadcast as background music in live streams . Many viewers asked for the name of the title, which was then answered with Darude - Sandstorm . Since then, this phrase has been known as a meme . As of April Fool's Day 2015, YouTube would show the message Did you mean Darude - Sandstorm every time it searched for music , regardless of whether it was actually that song. Internet users answer questions about an unknown background song in YouTube videos in the comments with this song as well. In 2014 alone, the number of clicks on the video more than doubled.

Discography

Albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)						Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US	FI
2000	Before the storm	DE35 (5 weeks) DE	-	CH55 (20 weeks) CH	-	-	FI1 platinum (36 weeks)FI	First published: September 5, 2000
2003	Rush	-	-	-	-	-	FI4 (8 weeks) FI	First published: July 15, 2003
2007	Label This! (Finnish Edition)	-	-	-	-	-	-	First published: October 1, 2007
2008	Label This! (US Edition)	-	-	-	-	-	-	First published: October 1, 2008
2015	Moments	-	-	-	-	-	FI31 (1 week) FI	First published: August 2015

Singles

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)						Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US	FI
1999	Sandstorm Before the Storm	DE6th gold (17 weeks)DE	AT13 (15 weeks) AT	CH8 (27 weeks) CH	UK3 platinum (22 weeks)UK	US83 platinum (10 weeks)US	FI3 platinum (42 weeks)FI	First published: November 1999
2000	Feel the beat before the storm	DE18 (10 weeks) DE	AT24 (11 weeks) AT	CH34 (20 weeks) CH	UK5 (15 weeks) UK	-	FI1 (18 weeks) FI	First published: April 2000
	Out of Control (Back for More) Before the Storm	DE42 (6 weeks) DE	AT50 (5 weeks) AT	CH76 (6 weeks) CH	UK13 (6 weeks) UK	-	FI12 (4 weeks) FI	First published: December 2000
2003	Music rush	DE77 (2 weeks) DE	-	-	-	-	FI1 (8 weeks) FI	First published: February 2003
	Next To You Rush	-	-	-	-	-	FI1 (4 weeks) FI	First published: April 2003
2007	Tell Me Label This!	-	-	-	-	-	FI1 (5 weeks) FI	First published: April 2007
	My Game Label This!	-	-	-	-	-	FI4 (4 weeks) FI	First published: September 2007

More singles

• 2008: I Ran (So Far Away) ( feat.Blake Lewis )
• 2008: In the Darkness
• 2015: Beautiful Alien (feat.AI AM)
• 2016: Moments ( feat.Sebastian Reyman )
• 2017: Singularity (with Zac Waters feat. Enya Angel)
• 2018: Surrender (with Ashley Wallbridge feat. Foux)
• 2018: Timeless (feat.JVMIE)
• 2019: Release Me (feat.Sebastian Rejman)
• 2019: Superman (feat.Sebastian Rejman)
• 2019: Look Away (feat.Sebastian Rejman)
• 2019: Hide (feat.Audioventura & Jvmie)

Awards for music sales

Golden record  Australia 2001: for the single Feel the Beat  Denmark 2018: for the single Sandstorm  Sweden 2000: for the single Sandstorm

Note: Awards in countries from the chart tables or chart boxes can be found in these.

Country / Region	gold	platinum	Sales	swell
Awards for music sales (country / region, awards, sales, sources)
Australia (ARIA)	gold1	-	35,000	aria.com.au
Denmark (IFPI)	gold1	-	45,000	ifpi.dk
Germany (BVMI)	gold1	-	250,000	musikindustrie.de
Finland (IFPI)	-	2 × platinum2	100,435	ifpi.fi
Sweden (IFPI)	gold1	-	15,000	sverigetopplistan.se
United States (RIAA)	-	platinum1	1,000,000	riaa.com
United Kingdom (BPI)	-	platinum1	600,000	bpi.co.uk
All in all	4 × gold4th	4 × platinum4th

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1. ↑ Long- running Top 20 ( memento of the original from October 27, 2016 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. 
2. ↑ YLE: Darude announced as Finnish entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 2019. In: yle.fi. January 29, 2019, accessed January 31, 2019 (Finnish). 
3. ↑ Darude will perform 'Look Away' at Eurovision 2019. Retrieved on March 14, 2019 . 
4. ↑ Darude - Sandstorm on Youtube (accessed November 29, 2014)
5. ↑ Nastassia Baroni: YouTube Are Pulling An Amazing April Fools Gag With Help From Darude. In: musicfeeds.com. April 2, 2015, accessed January 11, 2017 . 
6. ↑ Darude - Sandstorm . In: Know Your Meme . ( knowyourmeme.com ).
7. ↑ Youtubers react to Darude - Sandstorm English, accessed on November 29, 2014
8. ↑ ^{a b} Chart sources: DE AT CH UK US FI

Web links

Commons : Darude  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

• Official website of Darude
• Darude at Discogs (English)
• Darude on Spotify
• Darude on Apple Music