Eros (Eros Ramazzotti album)

Eros
Compilation album by Eros Ramazzotti
Publication (s)	October 28, 1997
Label (s)	Sony BMG Music Entertainment
Format (s)	CD / LP
Genre (s)	pop
Title (number)	16
running time	76:02
production	Eros Ramazzotti Piero Cassano
chronology Dove c'è musica (1996) Eros Stilelibero (2000)

Chart positions Explanation of the data

Albums

Eros   DE 1 10/31/1997 (79 weeks)   AT 1 11/09/1997 (50 weeks)   CH 1 11/02/1997 (53 weeks)   IT 1 October 29, 1997 (82 weeks)

Singles

Quanto amore is   DE 52 10/10/1997 (9 weeks)   AT 17th 10/19/1997 (12 weeks)   CH 6th 10/19/1997 (17 weeks)   IT 2 10/12/1997 (4 weeks) Cose della vita - Can't Stop Thinking Of You (with Tina Turner )   AT 10 01/25/1998 (10 weeks)   CH 6th 02/01/1998 (28 weeks) Terra promessa   DE 74 05/29/1998 (9 weeks)   CH 46 07/05/1998 (4 weeks)

Eros is Eros Ramazzotti's first best-of album . It was released on October 28, 1997, the singer's 34th birthday. In the first two days after its release, the album sold around 1.2 million times in Europe alone. In Germany the album was triple platinum in 1999 for 1.5 million units sold, and in the USA in 2000 it was multiplied for more than 200,000 albums sold.

Songs

The album contains five original recordings and nine remixes of various tracks from Ramazzotti's fifteen-year career with Ancora un minuto di sole and Quanto amore were two newly recorded pieces. The first hit single by the artist Terra Promessa from 1984 was remixed in the style of a hip-hop song. The first single Quanto amore sei was released in advance on September 25, 1997. The title Cose della vita was re-recorded as a vocal duet with Tina Turner and expanded to include rock music elements. To the song was in October 1997 in the French mountain village of Peille ( Canton L'Escarène ) near Turner's house on the Côte d'Azur , a music video was added. Ramazzotti had already spoken to him about the collaboration with Andrea Bocelli and both artists agreed that only the ten-minute ballad Musica è could be used because it best suited the tenor of Bocelli.

Track list

1. Terra promessa - 4:38 (Ramazzotti, Brioschi, Salerno)
2. Una storia importante - 4:05
3. Adesso tu - 4:02
4. Ma che bello questo amore - 4:12
5. Musica è - 9:46 (duet with Andrea Bocelli)
6. Tatting di speranza - 3:19
7. Più bella cosa - 4:24
8. Memorie - 3:31
9. Cose della vita (Can't Stop Thinking of You) (Duet with Tina Turner) (Ramazzotti, Cassano, Cogliati, Ralston, Turner)
10. L'aurora - 5:32
11. Ancora un minuto di sole - 3:56 (Ramazzotti, Cassano, Cogliati, Fabrizio)
12. Quasi amore - 5:08
13. Se bastasse una canzone - 5:22
14. Un'altra te - 4:40
15. Favola - 4:23
16. Quanto amore sei - 4:16 (Ramazzotti, Cogliati, Guidetti)

Reviews

Jason Birchmeier from Allmusic writes that although it is unusual for a Best Of to re-record most of the tracks, it is precisely the new recordings that make the album interesting. This sword Eros as a brilliant new album, the synth pop of the 1980s was adult contemporary - pop music faded. Only the two new pieces placed at the end are less remarkable.

Awards for music sales

Eros has been awarded 2 × gold and 37 × platinum worldwide. According to the awards, the album sold over 5.23 million times (including premium streaming).

Country / Region	Award	Sales
Awards for music sales (country / region, Award, Sales)
Argentina (CAPIF)	platinum	60,000
Belgium (BEA)	2 × platinum	(100,000)
Denmark (IFPI)	6 × platinum	(120,000)
Germany (BVMI)	3 × platinum	(1,500,000)
Europe (IFPI)	5 × platinum	5,000,000
Finland (IFPI)	platinum	(54,381)
France (SNEP)	2 × platinum	(600,000)
Greece (IFPI)	platinum	(20,000)
Italy (FIMI)	gold	(25,000)
Canada (MC)	gold	50,000
Netherlands (NVPI)	2 × platinum	(200,000)
Norway (IFPI)	2 × platinum	(100,000)
Austria (IFPI)	2 × platinum	(100,000)
Sweden (IFPI)	2 × platinum	(160,000)
Switzerland (IFPI)	4 × platinum	(200,000)
Spain (Promusicae)	2 × platinum	(200,000)
United States (RIAA)	2 × platinum	120,000
All in all	2 × gold 37 × platinum	5,230,000

Main article: Eros Ramazzotti / Awards for Music Sales

See also

• List of the best-selling music albums certified by BVMI in Germany

Web links

• Eros at Allmusic (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Sources chart placements: DE (Singles) ( Memento of the original from May 22, 2012 on WebCite ) 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. / DE (albums) ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 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. / AT / CH , (accessed June 20, 2010)  
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Mark Dezzani: Ramazzotti in Retrospect . In: Billboard Magazine . November 15, 1997, p. 49, 54 .