Falco / discography

Falco  - discography
Falco 1986
Publications
Studio albums	10
Live albums	4th
Compilations	13
Tribute albums	1
Singles	38
Video albums	9

This discography is an overview of the musical works of the Austrian musician Falco .

According to the record awards, he has sold over 8.9 million records in his career, including 600,000 in Austria , 3.975 million in Germany and 105,000 in Switzerland . Until 2017 he topped the Austrian music charts 15 times.

Falco published his first song That Scene in 1981. With his second piece Der Kommissar he achieved his international breakthrough. The song made it to number one in Germany and Austria and made it to number 10 on Billboard Dance Club Songs in the United States .

Albums

Studio albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
1982	Solitary confinement	DE19 (20 weeks) DE	AT1 (48 weeks) AT	-	-	US64 (13 weeks) US	Producer: Robert Ponger First published: May 1982
1984	Young Romans	-	AT1 (22 weeks) AT	-	-	-	Producer: Robert Ponger First published: April 1984
1985	Falco 3	DE2 platinum (34 weeks)DE	AT1 platinum (53 weeks)AT	CH1 gold (24 weeks)CH	UK32 (15 weeks) UK	US3 gold (27 weeks)US	Producers: Bolland & Bolland First release: September 1985 in US also at number 18 on the R&B charts
1986	Emotionally	DE1 gold (15 weeks)DE	AT1 gold (19 weeks)AT	CH5 (8 weeks) CH	-	-	Producer: Bolland & Bolland First published: October 1986
1988	Viennese blood	DE9 (9 weeks) DE	AT2 (10 weeks) AT	CH12 (5 weeks) CH	-	-	First produced by Gunther Mende & Candy de Rouge , completed by the Bolland brothers First published: August 1988
1990	Data de groove	-	AT11 (10 weeks) AT	-	-	-	Producer: Robert Ponger First published: June 1990
1992	Night flight	DE73 (3 weeks) DE	AT1 gold (12 weeks)AT	-	-	-	Producer: including Bolland & Bolland First published: September 1992
1998	Out of the Dark (Into the Light)	DE3 platinum (50 weeks)DE	AT1 × 2 Double platinum (22 weeks)AT	CH4th platinum (25 weeks)CH	-	-	First published: February 27, 1998, three weeks after Falco's death. Originally planned title: Egoists
1999	damn we are still alive	DE35 (4 weeks) DE	AT3 (5 weeks) AT	-	-	-	Compilation of earlier unused recordings and remix versions First published: October 1999
2009	The Spirit Never Dies	DE3 gold (23 weeks)DE	AT1 platinum (19 weeks)AT	CH33 (14 weeks) CH	-	-	Compilation of mostly unreleased songs, several of them by a precursor of Wiener Blut that failed in 1987. First published: December 2009

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Live albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
1999	Live forever	-	AT34 (8 weeks) AT	-	-	-	recorded during an appearance as part of the Emotional Tour. First published: November 1999
2008	Symphonic	DE15 (11 weeks) DE	AT1 platinum (14 weeks)AT	CH34 (5 weeks) CH	-	-	Recordings of a performance in Wiener Neustadt, mostly with musical dubbing, 1994 First published: February 1, 2008, on the 10th anniversary of Falco's death
2013	LIVE Danube Island	-	AT15 (4 weeks) AT	-	-	-	Recorded at the Donauinselfest in Vienna 1993 First release: June 2004 for the 20th anniversary of the Donauinselfest already in the DVD charts, only placed in the official album charts in 2013
2018	Falco Coming Home - The Tribute Donauinselfest 2017	-	AT1 (10 weeks) AT	CH13 (3 weeks) CH	-	-	First published: February 2, 2018, on the 20th anniversary of Falco's death

Compilations

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
1996	Greatest hits	-	AT2 gold (34 weeks)AT	-	-	-	First published: December 1996
1997	Greatest Hits Vol. II	-	AT8 (22 weeks) AT	-	-	-	First published: March 1997
1998	Best of	-	AT7 (12 weeks) AT	-	-	-	First published: February 1998
	The Remix Hit Collection	DE51 (13 weeks) DE	-	-	-	-	Contains remixes of selected music tracks from 1982 to 1989. First published: September 1991, only posthumously in the charts
	The hit singles	DE7th gold (23 weeks)DE	-	-	-	-	First published: May 1998
1999	The Final Curtain - The Ultimate Best Of	DE2 gold (28 weeks)DE	AT1 platinum (38 weeks)AT	CH6th gold (14 weeks)CH	-	-	First published: February 1999
2007	Higher than ever	DE2 gold (25 weeks)DE	AT1 × 3 Triple platinum (35 weeks)AT	CH5 gold (12 weeks)CH	-	-	First publication: February 2007 for Falco's 50th birthday, re-published on February 1, 2008 for the 10th anniversary of his death, again reached number 2 in AT and number 28 in DE
2012	So80s presents Falco	-	AT48 (2 weeks) AT	-	-	-	Collection of maxi CD versions from 1981 to 1988 First published: December 2012
2015	Original album Classics	-	AT33 (4 weeks) AT	-	-	-	First published: August 28, 2015 5-CD box set Chart entry only in March 2017
2016	Falco	-	AT48 (1 week) AT	-	-	-	First release: October 7, 2016 Box with 4 LPs
2017	Falco 60	DE3 (20 weeks) DE	AT1 platinum (… Where.)AT	CH3 (14 weeks) CH	-	-	First release: February 17th, 2017 for the 60th birthday of Falco's Best Of album with remixes and unreleased recordings

More compilations

• 2008: The Ultimate Collection

The following compilations were published as part of best-of series or wholesale campaigns or unofficially by various record companies:

• FALCO (1984)
• Golden Stars (1990)
• Rock Me Amadeus (1991)
• Amadeus (1994)
• The Commissioner (1994)
• Masterpieces (1995)
• My best achievements (1996)
• The Remix album (1996)
• Golden Ballads (1998) [OMN 70159] - "OMEN Records under Exclusive License to WEAR Music World Club"
• Greatest Hits (1999)
• Falco Gold (1999)
• Too much heat (2000)
• Falco Rides Again (2000)
• Portrait (2000)
• Heroes of Today (2001)
• Austropop cult (2004)
• Gold Award: Falco 3 (2006)
• The Commissioner - Best Of (2007)
• Essential 1992–1998 (2008)
• Emotional / Live Forever (2008)

Tribute albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)			Remarks
		DE	AT	CH
2018	To die to live	DE18 (3 weeks) DE	AT12 (4 weeks) AT	CH51 (1 week) CH	First published: May 25, 2018

Singles

Chart placements

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
1981	The superintendent in solitary confinement	DE1 platinum (29 weeks)DE	AT1 (18 weeks) AT	CH2 (10 weeks) CH	-	US72 (8 weeks) US	Authors: Falco, Robert Ponger First published: December 1981 came at number 10 on the US dance charts
1982	Machine burns solitary confinement	DE10 (17 weeks) DE	AT4 (10 weeks) AT	-	-	-	Authors: Falco, Robert Ponger First published: July 1982 reached number 9 on the US dance charts
1984	Young Romans Young Romans	-	AT8 (11 weeks) AT	CH24 (3 weeks) CH	-	-	Authors: Falco, Robert Ponger First published: May 1984
1985	Rock Me Amadeus Falco 3	DE1 gold (23 weeks)DE	AT1 (24 weeks) AT	CH2 (20 weeks) CH	UK1 gold (15 weeks)UK	US1 platinum (17 weeks)US	Authors: Falco, Bolland & Bolland First published: May 1985 also reached No. 4 in the US dance and No. 6 in the R&B charts
	Vienna Calling Falco 3	DE4 (19 weeks) DE	AT3 (16 weeks) AT	CH7 (11 weeks) CH	UK10 (9 weeks) UK	US18 (14 weeks) US	Authors: Falco, Bolland & Bolland First published: September 1985
	Jeanny, Part I Falco 3	DE1 gold (21 weeks)DE	AT1 gold (19 weeks)AT	CH1 (16 weeks) CH	UK68 (4 weeks) UK	-	Authors: Falco, Bolland & Bolland First published: December 1985
1986	The Sound of Music Emotional	DE4 (17 weeks) DE	AT4 (14 weeks) AT	CH11 (8 weeks) CH	UK61 (3 weeks) UK	-	Authors: Falco, Bolland & Bolland First published: June 1986 as a remix reached number 19 on the US Dance Hot Play Charts
	Coming Home (Jeanny Part 2, one year later) Emotional	DE1 (16 weeks) DE	AT4 (15 weeks) AT	CH3 (9 weeks) CH	-	-	Authors: Falco, Bolland & Bolland First published: October 1986
1987	Emotional Emotional	DE50 (5 weeks) DE	-	-	UK85 (3 weeks) UK	-	Authors: Falco, Bolland & Bolland First published: April 1987
	Body next to body	DE22 (10 weeks) DE	AT6 (13 weeks) AT	-	-	-	Authors: Falco, Giorgio Moroder , Tom Whitlock First publication: November 1987 Falco meets Brigitte Nielsen
1988	Viennese blood Viennese blood	DE9 (11 weeks) DE	AT4 (10 weeks) AT	CH24 (5 weeks) CH	-	-	Authors: Falco, Bolland & Bolland First published: August 1988
1990	Data De Groove Data De Groove	-	AT12 (5 weeks) AT	-	-	-	Authors: Falco, Robert Ponger First published: May 1990
1992	Titanic night flight	DE47 (4 weeks) DE	AT3 (18 weeks) AT	-	-	-	Authors: Falco, Bolland & Bolland First published: June 1992
	Dance Mephisto night flight	-	AT17 (3 weeks) AT	-	-	-	Authors: Falco, Bolland & Bolland First published: October 1992
1996	Mother, the man with the coke is out of the dark (Into the light)	DE11 (18 weeks) DE	AT3 gold (18 weeks)AT	CH30 (5 weeks) CH	-	-	Authors: Peter Hoffmann , Franz Plasa , Edgar Höfler, White Duke First publication: February 1996 as T >> MA; later as T >> MA AKA FALCO
	Naked Out of the Dark (Into the Light)	DE50 (8 weeks) DE	AT4 (13 weeks) AT	-	-	-	Author: Voyce First published: July 1996 as Falco feat. T >> MB
1998	Out of the Dark Out of the Dark (Into the Light)	DE2 × 3 Triple gold (26 weeks)DE	AT2 gold (14 weeks)AT	CH3 (23 weeks) CH	-	-	Authors: Falco, Thorsten Börger First published: February 1998
	The Commissioner ( Jason Nevins and Club 69 Remixes)	-	AT39 (1 week) AT	-	-	-	First published: April 27, 1998
	Egoist Out of the Dark (Into the Light)	DE4th gold (20 weeks)DE	AT6 (18 weeks) AT	CH19 (15 weeks) CH	-	-	Authors: Patrick Ehrlich, Steve Velvet First published: August 1998
1999	Push! Push! The Final Curtain - The Ultimate Best Of	DE50 (6 weeks) DE	AT9 (11 weeks) AT	-	-	-	Authors: Falco, Voyce First published: January 1999
	Damn we are still damn we are still alive	-	AT26 (4 weeks) AT	-	-	-	Authors: Falco, Thomas Rabitsch , Thomas Lang First published: September 1999
2007	Men of the West (T. Börger Version 2007) Higher than ever	DE55 (5 weeks) DE	AT14 (7 weeks) AT	-	-	-	Authors: Falco, Bolland & Bolland First published: February 2007
2008	The Commissioner 2008 Symphonic	-	AT49 (5 weeks) AT	-	-	-	First published: January 2008 only as download
2009	The Spirit Never Dies (Jeanny Final) The Spirit Never Dies	-	AT3 (13 weeks) AT	-	-	-	First published: December 2009 only as download
2017	Solitary confinement all over Vienna	-	AT72 (1 week) AT	-	-	-	Chart entry: March 3, 2017 only because of downloads and streaming as part of the release of Falco 60 places

More singles

• 1981: That Scene (English version of Ganz Wien )
• 1982: On the Run (promo single in France, Canada and the USA)
• 1984: only with you
• 1984: can it be love? (with Désirée Nosbusch)
• 1988: Satellite to Satellite (last single that could be placed outside of Europe)
• 1990: Charisma Command
• 1992: night flight
• 1999: Europe (only promo)
• 2007: FALCOs 1st ( Chance to Dance / Summer ) (Free Giveaway / Sales Edition with Remixes and Interviews)
• 2008: The Queen of Esnapur (only published in Austria)
• 2010: Kissing in the Kremlin

Chart placements as a guest musician

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
2014	Between time and space camouflage / dying to live	-	AT14 (11 weeks) AT	-	-	-	First published: August 15, 2014 with Nazar
2018	Rock Me Amadeus Die to Live	DE71 (2 weeks) DE	AT63 (1 week) AT	-	-	-	First published: April 27, 2018 with Sun Diego
	Number one singles	DE4thDE	AT3AT	CH1CH	UK1UK	US1US
	Top 10 singles	DE10DE	AT17thAT	CH6thCH	UK2UK	US1US
	Singles in the charts	DE18thDE	AT26thAT	CH11CH	UK5UK	US3US

Promo singles

• On the Run as On the Run (1982, US only)
• Too much heat (1982, only in Germany)
• Garbo (1988, only in France)
• Do It Again (1988, US only)
• Monarchy Now (1993, 12 ″ Promo only in Austria)

Video albums

• 1986: Rock Me Falco
• 1998: Higher than ever
• 2000: Everything (AT:platinum) ( DoRo )
• 2004: LIVE Donauinsel
• 2007: Higher than ever (AT:× 2Double platinum) ( DoRo )
• 2008: Symphonic (AT:× 2Double platinum )
• 2008: Donauinsel Live (AT:gold) (New edition from 2004)
• 2008: Falco - Damn we are still alive!
• 2010: Falco - The Poet (DoRo)

Awards for music sales

Golden record  Australia 1988: for the single Rock Me Amadeus  Belgium 1993: for the album Falco 3  France 1982: for the single Der Kommissar  Italy 1987: for the single Rock Me Amadeus  New Zealand 1984: for the single Der Kommissar 1985: for the single Vienna Calling 1986: for the single Rock Me Amadeus  Netherlands 1986: for the single Jeanny  Czech Republic 1993: for the album Emotional

Platinum record  Australia 1988: for the single Der Kommissar  Canada 1986: for the album Falco 3 1986: for the single Rock Me Amadeus  New Zealand 2000: for the video album Rock Me Falco  Netherlands 1993: for the album Falco 3

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	platinum1	105,000	Individual evidence
Belgium (BEA)	gold1	-	25,000	Individual evidence
Germany (BVMI)	9 × gold9	4 × platinum4th	3,975,000	musikindustrie.de
France (SNEP)	gold1	-	592,000	infodisc.fr
Italy (FIMI)	gold1	-	100,000	Individual evidence
Canada (MC)	-	2 × platinum2	200,000	musiccanada.com
New Zealand (RMNZ)	3 × gold3	platinum1	27,500	nztop40.co.nz
Netherlands (NVPI)	gold1	platinum1	175,000	nvpi.nl
Austria (IFPI)	7 × gold7th	15 × platinum15th	600,000	ifpi.at
Switzerland (IFPI)	3 × gold3	platinum1	105,000	hitparade.ch
Czech Republic (IFPI)	gold1	-	50,000	Individual evidence
United States (RIAA)	gold1	platinum1	2,500,000	riaa.com
United Kingdom (BPI)	gold1	-	500,000	bpi.co.uk
All in all	30 × gold30th	26 × platinum26th

Trivia

Pascal Gabriel, who later also wrote music by Dido and Kylie Minogue , released remix versions of Rock Me Amadeus and Der Kommissar as singles for the album The Remix Hit Collection in 1991 .

Tribute to Falco by “The Bolland Project feat. Alida ”reached number 95 in the German charts in 1998.

In 2004, for the Austrian preliminary decision for the Eurovision Song Contest, the title Sexuality , written by Falco but previously unpublished and sung by André Leherb , was submitted. He finished ninth and penultimate place.

Falco in the film

In the mid-1980s, Falco also tried his hand at acting. He was in The Formula One film and money or liver! , at the side of Mike Krüger, with. Both times he played himself. In addition, before his breakthrough in 1981, he played a bassist in an episode of the Austrian crime series Kottan determined .

filming

Falco's life was filmed in 2007 by the Graz director Thomas Roth . Falco - Damn it, we're still alive! was released in Austrian cinemas on February 7, 2008, and in Germany on June 5, 2008. The Austrian singer of the band Mondscheiner Manuel Rubey plays the leading role . Shortly after the film started in Austria, the film became one of the most successful Austrian film productions, but the reviews were sometimes negative.

Awards

• 1982: Golden Europe as "Artist of the Year"
• 1985: Bravo Otto as "Best Singer"
• 1986: Bravo Otto as “Best Singer”, Golden Europe as “Artist of the Year”, Bambi , Pop Amadeus
• 1999: Echo for his "life's work"
• 2000: Amadeus Austrian Music Award for his "life's work" and as "national rock / pop artist"
• 2004: Elected to the list of the 50 most important Austrians of the last 50 years in a reader survey by the daily newspaper Kurier (1st place)
• 2005: Amadeus Austrian Music Award for Music DVD of the Year - "Live Donauinsel + Stadthalle Vienna"
• 2007: Amadeus Austrian Music Award for Music DVD of the Year - "Higher than ever"

literature

• Peter Lanz: Falco's biography . 1986, ISBN 3-85485-098-0 .
• Peter Wagner: Falco - What remains… 1998, ISBN 3-932912-09-8 .
• "DoRo": Falco As high as never. , 1998, ISBN 3-218-00656-2 .
• Viva la Poesia - School of Poetry Vienna / Allen Ginsberg - Nick Cave - Falco . 2002.
• Maria Hölzel: Falco Privacy . 2004, ISBN 3-9500897-0-5 .
• Ingeborg Schober: Pop tragedies . 2004, ISBN 3-8000-7004-9 .
• Sing your hits Falco . 2006, ISBN 3-86543-155-0 .
• Peter Lanz: Falco's biography . 2007, ISBN 3-8000-7281-5 .
• Katharina Bianca Vitkovic: Falco was my father . 2008, ISBN 3-8000-7356-0 .
• Falco, School for Poetry Vienna: Lyrics Complete . 2009, ISBN 978-3-7017-1529-9 .
• Horst Bork: Falco: The truth - how it really was - his manager tells . 2009, ISBN 978-3-89602-921-8 .
• Christian Ide Hintze: Falco's many languages . 2010, ISBN 978-3-7017-3183-1 .

swell

1. ↑ The Commissioner in the Billboard Dance Club Songs
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} Chart sources: DE AT CH UK US
3. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} US singles: Joel Whitburn : Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles 1955-2006 . Billboard Books, New York 2007, ISBN 0-89820-172-1 . / US albums: Joel Whitburn : Joel Whitburn presents the Billboard Albums . 6th edition. Billboard Books, New York 2006, ISBN 0-89820-166-7 .
4. ↑ Falco 3 Austrian Platinum ( Memento from April 4, 2020 in the Internet Archive )
5. ↑ Falco 3 Swiss Gold 1986 ( Memento from April 7, 2020 in the Internet Archive )
6. ↑ European Gold & Platinum Albums 1986. Music & Media Magazine, December 27, 1986, accessed October 20, 2019 (English, p. 34). 
7. ^ Ellie Weinert: Crash Kills Austrian Hitmaker Falco. Billboard, February 21, 1998, p. 14 , accessed April 8, 2020 . 
8. ^ Falco - Male Artist Of The Year - Singles (Teldec / Sire). Music & Media Magazine, December 27, 1986, accessed October 20, 2019 (English, p. 14). 
9. ↑ Falco Jeanny Part 1 Austrian Gold ( Memento from April 4, 2020 in the Internet Archive )
10. ↑ ^{a b} Gavin Ryan: Australia's Music Charts 1988-2010 . Moonlight Publishing, Mount Martha, Melbourne, Victoria 2011 (English).
11. ↑ ^{a b} World Famous Bands & Singers. Music & Media, April 24, 1993, accessed April 4, 2020 . 
12. ↑ WEA International. Music & Media, February 21, 1987, accessed April 4, 2020 . 
13. ^ ^{A b c} Dean Scapolo: The Complete New Zealand Music Charts: 1966 - 2006 . Ed .: Maurienne House. 2007, ISBN 978-1-877443-00-8 (English).
14. ↑ Golden Record Falco Emotional 'Czech Republic' ( Memento from April 4, 2020 in the Internet Archive )
15. ↑ The Bolland Project in the German music charts

Web links

• Official Falco website of the estate
• Sony Music Official Falco website
• Extensive fan page with a detailed discography
• Official Austrian homepage for the movie
• Falco - Discography at Allmusic (English)
• Single Discography on 45cat.com
• Discography on rateyourmusic.com
• Falco at Discogs (English)