I + me

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I + me
Me + Me (2008)
Me + Me (2008)
General information
origin Berlin, Germany
Genre (s) pop
founding 2003
Website www.ich-und-ich.de
Founding members
Annette Humpe
Adel Tawil

Ich + Ich (spoken I and I ) is a German pop music project consisting of the musicians Annette Humpe and Adel Tawil .

history

Annette Humpe and Adel Tawil met by chance in a recording studio in Berlin in the spring of 2002 when Tawil was supposed to sing in a commissioned production for which Humpe had written the lyrics. When Humpe noticed Tawil's voice, she sought contact with him. Tawil was already known as a member of The Boyz group.

From this encounter a joint album was created in 2004, which was released on April 18, 2005. The first pre-release Are you feeling better already? entered the German single charts on November 8, 2004. You remind me of love and service became top ten successes in Germany. In January and February 2006, Humpe and Tawil went on a tour of Germany with their album , which was a great success. Almost all concerts were sold out. The tour's final concert took place in the Kesselhaus in the Kulturbrauerei in Berlin in front of almost 2000 spectators.

The second studio album Vom Same Stern was released on June 29, 2007. The single of the same name was released on June 15 and was in the German music charts for 63 weeks, making it the band's longest single in the charts. On November 9, 2007, the second single, Stark , followed, which at that time was already at number ten in the German airplay charts and immediately entered the regular charts at number four. On April 4, 2008, it was the third single with So it should remain . It should stay that way rose to number three in the charts and is therefore the duo's fifth top ten success in Germany. The album rose to number one on the German album charts on June 20, 2008, after 53 weeks. With over 1.25 million records sold and three platinum singles in direct succession, Vom same Stern is the most successful contemporary German pop album.

On November 13th, 2009 the third studio album Gute Reise was released, from which the single Pflaster was released on October 30th . With this single, Ich + Ich made it to number one in the German single charts for the first time in their career; The album Gute Reise also entered the charts at number one and stayed at the top for five weeks in a row.

To date, Ich + Ich have sold over three million albums.

At the end of August 2010, the two artists decided to take a creative break and then focus on separate projects. “ After seven years you have to try something new,” says Tawil. On September 1, 2010, Humpe and Tawil denied the rumor that the band had broken up. There is a creative break, but that does not mean the end of me + me. According to the Bild newspaper of the Universal record company, the band still wants to complete the tour that is still ongoing.

Ich + Ich took part in the Bundesvision Song Contest 2010 in and for Berlin together with Mohamed Mounir on October 1st, 2010 and took third place with 100 points.

Discography

Studio albums

year Title
music label
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placementsTemplate: chart table / maintenance / without sources
(Year, title, music label , placements, weeks, awards, notes)
Remarks
DE DE AT AT CH CH
2005 Me + Me
Polydor / Universal Music
DE10
gold
gold

(44 weeks)DE
AT34 (20 weeks)
AT
-
First published: April 18, 2005
Sales: + 100,000
2007 From the same star
Polydor / Universal Music
DE1
Six-fold platinum
× 6
Six-fold platinum

(154 weeks)DE
AT2
platinum
platinum

(78 weeks)AT
CH4th
platinum
platinum

(65 weeks)CH
First published: June 29, 2007
Sales: + 1,300,000
2009 Have a good trip
Polydor / Universal Music
DE1
Quintuple gold
× 5
Quintuple gold

(88 weeks)DE
AT4th
gold
gold

(34 weeks)AT
CH5
gold
gold

(27 weeks)CH
First published: November 13, 2009
Sales: +700,000

Awards

Me + Me in Salem 2008
  • DIVA Award
    • 2008: as Music-Artist of the Year 2008
  • echo
    • 2009: Best National Rock Pop Band on February 21, 2009
    • 2010: as the most successful national producer team on March 3rd, 2010
    • 2011: Most Successful Artist Rock / Pop National on March 24th, 2011
    • 2011: Best Live Act National on March 24, 2011
  • Golden tuning fork
    • 2005: as the most successful duo pop
    • 2006: as the most successful pop duo
  • musicbeat.de
    • 2007: Best Pop National 2007

Trivia

  • In the video for From the Same Star you can see the faces of numerous celebrities, such as Silbermond singer Stefanie Kloß , rock musician Udo Lindenberg , the two Stonedeafproduction singers Vincent Stein and Dag-Alexis Kopplin , Jasmin Weber , the footballers Fredi Bobic and Sofian Chahed , James Last , Pegah Ferydoni , Kurt Krömer , the musician and comedian Olli Dittrich , the MTV presenters Patrice Bouédibéla and Palina Rojinski , panda singer Anna Fischer and politician Antje Vollmer . When asked how this came about, Tawil explained in an interview with NDR : “ That's when we came up with the idea of ​​making a kind of portrait video that morph into each other . And every character sings this song. And then we just called all our friends, people from Berlin, my whole family is there, the dentist. Of course, Annette also called Udo Lindenberg and Olli Dittrich and we were very happy that so many took part. That was three days of shooting that were very, very funny. "
  • Tawil's wife at the time, Jasmin (née Weber), also played in the music videos for Are you feeling better? and help me with
  • In 1980, Humpe was co-founder and voice of the group Ideal .
  • Humpe is the sister of Inga Humpe , who forms the pop duo 2raumwohnung with Tommi Eckart . Both sisters played in the DÖF (German-Austrian Feingefühl) project in the early 1980s and later released two albums as a duo, Humpe • Humpe (1985) and Swimming with Sharks (1987).
  • In the song Vom same Stern , the melody of Codo , the most famous song by DÖF, is quoted in the accompanying melody of the refrain .
  • Only Tawil is on stage at concerts, as Humpe says he has great stage fright. She made an exception for the ECHO 2008 music award and was on stage as a background singer.
  • For the ARD early evening series " One for all - women can do it better ", the song So it should stay was selected as the title song.
  • Pflaster is the first number one hit in Germany for Ich + Ich. Adel Tawil was already at the top of the German charts under his own name, Annette Humpe as part of DÖF in 1983.

Web links

Commons : Me + Me  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Archived copy ( Memento of the original from December 20, 2010 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / musicline.de
  2. media-control.de: "Shaggy and I + I go into the lead" ( Memento from May 17, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Press release from June 17, 2008.
  3. me and me biography ( memento of the original from October 20, 2009 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.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ich-und-ich.de
  4. on mediabiz.de
  5. Separation of I + I ( Memento of the original from September 1, 2010 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.noows.de
  6. Official homepage
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  8. a b biography. universal-music.de, accessed on September 2, 2018 .
  9. One Live Crown
  10. Deutscher Musikautorenpreis ( Memento of the original from June 13, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.gema.de
  11. DIVA Award 2009 ( Memento from October 30, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  12. ECHO - German Music Prize ( Memento of the original from February 24, 2009 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.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.echopop.de
  13. Ich + Ich already awarded a music prize before the official "Echo" show in Focus
  14. a b Echoverleihung 2011 ( Memento of the original from May 9, 2013 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.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.echopop.de
  15. Golden Camera 2009 ( Memento from February 23, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  16. a b Charts-weltweit.de - Golden Tuning Fork
  17. musicbeat.de