La Bouche

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La Bouche in the ZDF television garden (2018)
La Bouche in Mannheim at Sunshine live "The 90s - Live On Stage" (2017)
Lane McCray and Sophie Cairo alias Zsófi Farkas at a concert in Vienna, 2016
Lane McCray, 2016

La Bouche ( French for “the mouth”) was founded in 1994 and was a successful Eurodance duo in the 1990s with roots in Germany and the USA.

activity

The original lineup consisted of singer Melanie Thornton and rapper D. Lane McCray Jr. . The first hit, Sweet Dreams (1994), was not rapping Lane, but Robert Haynes, who later rapped on Le Click (a project in which Thornton sang the song Tonight Is the Night ). Lane's rap part was later re-recorded for the USA. The debut album Sweet Dreams was released in 1995 and was very successful in Europe and Asia as well as in Canada .

Producers Amir Saraf and Ulli Brenner started the project in 1993 with singer Melanie Thornton from Charleston, South Carolina, USA. With the support of Frank Farian , it became one of the most successful dance duos in Europe (No. 1 in Germany) and America (No. 6 in the USA) and received eight gold and one platinum records. After 1998, success leveled off and Thornton began planning her solo career. In Finland, La Bouche reached the top 20 with every release between 1994 and 1999, u. a. A Moment of Love 1998 (18th place) and Bolingo / Megamix 1996 (15th place).

The last album was a memorial album, which, in addition to two unreleased songs, contained the hits of La Bouche and solo hits by Thornton, who died in a plane crash in Switzerland ( Crossair flight 3597 ) in November 2001 .

In September 2017 Lane released a new version of Sweet Dreams with his new singer Sophie Cairo , a month later a remix EP with numerous remixes, including by StoneBridge & Damien Hall. The lyric video was placed in the MTV Video Top 100 for several weeks, and several of the remixes stayed in the USA Dance Charts for almost a year.

On August 14, 2018, a new single, Night after Night, was released worldwide, which was also supported by Frank Farian and again contained remixes by well-known DJs and producers.

Discography

Studio albums

year title Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE AT AT CH CH UK UK US US
1995 sweet Dreams DE3
gold
gold

(19 weeks)DE 		AT9 (13 weeks)
AT 		CH2
gold
gold

(16 weeks)CH 		- US28
platinum
platinum

(55 weeks)US
First published: July 10, 1995
Sales: +1,348,414
1997 A Moment of Love / SOS DE52 (10 weeks)
DE 		- CH40 (9 weeks)
CH 		- US194 (1 week)
US
First published: November 17, 1997

Compilations

Singles

year Title
album 		Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE AT AT CH CH UK UK US US
1994 Sweet Dreams (Ola Ola e)
Sweet Dreams 		DE8th
gold
gold

(22 weeks)DE 		AT3 (13 weeks)
AT 		CH5 (13 weeks)
CH 		UK44 (4 weeks)
UK 		US13 (32 weeks)
US
First published: August 15, 1994
Sales: + 250,000
1995 Be My Lover
Sweet Dreams 		DE1
gold
gold

(29 weeks)DE 		AT3
gold
gold

(16 weeks)AT 		CH5 (32 weeks)
CH 		UK25 (9 weeks)
UK 		US6th
gold
gold

(38 weeks)US
First published: March 2, 1995
Sales: + 1,100,000
Fallin 'in Love
Sweet Dreams 		DE13 (20 weeks)
DE 		AT13 (12 weeks)
AT 		CH13 (21 weeks)
CH 		UK43 (2 weeks)
UK 		-
First published: June 12, 1995
I Love to Love
Sweet Dreams 		DE21 (16 weeks)
DE 		AT19 (9 weeks)
AT 		- - -
First published: November 27, 1995
1996 Bolingo (Love Is in the Air) DE26 (14 weeks)
DE 		AT19 (12 weeks)
AT 		CH15 (8 weeks)
CH 		- -
First published: October 14, 1996
1997 You Won't Forget Me
A Moment of Love / SOS 		DE29 (20 weeks)
DE 		- - - US48 (20 weeks)
US
First published: September 29, 1997
1998 A Moment of Love
A Moment of Love / SOS 		DE100 (1 week)
DE 		- - - -
First published: March 30, 1998
1999 SOS
A Moment of Love / SOS 		DE78 (9 weeks)
DE 		- - - -
First published: February 15, 1999

More singles

  • 1996: Forget Me Nots
  • 2000: All I Want
  • 2002: In Your Life
  • 2017: Sweet Dreams 2017
  • 2018: Night after Night
  • 2020: One Night In Heaven

Awards for music sales

Golden record

  • FinlandFinland Finland
    • 1995: for the album Sweet Dreams
  • FranceFrance France
    • 1995: for the single Be My Lover
  • NorwayNorway Norway
    • 1996: for the single Be My Lover
  • PolandPoland Poland
    • 1996: for the album Sweet Dreams

Platinum record

  • AustraliaAustralia Australia
    • 1996: for the single Be My Lover

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

Country / Region Gold record icon.svg gold Platinum record icon.svg platinum Sales swell
Awards for music sales
(country / region, awards, sales, sources)
Australia (ARIA) Australia (ARIA) 0! G- Platinum record icon.svg platinum1 70,000 aria.com.au
Germany (BVMI) Germany (BVMI) Gold record icon.svg 3 × gold3 0! P- 750,000 musikindustrie.de
Finland (IFPI) Finland (IFPI) Gold record icon.svg gold1 0! P- 23,414 ifpi.fi
France (SNEP) France (SNEP) Gold record icon.svg gold1 0! P- 250,000 snepmusique.com
Norway (IFPI) Norway (IFPI) Gold record icon.svg gold1 0! P- 5,000 ifpi.no ( Memento from February 6, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
Austria (IFPI) Austria (IFPI) Gold record icon.svg gold1 0! P- 25,000 ifpi.at
Poland (ZPAV) Poland (ZPAV) Gold record icon.svg gold1 0! P- 50,000 bestsellery.zpav.pl
Switzerland (IFPI) Switzerland (IFPI) Gold record icon.svg gold1 0! P- 25,000 hitparade.ch
United States (RIAA) United States (RIAA) Gold record icon.svg gold1 Platinum record icon.svg platinum1 1,500,000 riaa.com
All in all Gold record icon.svg 10 × gold10 Platinum record icon.svg 2 × platinum2

Artist awards

  • RSH gold
    • 1996: Category most successful German-produced group of the year
    • 1998

swell

  1. ↑ a b Chart sources: DE AT CH UK US
  2. ↑ RSH Gold Award 1996
  3. ↑ RSH Gold Award 1998

Web links

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