List of the best-selling jazz albums in Germany

Norah Jones (2007)

The list of best-selling jazz albums in Germany is an overview of all jazz - music albums , which in Germany gold and platinum awards of the Federation of music industry received (BVMI) for over 20,000 copies sold. As a representative of the interests of the German music industry, this association has been awarding such certifications for commercially successful music albums since 1975. The most successful award-winning work comes from the American singer Norah Jones and was published in 2002. Her debut album Come Away with Me sold over 750,000 copies. The oldest award-winning work dates from 1962 and comes from the Greek singer Nana Mouskouri ( Nana Mouskouri in New York ). The first album to cross the 100,000 mark is by Charles Brauer and Manfred Krug , whose collab album Tatort - Die Songs crossed the threshold in 2001.

Notes on interpreting the statistics listed

This list includes artists whose music albums have been recognized by the BVMI for at least 20,000 units sold. The BVMI has officially been awarding gold and platinum awards for audio products since January 1, 1975. The record companies concerned must apply for the certifications; the awards are not automatically assigned. Already before 1975 record awards were made by the respective sound carrier manufacturer, but not according to standardized and officially tested criteria. According to a guideline dated January 1, 1976, the number of rated sales is determined according to the units sold to GEMA or another collecting society of the authors as domestic sales.

The music albums can be found in the following table in descending order of their certified sales and in ascending order of the year of release. The table contains information about the album title, the performers, the music label, the year of publication (“Jahr VÖ”) and the year of the highest award (“Jahr Ausz.”), The highest award and the amount of certified sales. The list takes into account all music albums that have received a jazz award for at least 20,000 units sold, as well as music albums that received record awards for music albums and were classified as jazz albums by specialist portals or magazines or were able to place themselves in the German jazz charts . The information in the "Certified sales" column is a minimum number of phonograms sold for the respective work. Since there are fixed lending limits for the awards, the actual sales of the respective sound carriers can be somewhat higher - i.e. between the awarded and the next awarding limit.

In addition, the first publication to flow in music albums by 1 January 2016 also made music streaming with the sales statistics one. However, only “premium streams” of the corresponding online music services with a certain “conversion factor” are included. Only the twelve most played tracks on an album are counted for the calculation of the album equivalent . The two most played tracks are not taken into account with the actually achieved “streams”, but only with the average amount of the ten following tracks. The premium streamings determined in this way - which were streamed for over 30 seconds - were recorded in the period from January 1, 2016 to April 5, 2018 with a factor of 1000: 1 and since April 6, 2018 with a factor of 2000: 1 Music albums taken into account.

Problem

Since the BVMI has only been awarding gold and platinum awards for a large part of the music products on the market since January 1, 1975, music albums that peaked before 1975 do not appear in this list if they are not mentioned in professional journals or specialist literature. In addition, the award is only given to those popular audio and video carriers that have been registered with the BVMI and therefore received gold and / or platinum awards.

Limits to the award of phonograms

Since September 24, 1999 - due to decreasing sales figures - the lending limits for music albums have been adjusted at irregular intervals. The awards are based on the respective release date of the sound carrier, not on the date of certification. For example, an album released in 1980 is now awarded a gold record for over 250,000, not 100,000 units sold.

In Germany there is a special feature that gold records are awarded again between platinum awards. Only AMPROFON in Mexico also follows this award system. Usually there are no further awards between the individual platinum records until a diamond record is awarded. In Germany these are given out for music albums and singles, all other sound carriers are not awarded diamond records in Germany. In countries such as Poland , the diamond record represents the highest award level. In Germany this is not the case. For example, if an album receives a diamond award from the BVMI for 750,000 copies sold, but later reaches the eight hundred thousand mark, the diamond award is replaced by a four-fold platinum award as the highest award. There are genre-specific awards for jazz recorders. Jazz players who do not reach the threshold for regular gold and platinum awards are given the so-called " Jazz Award ". This is awarded from a minimum sales quantity of 10,000 products. The other award thresholds take place in tens of thousands of steps, up to a sales volume of 90,000.

Music albums

Award	until September 24, 1999	until December 31, 2002	until December 31, 2012	since January 1, 2013
gold	250,000	150,000	100,000
platinum	500,000	300,000	200,000
3 × gold	750,000	450,000	300,000
2 × platinum	1,000,000	600,000	400,000
...
diamond	-			750,000

Jazz Award

Award	Sales
gold	10,000
platinum	20,000
3 × gold	30,000
2 × platinum	40,000
...

Albums sorted according to certified record sales

• Rank: shows the order of the music albums. This is determined by the amount of "certified sales".
• Release year: the year in which the music album was first released.
• Year award: the year in which a gold and platinum award was last made.
• Artist: indicates which artists are involved in the music album.
• Title: shows the title of the music album.
• Music label: indicates the music label under which the album was originally released.
• Sales: shows the top gold and platinum awards awarded and sales figures.

rank	Year release	Year exc.	Interpreter	title	Music label	Award / Sales
1	2002	2004	Norah Jones	Come away with me	Blue Note Records	5 × gold (750,000+)
2	2004	2006	Norah Jones	Feels Like Home	Blue Note Records	3 × platinum (600,000+)
3	2013	2018	Gregory Porter	Liquid spirit	EmArcy Records	3 × gold (300,000+)
4th	2007	2007	Norah Jones	Not too late	Blue Note Records	Platinum (200,000+)
5	2000	2001	Manfred Krug & Charles Brewer	Tatort - The Songs	Warner Music	Gold (150,000+)
	2001	2005	Diana Krall	The look of love	Verve Records
7th	2003	2019	Jamie Cullum	Twentysomething	Verve Records	Gold (100,000+)
	2004	2005	Diana Krall	The Girl in the Other Room	Verve Records
	2005	2019	Jamie Cullum	Catching Tales	Universal Records
	2006	2012	Till Brönner	Oceana	Blue Note Records
	2007	2013	Till Brönner	The Christmas Album	Blue Note Records
	2009	2010	Norah Jones	The Fall	Blue Note Records
	2009	2010	Jamie Cullum	The pursuit	Decca Records
14th	2004	2005	Till Brönner	That summer	Boutique Records	3 × platinum (60,000+)
15th	1962	2002	Nana Mouskouri	Nana Mouskouri in New York	Polydor	5 × gold (50,000+)
	1998	2004	Quadro Nuevo	Luna Rossa	Fine Music
	2002	2005	Till Brönner	Blue Eyed Soul	Boutique Records
	2006	2006	Quadro Nuevo	Tango Bitter Sweet	Fine Music
19th	2006	2007	Götz Alsmann & WDR Big Band	Winter wonderland	Roof Music	2 × platinum (40,000+)
	2016	2016	Till Brönner	The Good Life	Sony Masterworks
	2004	2004	Quadro Nuevo	Mocca flor	Fine Music
	1997	1998	Pat Metheny	Imaginary Day	Warner Music
23	2005	2007	Götz Alsmann	kiss	Boutique Records	3 × gold (30,000+)
	2011	2012	Wynton Marsalis & Eric Clapton	Play the Blues: Live from Jazz at Lincoln Center	Reprise Records
	2011	2012	Götz Alsmann	In Paris	Blue Note Records
26th	2001	2001	Marcus Miller	M²	Dreyfus Records	Platinum (20,000+)
	1999	2002	Quadro Nuevo	Buongiorno Tristezza	Fine Music
	2002	2002	Nils Landgren	Sentimental Journey - Ballads II	ACT
	2002	2002	Pat Metheny	Speaking of Now	Warner Music
	2002	2003	Quadro Nuevo	Canzone della Strada	Fine Music
	2000	2003	Quadro Nuevo	CinéPassion	Fine Music
	2003	2003	Klazz Brothers & Cuba Percussion	Jazz meets Cuba	Sony Classical
	2003	2003	Pat Metheny	One quiet night	Warner Music
	2004	2004	Nils Landgren Funk Unit	Funky Abba	ACT
	1997	2005	Bugge Wesseltoft	It's snowing on my piano	ACT
	2005	2005	Esbjörn Svensson Trio	Viaticum	ACT
	2006	2006	Nils Landgren	Christmas with My Friends	ACT
	2006	2006	Randy Crawford	Feeling good	EmArcy Records
	2005	2006	Tom Gaebel	Introducing: myself	Edel Records
	2006	2006	Esbjörn Svensson Trio	Tuesday Wonderland	ACT
	2005	2007	Nils Landgren, Joe Sample & Ray Parker, Jr.	Creole love call	ACT
	2007	2007	Tom Gaebel	Good life	Edel Records
	2007	2007	Nils Landgren Funk Unit	License to Funk	ACT
	2007	2007	Götz Alsmann	My secret	Blue Note Records
	2007	2008	Stacey Kent	Breakfast on the Morning Tram	Blue Note Records
	2008	2008	Esbjörn Svensson Trio	Leucocyte	ACT
	2008	2009	Nils Landgren	Christmas with My Friends II	ACT
	2008	2009	Max Raabe & Palast Orchester	Tonight or Never - Live in New York - The Carnegie Hall concert	SPV
	2008	2009	Quadro Nuevo	Christmas	Fine Music
	2007	2010	Manu Katché	Playground	ECM records
	2010	2011	Quadro Nuevo	Grand Voyage	Fine Music
	2012	2012	Nils Landgren	Christmas with My Friends III	ACT
	2005	2012	Pat Metheny Group	The way up	Nonesuch Records
	2012	2013	Max Mutzke	Confused	Columbia Records
	2014	2015	Manfred Krug & Uschi Brüning	Chosen	Edel Records
	2014	2015	Keith Jarrett & Charlie Haden	Last dance	ECM records
	2015	2015	Quadro Nuevo	tango	Fine Music
	2015	2015	Kamasi Washington	The Epic	Brainfeeder
	2016	2016	Klaus Doldinger	Doldinger	Warner Music
	2018	2018	Till Brönner & Dieter Ilg	Nightfall	Sony Masterworks
	2017	2019	Götz Alsmann	In Rome	Blue Note Records

See also

• Jazz in Germany
• List of the best-selling music albums certified by BVMI in Germany
• German album charts → Number one albums / Top 10 albums
• List of artists with the highest number of BVMI certified recordings sales

Web links

• BVMI gold / platinum database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ SCVC: Happy Birthday, Gold Record! . ( Memento from January 15, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) hr-online.de, February 10, 2012, accessed on August 12, 2020.
2. ↑ ^{a b} Guidelines for Gold / Platinum and Diamond Awards. musikindustrie.de, accessed on August 12, 2020 . 
3. ↑ ^{a b c} minimum quantities. musikindustrie.de, accessed on August 12, 2020 . 
4. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak al am an ao ap aq ar as at au av aw} GOLD / PLATINUM database. musikindustrie.de, accessed on July 1, 2020 . 
5. ↑ Jazz Charts August 2019. jazzecho.de, September 2, 2019, accessed on July 1, 2020 . 
6. ^ "Feels Like Home" by Norah Jones. laut.de, accessed on July 1, 2020 . 
7. ^ Gregory Porter - Liquid Spirit. jazzecho.de, accessed on July 21, 2020 . 
8. ^ "Not Too Late" by Norah Jones. laut.de, accessed on July 1, 2020 . 
9. ↑ Manfred Krug & Charles Brauer - Tatort - The Songs. discogs.com, accessed July 21, 2020 . 
10. ^ Diana Krall - The Look of Love. jazzecho.de, September 14, 2001, accessed on August 13, 2020 . 
11. ↑ Jamie Cullum - Twentysomething (Special Edition). jazzecho.de, November 5, 2004, accessed on August 13, 2020 . 
12. ^ Diana Krall - The Girl in the Other Room. jazzecho.de, April 9, 2004, accessed on August 13, 2020 . 
13. ↑ Jamie Cullum - Catching Tales. jazzecho.de, September 23, 2005, accessed on August 13, 2020 . 
14. ↑ Till Brönner - Oceana. jazzecho.de, April 26, 2006, accessed on July 21, 2020 . 
15. ↑ Till Brönner - The Christmas Album. jazzecho.de, November 14, 2007, accessed on July 21, 2020 . 
16. ↑ The Fall by Norah Jones. rateyourmusic.com, accessed July 1, 2020 . 
17. ↑ Norah Jones - The Fall (Deluxe Edition). discogs.com, accessed July 1, 2020 . 
18. ↑ Jamie Cullum, The Pursuit. jazzecho.de, November 13, 2009, accessed on August 13, 2020 .