Mads Langer

Mads Langer

Mads Langer (born January 14, 1984 in Aabenraa ) is a Danish singer-songwriter who became famous with his cover version of the Olive song You're Not Alone .

Life

Mads Langer, whose parents are both teachers, started playing the piano at the age of three. He studied jazz piano at the Royal Danish Academy of Music and at the same time learned to play the guitar. His first album Attention Please was released in 2006 on the Copenhagen Records label. The album Mads Langer followed three years later and reached number 12 in the Danish charts. After club appearances in Europe, Los Angeles and New York, where Langer lived temporarily, he moved to London in 2009. There he met his manager, who helped him sign a contract with Sony Music Entertainment . His European breakthrough came in 2011 with the album Behold and the cover single You're Not Alone .

In 2011 Langer recorded the song Habits for her album Viktoria with Maria Mena . The following year he was the opening act with her on tour in Germany, where they performed the song in a duet.

At the end of November 2012 Langer released the album Behold Deluxe , which reached number 3 on the Danish charts the following month. The second CD of the album contains, among other things, three Danish-language songs that were previously released as singles. The most successful was the single Overgir mig slowomt , which went straight to number 1 in August 2012 and stayed in the Danish charts for 25 weeks.

Discography

Albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChartsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)	Remarks
		DK
2009	Mads Langer	DK12 gold (13 weeks)DK	First published: February 9, 2009
2011	Behold	DK2 gold (25 weeks)DK	First published: May 9, 2011
2012	Behold Deluxe	DK2 × 2 Double platinum (32 weeks)DK	First published: December 2012
2013	In These Waters	DK1 × 2 Double platinum (52 weeks)DK	First published: March 4, 2013
2016	Reckless twin	DK1 platinum (26 weeks)DK	First published: March 18, 2016

More albums

• 2006: Attention Please (first published March 20, 2006)

Live albums

• 2014: Live at Vega (first published December 19, 2014)

EPs

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChartsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)	Remarks
		DK
2017	All the time, sometimes	DK15th gold (9 weeks)DK	First published: November 10, 2017

More EPs

• 2008: fact fiction. Pop - or ??? (First published: February 7, 2008)
• 2011: Amstrdm (first published July 22, 2011)
• 2014: Side Effects (First published: July 17, 2014, with Tim Christensen)

Singles

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)				Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	DK
2009	Fact fiction Mads Langer	-	-	-	DK11 gold (5 weeks)DK
	You're Not Alone Mads Langer	DE42 (22 weeks) DE	AT41 (11 weeks) AT	CH32 (14 weeks) CH	DK17th gold (8 weeks)DK	Original: Olive (1997)
2011	Microscope Behold	-	-	-	DK37 (1 week) DK	First published: February 25, 2011
2012	Behold Deluxe slows down over the top	-	-	-	DK1 platinum (25 weeks)DK
	Ikk hate Behold Deluxe	-	-	-	DK15 (1 week) DK
	København (fra en DC 9) Behold Deluxe	-	-	-	DK2 (4 weeks) DK
	Deep Sleep Behold Deluxe	-	-	-	DK22 (1 week) DK
	All have a Behold Deluxe	-	-	-	DK7 (1 week) DK
2013	Elephant In These Waters	-	-	-	DK4th platinum (29 weeks)DK	First published: January 21, 2013
	Heartquake In These Waters	-	-	-	DK17 (15 weeks) DK	First published: September 6, 2013
	I en stjerneregn af sne	-	-	-	DK1 × 2 Double platinum (23 weeks)DK	First published: November 11, 2013
2014	No Gravity In These Waters	-	-	-	DK35 (1 week) DK
	Bring Back Tomorrow	-	-	-	DK3 (9 weeks) DK	with Tim Christensen
	Fact-Fiction / Silverflame	-	-	-	DK14 (3 weeks) DK	with Tim Christensen
2015	3 AM Reckless Twin	-	-	-	DK5 × 2 Double platinum (19 weeks)DK	First published: December 28, 2015
2018	Flawless	-	-	-	DK16 platinum (11 weeks)DK	First published: February 9, 2018
	Day mig med	-	-	-	DK11 gold (3 weeks)DK	First published: November 16, 2018

More singles

• 2005: Breaking News
• 2006: Poem with No Rhyme
• 2006: House of Life
• 2009: Wake Me Up in Time
• 2009: Too Close (with Mike Sheridan)
• 2009: Last Flower
• 2009: Silence for storm
• 2011: Riding Elevators
• 2011: Something New
• 2016: Tunnel Vision
• 2016: Afterglow (feat. Coco O.)
• 2017: Unusual (DK:gold)
• 2018: All the Time, Sometimes
• 2018: Move Mountains
• 2019: Me Without You
• 2019: Eyes Closed
• 2019: Monsters in My Mind
• 2020: Mellem Linjerne (DK:gold)

Guest Posts

• 2009: Forbandet stille (Julie Maria feat. Mads Langer)
• 2010: Sleeping with the Enemy (Mika Vandborg feat. Mads Langer & Justin Hawkins)
• 2011: Habits ( Maria Mena feat. Mads Langer)
• 2015: Now (KATO feat. Mads Langer)
• 2020: Tættere End Vi Tror (P3 feat.Don Stefano, Jada, Christopher, Lukas Graham , Clara , Mads Langer, Tessa & Benjamin Hav, DK:gold)

Web links

• Homepage
• Mads Langer at Discogs (English)
• Mads Langer at Allmusic (English)

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1. ↑ Mads Langer at lastfm.de
2. ↑ Interview with Mad Langer ( Memento of the original from July 24, 2011 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. (Danish) 
3. ↑ Mads Langer on tour with Maria Mena ( Memento of the original from May 24, 2012 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. 
4. ↑ ^{a b c d} Chart sources: Denmark Germany - Austria Switzerland
5. ↑ ^{a b} Gold / Platinum Awards Denmark