Mother tongue (album)
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| Studio album by Sarah Connor | |||||||||||
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May 22, 2015 |
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| Label (s) | Polydor | ||||||||||
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13 (standard version) |
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Mother tongue is the eighth studio album by the German singer Sarah Connor and her first in German , which was released by Polydor on May 22, 2015 . It is Connor's second number one album after their fourth English-language studio album Naughty but Nice (2005).
background
With his mother tongue Connor brought out an album in German for the first time. She was involved in text and music. The first ten songs were written together with the producer trio von Rosenstolz , Peter Plate , Ulf Leo Sommer and Daniel Faust. On May 1, 2015, the first single from the album How beautiful you are was released . It took second place in the German single charts. The girl in the music video is played by Helena Siegmund-Schultze .
The studio album reached number one in the charts in Germany and Switzerland . Five months after its first entry, the album topped the German charts again in November 2015. The deluxe edition contains three of the songs that Connor performed at Sing mein Song - Das Tauschkonzert in 2014 , these are Nobody is like you , I breathe in and I Feel Lonely . Her self-written English-language songs Unlove You , Come Home and Close to Crazy are also included on the album.
reception
- Thomas Winkler, music critic of the time , was “impressed” by the album Mutterssprache and described it as a “mostly positive surprise”: “Because measured against what German soul pop has done in recent years, Sarah Connor swings out of it with her mother tongue Stand up to the one-eyed among the blind. "
- "Musically, one can hear the collaboration with the former Rosenstolz production team around Peter Plate in the 13 songs: catchy minor melodies, plucked guitars and piano, here and there a crescendo," writes Johanna Bruckner in the Süddeutsche Zeitung and asks whether Sarah Connor is the new Helene Fischer . She denies this, but thinks that Connor, if at all, is the better Helene Fischer.
Sales, awards and promotion
The album was awarded eleven gold awards in Germany for 1,100,000 albums sold. In Austria, mother tongue took third place in the charts and was awarded platinum . At the 25th Echo Awards on April 7, 2016, Connor received an award in the category "Artist National Pop / Rock". Mother tongue was also nominated in the “Album of the Year” category. In March 2016 the “mother tongue tour” began .
Track list
- With full hands (Sarah Connor, Daniel Faust, Peter Plate , Ulf Leo Sommer) - 3:48
- How beautiful you are (Sarah Connor, Daniel Faust, Peter Plate, Ulf Leo Sommer) - 3:38
- Hold me (Sarah Connor, Daniel Faust, Peter Plate, Ulf Leo Sommer) - 3:10
- Unconditional (Sarah Connor, Daniel Faust, Peter Plate, Ulf Leo Sommer) - 3:52
- Will you come with her (Sarah Connor, Daniel Faust, Peter Plate, Ulf Leo Sommer) - 3:24
- My King (Sarah Connor, Daniel Faust, Peter Plate, Ulf Leo Sommer) - 4:13
- Open your eyes (Sarah Connor, Daniel Faust, Peter Plate, Ulf Leo Sommer) - 4:30
- German love song (Sarah Connor, Daniel Faust, Peter Plate, Ulf Leo Sommer) - 4:46
- Promised (Sarah Connor, Daniel Faust, Peter Plate, Ulf Leo Sommer) - 3:47
- Anorak (Sarah Connor, Daniel Faust, Peter Plate, Ulf Leo Sommer) - 4:02
- My island (Sarah Connor, Thilo Brandt, Pille Hillebrand) - 2:50
- When you're there (Sarah Connor, Simon Triebel , Ali Zuckowski ) - 3:24
- Life is beautiful (Sarah Connor, Simon Triebel, Ali Zuckowski) - 3:17
Bonus tracks (deluxe edition)
- How happy are you (Sarah Connor, Peter Plate, Ulf Leo Sommer, Carolina Bigge) - 4:14
- Nobody is like you ( Sing my song - The exchange concert ) ( Gregor Meyle ) - 4:00
- I breathe in (Sing my song - The Exchange Concert) ( Frank Ramond / Matthias Hass ) - 3:10
- I Feel Lonely (Sing my song - The exchange concert) (Stephan Baader, Michel Bernhard Kersting, Sascha Schmitz ) - 3:30
- Unlove You (Sarah Connor, Silvia Gordon) - 3:03
- Come Home (Sarah Connor) - 2:39
- Close to Crazy (Sarah Connor, Catt Gravitt) - 3:32
Chart placements
album
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 Germany (GfK)
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1 (145 weeks) | 145 |
 Austria (Ö3)
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3 (97 weeks) | 97 |
 Switzerland (IFPI)
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1 (67 weeks) | 67 |
Singles
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Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes) |
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| 2015 |
How beautiful you are mother tongue |
DE2 (45 weeks) DE |
AT11 (37 weeks) AT |
CH30 (22 weeks) CH |
First published: May 1, 2015
Sales: + 600,000 |
| Unconditionally mother tongue |
DE30 (14 weeks) DE |
AT38 (4 weeks) AT |
- |
First published: October 23, 2015
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| 2016 | Do you come with her mother tongue |
DE62 (8 weeks) DE |
- | - |
First published: March 4, 2016
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Bonnie & Clyde Mother Tongue (Special Deluxe Edition) |
DE24 (11 weeks) DE |
AT39 (6 weeks) AT |
CH64 (1 week) CH |
First published: September 23, 2016
with Henning Wehland |
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| Keep your eyes on your mother tongue |
DE87 (1 week) DE |
- | - |
First published: November 18, 2016
Chart entry: May 22, 2015 |
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| 2015 | Life is beautiful mother tongue |
DE49 (2 weeks) DE |
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Chart entry: May 22, 2015
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Sven Kabelitz: Does anyone think of the children too? laut.de , May 22, 2015, accessed on July 2, 2015.
- ↑ Music video: Sarah Connor - How beautiful you are with crew united
- ↑ Thomas Winkler: Surprise in mother tongue . In: Zeit Online , May 21, 2015, accessed July 2, 2015.
- ↑ Johanna Bruckner: German Leidgut . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , May 22, 2015, accessed on July 2, 2015.
- ↑ Gold / platinum database. Retrieved May 20, 2019 .
- ↑ Helene Fischer clears the Echo Awards
- ↑ a b c Chart sources: DE AT CH