My Cassette Player
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May 7, 2010 |
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March – April 2010 |
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CD, download, CD + DVD |
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Title (number) |
13 + 2 |
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running time |
42:32 |
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My Cassette Player is the debut album by German singer Lena Meyer-Landrut . It was released on May 7, 2010 under her stage name Lena. With the exception of Satellite and Bee , the producer is Stefan Raab . The title of the album refers to radio play cassettes of her childhood like Bibi Blocksberg .
Songs
The album includes both Meyer-Landrut's number 1 hit Satellite and the singles Love Me and Bee , all of which were sung in the finale of the casting show Our Star for Oslo , the preliminary round of the Eurovision Song Contest 2010 in Oslo Has. The three titles were published in advance on March 13, 2010 as a download . Meyer-Landrut also performed the cover versions My Same (by Adele ) and Mr. Curiosity (by Jason Mraz ) on the casting show . The album also includes Not Following written by Ellie Goulding . Five other titles were written by Stefan Raab in collaboration with Meyer-Landrut, two by him alone and another with Pär Lammers and Daniel Schaub . The download portals iTunes Store and Amazon.de also offer the bonus songs New Shoes (by Paolo Nutini , also a song from the talent show) and We Can't Go On .
Track list
| # | title | Songwriter | producer | length |
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| 1. | Satellite | Julie Frost , John Gordon | Brix, Ingo Politz, Bernd Wendlandt, Gordon | 2:55 |
| 2. | My Cassette Player | Stefan Raab , Lena Meyer-Landrut | Raab | 3:35 |
| 3. | Not following | Ellie Goulding , Jonny Lattimer | Raab | 3:36 |
| 4th | I like to bang my head | Raab, Meyer-Landrut | Raab | 3:23 |
| 5. | My same | Jim Abbiss, Adele | Raab | 3:02 |
| 6th | Caterpillar in the Rain | Raab, Meyer-Landrut | Raab | 3:42 |
| 7th | Love me | Raab, Meyer-Landrut | Raab | 2:59 |
| 8th. | Touch a New Day | Raab | Raab | 3:08 |
| 9. | Bee | Rosi Golan, Per Kristian Ottestad, Mayaeni Strauss | Ottestad | 3:00 |
| 10. | You can't stop me | Raab | Raab | 2:54 |
| 11. | Mr. Curiosity | Lester Mendez, Dennis James Morris, Jason Mraz | Raab | 3:41 |
| 12. | I just want your kiss | Daniel Schaub , Par Lammers , Raab | Raab | 3:05 |
| 13. | Wonderful dreaming | Raab, Meyer-Landrut | Raab | 3:32 |
Bonus material
Bonus title
| # | title | Songwriter | producer | length |
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| 14th | We Can't Go On | Lammers, Schaub | Raab | 3:15 |
| 15th | New Shoes | Matty Benbrook, Jim Duguid, Paolo Nutini | Raab | 3:23 |
The deluxe version also comes with a DVD with the NDR / ProSieben documentation Lena - Our Star for Oslo and the music video for Satellite . In addition, the Unser-Star-für-Oslo- appearances of My Same , Mr. Curiosity , Bee , Satellite and Love Me were published on a special edition of the mail order company Tchibo .
On November 26, 2010 a limited platinum edition was released, on which, in addition to the songs We Can't Go On and New Shoes, the videos for the singles Satellite and Touch a New Day as well as the Brainpool documentary The Wonder of Oslo commented on by Lena Meyer-Landrut are published.
illustration
The cover photo was taken as part of a photo shoot and shows the artist sitting on a stool in the midst of numerous cassettes scattered on the floor . Next to the stool is a silver-colored SKR 700 cassette recorder from GDR production. The photos of the cover were taken by Sophie Krische. Ronald Reinsberg took on the design of the artwork .
reception
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criticism
The reviews are different. While the critics of the Stuttgarter Nachrichten criticized the excessive influence of Stefan Raab , the Neue Presse described My Cassette Player as "a charming debut". For Focus , the album is “a colorful band salad of musical trivialities”. In the FAZ , Eleonore Büning pointed out that " My Cassette Player was produced for a broad target audience that should not be overwhelmed". Matthias Reichel from the music portal CDStarts certified the album as having " more charm and life than every single release by a DSDS winner".
Laut.de , on the other hand, concluded that “ My Cassette Player is definitely more pleasant than anything from Silbermond and Ich + Ich ”. "Above all, it is now clear that Raab's own composition Love Me is the better song compared to Satellite and that the catchy-playful Bee would have been the better entry for the Eurovision Song Contest". The album is “not really crazy”, but entertaining “and, above all, a genuine Raab production: Happy hum-pop with glockenspiel ( Love Me , You Can't Stop Me ), a shovel of Mutzke mid-tempo soul ( Touch a New Day ), flawless 60s beats with handclaps ( Bee ) and of course two well-known cover versions ( Jason Mraz ' Mr. Curiosity , Adeles My Same ) ”.
Charts
The album My Cassette Player and the single Satellite reached their highest positions both when they were first released and immediately after the Eurovision Song Contest victory in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. After the victory, the song was also successful in most charts across Europe, the album reached number 7 in Norway. In February 2011, the album received five golds for over 500,000 copies sold .
album
| Charts | Highest position | end of year | Award |
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| Germany |
1 (44 weeks) |
5 | 5 × gold |
| Austria |
1 (18 weeks) |
39 | - |
| Switzerland | 3 (18 weeks) |
45 |
Songs with chart positions
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Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes) |
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| 2010 | Satellite |
DE1 (41 weeks) DE |
AT2 (24 weeks) AT |
CH1 (24 weeks) CH |
UK30 (2 weeks) UK |
First published: March 13, 2010
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| Bee |
DE3 (13 weeks) DE |
AT26 (6 weeks) AT |
CH27 (3 weeks) CH |
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First published: March 13, 2010
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| Love me |
DE4 (12 weeks) DE |
AT28 (8 weeks) AT |
CH39 (2 weeks) CH |
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First published: March 13, 2010
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| Touch a New Day |
DE13 (11 weeks) DE |
AT26 (7 weeks) AT |
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First published: August 6, 2010
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Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Halbig, Matthias. Ready to hit the charts: Lena's new album . neuepresse.de, May 7, 2010. Accessed May 7, 2010.
- ↑ Christoph Driessen: Now twelve points . In: HNA of May 8, 2010. (Accessed May 9, 2010)
- ↑ Itunes track list
- ↑ Tracklist Amazon ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ HNA of May 6, 2010: Lena Meyer-Landrut's first album has been released
- ↑ Booklet of the album
- ↑ laut.de
- ↑ cdstarts.de
- ↑ letmeentertainyou.de
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from June 9, 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.
- ↑ Reinhardt, Günther. A lot of Raab and a little bit of Lena. Stuttgarter-Nachrichten.de, May 6, 2010. Accessed May 7, 2010
- ↑ Lena Meyer-Landrut - Miss Kiss Kiss Irrelevant
- ↑ Eleonore Büning: Someone stole the cassette recorder in the FAZ on May 8, 2010 Online, accessed on May 9, 2010
- ↑ CDStarts.de
- ↑ Not crazy, but more pleasant than anything from Silbermond and Ich + Ich. Review on laut.de
- ↑ My Cassette Player ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in the Norwegian charts
- ↑ Chart sources: Germany ( Memento of the original from July 6, 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. Austria Switzerland (as of February 4, 2011)
- ↑ Chart sources annual charts: Germany ( Memento of the original from April 19, 2016 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. , Austria , Switzerland
- ^ Federal Association of the Music Industry → Search: "Lena Meyer-Landrut".
