Never forget
| Never forget | |
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| Glass bead game | |
| publication | April 26, 2013 |
| length | 3:43 |
| Genre (s) | Electropop |
| Author (s) | Alexander Freund, Daniel Grunenberg , Michael Kurth , Katharina Löwel , Yoad Nevo, Carolin Niemczyk |
| album | Limitless |
Never forget is a song of the German electro - duo Glass Bead Game . The piece is the first single from their second studio album Grenzlos .
Creation and artwork
The song was written by Alexander Freund, Daniel Grunenberg , Michael Kurth , Katharina Löwel , Yoad Nevo and Carolin Niemczyk . The single was produced and mixed by Daniel Grunenberg and Yoad Nevo. The single was mastered in Nevo Sound Studios in London under the direction of Yoad Nevo. The song was released under the Polydor music label . On the cover of the maxi single - in addition to the inscription of the artist and the song title - the members of Glasperlenspiel can be seen against the background of a highway . The cover image was first presented on Facebook on March 3, 2013 and was shot by German photographer Ben Wolf and designed by Matthias Bäuerle.
Publication and promotion
The single was first released on April 26, 2013 in Germany, Austria and Switzerland . The maxi single is available as a download and a physical sound carrier. In addition to the single version, the digital maxi single also contains three remix versions of Never Forget , as well as the song When She Dreams , as a B-side . The remix versions are by Mikko Tamminen and Yos. The physical maxi single is only available as a "2-track single" and contains the songs Never forget and When she dreams . In 2018, as part of the release of the fourth studio album Licht & Schatten, an English version of the song entitled Never Forget was released .
In order to promote the song and himself, there followed, among other things, live appearances on TV total , Welcome to Carmen Nebel and the ZDF Christmas show with Maite Kelly .
content
The lyrics to Never Forget are in German. The music was written by Alexander Freund, Daniel Grunenberg , Yoad Nevo and Carolin Niemczyk , the text by Alexander Freund, Daniel Grunenberg, Michael Kurth , Katharina Löwel and Carolin Niemczyk. Musically, the song moves in the area of electropop .
Universal Music itself described the content of the song as follows: In Never Forget , Glasperlenspiel treat an initially sad topic - the separation of two people - and yet approach it positively. You get to know each other, seem like soulmates, experience a great time together, but at the end of which it ends. The song describes with a lot of positive melancholy that you will hold this one person in your heart for your whole life. That, even when it's over, the longing for what was always remains.
“Will miss you forever, I will never forget you.
Every golden day I will miss forever.
No matter what we did, what we said,
I will not forget, I will not forget you. "
Music video
The music video for Never Forget was filmed in Lisbon at the end of March 2013 and premiered on April 5, 2013 on MyVideo . You can see Grunenberg and Niemczyk exploring the city center and the area around Lisbon together as a couple. The total length of the video is 3:53 minutes. Directed by Michael Lawrence and produced by Bears Calling.
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Charts and chart placements
Never forgotten reached position ninth in the single charts in Germany and stayed in the top 10 for a week and in the charts for 24 weeks. In Austria the single reached position 43 and stayed in the charts for a total of three weeks. Although the song did not make it to number one, it was still the most successful German-language song in the German single charts for a period of one week . Never forgotten placed 71st in the German annual charts from 2013.
For Glasperlenspiel this is the fourth chart success in Germany and the third in Austria. It is her second Top 10 success in Germany after Echt . In the meantime, the duo achieved a new top position in the German ( Echt also position nine) and Austrian single charts with Never Forget , but was later replaced by Geiles Leben as the highest chart listing.
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Awards for music sales
In November 2014, Never Forget was awarded a gold record in Germany for over 150,000 units sold. So, together with the single Echt (also 150,000 units sold), until Geiles Leben was released , Never Forget was one of Glasperlenspiel's most successful releases.
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 Germany (BVMI)
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 gold
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150,000 |
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1 × gold |
150,000 |
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- 2016: Fuju feat. Joel Brandenstein
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Glasperlenspiel - Never Forget (Song). austriancharts.at, accessed on May 15, 2014 .
- ↑ a b Glass Bead Game. facebook.com, accessed May 15, 2014 .
- ↑ Glass Bead Game - Boundless. discogs.com, accessed May 15, 2014 .
- ↑ Never Forget (2-Track). musicline.de, accessed on May 15, 2014 .
- ↑ Never forget - glass bead game. musicload.de, accessed on May 15, 2014 .
- ↑ Glass Bead Game / Light & Shadow (Deluxe). listen.tidal.com, accessed May 7, 2018 .
- ↑ Glasperlenspiel - Never forgotten from ... (broadcast 1891 on April 29, 2013). tvtotal.prosieben.de, accessed on May 15, 2014 .
- ↑ Never forget. universal-music.de, accessed on May 15, 2014 .
- ↑ Glass bead game - never forget. tape.tv, accessed May 15, 2014 .
- ↑ Glass Bead Game - Never Forget (2013). crew-united.com, accessed May 15, 2014 .
- ↑ "Never forget" in the German charts. charts.de, accessed on May 15, 2014 .
- ↑ "What should we dream of" in the German annual charts. rudi-world.de, accessed on May 12, 2014 .
- ↑ Gold for "Never Forget" in Germany. musikindustrie.de, accessed on November 21, 2014 .
- ↑ Fuju feat. Joel Brandenstein - never forget. officialcharts.de, accessed on May 6, 2016 .
- ↑ Never Forget (feat. Joel Brandenstein) - EP. itunes.apple.com, accessed April 30, 2016 .