O zone

O zone
General information
origin	Chișinău , Moldova
Genre (s)	Pop , Eurodance , Electronica
founding	1998, 2017
resolution	2005
Website	artists.universal-music.de/ozone
Founding members
Singing , songwriter	Dan Bălan
singing	Petru Jelihovschi
Current occupation
Singing , songwriter	Dan Bălan
singing	Radu Sîrbu
singing	Arsenie Toderaș

O-Zone is a Moldovan - Romanian boy band .

Career

The first line-up consisted of Dan Bălan and Petru Jelihovschi. In 1998 a casting was held in Chișinău to form a Moldovan boy band.

After first appearances in their Moldovan homeland, the Romanian record label Cat Music became aware of the three friends in 2002 . They got a record deal and in the summer of 2002 their first single Numai Tu was released . The song became a whirlwind and immediately reached number 1 on the Romanian charts. With their second single Despre Tine , O-Zone were able to repeat this success and the 2002 album Number 1 also sold well.

In summer 2003, the band's second album, DiscO-Zone, was released . It became the best-selling dance album of the year in Romania . The first single from the album was Dragostea din tei , initially only a hit in Romania.

In February 2004 Italian producers became aware of the song and produced a cover version of Dragostea din tei with the Romanian singer Haiducii without the consent of O-Zone . This recording stormed the Italian charts and was number 1 on the dance charts for six weeks alone. As a penalty for the unauthorized cover, Haiducii had to pay the equivalent of 10,000 euros.

Then the Italian record company Time Records contacted O-Zone, gave them a one-year recording contract and released their original version in several European countries. After top positions in Spain , Italy , France , Belgium and the Czech Republic , O-Zone reached the top of the German single charts on June 7, 2004 . There remained Dragostea din tei for 14 weeks and was the largest number-one hit of the year 2004. On 20 June 2004, the song was also in (13 weeks) Austria and Switzerland (14 weeks) number one.

In addition, the song made Gary Brolsma famous overnight as the soundtrack for his playback video published on YouTube ("the Numa Numa Guy"). His contribution sparked a veritable flood of imitators and made the playback video genre a major trend in the early years of the web video platform.

For Dragostea din tei the three Moldovans were awarded the Echo for the best rock / pop single in April 2005 . Soon after, the band broke up and the members began solo careers.

On May 9, 2017, the group reunited. They played 2 concerts on the occasion of Europe Day in Chisinau and Bucharest. After that, the 3 members did not rule out the possibility of continuing to publish music together under the O-Zone project in the future.

Discography

Studio albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	RO
1999	Dar, unde eşti	-	-	-	-	-	First published: September 2, 1999
2002	Number 1	-	-	-	-	-	First published: August 17, 2002
2004	DiscO zone	DE16 (16 weeks) DE	AT15 (15 weeks) AT	CH7th gold (22 weeks)CH	-	-	First published: June 6, 2004

Singles

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	RO
2002	Despre Tine Number 1 / DiscO Zone	DE9 (17 weeks) DE	AT4 (19 weeks) AT	CH9 (16 weeks) CH	-	RO1 (20 weeks) RO	First published in Romania: November 2002 First published in Europe: October 1st, 2004
2003	Dragostea din tei disco zone	DE1 × 2 Double platinum (31 weeks)DE	AT1 platinum (41 weeks)AT	CH1 platinum (39 weeks)CH	UK3 silver (17 weeks)UK	RO1 (23 weeks) RO	First published in Romania: June 2003 First published in Europe: April 19, 2004

More singles

• 1999: Kayla my dear deggie
• 2002: Numai Tu
• 2004: Despre Tine (Release)

Awards for music sales

Golden record  Denmark 2004: for the single Dragostea din tei  Finland 2004: for the album DiscO-Zone  France 2004: for the album DiscO-Zone 2004: for the single Despre Tine  Poland 2004: for the album DiscO-Zone  Sweden 2004: for the single Dragostea din tei  Hungary 2004: for the album DiscO-Zone  United States 2005: for the single Dragostea din tei

Platinum record  Netherlands 2004: for the single Dragostea din tei 2 × platinum record  Belgium 2004: for the single Dragostea din tei 3 × platinum record  Japan 2005: for the album DiscO-Zone Diamond record  France 2004: for the single Dragostea din tei

Note: Awards in countries from the chart tables or chart boxes can be found in these.

Country / Region	silver	gold	platinum	diamond	Sales	swell
Awards for music sales (country / region, awards, sales, sources)
Belgium (BEA)	-	-	2 × platinum2	-	100,000	ultratop.be
Denmark (IFPI)	-	gold1	-	-	4,000	ifpi.dk
Germany (BVMI)	-	-	2 × platinum2	-	600,000	musikindustrie.de
Finland (IFPI)	-	gold1	-	-	26,832	ifpi.fi
France (SNEP)	-	2 × gold2	-	diamond1	1,100,000	infodisc.fr snepmusique.com
Japan (RIAJ)	-	-	3 × platinum3	-	750,000	riaj.or.jp
Netherlands (NVPI)	-	-	platinum1	-	60,000	nvpi.nl
Austria (IFPI)	-	-	platinum1	-	30,000	ifpi.at
Poland (ZPAV)	-	gold1	-	-	10,000	bestsellery.zpav.pl
Sweden (IFPI)	-	gold1	-	-	10,000	sverigetopplistan.se
Switzerland (IFPI)	-	gold1	platinum1	-	60,000	hitparade.ch
Hungary (MAHASZ)	-	gold1	-	-	15,000	slagerlistak.hu
United States (RIAA)	-	gold1	-	-	500,000	riaa.com
United Kingdom (BPI)	silver1	-	-	-	200,000	bpi.co.uk
All in all	silver1	9 × gold9	10 × platinum10	diamond1

Artist awards

• echo
  • 2005: for "Hit of the year national / international" (Dragostea din tei)

swell

1. ↑ Internet celebrities - The wrong type , sueddeutsche.de
2. ↑ Группа "O-Zone" воссоединилась на праздничном концерте в Кишиневе. Sputnik , May 9, 2017, accessed April 7, 2018 (Russian). 
3. ↑ ^{a b} Chart sources: DE AT CH UK RO1 ( Memento from May 14, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) RO2 ( Memento from May 14, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) RO3 ( Memento from May 14, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) RO4 ( Memento from May 14, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) May 2005 in the Internet Archive )
4. ↑ Dar, unde eşti
5. ↑ http://www.echopop.de/der_echo/die_preistraeger?eid=21 ( Memento from October 1, 2011 in the Internet Archive )