Olsen Brothers

Olsen Brothers (2008)

The Olsen Brothers (Danish: Brødrene Olsen ) are the two Danish brothers Jørgen (born March 15, 1950 in Odense ) and Niels "Noller" (born April 13, 1954 ) Olsen.

Career

They began their career as rock and pop musicians in 1965 with the formation of the band The Kids . The Olsens gained their first stage experience as the opening act for the Kinks at their concert in Copenhagen . In 1967 The Kids released their first single .

From March 1971 both brothers were members of the Danish ensemble von Hair , with whom they later toured in Denmark , Norway and Sweden . The first of so far twelve albums by the Olsen Brothers was released in 1972. In the 1980s and 1990s, the brothers were not musically active.

In 2000 they made their comeback in Stockholm by winning the Eurovision Song Contest . With the song Fly on the Wings of Love (orig .: Smuk som et Stjerneskud ) written by Jørgen Olsen , they also landed an internationally commercially successful hit. Since 1978 they have taken part in the Danish preliminary decision for the Eurovision Song Contest, partly as a duo, partly Jørgen Olsen as a soloist. The latter tried in 2007.

Discography

Studio albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)				Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	DK
2000	Wings of Love	DE15 (13 weeks) DE	AT14 (10 weeks) AT	CH36 (9 weeks) CH	-	First published: May 2000
2001	Walk right back	DE78 (2 weeks) DE	-	-	DK2 platinum (17 weeks)DK	First published: May 2001
2002	Songs	-	-	-	DK1 platinum (24 weeks)DK	First published: August 2002
2003	Because only love matters	DE85 (1 week) DE	-	-	-	First published: February 2003
	More songs	-	-	-	DK7th gold (19 weeks)DK	First published: September 2003
2005	Our New Songs	-	-	-	DK10 (6 weeks) DK	First published: February 2005
	Celebration	-	-	-	DK24 (2 weeks) DK	First published: October 2005
2008	Respect	-	-	-	DK3 gold (10 weeks)DK	First published: September 2008
2010	Wings of Eurovision	-	-	-	DK7 (4 weeks) DK	First published: June 2010
2011	Hits	-	-	-	DK36 (1 week) DK	First published: September 2011
2013	Brothers to Brothers	-	-	-	DK18 (7 weeks) DK	First published: November 2013

More albums

• 1972: Olsen
• 1973: For What We Are
• 1973: For the Children of the World
• 1976: Back on the Tracks
• 1977: You're the One
• 1987: Rockstalgi
• 1990: Det Stille Ocean
• 1994: Greatest and Latest
• 2000: The Story of Brødrene Olsen (DK:gold)

Singles

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)				Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	DK
1982	Marie, Marie	DE21 (18 weeks) DE	-	-	-	First published: October 1982
2000	Fly on the Wings of Love Wings of Love	DE7 (16 weeks) DE	AT11 (11 weeks) AT	CH17 (14 weeks) CH	-	First published: May 2000
2003	Vi tænder lyset	-	-	-	DK18 (1 week) DK	First published: January 2003

gray hatching : no chart data available for this year

More singles

• 1972: Angelina
• 1977: Julie
• 1978: San Francisco
• 1979: Dans Dans Dans
• 1985: Neon Madonna

Awards for music sales

Golden record  Sweden 2003: for the album Songs

Platinum record  Sweden 2000: for the single Fly on the Wings of Love 2000: for the album Wings of Love

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

Country / Region	gold	platinum	Sales	swell
Awards for music sales (country / region, awards, sales, sources)
Denmark (IFPI)	3 × gold3	2 × platinum2	165,000	ifpi.dk ( Memento from July 14, 2018 in the web archive archive.today ) DK2 ( Memento from October 5, 2002 in the Internet Archive ) DK3 DK4
Sweden (IFPI)	gold1	2 × platinum2	140,000	sverigetopplistan.se
All in all	4 × gold4th	4 × platinum4th

Web links

• Official website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ OLSEN BROTHERS - FLY ON THE WINGS OF LOVE (SONG) at hitparade.ch, accessed on June 4, 2010.
2. ↑ GEMA's work database ( memorial from December 17, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) , accessed on June 4, 2010.
3. ↑ ^{a b} Chart sources: DE AT CH DK