Paul NZA

Paul NZA (civil Paul Neumann ) is a German music producer from Berlin .

Career

Paul NZA mainly worked for the artists of the former hip-hop label Aggro Berlin . His first published production was in 2005 on the single for Sidos Mama is proud the song G Mein Weg . He then produced five songs for Fler's album Neue Deutsche Welle , including the single NDW 2005 , which reached number nine in the German single charts . Various songs from his later productions reached the German, Austrian and Swiss charts. Two other works were on your favorite rapper album .

In 2006 and 2007 his work focused on productions for Sido's albums Ich und Eine Hand wasscht die other . He had smaller productions on the albums of B-Tight and Snaga & Pillath .

With the production of two songs for Sarah Connor , the first steps out of the traditional genre into the pop world followed in 2008. When Stefanie Heinzmann's first album Master Plan was he, together with Marek Pompetzki responsible for the production of almost all the pieces. In the same year he produced 14 songs on Sido's Me and My Mask . Here, too, he worked again with Pompetzki. He has been a member of the FNSHRS production team since 2012 .

Discography

NDW 2005

Author participations and productions

Get up again

A part of me

Bad example

Open your eyes / shut your mouth

Carmen

heart

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NZA in the charts as author and producer

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
year	title	DE	AT	CH	UK	US	Remarks
2005	NDW 2005 ^{A, P} Fler	DE9 (17 weeks) DE	AT19 (15 weeks) AT	-	-	-	First published: May 2, 2005 Sales: + 100,000
2005	Standing back to ^A Your Favorite Rapper	DE14 (10 weeks) DE	AT28 (11 weeks) AT	-	-	-	First published: September 23, 2005
2007	Part of me ^{A, P} Sido	DE14 (12 weeks) DE	AT24 (9 weeks) AT	CH46 (7 weeks) CH	-	-	First published: February 2, 2007
	Look at ^A Muhabbet	DE44 (8 weeks) DE	-	-	-	-	First published: May 11, 2007
	Bad role model ^{A, P} Sido	DE18 (11 weeks) DE	AT18 (27 weeks) AT	CH43 (16 weeks) CH	-	-	First published: June 1, 2007
2008	Like a Bullet ^P Stefanie Heinzmann	DE29 (11 weeks) DE	AT53 (4 weeks) AT	CH27 (25 weeks) CH	-	-	First published: April 18, 2008
	Open your eyes / shut your mouth ^{A, P} Sido	DE7 (12 weeks) DE	AT13 (20 weeks) AT	CH29 (20 weeks) CH	-	-	First published: May 16, 2008
	Carmen ^A Sido	DE17 (13 weeks) DE	AT18 (13 weeks) AT	CH72 (4 weeks) CH	-	-	First published: July 25, 2008
	Revolution ^P Stefanie Heinzmann	DE47 (9 weeks) DE	-	CH75 (3 weeks) CH	-	-	First published: August 1, 2008
	Heart ^A Sido	DE19 (9 weeks) DE	AT19 (18 weeks) AT	CH39 (21 weeks) CH	-	-	First published: October 3, 2008
	The Unforgiven ^P Stefanie Heinzmann	DE10 (17 weeks) DE	AT30 (10 weeks) AT	CH20 (11 weeks) CH	-	-	First published: October 31, 2008
2009	Move your ass ^A Sido’s Hands on Scooter feat. Kitty Kat & Tony D	DE17 (10 weeks) DE	AT34 (11 weeks) AT	CH100 (1 week) CH	-	-	First published: January 23, 2009
	No! (live) ^A Sido feat. Doreen	DE29 (19 weeks) DE	AT42 (15 weeks) AT	-	-	-	First published: January 30, 2009
	City ^A Cassandra Steen feat. Adel Tawil	DE2 platinum (37 weeks)DE	AT3 (31 weeks) AT	CH31 (26 weeks) CH	-	-	First published: May 29, 2009 Sales: +300,000
	No One (Can Ever Change My Mind) ^{A, P} Stefanie Heinzmann	DE36 (9 weeks) DE	AT71 (2 weeks) AT	CH27 (8 weeks) CH	-	-	First published: August 28, 2009
	Monsta ^A Culcha Candela	DE3 gold (59 weeks)DE	AT3 (43 weeks) AT	CH8th platinum (44 weeks)CH	-	-	First published: September 9, 2009 Sales: + 180,000
	Unbreakable ^P / Stop ^{A, P} Stefanie Heinzmann	DE68 (2 weeks) DE	-	-	-	-	First published: November 13, 2009
2010	Ice cold ^A Culcha Candela	DE20 (17 weeks) DE	AT27 (12 weeks) AT	-	-	-	First published: March 19, 2010
	Can't Be Tamed ^A Miley Cyrus	DE29 (10 weeks) DE	AT21 (8 weeks) AT	CH53 (6 weeks) CH	UK13 (8 weeks) UK	US8 (10 weeks) US	First published: May 14, 2010 Sales: + 226,000
	Roots to Grow ^P Stefanie Heinzmann feat. gentleman	DE16 (10 weeks) DE	AT61 (2 weeks) AT	CH56 (6 weeks) CH	-	-	First published: May 28, 2010
	I've Come to Life ^P Edita	DE9 (6 weeks) DE	AT27 (3 weeks) AT	CH8 (4 weeks) CH	-	-	First published: November 12, 2010
2012	Do You Like What You See ^P Ivy Quainoo	DE2 gold (15 weeks)DE	AT8 (14 weeks) AT	CH12 (6 weeks) CH	-	-	First published: February 17th, 2012 Sales: + 150,000
	You Got Me ^P Ivy Quainoo	DE31 (6 weeks) DE	AT61 (2 weeks) AT	CH61 (1 week) CH	-	-	First published: June 8, 2012
	Summer Dreaming 2012 ^P Kelly Rowland feat. Project B.	DE62 (3 weeks) DE	AT52 (2 weeks) AT	-	-	-	First published: July 6, 2012
2013	Fire ^P Stefanie Heinzmann	-	-	CH53 (1 week) CH	-	-	First published: March 31, 2013
	Yes, exactly ^{A, P} club	DE55 (1 week) DE	-	-	-	-	First published: September 13, 2013
	Here I am ^{A, P} Sido again	-	AT39 (5 weeks) AT	-	-	-	First published: November 1, 2013
	One of these stones ^{A, P} Sido feat. Mark Forster	DE4th gold (17 weeks)DE	AT12 (8 weeks) AT	CH8 (10 weeks) CH	-	-	First published: November 15, 2013 Sales: + 150,000
	Work ^{A, P} Sido feat. Helge Schneider	DE33 (3 weeks) DE	AT63 (1 week) AT	-	-	-	First published: November 22, 2013
	Dear ^{A, P} Sido	DE13 platinum (36 weeks)DE	AT10 (26 weeks) AT	CH26 (8 weeks) CH	-	-	First published: November 29, 2013 Sales: + 300,000
2015	Astronaut ^{A, P} Sido feat. Andreas Bourani	DE1 × 2 Double platinum (43 weeks)DE	AT1 (34 weeks) AT	CH1 gold (37 weeks)CH	-	-	First published: Aug 7, 2015 Sales: + 815,000
2017	Rooftop ^P Nico Santos	DE5 platinum (32 weeks)DE	AT2 platinum (24 weeks)AT	CH5 (29 weeks) CH	-	-	First published: September 29, 2017 Sales: + 430,000
2019	Orbit ^A Shirin David	DE5 (4 weeks) DE	AT9 (2 weeks) AT	CH14 (1 week) CH	-	-	First published: January 25, 2019
	Give him ^{A, P} Shirin David	DE1 gold (17 weeks)DE	AT3 gold (13 weeks)AT	CH9 (9 weeks) CH	-	-	First published: February 15, 2019 Sales: + 215,000
	Ice ^{A, P} Shirin David	DE8 (5 weeks) DE	AT8 (3 weeks) AT	CH28 (2 weeks) CH	-	-	First published: April 5, 2019
	Do you fly with ^{A, P} Shirin David	DE8 (5 weeks) DE	AT9 (3 weeks) AT	CH15 (3 weeks) CH	-	-	First published: May 17, 2019
	On Off ^{A, P} Shirin David with Maître Gims	DE3 (14 weeks) DE	AT5 (9 weeks) AT	CH6 (6 weeks) CH	-	-	First published: June 28, 2019
	Brillis ^{A, P} Shirin David	DE4 (8 weeks) DE	AT14 (4 weeks) AT	CH15 (2 weeks) CH	-	-	First published: August 23, 2019
	Only with you ^{A, P} Shirin David with Xavier Naidoo	DE8 (... weeks) DE	AT13 (4 weeks) AT	CH11 (3 weeks) CH	-	-	First published: September 20, 2019
The following songs did not appear as single, but were made available for download and streaming through the album and were thus able to achieve a placement:
2013	Feel free ^{A, P} Sido	DE99 (1 week) DE	-	-	-	-	Chart entry: December 13, 2013
2015	Mama was a bitch ^A Addi Blanco	DE95 (1 week) DE	-	-	-	-	Chart entry: April 24, 2015
	Too true ^{A, P} Sido	DE92 (1 week) DE	-	-	-	-	Chart entry: September 11, 2015
	Forever ^{A, P} Sido	DE97 (1 week) DE	-	-	-	-	Chart entry: September 11, 2015
	Belt on arm ^{A, P} Sido	DE72 (1 week) DE	-	-	-	-	Chart entry: September 11, 2015

Remixes

2005: Fler - NDW 2005 (Paul NZA & Kilian-Remix)
2005: Maya Saban - Out and Over (Paul Nza & Kilian Remix)
2006: Bass Sultan Hengzt - Berliner Schnauze (Paul Nza & Kilian Remix)
2008: Sarah Connor - Under My Skin (Club Remix)
2014: Helene Fischer - Marathon (Bahia Remix, Numarek Radio Mix and Pandeitro Do Brazil Remix)

statistics

Chart evaluation

The following list contains an overview of the chart successes of Paul NZA as author and producer in the single charts.

Author participation

	DE	AT	CH	UK	US
Number one singles	DE3DE	AT1AT	CH1CH	UK-UK	US-US
Top 10 singles	DE14thDE	AT10AT	CH6thCH	UK-UK	US1US
Singles in the charts	DE34DE	AT27AT	CH21stCH	UK1UK	US1US

Productions

	DE	AT	CH	UK	US
Number one singles	DE2DE	AT1AT	CH1CH	UK-UK	US-US
Top 10 singles	DE14thDE	AT8thAT	CH6thCH	UK-UK	US-US
Singles in the charts	DE30thDE	AT24AT	CH22ndCH	UK-UK	US-US

Awards for music sales

Golden record

Australia Australia
- 2010: for the author participation Can't Be Tamed
Europe Europe (Impala)
- 2007: for the author participation / production NDW 2005

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)
Australia (ARIA)	gold1	0! P-	35,000	aria.com.au
Germany (BVMI)	4 × gold4th	5 × platinum5	2,450,000	musikindustrie.de
Europe (Impala)	gold1	0! P-	100,000	Individual evidence
Austria (IFPI)	gold1	platinum1	45,000	ifpi.at
Switzerland (IFPI)	gold1	platinum1	45,000	hitparade.ch
All in all	8 × gold8th	7 × platinum7th

The individual awards made in Germany and Switzerland are noted in the charts above.

Awards

2016: Music Author Award ( GEMA ) - Award for the most successful work in 2015 for the song ( song: Astronaut ); together with Andreas Bourani , Sido , Sera Finale, Simon Müller-Lerch, Marek Pompetzki and Cecil Remmler.

Web links

Works by and about Paul NZA in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b 16bars.de: Profile of Paul NZA , accessed on April 9, 2009
↑ Fler - NDW 2005. officialcharts.de, accessed on December 6, 2018 .
↑ swisscharts.com: Profile of Paul NZA
↑ About us. fnshrs.com, accessed November 19, 2019 .
↑ Chart sources: DE AT CH UK US
↑ ^a ^b Fler - NDW 2005 : Impala Award Gold
↑ Can't Be Tamed sales in the US
↑ German Music Author Award 2016. Nominees and award winners. Retrieved July 10, 2019.

personal data
SURNAME	Paul NZA
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Neumann, Paul (real name); NZA, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German music producer
DATE OF BIRTH	20th century

[b-1] 16bars.de: Profile of Paul NZA , accessed on April 9, 2009

[2] Fler - NDW 2005. officialcharts.de, accessed on December 6, 2018 .

[3] swisscharts.com: Profile of Paul NZA

[4] About us. fnshrs.com, accessed November 19, 2019 .

[5] Chart sources: DE AT CH UK US

[impala-6] Fler - NDW 2005 : Impala Award Gold

[7] Can't Be Tamed sales in the US

[8] German Music Author Award 2016. Nominees and award winners. Retrieved July 10, 2019.