Phil Wilde

Phil Wilde (born April 6, 1967 ) is a Belgian Eurodance producer and DJ . He is best known as the producer and songwriter of 2 Unlimited and Kate Ryan .

Career

Wilde began a career as a DJ in Ghent as early as the 1980s . Together with Tom Miro he published his first title under the name Uniform . In 1989 he also started the dance project “Bizz Nizz” with Jean-Paul de Coster , with their songs We're Gonna Catch You! and Don't Miss the Partyline became popular in Europe.

2 Unlimited

From 1991 to 1996 and from 1998 to 1999 he was the producer of the globally successful dance act 2 Unlimited . During this time he worked on many top 10 hits, including the single No Limit , which made it to number 1 in the Netherlands , Switzerland , Austria , Sweden , Norway , France , Great Britain and many other European countries. The group disbanded in 1996, but reunited for a year in 1998.

The debut single Get Ready for This (1991), which became an evergreen, was particularly influential . During its activity, 2 Unlimited sold around 20 million records.

Kate Ryan

In 2000 he met 20-year-old Katrien Verbeeck from Flanders at one of her then numerous appearances. He was so enthusiastic about her that he immediately signed her. In 2001 her first single Scream For More was released under the stage name Kate Ryan . In addition to Wilde, Andy Janssens also worked with us . The single was an unexpected success in Belgium, in the singles charts it was at number 9, in the dance charts even at number 2. In 2002 Kate Ryan had her international breakthrough with the single Désenchantée (a cover version of the singer's very successful title in France in 1991 Mylène Farmer ), which made it to number 1 in Belgium and to the top 10 in numerous other European countries such as Germany , Spain , Poland , Austria and Sweden. The debut album Different was also able to assert itself on the European market with around 250,000 copies sold (EU-wide). With the second album Stronger in 2004, sales dropped again until Kate Ryan ended her collaboration with Phil Wilde and Andy Janssens in 2005 and looked for new producers. Up to this point in time around two million records had been sold.

Discography

Phil Wilde's employees in production are listed here.

Albums

year	title	Chart placements					Project / person
		BE ( Vl )	DE	AT	CH	UK
1992	Get ready! Studio album	-	-	-	-	37	2 Unlimited
1993	No Limits studio album	-	4th	3	3	1	2 Unlimited
1994	Real Things studio album	-	3	4th	3	1	2 Unlimited
1995	Hits Unlimited Compilation	5	-	-	-	27	2 Unlimited
1998	II studio album	23	-	-	-	-	2 Unlimited
1999	Best Unlimited Compilation	-	-	-	-	-	2 Unlimited
2002	Different studio album	8th	23	26th	14th	-	Kate Ryan
2004	The Complete History Compilation	-	-	-	-	-	2 Unlimited
2004	Strong studio album	22nd	13	43	14th	-	Kate Ryan
2008	Essential compilation	-	-	-	-	-	Kate Ryan

Singles (selection)

year	title	Chart placements					Project / person
		BE ( Vl )	DE	AT	CH	UK
1991	Get Ready For This Get Ready!	-	-	-	-	2	2 Unlimited
1992	Twilight Zone Get Ready!	-	20th	10	15th	2	2 Unlimited
1993	No Limit No Limits	-	2	1	1	1	2 Unlimited
1993	Tribal Dance No Limits	-	2	2	2	4th	2 Unlimited
1993	Faces No Limits	-	8th	10	19th	8th	2 Unlimited
1994	It's A Loving Thing It's My Loving Thing	3	-	-	-	-	CB Milton
1994	The Real Thing Real Things	-	4th	7th	2	6th	2 Unlimited
1998	Wanna Get Up II	7th	88	-	-	38	2 Unlimited
2000	De Kabouterdan's Plop 3	9	-	-	-	-	Kabouter Plop
2001	Scream For More Different	9	-	15th	-	-	Kate Ryan
2001	UR (My Love) Different	17th	-	-	-	-	Kate Ryan
2002	Désenchantée Different	1	2	3	11	93	Kate Ryan
2002	Mon coeur résiste encore Different	7th	27	-	35	-	Kate Ryan
2002	Libertine Different	7th	7th	7th	26th	-	Kate Ryan
2004	The Promise You Made / La promesse Stronger	8th	19th	21st	50	-	Kate Ryan
2004	Risin ' Back For More	2	-	-	-	-	Natalia

swell

1. ↑ hitparade.ch "No Limit" from 2 Unlimited in the charts
2. ↑ everyhit.com search for artist "2 Unlimited"
3. ↑ ultratop.be/nl
4. ↑ musicline.de
5. ↑ austriancharts.at
6. ↑ hitparade.ch
7. ↑ everyhit.com
8. ↑ ultratop.be/nl
9. ↑ musicline.de
10. ↑ austriancharts.at
11. ↑ hitparade.ch
12. ↑ everyhit.com

Web links

• Phil Wilde at Discogs (English)