Rolf Zuckowski / discography

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Rolf Zuckowski  - discography
Zuckowski (2015)
Zuckowski (2015)
Publications
Arrow southwest blue.svgStudio albums 43
Arrow southwest blue.svgLive albums 2
Arrow southwest blue.svgCompilations 15th
Arrow southwest blue.svgChristmas albums 12
Arrow southwest blue.svgSingles 45
Arrow southwest blue.svgVideo albums 10
Arrow southwest blue.svgBox sets 1
Arrow southwest blue.svgRadio plays 2

This discography is an overview of the musical works of the German musician , composer , music producer and authors of children's songs Rolf Zuckowski . According to the sources, he has sold more than 20 million records in his career. In his home country alone, Zuckowski sold over 14.3 million records, making him one of the performers with the highest number of records sold in Germany . Zuckowski's most successful release is the children's album Winterkinder, which has sold around 1.8 million. In Germany alone, the album was awarded for over 1.5 million units sold, making it one of the best-selling music albums in Germany since 1975. Together with the albums Im Kindergarten (1.25 million units sold), Rolfs Vogelhochzeit and Dezembertäume (each one million units sold), a total of four of his records achieved the status of a million-seller in Germany.

Zuckowski made it into the German album charts with eight Christmas albums , more than any other artist in chart history since 1962. Eight of his Christmas albums received gold and platinum awards for over four million records sold. No other artist has sold more Christmas albums in Germany since 1975.

Albums

Studio albums

year Title
pseudonym 		Top ranking, total weeks, awardChartsChart placementsTemplate: chart table / maintenance / without sources
(Year, title, pseudonym , rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE
Adult albums
1985 Time for children - time for us
Rolf Zuckowski 		DE-
gold
gold
DE
First published: 1985
Sales: + 250,000
1991 Close-up of
Rolf Zuckowski 		-
First published: April 16, 1991
1996 Quiet Nights - Bright Light
Rolf Zuckowski & his great friends 		DE28 (12 weeks)
DE
First published: November 4, 1996
2000 Children grow up
Rolf Zuckowski 		DE90 (1 week)
DE
First published: September 29, 2000
2005 Everything has its time
Rolf Zuckowski 		-
First published: September 5, 2005
2012 quiet and strong
Rolf Zuckowski 		DE80 (1 week)
DE
First published: March 16, 2012
Children's albums
1977 Rolf's bird wedding
Rolf Zuckowski and his friends 		DE-
Double platinum
× 2
Double platinum
DE
First published: 1977
Sales: + 1,000,000
1979 Rolf's way to school hit parade
Rolf Zuckowski 		DE-
gold
gold
DE
First published: 1979
Sales: + 250,000
1981 Rolfs Radio Lollipop
Rolf and his friends 		DE-
platinum
platinum
DE
First published: 1981
Sales: + 500,000
1982 Songs that are like bridges
Rolf and his friends 		DE-
gold
gold
DE
First published: 1982
Sales: + 250,000
1984 Big show for little people
Rolf and his friends 		-
First published: 1984
1986 Don't ask me a hole in my stomach
Rolf Zuckowski and his friends 		DE-
gold
gold
DE
First published: 1986
Sales: + 250,000
1989 Strong children
Rolf and his friends 		DE-
platinum
platinum
DE
First published: November 8, 1989
Sales: + 500,000
1990 What is fun ...
Rolf and his friends 		DE-
gold
gold
DE
First published: April 5, 1990
Sales: + 250,000
I can do that!
Rolf and his friends 		DE-
gold
gold
DE
First published: October 22, 1990
Sales: + 250,000
We want sun
Rolf Zuckowski and his friends 		DE-
gold
gold
DE
First published: December 4, 1990
Sales: + 250,000
1992 The annual clock
Rolf and his friends 		DE32
platinum
platinum

(10 weeks)DE
First published: March 12, 1992
Sales: + 500,000
Rolf's new way to school hit parade
Rolf Zuckowski 		DE46
Triple gold
× 3
Triple gold

(18 weeks)DE
First published: July 27, 1992
Sales: + 750,000
1993 Rolf's song calendar - Sing with us
Rolf Zuckowski 		DE62
gold
gold

(9 weeks)DE
First published: November 19, 1993
Sales: + 250,000
1994 In the kindergarten
Rolf and his friends 		DE-
Quintuple gold
× 5
Quintuple gold
DE
First published: May 31, 1994
Sales: + 1,250,000
You need a song
Rolf Zuckowski with his friends big and small 		DE40
gold
gold

(14 weeks)DE
First published: September 9, 1994
Sales: + 250,000
1996 Rolf's song book mouse
Rolf Zuckowski 		DE71
gold
gold

(8 weeks)DE
First published: October 4th, 1996
Sales: + 250,000
12 colorful song stories
Rolf and his friends 		-
First published: October 4th, 1996
Sales: + 250,000
1998 Good mood - have a good trip
Rolf and his friends 		DE78 (5 weeks)
DE
First published: May 29, 1998
Animals need friends
Rolf Zuckowski 		DE78 (2 weeks)
DE
First published: October 30, 1998
1999 The little day
Rolf Zuckowski with Wolfram Eicke & Hans Niehaus 		DE90 (2 weeks)
DE
First published: October 1, 1999
Sales: + 150,000
2000 Elbkinder
Rolf Zuckowski with many small and large friends 		-
First published: July 21, 2000
2001 Rolf's rabbit story - I am strong
Rolf Zuckowski 		DE30th
platinum
platinum

(5 weeks)DE
First published: March 2nd, 2001
Sales: + 300,000
Grandma loves Grandpa
Rolf Zuckowski and his friends 		-
First published: November 5, 2001
2002 Children need dreams
Rolf Zuckowski 		-
First published: March 6, 2002
2003 Such a Gaudi
Rolf Zuckowski meets shooting star 		-
First published: February 17, 2003
2004 Nobbi and the sun children
Rolf Zuckowski and his friends 		-
First published: May 10, 2004
Heia - Rolf's little night music
Rolf Zuckowski 		-
First published: November 1, 2004
2005 How nice that you were born
Rolf Zuckowski and his friends 		DE-
gold
gold
DE
First published: September 5, 2005
Sales: + 100,000
Orchestra fun for
Rolf Zuckowski 		-
First published: October 21, 2005
2006 Summer children
Rolf Zuckowski and his friends 		-
First published: June 2, 2006
2007 Rolf's family summer party
Rolf Zuckowski and his friends 		DE-
gold
gold
DE
First published: 2007
Sales: + 100,000
2008 My home - our blue planet
Rolf Zuckowski and his friends 		-
First published: September 26, 2008
2009 Red + Green - Look, listen, join in!
Zuckowski - Beate Lambert - Ferri Feils 		-
First published: July 31, 2009
2010 Rolf's Children's Spring
Rolf Zuckowski and his friends 		DE98
gold
gold

(1 week)DE
First published: February 26, 2010
Sales: + 100,000
I can do that!
Rolf Zuckowski and his friends 		-
First published: October 1, 2010
2011 Rolf's happy family day
Rolf Zuckowski 		-
First published: March 18, 2011
Then dare - 7 sounding wedding
greetings Rolf Zuckowski 		-
First published: July 8, 2011

Live albums

  • 2002: 20:00 - Live
  • 2003: … and really live!

Compilations

year Title
pseudonym 		Top ranking, total weeks, awardChartsChart placementsTemplate: chart table / maintenance / without sources
(Year, title, pseudonym , rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE
1995 Friends like us
Rolf Zuckowski with his big and small friends 		DE32
gold
gold

(11 weeks)DE
First published: October 6, 1995
Sales: + 250,000
1997 The minstrel with all his friends
- the best of 20 years
Rolf Zuckowski 		DE36
gold
gold

(6 weeks)DE
First published: April 28, 1997
Sales: + 250,000
2008 Your heart for children
Maffay - Nena - Zuckowski 		DE82 (1 week)
DE
First published: December 5, 2008

More compilations

  • 1992: You there on the radio (sales: + 250,000 ; DE:goldgold)
  • 1992: My mommy, my daddy and I (sales: + 250,000 ; DE:goldgold)
  • 1994: here we go!
  • 1997: Sing with us! Rolfs Vogelhochzeit (Sales: + 250,000 ; DE:goldgold)
  • 2000: This is music for you (sales: + 150,000 ; DE:goldgold)
  • 2004: Rolf's colorful song journey
  • 2005: Celebrations around the annual clock
  • 2007: Life is more (including biography "5 years of May")
  • 2009: Rolf's happy spring Sunday (sales: + 100,000 ; DE:goldgold)
  • 2011: Your little life (with Anuschka Zuckowski )
  • 2014: My life song book
  • 2015: once life
  • 2016: In our daycare center - 22 songs in spring and summer
  • 2016: At our daycare center - 22 songs in autumn and winter
  • 2016: Good mood - good trip
  • 2017: Your sun stays - with songs and gentle classical music from mourning to comfort
  • 2018: The tooth gap blues - and the tooth fairy sends its regards
  • 2018: Come on, we want to run the lantern

Christmas albums

year Title
pseudonym 		Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placementsTemplate: chart table / maintenance / without sources
(Year, title, pseudonym , rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE AT AT
1987 Winter children… looking for Christmas
Rolf Zuckowski and his friends 		DE49
Triple platinum
× 3
Triple platinum

(37 weeks)DE 		-
First published: October 19, 1987
Sales: + 1,800,000
1993 December
Rolf Zuckowski dreams with his friends big and small 		DE8th
Double platinum
× 2
Double platinum

(34 weeks)DE 		-
First published: November 5, 1993
Sales: + 1,000,000
1996 Quiet Nights - Bright Light
Rolf Zuckowski & his great friends 		DE28 (10 weeks)
DE 		-
First published: November 4, 1996
1997 Christmas time in kindergarten
Rolf and his friends 		DE99
platinum
platinum

(1 week)DE 		-
First published: October 31, 1997
Sales: + 500,000
2001 In the Rolf Zuckowski Christmas
bakery 		DE25th
gold
gold

(52 weeks)DE 		AT69 (2 weeks)
AT
First published: October 8, 2001
Sales: + 150,000
2006 Rolf's colorful advent calendar
Rolf Zuckowski 		DE34
platinum
platinum

(27 weeks)DE 		-
First published: October 20, 2006
Sales: + 200,000
2009 Rolf's big Christmas
treasure Rolf Zuckowski and his friends 		DE66 (4 weeks)
DE 		-
First published: November 6, 2009
2010 Longing for Christmas
Rolf Zuckowski and his Swiss friends 		DE40
gold
gold

(3 weeks)DE 		-
First published: November 26th, 2010
Sales: + 100,000

More Christmas albums

  • 1982: We are waiting for Christmas (sales: + 500,000 ; DE:platinumplatinum)
  • 2009: My most beautiful Christmas dream (sales: + 200,000 ; DE:platinumplatinum)
  • 2014: It's snowing, it's snowing - most beautiful winter songs
  • 2017: Heaven would always be so close to us (Rolf Zuckowski meets Martin Tingvall )

Singles

Chart placements

year Title
album 		Top ranking, total weeks, awardChartsChart placementsTemplate: chart table / maintenance / without sources
(Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE
1982 ... and very much me (I like)
songs that are like bridges 		DE15 (18 weeks)
DE
First published: February 3, 1982
Original: Volker Lechtenbrink
1987 In the Winterkinder Christmas
bakery ... looking for Christmas 		DE38 (14 weeks)
DE
First published: October 19, 1987
2008 Your heart for children
Your heart for children 		DE69 (3 weeks)
DE
First published: November 21, 2008
with Maffay & Nena

More singles

  • 1979: Everything is on my bike
  • 1981: Papi, wake up
  • 1981: You there on the radio
  • 1982: songs that are like bridges
  • 1982: Dear good Santa Claus
  • 1983: Theo (The Banana Bread Song)
  • 1983: The dream machines
  • 1984: At night we are with our friends
  • 1984: when summer comes
  • 1985: Green Wall (with Hans Hartz , Heinz Rudolf Kunze , Udo Lindenberg & Hendrik Schaper )
  • 1985: To the end of the world
  • 1985: life is more
  • 1986: Don't ask me a hole in my stomach
  • 1988: Breakfast for mom, breakfast for dad
  • 1991: ... and then everything turns out very differently
  • 1991: very close
  • 1991: You're not that important either
  • 1994: You need a song
  • 1994: Human children
  • 1995: hats off!
  • 1996: A chance for Christmas
  • 1996: who's perfect?
  • 1997: Islands of Silence
  • 1997: The minstrel
  • 1997: We optimists
  • 1999: Germany, your children
  • 2000: roller coaster
  • 2000: children grow up
  • 2000: We here on the Elbe
  • 2001: Now comes Easter time
  • 2001: smiling eyes
  • 2002: Just drive past
  • 2002: It shines
  • 2002: If you have to go, go
  • 2003: Birds of Paradise (live) (with Anuschka )
  • 2003: Live Once (live)
  • 2003: We Optimists (live)
  • 2005: And it has to go on again
  • 2008: You are not everything - but everything is nothing without you
  • 2012: give me more of it
  • 2012: bird without wings
  • 2012: When the year comes to an end

Video albums

  • 1992: Rolf's way to school hit parade
  • 1993: Rolf's song calendar (sales: + 50,000 ; DE:platinumplatinum)
  • 1994: Rolfs Vogelhochzeit (sales: + 75,000 ; DE:Triple gold× 3Triple gold )
  • 1994: December dreams (sales: + 75,000 ; DE:Triple gold× 3Triple gold )
  • 1995: Live means alive
  • 2000: 12 colorful song stories (sales: + 25,000 ; DE:goldgold)
  • 2002: Rolf's rabbit story - I am strong (sales: + 25,000 ; DE:goldgold)
  • 2003: Rolf's new way to school hit parade (sales: + 75,000 ; DE:Triple gold× 3Triple gold )
  • 2004: Rolf Zuckowski and his friends - The best from ZDF
  • 2015: Oh you my bag - with a musical by Jens Pape and Friederike Linder and 14 elementary school songs
  • 2017: Rolf's new bird wedding

Author participations and productions

The following list includes pieces in which Rolf Zuckowski was involved as a writer and / or producer and which reached the charts in Germany, Austria, Switzerland or the United Kingdom.

Zuckowski in the charts as a writer and producer

year Title
artist 		Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placementsTemplate: chart table / maintenance / without sources
(Year, title, artist , rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE AT AT CH CH UK UK
1976 Djambo Djambo A, P
Peter, Sue & Marc 		- - CH6 (13 weeks)
CH 		-
First published: 1976
Like a Seagull A, P
Peter, Sue & Marc 		- - CH7 (15 weeks)
CH 		-
First published: 1976
Cindy A, P
Peter, Sue & Marc 		DE10 (21 weeks)
DE 		- CH4 (16 weeks)
CH 		-
First published: 1976
1977 Good morning, sunshine A
Nana Mouskouri 		DE39 (2 weeks)
DE 		- - -
First published: 1977
Swiss Lady A, P
Pepe Lienhard Band 		DE18 (5 weeks)
DE 		AT13 (12 weeks)
AT 		CH1 (18 weeks)
CH 		-
First published: 1977
Mountain Man A, P
Peter, Sue & Marc 		- - CH14 (4 weeks)
CH 		-
First published: 1977
The Tifel is gschtorbe A
Michel Villa 		- - CH13 (4 weeks)
CH 		-
First published: 1977
Piccolo Man A
Pepe Lienhard Band 		- - CH8 (5 weeks)
CH 		-
First published: 1977
Memory Melody A, P
Peter, Sue & Marc 		- - CH6 (10 weeks)
CH 		-
First published: 1977
1978 Tom Dooley A, Peter P
, Sue & Marc 		- - CH8 (10 weeks)
CH 		-
First published: 1978
1979 Scotty Boy A, Peter P
, Sue & Marc 		- - CH10 (9 weeks)
CH 		-
First published: 1979
Jerusalem A, P
Peter, Sue & Marc 		- - CH11 (4 weeks)
CH 		-
First published: 1979
1980 Ciao amico A, P
Peter, Sue & Marc 		- - CH10 (7 weeks)
CH 		-
First published: 1980
Birds of Paradise A, P
Peter, Sue & Marc 		DE29 (15 weeks)
DE 		- CH9 (13 weeks)
CH 		-
First published: 1980
1981 Io senza te P
Peter, Sue & Marc 		DE47 (7 weeks)
DE 		- CH5 (10 weeks)
CH 		-
First publication: 1981
Amazonas A, P
Peter, Sue & Marc 		- - CH10 (3 weeks)
CH 		-
First publication: 1981
1982 ... and very much me (I like) A, P
Rolf and his friends 		DE15 (18 weeks)
DE 		- - -
First published: February 3, 1982
Original: Volker Lechtenbrink
1983 Nessaja A
Peter Maffay 		DE17 (18 weeks)
DE 		- - -
First published: 1983
1987 In the Christmas bakery A, P
Rolf Zuckowski and his friends 		DE54 (... weeks)
Template: chart table / maintenance / preliminaryDE 		- - -
First published: October 19, 1987
1994 I never wanted to grow up (live) A
Peter Maffay 		DE83 (7 weeks)
DE 		- - -
First published: August 1, 1994
1995 Well a
once again 		DE42 (6 weeks)
DE 		- - -
First published: 1995
2002 Well a
scooter 		DE1
gold
gold

(14 weeks)DE 		AT2 (21 weeks)
AT 		CH7 (14 weeks)
CH 		UK4 (9 weeks)
UK
First published: April 8, 2002
Sales: + 255,000
2008 Your heart for children A, P
Maffay - Nena - Zuckowski 		DE69 (3 weeks)
DE 		- - -
First published: November 21, 2008
2011 Growing up A
23 feat. Peter Maffay 		DE29 (8 weeks)
DE 		AT29 (7 weeks)
AT 		- -
First published: December 9, 2011

Special publications

Theme songs

Radio plays

year Title
pseudonym 		Top ranking, total weeks, awardChartsChart placementsTemplate: chart table / maintenance / without sources
(Year, title, pseudonym , rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE
2017 Rolf's new bird wedding
Rolf Zuckowski & Various Artists 		DE92 (1 week)
DE
First published: April 7, 2017

More radio plays

  • 1994: Peter and the Wolf

Box sets

  • 2007: Rolfs TOP 100 (sales: + 100,000 ; DE:goldgold)

statistics

Chart evaluation

The following list contains an overview of Rolf Zuckowski's chart successes in the album and single charts.

Album charts

DE DE AT AT
Number one albums DE-DE AT-AT
Top 10 albums DE1DE AT-AT
Albums in the charts DE25thDE AT1AT

Single charts

Interpretations

DE DE
Number one singles DE-DE
Top 10 singles DE-DE
Singles in the charts DE3DE

Author participation

DE DE AT AT CH CH UK UK
Number one singles DE1DE AT-AT CH1CH UK-UK
Top 10 singles DE2DE AT1AT CH12CH UK1UK
Singles in the charts DE12DE AT3AT CH15thCH UK1UK

Production holdings

DE DE AT AT CH CH
Number one singles DE-DE AT-AT CH1CH
Top 10 singles DE1DE AT-AT CH11CH
Singles in the charts DE7thDE AT1AT CH13CH

Awards for music sales

Golden record

  • NorwayNorway Norway
    • 2003: for the author participation Nessaja (Scooter)

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

Country / Region Gold record icon.svg gold Platinum record icon.svg platinum Sales swell
Awards for music sales
(country / region, awards, sales, sources)
Germany (BVMI) Germany (BVMI) Gold record icon.svg 33 × gold33 Platinum record icon.svg 22 × platinum22nd 14,325,000 musikindustrie.de
Norway (IFPI) Norway (IFPI) Gold record icon.svg gold1 0! P- 5,000 ifpi.no ( Memento from November 5, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
All in all Gold record icon.svg 34 × gold34 Platinum record icon.svg 22 × platinum22nd

swell

  1. ↑ a b Rolf Zuckowski: “I care about my songs” . In: ZEIT ONLINE . ( zeit.de [accessed on August 30, 2018]).
  2. ^ List of chart successes as a composer and producer Zuckowski on hitparade.ch

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