Shipping (album)

Shipping
Studio album by Herbert Grönemeyer
Publication (s)	March 18, 2011
admission	2010 - February 2011
Label (s)	Greenland Records ( EMI Group )
Format (s)	CD, LP
Genre (s)	skirt
Title (number)	11 + 1 hidden track
running time	57:02
production	Herbert Grönemeyer, Alex Silva
Location (s)	Hansa Tonstudio , Berlin ; Mono Music Studio, Stockholm ; Electric Lady Studios , New York City ; Abbey Road Studios , London
chronology What must must - Best of (2008) Shipping All the time now (2014)
Single releases February 4, 2011 Shipping May 6, 2011 Wanderlust September 5, 2011 To you November 18, 2011 Don't let it rain

Chart positions Explanation of the data

Albums

Shipping   DE 1 04/04/2011 (49 weeks)   AT 1 04/01/2011 (20 weeks)   CH 1 04/03/2011 (23 weeks)

Singles

Shipping   DE 10 02/21/2011 (11 weeks)   AT 33 02/18/2011 (4 weeks)   CH 45 02/20/2011 (3 weeks) Wanderlust   DE 93 05/23/2011 (1 week)   AT 65 05/20/2011 (1 week) To you   DE 76 09/19/2011 (1 week)   AT 72 09/16/2011 (1 week)

Schiffsverkehr is the thirteenth studio album by the German musician Herbert Grönemeyer . Just a few days after its release on March 18, 2011, the album reached the top of the German, Austrian and Swiss album charts.

Emergence

The song So wie ich was written by Grönemeyer's bassist Norbert Hamm, who had already written the song alcohol on the album 4630 Bochum . Michael Ebert wrote for your time and for Let's not rain it was Arezu Weitholz, who was also responsible for the song Spur on the previous album 12 .

Grönemeyer wanted November to be on the CD, but couldn't find a suitable and coherent position in the track list, which is why he decided to place it as a hidden track at the end of the album.

The song Your Time was written by Herbert Grönemeyer with reference to his mother Hella 's Alzheimer's disease .

Music genre

With the album, Grönemeyer concluded a phase of mourning on the previous albums. The album was seen as a return to German rock and the 1980s.

Track list

#	title	length
1.	Shipping	3:58
2.	Cross my way	3:46
3.	Wanderlust	3:30
4th	Incredible reason	2:53
5.	Your time	3:50
6th	Tell me about tomorrow	4:35
7th	On the field	3:43
8th.	To you	3:56
9.	I would just be a coward	3:31
10.	Don't let it rain	3:50
11.	Like me	4:17
12.	November (Hidden Track)	4:07

reception

The Tagesspiegel criticized the lyrics on the album as "sometimes painfully flat". Christian Schröder wrote that Grönemeyer eschews “any risk”, but remains a “gifted entertainer”.

Laut.de gave the album, "which currently fits in well with the times", four out of five stars.

Awards

The album reached gold status in Austria just a few days after its release .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Chart sources: DE AT CH
2. ↑ DRS 3 interview of March 21, 2011
3. ^ Alzheimer's: a song for mother , Focus , 12/2011 from March 21, 2011
4. ↑ ^{a b} www.tagesspiegel.de: Grönemeyer on the wrong steamer by Christian Schröder , accessed March 20, 2011
5. ↑ Review by laut.de
6. ↑ ifpi.at: Gold & Platinum database (accessed April 1, 2011)