Simon Triebel

Simon Triebel (2007)

Simon Triebel (2015) performing with Juli

Simon Triebel (born April 28, 1982 in Gießen ) is a German guitarist and songwriter . He became known as one of the two guitarists in the band Juli . In the meantime he also works for many other artists as a composer and lyricist .

Career with july

As a teenager, Triebel co-founded the originally English-language band Sunnyglade , which renamed itself in July 2001 and reoriented itself to German-language texts. After the band was signed by Universal Music in 2003 , they have released four studio albums so far: It's July (2004), A New Day (2006), In Love (2010) and Insel (2014). Triebel was involved as guitarist and co-author on all four albums; Many of the band's successful titles come from his pen, including Perfekte Welle , Geile Zeit , Das Leben and Elektrisches Fehler .

Work for other artists

Since around 2008 Triebel has also been working increasingly as a composer and author for other German and international artists. One of his first activities in this regard was the title What has time done to us? on Udo Lindenberg's number one album Stark wie Zwei , which was also released as a single and was used in the musical Hinterm Horizont . Some of the songs he was co-author of became successful singles, in particular Tim Bendzko's debut single Nur noch die Welt save (2011), Mark Forster's Flash mich (2014) or Namikas Je ne parle pas français (2018). With Alexander Zuckowski he was the producer and co-author of Álvaro Soler's 2015 debut album Eterno agosto , the first single El mismo sol of which was a hit in many countries and was recorded for the Anglo-American market in a version with Jennifer Lopez . In 2016, Sofia , another song co-written for Álvaro Soler, became a number one hit in several countries, including Italy and Switzerland.

For Leslie Clio's debut album Gladys (2013), Triebel recorded the keyboard on some of the songs . For the album King in the Mirror (2014) by Anna F. he recorded guitars and handclaps . He also recorded instruments and background vocals as part of his collaboration with Álvaro Soler and Udo Lindenberg.

2010 to 2013 was Triebel in the category Composition Rock / Pop for the German music author award of GEMA nominated. At the beginning of 2015 he was signed by the music publisher Budde Music .

Together with Nicolas Rebscher and Kevin Schroeder , Triebel wrote the musical adaptation of the successful film Fack ju Göhte . The production Fack ju Göhte - Das Musical had its premiere in January 2018 in Munich .

Discography

With July

→ Main article : July (volume) / discography

As a writer and music producer

→ Main article : List of author participations and productions by Simon Triebel

Chart successes as an author and music producer

year	Title artist	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, artist , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)			Remarks
		DE	AT	CH
2004	Perfect wave A July	DE2 gold (34 weeks)DE	AT2 gold (29 weeks)AT	CH18 (19 weeks) CH	First published: May 10, 2004 Sales: + 165,000
	Great time A July	DE19 (24 weeks) DE	AT19 (22 weeks) AT	CH32 (7 weeks) CH	First published: November 15, 2004
2005	Why A July	DE47 (9 weeks) DE	AT52 (9 weeks) AT	-	First published: August 15, 2005
	November A July	DE49 (8 weeks) DE	-	-	First published: November 11, 2005 Sales: 6,000 (limited)
2006	This life A July	DE5 (14 weeks) DE	AT7 (17 weeks) AT	CH22 (26 weeks) CH	First published: September 22, 2006
2007	Torn A July	DE15 (13 weeks) DE	AT22 (25 weeks) AT	-	First published: April 27, 2007
2008	What has time done to us? A Udo Lindenberg	DE52 (6 weeks) DE	-	-	First published: October 3, 2008
	My heart is poison for you A miss miracle	DE79 (1 week) DE	-	-	First published: November 14, 2008
2010	Let love rule A Madsen	DE50 (6 weeks) DE	-	-	First published: April 9, 2010
	Electric feeling A July	DE12 gold (27 weeks)DE	AT21 (13 weeks) AT	-	First published: August 27, 2010 Sales: + 150,000
	When the world ends A Christina striker	-	AT73 (2 weeks) AT	-	First published: November 26, 2010
2011	Whenever it gets dark A July	DE37 (5 weeks) DE	-	-	First published: January 21, 2011
	Addict A July	DE35 (6 weeks) DE	-	-	First published: May 13, 2011
	Only a short time to save the world A Tim Bendzko	DE2 platinum (47 weeks)DE	AT8th gold (34 weeks)AT	CH4th platinum (35 weeks)CH	First published: June 10, 2011 Sales: + 345,000
	You lie so beautifully A July	DE67 (2 weeks) DE	-	-	First published: September 23, 2011
2012	For nothing in this world A Roger Cicero	DE85 (2 weeks) DE	-	-	First published: June 1, 2012
2013	Cut My Hair A Luca Vasta	DE58 (5 weeks) DE	-	-	First published: April 5, 2013
	DNA A Anna F.	-	AT15 (8 weeks) AT	-	First published: March 20, 2013
2014	Island A July	DE74 (3 weeks) DE	-	-	First published: September 12, 2014
	House of cards A Adel Tawil	DE78 (1 week) DE	-	-	First published: November 21, 2014
	Flash me A Mark Forster	DE11 gold (47 weeks)DE	AT10 (33 weeks) AT	-	First published: December 12, 2014 Sales: + 150,000
2015	El mismo sol A, P Álvaro Soler feat. Jennifer Lopez	DE20 (21 weeks) DE	AT6 (24 weeks) AT	CH1 (25 weeks) CH	First published: April 24, 2015 Sales: + 220,000
	Life is beautiful 1 A Sarah Connor	DE49 (2 weeks) DE	-	-	Chart entry: May 22, 2015
2016	Through the difficult times A Udo Lindenberg	DE26 (13 weeks) DE	-	-	First published: February 26, 2016
	Sofia A Álvaro Soler	DE23 (23 weeks) DE	AT3 (26 weeks) AT	CH1 (71 weeks) CH	First published: April 15, 2016
2017	Is there someone A Adel Tawil	DE12 (27 weeks) DE	AT9 (22 weeks) AT	CH3 (28 weeks) CH	First published: March 18, 2017
2018	La cintura A, P Álvaro Soler	DE8 (27 weeks) DE	AT8 (25 weeks) AT	CH4 (34 weeks) CH	First published: March 29, 2018
	Je ne parle pas français A Namika feat. Black M	DE1 (36 weeks) DE	AT16 (24 weeks) AT	CH7 (30 weeks) CH	First published: April 13, 2018

¹ No official publication, only through downloads in the charts.

Awards for music sales (as a writer / music producer)

Golden record  Spain 2015: for the author participation El mismo sol 4 × platinum record  Italy 2015: for the author participation El mismo sol

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)
Germany (BVMI)	3 × gold3	platinum1	750,000	musikindustrie.de
Italy (FIMI)	-	4 × platinum4th	200,000	fimi.it
Austria (IFPI)	2 × gold2	-	30,000	ifpi.at
Switzerland (IFPI)	-	platinum1	30,000	hitparade.ch
Spain (Promusicae)	gold1	-	20,000	elportaldelmusicas.es
All in all	6 × gold6th	6 × platinum6th

swell

1. ↑ Jürgen Ruopp: German Music Author Awards 2010 in Berlin. (No longer available online.) Musikmarkt.de, April 22, 2010, formerly in the original ; accessed on October 30, 2015 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.    
2. ↑ Lothar Scholz: GEMA Music Author Award 2013: Jury and nominees have been determined. (No longer available online.) Musikmarkt.de, April 10, 2013, archived from the original on March 5, 2016 ; accessed on October 30, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ Budde Music signs Simon Triebel. buddemusic.de, accessed October 30, 2015 . 
4. ↑ Michael Zirnstein: The Fack-ju-Göhte musical is so casual. Süddeutsche Zeitung, January 22, 2018, accessed on January 22, 2018 . 

Web links

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• Simon Triebel at Discogs (English)
• Simon Triebel at Allmusic (English)
• Simon Triebel in the Internet Movie Database (English)