Dodgeball (album)

Dodgeball
Live album by
Publication (s)	November 17, 2006
Label (s)	Universal Music
Format (s)	CD , DVD
Genre (s)	New German Hardness
running time	212: 30/295: 29/328: 11
occupation	Singing : Till Lindemann Guitar : Richard Kruspe Guitar: Paul Landers Bass : Oliver Riedel Drums : Christoph Schneider Keyboard : Christian Lorenz
production	Emanuel Fialik
chronology Rose Red (2005) Dodgeball Love is for everyone (2009)

Völkerball is a live album that was released on DVD on November 17th, 2006 by the German metal band Rammstein . It shows the six musicians on their world tour in 2005, during which they played in front of over a million spectators. The occasion was the band's latest studio album , Reise, Reise . Dodgeball appeared in three different editions. The album was also released in the US on September 18, 2007 .

Versions

• The “standard version” includes a DVD with 140 minutes of live concert and a CD with 75 minutes of audio concert recordings.
• The “Special Edition” also contains a DVD with two documentations.
• The “Limited Edition” includes a 190-page tour photo book and an additional audio CD (a total of 105 minutes of audio concert recordings on two CDs). The four discs are on holders in the front inner cover of the book.

Standard DVD

Les Arènes de Nîmes , Nîmes ( France ): July 23, 2005

1. Journey, journey
2. Left 2-3-4
3. Do not feel like
4. Open fire!
5. ashes to Ashes
6. Morning star
7. My part
8. stone by stone
9. Come on
10. You smell so good
11. petrol
12. You have
13. nostalgia
14. America
15. Rammstein
16. Sun
17. I want
18. Without you
19. Stripped
20. Outro

Brixton Academy , London ( England ): February 2-4, 2005

1. Sun
2. Just out
3. Without you
4. Open fire!

Club Citta, Tokyo ( Japan ): June 3, 2005

1. My part
2. You have
3. Go (trailer)

Olimpijski , Moscow ( Russia ): November 28, 2004

1. Moscow (Special)

Bonus DVD

There are two documentaries on the bonus DVD of the Special and Limited Edition.

1. "Anaconda on the Net" - A Rammstein Documentary
2. Making of Reise, Reise

The first documentary comes from Mathilde Bonnefoy and, in addition to some excerpts from the Nîmes concert, includes interviews with all six band members and manager Emanuel Fialik. The second documentary comes from guitarist Paul Landers and gives a brief glimpse into the making of the album Reise, Reise .

Audio CD (s)

The CD contained in the standard version and the "Special Edition" contains the following live recordings from the amphitheater in Nîmes (France):

1. Intro - 2:06
2. Journey, journey - 5:33
3. Left 2-3-4 - 4:53
4. No desire - 3:55
5. Open fire! - 3:34
6. Ashes to ashes - 4:08
7. Morning star - 4:55
8. My part - 6:29
9. Lot - 6:27
10. You smell so good - 5:50
11. Gasoline - 4:07
12. You have - 4:23
13. Longing - 4:25
14. America - 6:22
15. Sun - 4:54
16. I want - 4:22

The two audio CDs of the “Limited Edition” contain the outro and all live recordings of the concert, including the songs “Stein um Stein”, “Rammstein”, “Ohne dich” and “Stripped”.

Chart successes and awards

Chart positions Explanation of the data

Albums

Dodgeball   DE 1 12/01/2006 (41 weeks)   AT 3 12/01/2006 (16 weeks)   CH 7th December 3, 2006 (15 weeks)   US 147 10/06/2007 (1 week)

• Germany: 1st place (3 weeks) (41 weeks in total)
• Finland: 1st place
• France: 54th place
• Mexico: 1st place (6 weeks)
• Netherlands: 7th place
• Austria: 3rd place
• Sweden: 11th place
• Switzerland: 7th place

The CD version of the album was awarded a triple gold record in Germany for more than 300,000 copies sold . The DVD version received double platinum awards with over 100,000 units sold. In Switzerland, Völkerball achieved gold status after just five weeks (15,000 albums sold).

backgrounds

1980 Summer Olympics logo

• The cover image of the publication is an adaptation of the logo of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow.
• The DVD was nominated at the Echo Awards 2007 in the music DVD production category (national or international) , but lost to Pink Floyd's Pulse .

Awards for music sales

album

Country / Region	Award	Sales
Awards for music sales (country / region, Award, Sales)
Denmark (IFPI)	gold	20,000
Germany (BVMI)	3 × gold	300,000
Poland (ZPAV)	gold	10,000
Russia (NFPF)	platinum	20,000
Switzerland (IFPI)	gold	15,000
All in all	4 × gold 2 × platinum	365,000

Main article: Rammstein / Awards for Music Sales

Video album

Country / Region	Award	Sales
Awards for music sales (country / region, Award, Sales)
Germany (BVMI)	2 × platinum	100,000
United Kingdom (BPI)	gold	25,000
All in all	1 × gold 2 × platinum	125,000

Main article: Rammstein / Awards for Music Sales

Web links

• Official website of the band
• Album review on laut.de
• Völkerball on MusicBrainz

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Charts DE Charts AT Charts CH Charts US
2. ↑ Chart placements Völkerball
3. ↑ Völkerball chart tracking at musicline.de  ( 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.