Damn I love you
| Damn I love you | |
|---|---|
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| Matthias Reim | |
| publication | April 2, 1990 |
| length | 3:40 |
| Genre (s) | Schlager , synth pop , soft rock |
| Author (s) |
Bernd Dietrich , Matthias Reim |
| Award (s) | Lion from Radio Luxembourg |
| album | rhyme |
Damn, I love you is the most successful song by German pop singer Matthias Reim , which became a million seller in 1990 .
background
Matthias Reim had composed for other performers, but nobody wanted to take over the Damn, I Love You , written by him together with the composer and producer Bernd Dietrich . Reim had already presented the title to Electrola on November 25, 1989 , but Electrola saw no potential for success in it. Polydor Records, however, was ready to accept the recording as his first single. For this he used a recording studio in Lohne / Göttingen that belonged to R&R Audio . Reim and his manager Alfred Reimann were the owners of this production company. Recorded with his second wife Mago and with Heike Neumeyer as a female companion, a song produced by Bernd Dietrich was created that expresses the uncertainty about love for a woman.
publication
The single Damn, I love you / Maskenball (Polydor # 873 905-1) was released on April 2, 1990. The singer Bernhard Brink , who was friends with Matthias Reim, brokered the demo recording to the ZDF presenter Wim Thoelke , who liked the recording so much that it was re-presented on broadcast 24 on April 18, 1990 in the Deutsche Schlagerparade . The high distribution of this program made the single by a new pop singer known throughout Germany. Between May 18, 1990 and September 6, 1990, the song was at the top of the German charts for 16 weeks , making it the most successful German-language song since the weekly charts were introduced in Germany. Only Boney M. with Rivers of Babylon stayed in first place for a week longer in 1978 . The top position was also achieved in the Netherlands, Belgium, Austria and Switzerland. On October 3, 1990, Reim appeared with the song about doubting feelings in the ZDF hit parade moderated by Uwe Huebner . In Germany the single was able to sell over 500,000 times, so Verdammt, I love you is one of the best-selling German hits since 1975, the single was sold 2.5 million times worldwide, an unusually high turnover for German hits.
In the success phase of the single, the LP Reim was released on June 14, 1990 , which achieved sales of 1.7 million copies in the DA-CH countries and also topped the charts in Germany and Switzerland.
Reim later also sang an English version entitled I Think I Love You .
In April 2006, Reim had to file for personal bankruptcy with a debt of 12.5 million euros . Burdened by this private debt situation, he parodied his hit hit on August 24, 2007 under the title Verdammt I have 'nix, I rent' with Sixt for a TV commercial that reached 66th place in the German charts. As of June 25, 2010, Reim has been debt-free again.
reception
Prices
In 1990 the song won the gold medal from Radio Luxemburg , so the title prevailed over The first time tats still hurt ( Viktor Lazlo & Stefan Waggershausen ) and I Promised Myself ( Nick Kamen ).
Charts and chart placements
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Awards for music sales
| Country / Region | Award | Sales |
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| Awards for music sales (country / region, Award, Sales) |
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 Germany (BVMI)
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 platinum
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500,000 |
 Netherlands (NVPI)
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 gold
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75,000 |
 Austria (IFPI)
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platinum
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50,000 |
| All in all |
1 × gold 2 × platinum |
625,000 |
Cover versions (selection)
- 1990: Fix & Done
- 1990: Mike Krüger (Damn, I'm pushing you)
- 1992: Norbert & Die Feiglinge (Damned, Hans-Dietrich)
- 1994: Ulli Martin
- 1996: Jürgen Drews (Damn, I don't smell)
- 1997: Without a plan
- 2002: I Troje (Kochaj mnie Kochaj)
- 2003: Baracuda (Damn! (Remember the Time))
- 2004: Frank Zander
- 2007: Sha feat. Matthias Reim
- 2014: Johannes Spanner
- 2018: Vanessa Mai (part of her Rainbow Tour )
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ingo Grabowsky / Martin Lücke, The 100 hits of the century , 2008, p. 40
- ↑ Stern of April 20, 2010 on Ending Rhyme Debt
- ↑ Chart sources rhyme : DE CH
- ↑ Awards for music sales Reim : DE AT CH
- ^ Matthias Reim - I Think I Love You. austriancharts.at, accessed on December 8, 2019 .
- ↑ Matthias Reim - Damn, I love you chart placement Germany. GfK Entertainment , accessed on June 3, 2018 .
- ↑ Matthias Reim - Damn, I love you Chart placement Austria. In: Austriancharts.at. Hung Medien, accessed June 3, 2018 .
- ↑ Matthias Reim - Damn, I love you Chart placement Switzerland. In: Hitparade.ch. Hung Medien, accessed June 3, 2018 .
- ↑ Top 100 annual single charts 1990. officialcharts.de, accessed on December 8, 2019 .
- ↑ Annual Singles Hit Parade 1990. austriancharts.at, accessed on December 8, 2019 .
- ↑ Swiss hit parade of the year 1990. hitparade.ch, accessed on December 8, 2019 .
- ↑ GOLD / PLATINUM database. musikindustrie.de, accessed on December 8, 2019 .
- ^ Goud / Platina. nvpi.nl, accessed December 8, 2019 (Dutch).
- ↑ Gold & Platinum. ifpi.at, accessed on December 8, 2019 .