Zero Assoluto

Zero Assoluto
Zero Assoluto 2007
General information
Genre (s)	Pop rock
founding	1995
Website	Zero-Assoluto.it
Current occupation
singing	Thomas De Gasperi (born June 24, 1977)
singing	Matteo Maffucci (born May 28, 1978)

Zero Assoluto (Italian for “ absolute zero ”) is an Italian pop-rock duo founded in 1995.

history

The two Roman musicians De Gasperi and Maffucci met in high school and founded the Duo Zero Assoluto in 1995 . The first single Ultimo capodanno they recorded in 1999, where they were able to win Francesco Totti for the music video . In 2002 the singles Magari meno and Tu come stai appeared , and the following year the duo was able to increase its popularity through appearances on radio and television. In 2004 it released its first album Scendi under its own label Sugo , which included songs like Mezz'ora , Minimalismi and Semplicemente ; The latter in particular helped the duo achieve their final breakthrough.

With Svegliarsi la mattina Zero Assoluto entered the Sanremo Festival 2006 and reached second place in the band category and the final of the overall ranking. The single was then able to advance to number one on the Italian charts and stay there for eight weeks, making it the best-selling single of the year. The successor single Sei parte di me brought the duo the award as “Discovery of the Year” at the Festivalbar competition in the summer of the year and again reached the top of the chart (third place in the annual ranking). Parallel to his musical activity Maffucci also published books, in 2007 he published his first novel Spielberg ti odio bei Rizzoli .

At the Sanremo Festival 2007 , the duo achieved ninth place with Appena prima di partire . The album of the same name was then released. In 2008 Zero Assoluto recorded the song Win or Lose (Appena prima di partire) with Nelly Furtado , an English version of their Sanremo contribution for the international market. The single Per dimenticare introduced the next album Sotto una pioggia di parole in 2009 . Perdermi followed in 2011, and Alla fine del giorno in 2014 . In 2016 the duo returned to Sanremo, where they missed the final with Di me e di te . The album of the same name was then released.

Discography

Albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)			Remarks
		IT	DE	FR
2004	Scendi	IT17 (17 weeks) IT	-	-	Sony
2007	Appena prima di partire	IT4 (37 weeks) IT	-	-	Sony BMG
2009	Sotto una pioggia di parole	IT20th gold (25 weeks)IT	-	-	Noble sales: + 35,000
2011	Perdermi	IT12 (14 weeks) IT	-	-	EMI
2014	Alla fine del giorno	IT14 (3 weeks) IT	-	-	Universal
2016	Di me e di te	IT14 (5 weeks) IT	-	-	Warner

Singles

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)			Remarks
		IT	DE	FR
2005	Semplicemente Appena prima di partire	IT2 (37 weeks) IT	-	-	2006 place 7 (8 weeks) in the download charts
2006	Svegliarsi la mattina Appena prima di partire	IT1 platinum (55 weeks)IT	-	-	1st place (31 weeks) in the download charts Sales: + 50,000
	Be parte di me Appena prima di partire	IT1 gold (37 weeks)IT	-	-	4th place (16 weeks) in the download charts Sales: + 25,000
2007	Appena prima di partire Appena prima di partire	-	-	-	7th place (9 weeks) in the download charts
	Meglio so Appena prima di partire	-	-	-	45th place (1 week) in the download charts
	Do come stai Scendi	-	-	-	appeared in 2002 at number 16 (1 week) in the download charts
2008	Quello che mi davi tu Appena prima di partire	IT34 (1 week) IT	-	-
	Win or Lose (Appena prima di partire) Appena prima di partire	-	DE64 (5 weeks) DE	FR31 (18 weeks) FR	feat. Nelly Furtado
2009	Per dimenticare Sotto una pioggia di parole	IT6th platinum (25 weeks)IT	-	-	Sales: + 30,000
	Cos'è normal sotto una pioggia di parole	IT10 (5 weeks) IT	-	-	feat. Tiromancino
2010	Non guardarmi so Sotto una pioggia di parole	IT23 (1 week) IT	-	-
	Grace Sotto una pioggia di parole	IT39 (12 weeks) IT	-	-
2011	Questa estate strana Perdermi	IT4 (11 weeks) IT	-	-
	Perdermi Perdermi	IT98 (2 weeks) IT	-	-
2014	All'improvviso Alla fine del giorno	IT55 (2 weeks) IT	-	-
	Un'altra notte se ne va Alla fine del giorno	IT82 (1 week) IT	-	-
	Alla fine del giorno Alla fine del giorno	IT14 (3 weeks) IT	-	-
2015	L'amore comune Di me e di te	IT52 (3 weeks) IT	-	-
2016	Di me e di te Di me e di te	IT14th gold (7 weeks)IT	-	-	Sales: 25,000+

• Ultimo capodanno (1999)
• Magari meno (2002)
• Mezz'ora (2004)
• Minimalismi (2004)

Web links

Commons : Zero Assoluto  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website (Italian)
• Zero Assoluto at Rockol.it (Italian)
• Zero Assoluto at allmusic.com
• Zero Assoluto at discogs.com

supporting documents

1. ↑ Chart sources (albums):
   • Guido Racca & Chartitalia: Top 100 FIMI album . Lulu , 2013, p. 186 .
   • Albums by Zero Assoluto. In: Italiancharts.com. Hung Medien, accessed May 15, 2018 (IT). 
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Certificazioni Zero Assoluto. FIMI, accessed May 15, 2018 . 
3. ↑ Chart sources (singles):
   • Guido Racca & Chartitalia: Top 100 FIMI Singoli . Lulu, 2013, p. 160 .
   • Archivio classifiche Top Singoli. FIMI , accessed May 15, 2018 (Italian). 
   • Zero Assoluto. In: Official German charts. GfK Entertainment, accessed on May 15, 2018 (DE). 
   • Songs by Zero Assoluto. In: LesCharts.com. Hung Medien, accessed on May 15, 2018 (FR). 
4. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} Guido Racca & Chartitalia: Top 100 FIMI Singoli . Lulu, 2013, p. 183 .