To you

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To you
Lea
publication May 25, 2018 (Promo)
June 22, 2018 (single)
length 3:05 min.
Genre (s) pop
Author (s) Lea-Marie Becker ,
Mark Cwiertnia ,
Michael Geldreich,
Alexander Knolle
album Between my lines

To you is a song by the German pop singer Lea . The piece is the third single from her second studio album Between My Lines .

Creation and artwork

About you was written by Lea herself - under her real name "Lea-Marie Becker" - together with the co-authors Mark Cwiertnia ( Mark Forster ), Michael Geldreich and Alexander Knolle. The production was carried out specially by Geldreich, with the help of the co-producer Knolle, who was responsible in particular for the vocal production. The mastering was done by the Karlsruhe-based 24-96 Mastering, under the direction of Robin Schmidt. The piece was mixed by the German-Turkish producer Yunus Cimen.

On the front cover of the single you can see a portrait of Lea alongside the artist name and song title. It just shows them up from the shoulders. There are two versions of this front cover. In the acoustic version, she wears a black top against a blue background. The remix version also has a black top against a pink background. The photography comes from the Berlin photographer Jens Koch.

Publication and promotion

The first publication of To you done as a promotional single on May 25, 2018. The promo single was released only in its album version as a single download. The official single was released around a month later on June 22, 2018 as download and streaming . Here, however, not the studio version , but an acoustic version was published. On August 3, 2018, a remix version made by the Latches production team was released as a single track. The following month, Zu dir was released as part of Lea's second studio album Between My Lines . About you was published under the music label Four Music , distributed by Sony Music and published by Duende Songs Musikverlag, Schwerelos Edition, Sony / ATV Music Publishing and Universal Music Publishing .

To promote the song, there was a live performance in the ZDF TV Garden on Tour on October 14, 2018.

content

The music and the text were written and composed jointly by Lea-Marie Becker (Lea), Mark Cwiertnia (Mark Forster), Michael Geldreich and Alexander Knolle. Musically, the song moves in the area of pop music . The tempo is 113 beats per minute . The key is F major . In terms of content, the piece deals with the topic of reference person . Lea described the piece in the following words: “ You are the people in my life with whom I can just be who I am, without having to pretend and whom I can always go to, regardless of whether I feel good or bad . "

The song is built on two verses, a chorus and an outro . The song begins with the first verse, which is immediately followed by the chorus. The same process is repeated with the second stanza, which also follows directly at the end of the chorus. After the second chorus, the song ends with the outro that is made up of parts of the chorus.

"Say, can I see you? In the best of times.
Even when it's all over and I mess up everything.
And there is nobody with me anymore, can I go to you then?
To you, to you ... Mh, mh.
Can I see you then? To you, to you ... Mh, mh. "

- Refrain, original excerpt

Music video

The music video for Zu dir premiered on June 15, 2018 on YouTube . The video begins with Niklas (played by Marco Lude), who is driving his car and calls his answering machine . He receives the following message: "Hey, tell me, do you know how Max is? I haven't heard from him in two weeks. Get in touch ". Then he wants to visit someone, but he stands in front of a locked door. As he drives on by car, he meets his friend Max (played by Béla Gabor Lenz ), who is on foot. Niklas greets Max, who reluctantly takes him in his arms. Niklas grabs Max's bag, throws it in the car and asks Max to come with him. Niklas tries to grow up with Max, but Max doesn't respond. A short time later he takes him to a houseboat , which they take to leave. Sitting there together at the edge of the boat, they come closer again for the first time. After a while, more friends suddenly appear on the boat and surprise Max. They celebrate together into the night before the video ends alone with Max and Niklas, sitting together in a bay at dawn. In the last scene Lea joins the two of them. In between you can see scenes of Lea running through a forest and singing the song. The total length of the video is 3:19 minutes. Directed by the Berlin director Adam Janisch. To date, the music video has over 25 million views on YouTube (as of May 2020).

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reception

Charts and chart placements

Zu dir reached position 54 in the single charts in Germany and stayed in the charts for a total of 21 weeks. In addition, the single was placed in the iTunes daily evaluations for several weeks and reached its highest chart listing on September 20, 2018 at position twelve.

With this, Lea reached the German single charts as an interpreter for the third time after Wohin du want ( Gestört aber GeiL feat. Lea) and Leiser . As a writer, it is the fourth chart success in Germany after Der Himmel rans auf ( Stereoact ), Wohin Do you and Leiser . For Cwiertnia (Mark Forster) this is the 15th chart success as an author in Germany. Geldreich reached the German single charts for the sixth time with Zu dir and after Blau ( Amanda feat. Sido ) and Cool ( Felix Jaehn feat. Marc E. Bassy & Gucci Mane ) for the third time as a producer. For Knolle, it is the second author's success in the German charts after Leiser .

Chart placements
Charts Top ranking Weeks
Chart placements
Germany (GfK) Germany (GfK) 54 (21 weeks) 21st

Awards for music sales

In January 2020, Zu dir was awarded a gold record in Germany for over 200,000 units sold. For Lea it is already after Where do you want to go , Leiser , Immer Wenn wir sehn us (with Cyril ) and 110 ( Capital Bra & Samra feat. Lea) the fifth single which reached at least gold status in Germany.

Country / Region Award Sales
Awards for music sales
(country / region, Award, Sales)
Germany (BVMI) Germany (BVMI) Gold record icon.svg gold 200,000
All in all Gold record icon.svg 1 × gold
 200,000

Web links

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ a b Credits / Between My Lines (Deluxe) / LEA. listen.tidal.com, September 14, 2018, accessed May 4, 2020 .
  3. ↑ a b To you (acoustic version) / LEA. listen.tidal.com, June 22, 2018, accessed May 4, 2020 .
  4. ↑ a b Zu dir (Latches Remix) / LEA. listen.tidal.com, August 3, 2018, accessed May 4, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Sony Music: LEA - publishes "Zu dir" acoustic video. themellowmusic.com, accessed May 4, 2020 .
  6. ↑ LEA presents their next hit 'Zu dir'. mix1.de, May 25, 2018, accessed on May 4, 2020 .
  7. ↑ "To you (acoustic version) - Single" by LEA. music.apple.com, June 22, 2018, accessed May 4, 2020 .
  8. ↑ "To you (Latches Remix) - Single" by LEA. music.apple.com, August 3, 2018, accessed May 4, 2020 .
  9. ↑ LEA - Between my lines. hitparade.ch, September 14, 2018, accessed on May 4, 2020 .
  10. ^ ZDF television garden 40: Stralsund (3). fernsehserien.de, accessed on May 6, 2020 .
  11. ↑ Lea (23) - Between My Lines. discogs.com, September 14, 2018, accessed May 5, 2020 .
  12. ↑ BPM for “To you” by LEA. songbpm.com, accessed May 5, 2020 .
  13. ↑ Key & BPM for To you by LEA. tunebat.com, accessed May 5, 2020 .
  14. ↑ Alex Koubik: New: LEA - To you. dasding.de, June 15, 2018, accessed on May 6, 2020 .
  15. ↑ LEA publishes their video for the new single "Zu dir". soundjungle.de, June 20, 2018, accessed on May 6, 2020 .
  16. ↑ a b LEA - To you. officialcharts.de, accessed on May 5, 2020 .
  17. ↑ Lea - 'Zu dir' German iTunes Chart Performance. itunescharts.net, accessed on May 5, 2020 (English).
  18. ↑ GOLD / PLATINUM database. musikindustrie.de, accessed on May 5, 2020 .