Große Freiheit (album)

Große Freiheit
Studio album by Unheilig
Released February 19, 2010
Genre Neue Deutsche Härte
Length 1:06:19
Language German
Label Vertigo (Universal)
Producer Der Graf
Unheilig chronology
Puppenspiel
(2008)		 Grosse Freiheit
(2010)
Limited Fanbox Edition
The Limited Fanbox Edition is strictly limited to 5,000 copies.

Große Freiheit (German for Great Freedom) is the seventh album by the Neue Deutsche Härte band Unheilig. It was released on February 19, 2010. It was released as a standard 14 track album and a Fanbox Edition boxset which was limited to 5,000 copies that features the following:

The album's title refers to the street in Hamburg-St. Pauli, a side-street of the Reeperbahn.

Contents

Track listing

No. Title English Translation Length
1. "Das Meer"   The Sea 3:39
2. "Seenot"   Distress 4:22
3. "Fur Immer"   Forever 3:22
4. "Geboren um zu Leben"   Born to Live 3:50
5. "Abwärts"   Down 3:30
6. "Halt mich"   Hold Me 3:47
7. "Unter Feuer"   Under Fire 5:03
8. "Große Freiheit"   Great Freedom 3:48
9. "Ich gehöre mir"   I Belong to Me 3:34
10. "Heimatstern"   Home Star 4:10
11. "Sternbild"   Constellation 4:28
12. "Unter Deiner Flagge"   Under Your Banner 4:10
13. "Fernweh"   Wanderlust 4:51
14. "Schenk mir ein Wunder (Bonus track)"   Send me a Miracle 4:36
15. "Auf Kurs (Bonus track)"   On Course 4:38
16. "Neuland"   Newland 4:31

Bonus disc

  1. Human Nations (First Musical Steps in 1992)
  2. The Beast (First Musical Steps in 1992)
  3. Lost Heaven (Unpublished song from the early Unheiligzeit)
  4. Faded Times (Unpublished song from the early Unheiligzeit)
  5. Seenot (Demo)
  6. Für Immer (Demo)
  7. Unter deiner Flagge (Demo)
  8. Geboren um zu leben (Demo)
  9. Geboren um zu leben (Demo 2)

Live album

On June 11, 2010, a live album was released by the same name, which contains a boxset with a CD and the DVD featuring the show. A Limited Delux Edition contains four discs while the Special Edition contains two discs.

Chart performance

In Germany, it remained at No. 1 for 23 non-consecutive weeks, to date the longest stay of any album in the 21st century and the first album by a German artist to do so.[1]

Große Freiheit is the second most downloaded album of all time in Germany behind Peter Fox's Stadtaffe.[2]

Spending 52 weeks in the German top ten, the album is the 17th album to spend a year or longer there and the first to do so since Ich + Ich's Vom selben Stern, which was released in July 2007.[3] Große Freiheit left the top 5 of the German Albums Chart for the first time the week it achieved this feat.[4][5]

Chart positions

Chart positions
GER[6] AUT[7] SWI[8] EUR[9]
1 1 3 6

Year-end charts

Year Chart Rank
2010 European Top 100 Albums[10] 9
German Albums Chart[11] 1
2011 Austrian Albums Chart[12] 7
German Albums Chart[13] 5
Swiss Albums Chart[14] 16

Certifications

Region Certification
Austria[15] Platinum
Germany[16] 7× Platinum
Switzerland[17] 2× Platinum
Summaries
Europe[18] Platinum

Chart precession and succession

Preceded by
Tattoos by Peter Maffay
A Curious Thing by Amy Macdonald
Iron Man 2 (Soundtrack) by AC/DC
My Cassette Player by Lena
The Final Frontier by Iron Maiden
Bring mich nach Hause by Wir sind Helden
Progress by Take That
Michael by Michael Jackson		 German Albums Chart number-one album
March 5, 2010 – March 25, 2010
April 16, 2010 – April 22, 2010
May 7, 2010 – May 20, 2010
June 25, 2010 – August 26, 2010
September 3, 2010 – September 9, 2010
September 17, 2010 – September 23, 2010
December 10, 2010 - December 23, 2010
December 31, 2010 – January 27, 2011		 Succeeded by
A Curious Thing by Amy Macdonald
Diversity by Gentleman
My Cassette Player by Lena
The Final Frontier by Iron Maiden
Bring mich nach Hause by Wir sind Helden
A Thousand Suns by Linkin Park
Michael by Michael Jackson
Doo-Wops & Hooligans by Bruno Mars
Preceded by
Michael by Michael Jackson		 Austrian Albums Chart number-one album
January 7, 2011 – January 20, 2011		 Succeeded by
Neujahrskonzert 2011 by Vienna Philharmonic / Franz Welser-Möst

Große Freiheit (Winter Edition)

This album was re-released on November 19, 2010, with all of the standard 14 tracks from Große Freiheit, excluding the two bonus songs. A second disc contains Winterland and its remixes. There is a new cover to reflect the title.

Track listing

No. Title English Translation Length
1. "Winterland"      
2. "Geboren um zu leben (Piano Version)"   Born to Live (Piano Version)  
3. "Unter deiner Flagge (Piano Version)"   Under your Flag (Piano Version)  
4. "Winterland (Single Version)"      
5. "Winterland (Gregorian Version)"      
6. "Der Graf liest Dornröschen"   The Count reads Sleeping Beauty  

See also

References

  1. ^ de:Liste der Nummer-eins-Alben in Deutschland
  2. ^ http://www.media-control.de/download-lps-stadtaffe-mit-den-hoechsten-verkaeufen.html
  3. ^ http://chartsurfer.de/dauerbrenner/album/de/1/index.html
  4. ^ http://musicline.de/de/chartverfolgung_summary/title/Unheilig/Grosse+Freiheit/longplay
  5. ^ http://musicline.de/de/chartverfolgung_summary/title/Unheilig/Grosse+Freiheit+Live/longplay
  6. ^ GER
  7. ^ AUT
  8. ^ SWI
  9. ^ EUR
  10. ^ http://www.billboard.com/#/charts-year-end/european-top-100-albums?year=2010
  11. ^ http://www.einslive.de/musik/charts/2011/jahresalbumcharts.jsp
  12. ^ http://oe3.orf.at/charts/stories/albumyear/
  13. ^ http://www.mtv.de/charts/Album_Jahrescharts_2011
  14. ^ http://hitparade.ch/year.asp?key=2011
  15. ^ "Austrian album certifications – Unheilig – Grosse Freiheit" (in German). IFPI Austria. http://www.ifpi.at/?section=goldplatin.  Enter Unheilig in the field Interpret. Enter Grosse Freiheit in the field Titel. Select album in the field Format. Click Suchen
  16. ^ "Gold-/Platin-Datenbank (Unheilig; 'Große Freiheit')" (in German). Bundesverband Musikindustrie. http://www.musikindustrie.de/gold_platin_datenbank/?action=suche&strTitel=Gro%C3%9Fe+Freiheit&strInterpret=Unheilig&strTtArt=alben&strAwards=checked. 
  17. ^ "The Official Swiss Charts and Music Community: Awards (Unheilig; 'Grosse Freiheit')". Hung Medien. http://www.swisscharts.com/search_certifications.asp?search=Unheilig+Grosse+Freiheit. 
  18. ^ "IFPI Platinum Europe Awards – 2010". International Federation of the Phonographic Industry. http://www.ifpi.org/content/section_news/plat2010.html. 
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