Schnuffel (German pronunciation: [ˈʃnʊfəl]; English: Snuggle, French: Lapin Câlin) is an animated cartoon rabbit made at the end of 2007 by the German media company Jamba! for the marketing of one of its ringtones. The ringtone was turned into a song by Sebastian Nussbaum and Andreas Wendorf and recorded under the title Kuschel Song ("cuddling song").[1] The single was released in February 2008 and the ringtone rabbit made it immediately to the top of the German and European charts.[2] After the song went to the top of the Austrian charts and to number 2 in Switzerland, plans were made to release the song internationally. Translations in 11 languages and 11 albums have been released.
Schnuffel was introduced into the US market on January 17, 2010. The Schnuffel ringtone commercial currently airs on MTV, MTV2, Comedy Central, Teen Nick, and ABC Family.
Due to a rise in Greek interest, Schnuffel has turned to their market producing previous albums in Greek. These are not carbon copies of the original albums as minor tweaks in the track list and provided media have been made. With the switch to the Greek market Sony has not been producing these CDs, instead the Greek label Heaven Records has taken their spot. [3]
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Singles:
AT: 1x Gold "Kuschelsong" (15,000 copies) [4]
DE: 1x Platinum "Kuschelsong" (300,000 copies) [5]
DE: "Kuschelsong" was the 4th best-selling single of 2008 [6]
Album:
AT: 1x Gold "Ich hab dich lieb" (10,000 copies) [4]
DE: 1x Gold "Ich hab dich lieb" (100,000 copies) [7]
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| 2008 | "Kuschel Song"/"Snuggle Song" |
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"Ich hab' Dich lieb" |
| "Ich hab' Dich lieb" (I love you) |
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| "Häschenparty" (Bunnyparty) (featuring Michael Wendler) |
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| "Schnuffels Weihnachtslied" (Schnuffel's Christmas song) |
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"Winterwunderland" | |
| 2009 | "Piep Piep" (Beep Beep) |
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"Komm Kuscheln" |
| 2011 | "DubiDubi Du" (Doo bee doo bee doo) [8] | ||||||||||||
| "Tut, Tut, Tut" (Toot Toot Toot) [9] | |||||||||||||
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| 2008 | "Ich hab' Dich lieb" (I love you) |
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| "Winterwunderland" (Winterwonderland) |
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| 2009 | "Komm Kuscheln" (Come cuddle) |
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