Ankerstjerne is the first eponymous studio album

Studio album

A studio album is an album made up of tracks recorded in the controlled environment of a recording studio. A studio album contains newly written and recorded or previously unreleased or remixed material, distinguishing itself from a compilation or reissue album of previously recorded material, or...

 of Danish

Denmark

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 artist Ankerstjerne (sometimes credited as Lars Ankerstjerne, earlier known as Jinks). The album was released on ArtPeople

ArtPeople

ArtPeople is a Danish arts and entertainment company specializing in book and music publishing and also acting as a booking agency.-Operations:*ArtPeople Musik & DVD department - Publishes and releases recordings through the ArtPeople Record label...

 record label and alongside solo works by Ankerstjerne includes collaborations with Burhan G

Burhan G

Burhan Genç known as Burhan G is a Danish R&B and pop singer, songwriter and producer of Kurdish/Turkish origin from Turkey. His father is Turkish origin and his mother kurdish origin. He has three albums including Burhan G in 2010. that was certified platinum in Denmark...

, Peter Bjørnskov, Alberte

Alberte

Elin Alberte Leonora Winding , commonly known as Alberte, is a Danish singer and actress. Alberte is well known for her appearance as Luna in several episodes of the Danish children's television show Bamses billedbog. She also played Lis in the film Strømer...

, Xander

Xander (Danish singer)

Alexander Theo Linnet , performing under his mononym Xander, is a Danish pop singer and songwriter. Xander is the son of singer Anne Linnet and Mads Buhl Nielsen...

, Sarah West and Rasmus Seebach

Rasmus Seebach

Rasmus Seebach is a Danish singer-songwriter and record producer who had his debut with the Danish language single "Engel" in April 2009....

.

Release and chart performance

The album was released in 10 October 2011, on its first week of release, it entered at #6 on the Danish Albums Chart. The same week, many of the singles appearing in the album were downloaded heavily and four of them appeared on the Danish Singles Chart, namely "Den første nat" featuring Xander (entered at #10), "Fotografi af dig" featuring Rasmus Seebach) (entered at #22), "Nu vi to" feat.
featuring Burhan G (at #27) and "1000 år" featuring Rasmus Seebach (at #37).

In earlier pre-releases, two singles had already been hits prior to the album's release: "Tag hvad du vil" by Ankerstjerne and Burhan G reaching #2 making it the most successful release of Ankerstjerne reaching #2 and "Nattog" that peaked at #8 in the Danish Singles Chart

Chart performance

Hitliste (2011)	Peak Position
Danish Albums Chart	6

Tracklist