Große Freiheit (album)
Encyclopedia
Große Freiheit 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
.
Große Freiheit is the second most downloaded album of all time in Germany behind Peter Fox
's Stadtaffe
.
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. Große Freiheit left the top 5 of the German Albums Chart for the first time the week it achieved this feat.
Neue Deutsche Härte
Neue Deutsche Härte is a genre of industrial metal. The term was invented by the German music press after the release of the debut album Herzeleid by Rammstein....
band Unheilig
Unheilig
Unheilig is a German Neue Deutsche Härte band with various pop and electronic influences. The band founded in 2000 and now consists of principally Der Graf , with his live musicians Licky, Henning Verlage and Potti.-Early years 1999–2009:In 1999, together with Grant Stevens Unheilig (German for...
. 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:
- 1 limited edition 16-track studio album (including 2 bonus tracks) in digipak.
- 1 bonus CD of unreleased studio recordings of Unheilig from the current studio sessions and recordings and songs from the first musical steps of Der Graf so far (never published).
- 1 UNHEILIG flag.
- Autobiography of Der Graf, 176-sided: Der Graf tells of his first musical steps up to his latest album "Grosse Freiheit". http://www.emso.de/
The album's title refers to the street in Hamburg
Hamburg
-History:The first historic name for the city was, according to Claudius Ptolemy's reports, Treva.But the city takes its modern name, Hamburg, from the first permanent building on the site, a castle whose construction was ordered by the Emperor Charlemagne in AD 808...
-St. Pauli
St. Pauli
St. Pauli , located in the Hamburg-Mitte borough, is one of the 105 quarters of the city of Hamburg, Germany. Situated on the right bank of the Elbe river, the Landungsbrücken are a northern part of the port of Hamburg. St. Pauli contains a world famous red light district around the street Reeperbahn...
, a side-street of the Reeperbahn
Reeperbahn
The Reeperbahn is a street in Hamburg's St. Pauli district, one of the two centres of Hamburg's nightlife and also the city's red-light district...
.
Track listing
Bonus disc
- Human Nations (First Musical Steps in 1992)
- The Beast (First Musical Steps in 1992)
- Lost Heaven (Unpublished song from the early Unheiligzeit)
- Faded Times (Unpublished song from the early Unheiligzeit)
- Seenot (Demo)
- Für Immer (Demo)
- Unter deiner Flagge (Demo)
- Geboren um zu leben (Demo)
- 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.Große Freiheit is the second most downloaded album of all time in Germany behind Peter Fox
Peter Fox
Peter Fox was a politician in Manitoba, Canada. He was a New Democratic Party member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1966 to 1986. From 1971 to 1977, he served as Speaker of the legislature....
's Stadtaffe
Stadtaffe
-Weekly charts:"Stadtaffe" entered the German Albums Chart at #4 and reached its peak position #1, which it reached on 4 non-consecutive occasions.It managed to stay in the Top Ten for a total of 41 weeks and it stayed in the Top 50 for 92 weeks....
.
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
Ich + Ich
Ich + Ich , also pronounced "Ich und Ich", is the name of a musical project by the German musicians Annette Humpe and Adel Tawil. They met in a Berlin recording studio in 2002 when Tawil sang on a production that Humpe had written...
's Vom selben Stern, which was released in July 2007. Große Freiheit left the top 5 of the German Albums Chart for the first time the week it achieved this feat.
Chart positions
| Chart positions | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| GER Media Control Charts The official music charts in Germany are gathered and published by the company Media Control GfK International on behalf of Bundesverband Musikindustrie... |
AUT Ö3 Austria Top 40 Ö3 Austria Top 40 is the name of the official Austrian singles chart, as well as the radio show which presents it, aired Fridays on Hitradio Ö3. The show presents the Austrian singles, ringtones and downloads chart. It premiered on 26 November 1968 as Disc Parade and was presented by Ernst Grissemann... |
SWI | EUR |
| 1 | 1 | 3 | 6 |
Year-end charts
| Year | Chart | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | European Top 100 Albums European Top 100 Albums The European Top 100 Albums chart is the European adaptation of the Billboard 200 albums chart. It was created in March 1984.The European Top 100 Albums, commonly referred to as Eurochart Top 100 Albums shows the sales of an act in 19 European countries based on IFPI data.The European Top 100... |
9 |
| German Albums Chart | 1 | |