Profities is the fourth studio album by Greek singer Despina Vandi

Despina Vandi

Despina Malea , known by her stage name Despina Vandi , is a Greek singer. Born in Tübingen near Stuttgart, West Germany, Vandi's family returned to Kavala, Greece when she was six years old and she later enrolled at the University of Thessaloniki, but eventually dropped out to begin a career in...

. It was released in Greece in 1999 by Minos EMI

Minos EMI

Minos EMI is the domestic trade name of EMI Music Greece, a record company in Greece. It is the Greek record label division of the British-based, multinational EMI Group....

, and in Arabian countries by EMI Arabia in 2000. It was certified gold the day of its release and platinum in 2 days. In 1999 it sales 70,000 copies and become the best selling album by a female artist for 1999. In 2000 it sales 80,000 copies and managed to become 3x Platinum selling 150,000 copies. It, also, stays at number 1 of IFPI charts for 5 weeks. It became, also, 3x Platinum in Cyprus selling 20,000 copies.

The song "Sta Dosa Ola" from the album was ranked by Alpha TV

Alpha TV

Alpha TV is a Greek terrestrial channel . The station features a mix of Greek and foreign shows with an emphasis on entertainment programs. The studios are located near Athens...

 show Chart Show as the twenty fourth most successful Greek love song in Greece during 1980-2009, as well as the sixth most successful break-up song from 1980-2010.

Track listing

Music videos

• "Spania"
• "Oute Ena Efharisto"
• "Profities"
• "Apapa"
• "Giatriko"
• "To Koritsaki Sou"
• "Sta Dosa Ola"

Release history

Region	Date	Format	Label	Version
Greece Greece Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , and historically Hellas or the Republic of Greece in English, is a country in southeastern Europe....	December 10, 1999	CD Compact Disc The Compact Disc is an optical disc used to store digital data. It was originally developed to store and playback sound recordings exclusively, but later expanded to encompass data storage , write-once audio and data storage , rewritable media , Video Compact Discs , Super Video Compact Discs ,... , Digital download Music download A music download is the transferral of music from an Internet-facing computer or website to a user's local computer. This term encompasses both legal downloads and downloads of copyright material without permission or payment...	Minos EMI Minos EMI Minos EMI is the domestic trade name of EMI Music Greece, a record company in Greece. It is the Greek record label division of the British-based, multinational EMI Group....	Original
	December, 1999	CD Compact Disc The Compact Disc is an optical disc used to store digital data. It was originally developed to store and playback sound recordings exclusively, but later expanded to encompass data storage , write-once audio and data storage , rewritable media , Video Compact Discs , Super Video Compact Discs ,...		Collector's edition
Cyprus Cyprus Cyprus , officially the Republic of Cyprus , is a Eurasian island country, member of the European Union, in the Eastern Mediterranean, east of Greece, south of Turkey, west of Syria and north of Egypt. It is the third largest island in the Mediterranean Sea.The earliest known human activity on the...	December 10, 1999	CD Compact Disc The Compact Disc is an optical disc used to store digital data. It was originally developed to store and playback sound recordings exclusively, but later expanded to encompass data storage , write-once audio and data storage , rewritable media , Video Compact Discs , Super Video Compact Discs ,... , Digital download Music download A music download is the transferral of music from an Internet-facing computer or website to a user's local computer. This term encompasses both legal downloads and downloads of copyright material without permission or payment...		Original
Turkey Turkey Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...	2000	MC Compact Cassette The Compact Cassette, often referred to as audio cassette, cassette tape, cassette, or simply tape, is a magnetic tape sound recording format. It was designed originally for dictation, but improvements in fidelity led the Compact Cassette to supplant the Stereo 8-track cartridge and reel-to-reel...		Turkish edition

Charts

Chart	Providers	Peak position	Certification
Greek Albums Chart	IFPI	1	3x Platinum
Cypriot Album Chart	Musical Paradise Top 10	1	3x Platinum

Credits and personnel

Personnel

• Hairi Binikoglou- sazi
• Achilleas Dantilis - strings
• Pavlos Diamantopoulos - bass
• Akis Diximos - background vocals, second vocals
• Kostas Diximos - background vocals
• Panagiotis Drakopoulos - saxophone
• Giorgos Hatzopoulos - guitars (electric, electric midi, acoustic, twelve-strings, classic)
• Katerina Kiriakou - background vocals, second vocals
• Fedon Lionoudakis - accordion
• Andreas Mouzakis - drums
• Giannis Mpithikotsis - bouzouki, baglama, tzoura, mandolin
• Alex Panayi - background vocals
• Phoebus - music, lyrics, strings, piano, keyboards, programming
• Giorgos Roilos - percussion
• Despina Vandi
  Despina Vandi
  Despina Malea , known by her stage name Despina Vandi , is a Greek singer. Born in Tübingen near Stuttgart, West Germany, Vandi's family returned to Kavala, Greece when she was six years old and she later enrolled at the University of Thessaloniki, but eventually dropped out to begin a career in...
  
   - vocals
• Thanasis Vasilopoulos - clarinet, ney
• Alexis Vourazelis - piano, keyboards, programming
• Martha Zioga - background vocals

Production

• Vaggelis Siapatis - sound
• Giorgos Stampolis - sound, computer editing
• Achilleas Theofilou - production manager
• Manolis Vlahos - sound, mix
• Alexis Vourazelis - sound

Design

• Katia Dimopoulou - art direction
• Panos Kallitsis
  Panos Kallitsis
  -Early life:Panos Kallitsis was born in Athens and raised in Piraeus. The first stimulants into the fashion industry and styling came from his father, also a hair stylist at the time....
  
  - makeup
• Manolis Kalogeropoulos - photos
• Maria Pitsokou - cover-insert design
• Tasos Vrettos - photos

Credits adapted from the album's liner notes.