Herbert Grönemeyer discography

Herbert Grönemeyer discography
Herbert Grönemeyer performing in 2007
Studio albums	14
Live albums	5
Compilation albums	2
Video albums	6
Singles	39

This is the discography for Herbert Grönemeyer, a German musician. According to record certifications he has sold over 18 million records. His most successful album is Mensch with 3,700,000 copies sold.

Albums

Studio albums

Year	Title	Chart positions			Notes
		GER[1]	AUT[2]	SWI[3]
1979	Grönemeyer	—	—	—	Release: 1979
1980	Zwo	—	—	—	Release: 1980
1982	Total egal	—	—	—	Release: 1982
1983	Gemischte Gefühle	43 (12 weeks)	—	—	Release: 1983 Sales: + 300,000
1984	4630 Bochum	1 (33 weeks)	7 (24 weeks)	12 (13 weeks)	Release: 14 August 1984 Sales: + 2,600,000
1986	Sprünge	1 (40 weeks)	1 (40 weeks)	1 (22 weeks)	Release: 30 April 1986 Sales: + 1,000,000
1988	Ö	1 (85 weeks)	1 (78 weeks)	1 (29 weeks)	Release: 30. March 1988 Sales: + 1,900,000
1990	Luxus	1 (55 weeks)	1 (20 weeks)	6 (18 weeks)	Release: 17 September 1990 Sales: + 800,000
1993	Chaos	1 (49 weeks)	2 (17 weeks)	8 (10 weeks)	Release: 24 May 1993 Sales: + 800,000
1998	Bleibt alles anders	1 (57 weeks)	1 (16 weeks)	3 (20 weeks)	Release: 17 April 1998 Sales: + 900,000
2002	Mensch	1 (95 weeks)	1 (83 weeks)	1 (76 weeks)	Release: 30. August 2002 Sales: + 3,700,000[4]
2007	12	1 (71 weeks)	1 (28 weeks)	1 (27 weeks)	Release: 1 March 2007 Sales: + 1,600,000
2011	Schiffsverkehr	1 (49 weeks)	1 (20 weeks)	1 (23 weeks)	Release: 18 March 2011 Sales: + 400,000[5]
2014	Dauernd jetzt	1 (… weeks)	1 (… weeks)	1 (… weeks)	Release: 21 November 2014

Live albums

Year	Title	Chart positions			Notes
		GER[1]	AUT[2]	SWI[3]
1995	Grönemeyer live	3 (46 weeks)	3 (64 weeks)	4 (19 weeks)	Release: 30 October 1995 Sales: + 815,000
1995	Unplugged Herbert	6 (31 weeks)	8 (22 weeks)	9 (17 weeks)	Release: 30 October 1995 Sales: + 1,000,000
2000	Stand der Dinge	—	—	—	Release: 13 November 2000
2003	Mensch live	1 (20 weeks)	*	34 (7 weeks)	Release: 7 November 2003 Sales: + 320.000 * see DVD
2016	Live in Bochum	7 (... weeks)	—	—	Release: 25 November 2016

Compilation albums

Year	Title	Chart positions			Notes
		GER[1]	AUT[2]	SWI[3]
1992	So gut (1979-1983)	—	—	—	Release: 1 March 1992
2008	Was muss muss (Best of)	1 (45 weeks)	1 (26 weeks)	8 (… weeks)	Release: 21 November 2008 Sales: + 700,000

Remix-albums

Year	Title	Chart positions			Notes
		GER[1]	AUT[2]	SWI[3]
1993	Cosmic Chaos	16 (16 weeks)	—	—	Re-release: 20 October 1994
2003	Mensch Remixe	*	*	*	Release: 29 September 2003 * see Mensch

English language Studio albums

• 1979: Ocean Orchestra (with Bernt Laukamp, Markus Stockhausen, Heiner Wiberny, Johannes Wawersik, Alexander Sputh, Helmut Kandlberger and Jürgen Flimm)
• 1988: What’s All This
• 1992: Luxus
• 1996: Chaos
• 2012: I Walk

Singles

Chart positions

Year	Title	Chart positions			Notes
		GER[6]	AUT[2]	SWI[3]
1984	"Männer" 4630 Bochum	7 (26 weeks)	—	27 (5 weeks)	Release: 4 June 1984
1984	"Alkohol" 4630 Bochum	33 (10 weeks)	—	—	Release: 8 Oktober 1984
1985	"Flugzeuge im Bauch" 4630 Bochum	44 (10 weeks)	—	—	Release: 4 February 1985
1986	"Kinder an die Macht" Sprünge	33 (11 week)	10 (10 weeks)	—	Release: 31 März 1986
1988	"Was soll das?" Ö	3 (20 weeks)	15 (12 weeks)	—	Release: 28 März 1988
1988	"Vollmond" Ö	21 (15 weeks)	—	—	Release: 27 June 1988
1988	"Halt mich" Ö	33 (17 weeks)	—	—	Release: 16 Oktober 1988
1989	"Komet" Ö	59 (3 weeks)	—	—	Release: 16 Januar 1989
1990	"Deine Liebe klebt" Luxus	8 (16 weeks)	23 (6 weeks)	—	Release: 13 August 1990
1990	"Luxus" Luxus	35 (14 weeks)	—	—	Release: 5 November 1990
1991	"Marie" Luxus	53 (14 weeks)	—	—	Release: 4 February 1991
1991	"Haarscharf" Luxus	64 (9 weeks)	—	—	Release: 1 July 1991
1993	"Chaos" Chaos	20 (13 weeks)	—	—	Release: 10 May 1993
1993	"Fisch im Netz" Chaos	51 (9 weeks)	—	—	Release: 16 August 1993
1993	"Land unter" Chaos	52 (11 week)	—	—	Release: 4 October 1993
1994	"Die Härte" Chaos	92 (1 week)	—	—	Release: 7 February 1994
1996	"Ich hab dich lieb" (live) Grönemeyer Live	—	12 (12 weeks)	—	Release: 11 February 1996
1998	"Bleibt alles anders" Bleibt alles anders	25 (13 weeks)	16 (11 week)	36 (6 weeks)	Release: 2 March 1998
1998	"Letzte Version" Bleibt alles anders	79 (9 weeks)	—	—	Release: 5 June 1998
2000	"Da Da Da" Pop 2000	54 (5 weeks)	—	—	Release: 31 January 2000
2000	"Flugzeuge im Bauch" (live) Grönemeyer Live	42 (1 week)	—	—	Release: 13 November 2000
2002	"Mensch" Mensch	1 (23 weeks)	1 (24 weeks)	2 (28 weeks)	Release: 5 August 2002 Verkäufe: + 520.000
2002	"Der Weg" Mensch	12 (12 weeks)	14 (15 weeks)	35 (17 weeks)	Release: 11 November 2002
2003	"Demo (Letzter Tag)" Mensch	36 (10 weeks)	53 (12 weeks)	—	Release: 17 February 2003
2003	"Zum Meer" Mensch	81 (3 weeks)	—	—	Release: 26 Mai 2003
2006	"Zeit, dass sich was dreht" Voices from the Fifa World Cup	1 (37 weeks)	2 (20 weeks)	17 (13 weeks)	Release: 30 March 2007 Verkäufe: + 300.000; (mit Amadou & Mariam)
2007	"Stück vom Himmel" 12	1 (13 weeks)	5 (18 weeks)	3 (22 weeks)	Release: 2 February 2007
2007	"Du bist die" 12	42 (9 weeks)	67 (3 weeks)	99 (1 week)	Release: 4 May 2007
2007	"Kopf hoch, tanzen" 12	66 (7 weeks)	—	—	Release: 20 July 2007
2007	"Leb in meiner Welt" 12	71 (2 weeks)	—	—	Release: 26 October 2007
2008	"Glück" Was muss muss (Best of)	4 (17 weeks)	3 (20 weeks)	26 (18 weeks)	Release: 7 November 2008
2010	"Komm zur Ruhr"	7 (16 weeks)	—	—	Release: 22 January 2010
2011	"Schiffsverkehr" Schiffsverkehr	10 (11 week)	33 (4 weeks)	45 (3 weeks)	Release: 4 February 2011
2011	"Fernweh" Schiffsverkehr	93 (1 week)	65 (1 week)	—	Release: 6 May 2011
2011	"Zu dir" Schiffsverkehr	76 (1 week)	72 (1 week)	—	Release: 2 September 2011
2014	"Morgen" Dauernd jetzt	5 (6 weeks)	8 (5 weeks)	12 (6 weeks)	Release: 7 November 2014
2015	"Fang mich an" Dauernd jetzt	41 (… weeks)	—	—	Release: 27 February 2015

Chart positions as guest musician

Year	Title	Chart positions			Notes
		GER	AUT	SWI
1985	Nackt im Wind	3 (10 weeks)	—	—	Release: 21 January 1985 (with Band für Afrika)
2003	Taxi Europa Taxi Europa	—	—	53[7] (14 weeks)	Release: 26 May 2003 (with Stephan Eicher and Gazzé)
2007	Einfach sein Fornika	11[8] (27 weeks)	13[9] (29 weeks)	22[10] (15 weeks)	Release: 25 May 2007 (with Die Fantastischen Vier[11])
2016	Jeder für jeden	27 (... weeks)	—	—	Release: 22 April 2016 (with Felix Jaehn)

Charts summary

	GER	AUT	SWI
No. 1 singles	3	1	—
Singles in the Top 10	11	6	2
Singles in the charts	39	17	12

Collaboration with other artists

• 1985 "Nackt im Wind" (Single) by Band for Africa (with Nena, Udo Lindenberg, Peter Maffay, Rio Reiser, Wolfgang Niedecken and others)
• 1991 The Fall of the House of Usher as The Herbalist (album by Peter Hammill and Judge Smith)
• 1996 "Uebers Meer" (Album: Tribute to Rio Reiser)
• 2003 "Taxi Europa" (Album: Taxi Europa) by Stephan Eicher
• 2004 "Everlasting" (Album: Unity – Athens 2004) with Youssou N'Dour
• 2005 "Einmal nur in unserem Leben" (Album: Dreimal Zehn Jahre BAP) by BAP
• 2006 "Grauschleier" (Album: 26½) by Fehlfarben
• 2006 "Zeit, dass sich was dreht / Celebrate the day / Fetez cette journée" (Single) with Amadou and Marjam
• 2006 "Geld 2006 (Internet Warm-Up Version)" song released as a bonus track on rarities compilation "Mon Amour" by Klaus Dinger
• 2007 "Einfach sein" (Album: Fornika) by Die Fantastischen Vier
• 2008 "Will I Ever Learn" (Album: Was muss muss) with Antony Hegarty
• 2009 "Mes Emmerdes" (Album: Duos) with Charles Aznavour
• 2009 "Als es mir beschissen ging" (Album: Duos) with Charles Aznavour
• 2015 ″Staubkorn (The Dying Rays)″ (Album: What Happens Next) with Gang Of Four

Other Releases

• 1979: Don’t Begin
• 1979: Pompeji
• 1982: Anna
• 1982: Currywurst
• 1983: Musik, nur wenn sie laut ist
• 1983: Kaufen
• 1986: Tanzen
• 1986: Nur noch so
• 1988: Full Moon
• 1991: Video
• 1991: Onur
• 1992: Hard Cash
• 1995: Morgenrot
• 1995: Halt mich (unplugged)
• 1996: Bochum (live)
• 1996: Ich will mehr (unplugged)
• 1996: Halt mich (live)
• 1996: Land unter (unplugged)
• 1996: Land unter (Dance Version)
• 1998: Nach mir
• 1998: Fanatisch
• 1998: Stand der Dinge
• 1999: Ich dreh mich um dich
• 2000: Lächeln (live)

VHS/DVDs

Year	Title	Chart positions			Notes
		GER	AT[2]	CH[3]
1988	Ö-Tour ’88	—	—	—	Released: 12 December 1988
1991	Grönemeyer Live	—	—	—	Released: 26 September 1991
1995	Unplugged Herbert	—	—	—	Released: 30 November 1995
2003	Mensch live	*	1 (23 weeks)	*	Released: 7 November 2003 Sales: + 320,000
2006	Stand der Dinge	—	—	—	Released: 21 September 2006 Sales: + 300,000
2007	12 live	—	2 (6 weeks)	—	Released 15 November 2007 Sales: +75,000

* see corresponding studio album

Box Sets

Year	Title	Chart positions			Notes
		GER	AT[2]	CH[3]
1990	Die ersten Vier	—	—	—	Released: 1 September 1990
2016	Alles	15 (... weeks)	—	—	Released: 25 November 2016

Film scores

• 2010: The American^[12]
• 2014: A Most Wanted Man

Record certifications

Gold Record[13] Germany 1988: for the album Gemischte Gefühle Austria 1991: for the album 1978-1980 1993: for the album Chaos 1995: for the album Unplugged Herbert 1998: for the album Bleibt alles anders Switzerland 1990: for the album Luxus 1997: for the album Grönemeyer Live 2002: for the single Mensch Platinum Record[13] Germany 1999: for the album Unplugged Herbert 2002: für die Single Mensch 2006: for the single Zeit, dass sich was dreht Europe 2000: for the album Unplugged Herbert 2007: for the album 12 Austria 1991: for the album Luxus 2008: for the album Was muss muss (Best of) 2011: for the album Schiffsverkehr Switzerland 1989: for the album Ö 1990: for the album 4630 Bochum 1998: for the album Bleibt alles anders 3x Gold Record[13] Germany 1991: for the album Luxus 2007: for the album Bleibt alles anders 2007: for the album Chaos 2007: for the album Grönemeyer Live 2008: for the DVD 12 Live 2011: for the album Schiffsverkehr

2x Platinum Record[13] Germany 1993: for the album Sprünge 2001: for the DVD Stand der Dinge Austria 1991: for the album Ö 1993: for the album 4630 Bochum 1998: for the album Grönemeyer Live 2003: for the DVD Mensch Live 3x Platinum Record[13] Germany 2011: for the album Was muss muss (Best of) Europa 2003: for the album Mensch Austria 2007: for the album 12 Switzerland 2007: for the album 12 7x Gold Record[13] Germany 2007: for the album Ö 4x Platinum Record[13] Germany 2007: for the DVD Stand der Dinge 2007: for the album 12 5x Platinum Record[13] Germany 1997: for the album 4630 Bochum 6x Platinum Record[13] Germany 2006: for the DVD Mensch Live 8x Platinum Record[13] Austria 2004: for the album Mensch

10x Platinum Record[13] Switzerland 2003: for the album Mensch 21x Gold Record[13] Germany 2005: for the album Mensch

Summary

Region	Certification
Germany (BVMI)[14]	9× Gold
Germany (BVMI)[14]	48× Platinum
Europe (IFPI)[15]	5× Platinum
Austria (IFPI Austria)[16]	4× Gold
Austria (IFPI Austria)[16]	22× Platinum
Switzerland (IFPI Switzerland)[17]	3× Gold
Switzerland (IFPI Switzerland)[17]	16× Platinum

Notes and references

1. "Grönemeyer, Herbert – Longplay-Chartverfolgung". musicline.de (in German). Phononet GmbH. Retrieved 22 December 2011.
2. "Discographie Herbert Grönemeyer". austriancharts.at (in German). Hung Medien. Retrieved 22 December 2011.
3. "Herbert Grönemeyer". hitparade.ch (in German). Hung Medien. Retrieved 22 December 2011.
4. "Gold/Platin Höchstverleihungen" (PDF) (in German). Bundesverband Musikindustrie. 21 June 2010. Retrieved 22 December 2011.
5. Löffler, Margaretha (8 July 2011). ""Schiffsverkehr": Herbert Gröneymeyer Tour 2011 lockt 550.000 Fans an". Musikmarkt (in German). Retrieved 22 December 2011.
6. "Grönemeyer, Herbert – Single-Chartverfolgung". musicline.de (in German). Phononet GmbH. Retrieved 22 December 2011.
7. "Stephan Eicher feat. Gazzé & Grönemeyer – Taxi Europa". hitparade.ch. Hung Medien. Retrieved 22 December 2011.
8. "Die Fantastischen Vier – Single-Chartverfolgung". musicline.de (in German). Phononet GmbH. Retrieved 22 December 2011.
9. "Die Fantastischen Vier – Fornika". austriancharts.at (in German). Hung Medien. Retrieved 22 December 2011.
10. "Einfach Sein – Die Fantastischen Vier". hitparade.ch. Hung Medien. Retrieved 22 December 2011.
11. "Einfach Sein – Die Fantastischen Vier (Credits)". Allmusic. Retrieved 22 December 2011.
12. "Cast and Crew". The American official website. Retrieved 27 December 2011.
13. Music recording sales certifications: GER AUT SWI EU
14. "Gold-/Platin-Datenbank (Herbert Grönemeyer)" (in German). Bundesverband Musikindustrie.
15. "IFPI Platinum Europe Awards – 2000". International Federation of the Phonographic Industry.
16. "Austrian album certifications" (in German). IFPI Austria.
17. "The Official Swiss Charts and Music Community: Awards (Herbert Grönemeyer)". IFPI Switzerland. Hung Medien.