2013 in continental European music in geographical order.
Scandinavia
Swedish DJ
Avicii has a pan-European hit with "
Wake Me Up!" with vocals from
Aloe Blacc which tops the charts in more than 10 countries. The song is co-written by
Incubus'
Mike Einziger. His next single, "
You Make Me" featuring
Salem Al Fakir, is only a local No. 1 but the third one, "
Hey Brother", tops the charts in seven European countries. His first album True is a No. 1 in Scandinavia and top5 in the US and most European countries.
Stromae's second album Racine carrée is sensationally successful in francophone countries, No. 1 in Switzerland, 7× platinum in Belgium and even Diamond in France. It also tops the Dutch and Italian charts.
Papaoutai,
Formidable and
Tous les mêmes are all No. 1 singles.
Seventy-four-year-old
Schlager music star
Heino surprises with "Mit freundlichen Grüßen" ("Kind Regards"), an album full of cover versions of bands like
Rammstein,
Die Ärzte,
Peter Fox and
Die Fantastischen Vier. It tops the German album charts for four weeks and earns Gold for being sold over 100,000 times. It nets him an unlikely concert gig with Rammstein at the Heavy Metal
Wacken Open Air festival.
Controversial German-speaking Italian/
South Tyrolean band
Frei.Wild are excluded from the
2013 Echo Awards after several other nominees protest against their perceived right wing political views. Their 8th album
Feinde deiner Feinde tops the German charts, though.
Rapper
Cro adds more songs to his Platinum album
Raop, calling it Raop +5, including his first German No. 1 single "Whatever". He wins Best artist Hip Hop/Urban and Best Newcomer at the Echo Awards.
In July, a collaboration of little-known rapper
Shindy and major star
Bushido is released, the album title is NWA (Nie wieder arbeiten) and features the scandal single
Stress ohne Grund on which Bushido phantasizes about torturing or killing politicians like
Claudia Roth and
Serkan Tören and bashes homosexuals. The
Bundesprüfstelle stops the sale of the album to minors in Germany and the video of the single is pulled from YouTube. Several people press charges against Bushido.[4]
Schlager singer
Andrea Berg has her seventh No. 1 album in a row with "Atlantis".
Even though
Kurdish-German rapper
Haftbefehl's song "Chabos wissen wer der Babo ist" only climbs to No. 30 in the German charts it influences German youth language as the
Zazaki word "Babo" ( father, chief ) is elected
Langenscheidt's "youth word of the year".[5]
Russian-German DJ
Zedd has a global hit with
Stay the night ft
Hayley Williams which is only No. 15 in Germany but a No. 2 in the UK, gets platinum in Australia and sells more than 1 million copies in the U.S.
Christophe Maé has his fifth straight No. 1 album in France and Belgium with "Je veux du bonheur".
Jazzy singer-songwriter Isabelle Geffroy, better known as
Zaz whose 2010 debut
Zaz became Platinum in six countries and even Diamond in France releases her second album with
Recto verso, it is top 5 in six countries but not as successful as the debut.
French electronic duo
Klingande top the charts of Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Belgium and Italy with their single "Jubel"
Marco Mengoni, who won the third Italian series of talent show X Factor in 2009, is crowned the winner of the
63rd Sanremo Music Festival with his entry "
L'essenziale", which later holds the first spot of the Italian
FIMI Top Digital Downloads chart for eight consecutive weeks, and is launched as the lead single from the number-one album #prontoacorrere.[6][7][8] It also came 7th in the Eurovision Song Contest 2013.
After becoming the first rapper to compete in Amici di Maria de Filippi,
Moreno wins the talent show, beating runner-up Greta Manuzi, and releases his debut album Stecca, which spends eight weeks at number one on the Italian charts and is certified double platinum by the Federation of the Italian Music Industry.[12][13][14]
Eastern Europe/ Balkans
Romanian
Alexandra Stan who had a million-seller with
Mr. Saxobeat in 2011 is hospitalised in June and files a criminal complaint against her agent and former fiancée Marcel Prodan.[15]
2013 in continental European music in geographical order.
Scandinavia
Swedish DJ
Avicii has a pan-European hit with "
Wake Me Up!" with vocals from
Aloe Blacc which tops the charts in more than 10 countries. The song is co-written by
Incubus'
Mike Einziger. His next single, "
You Make Me" featuring
Salem Al Fakir, is only a local No. 1 but the third one, "
Hey Brother", tops the charts in seven European countries. His first album True is a No. 1 in Scandinavia and top5 in the US and most European countries.
Stromae's second album Racine carrée is sensationally successful in francophone countries, No. 1 in Switzerland, 7× platinum in Belgium and even Diamond in France. It also tops the Dutch and Italian charts.
Papaoutai,
Formidable and
Tous les mêmes are all No. 1 singles.
Seventy-four-year-old
Schlager music star
Heino surprises with "Mit freundlichen Grüßen" ("Kind Regards"), an album full of cover versions of bands like
Rammstein,
Die Ärzte,
Peter Fox and
Die Fantastischen Vier. It tops the German album charts for four weeks and earns Gold for being sold over 100,000 times. It nets him an unlikely concert gig with Rammstein at the Heavy Metal
Wacken Open Air festival.
Controversial German-speaking Italian/
South Tyrolean band
Frei.Wild are excluded from the
2013 Echo Awards after several other nominees protest against their perceived right wing political views. Their 8th album
Feinde deiner Feinde tops the German charts, though.
Rapper
Cro adds more songs to his Platinum album
Raop, calling it Raop +5, including his first German No. 1 single "Whatever". He wins Best artist Hip Hop/Urban and Best Newcomer at the Echo Awards.
In July, a collaboration of little-known rapper
Shindy and major star
Bushido is released, the album title is NWA (Nie wieder arbeiten) and features the scandal single
Stress ohne Grund on which Bushido phantasizes about torturing or killing politicians like
Claudia Roth and
Serkan Tören and bashes homosexuals. The
Bundesprüfstelle stops the sale of the album to minors in Germany and the video of the single is pulled from YouTube. Several people press charges against Bushido.[4]
Schlager singer
Andrea Berg has her seventh No. 1 album in a row with "Atlantis".
Even though
Kurdish-German rapper
Haftbefehl's song "Chabos wissen wer der Babo ist" only climbs to No. 30 in the German charts it influences German youth language as the
Zazaki word "Babo" ( father, chief ) is elected
Langenscheidt's "youth word of the year".[5]
Russian-German DJ
Zedd has a global hit with
Stay the night ft
Hayley Williams which is only No. 15 in Germany but a No. 2 in the UK, gets platinum in Australia and sells more than 1 million copies in the U.S.
Christophe Maé has his fifth straight No. 1 album in France and Belgium with "Je veux du bonheur".
Jazzy singer-songwriter Isabelle Geffroy, better known as
Zaz whose 2010 debut
Zaz became Platinum in six countries and even Diamond in France releases her second album with
Recto verso, it is top 5 in six countries but not as successful as the debut.
French electronic duo
Klingande top the charts of Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Belgium and Italy with their single "Jubel"
Marco Mengoni, who won the third Italian series of talent show X Factor in 2009, is crowned the winner of the
63rd Sanremo Music Festival with his entry "
L'essenziale", which later holds the first spot of the Italian
FIMI Top Digital Downloads chart for eight consecutive weeks, and is launched as the lead single from the number-one album #prontoacorrere.[6][7][8] It also came 7th in the Eurovision Song Contest 2013.
After becoming the first rapper to compete in Amici di Maria de Filippi,
Moreno wins the talent show, beating runner-up Greta Manuzi, and releases his debut album Stecca, which spends eight weeks at number one on the Italian charts and is certified double platinum by the Federation of the Italian Music Industry.[12][13][14]
Eastern Europe/ Balkans
Romanian
Alexandra Stan who had a million-seller with
Mr. Saxobeat in 2011 is hospitalised in June and files a criminal complaint against her agent and former fiancée Marcel Prodan.[15]