List of best-selling singles in Germany
Best-selling singles in Germany
Table:
Sortable table

Year

Title

Artist

Certification[7][8]

Shipments

(Sales)[9]

1997
"Candle in the Wind 1997"
Elton John
9× Platinum
4.5 million

1957
"The River Kwai March"
Mitch Miller
—
(4 million)[dubious – discuss]

1997
"Time To Say Goodbye"
Andrea Bocelli feat. Sarah Brightman
11× Gold
2.75 million

1958
"Der lachende Vagabund"
Fred Bertelmann
—
(2 million)

1963
"Junge, komm bald wieder"
Freddy Quinn
—
(2 million)

1965
"Il Silenzio"
Nini Rosso
—
(2 million)

1971
"Butterfly"
Danyel Gerard
—
(2 million)

1967
"Massachusetts"
Bee Gees
—
(2 million)

1998
"My Heart Will Go On"
Celine Dion
4× Platinum
2 million

1964
"Vergangen vergessen vorüber"
Freddy Quinn
—
(1.8 million)

2017
"Shape of You"
Ed Sheeran
9× Gold
1.8 million

2017
"Despacito"
Luis Fonsi & Daddy Yankee
7× Gold+Gold†
1.6 million

1972
“Ich hab’ die Liebe geseh’n”
Vicky Leandros
—
1.5 million

1992
"Conquest of Paradise"
Vangelis
3× Platinum
1.5 million

1998
"Flugzeuge im Bauch"
Oli. P
3× Platinum
1.5 million

1999
"Mambo No. 5"
Lou Bega
3× Platinum
1.5 million

1997
"I'll Be Missing You"
Puff Daddy feat. Faith Evans and 112
5× Gold
1.25 million

1998
"Believe"
Cher
5× Gold
1.25 million

1999
"Blue (Da Ba Dee)"
Eiffel 65
5× Gold
1.25 million

2007
"Ein Stern (...der deinen Namen trägt)"
DJ Ötzi feat. Nik P.
4× Platinum
1.2 million

Consulting the following table along with the supporting evidence listed at the end.

State the answer to the question: The artist with the 2nd highest amount in title sales died in what year ? Output only the correct answer as {"answer": "YOUR ANSWER"}. Avoid adding external knowledge.

Candle in the Wind 1997 is a song by Bernie Taupin and Elton John , a re-written and re-recorded version of their 1973 song Candle in the Wind . It was released on 13 September 1997 as a tribute single to Diana , Princess of Wales , with the global proceeds from the song going towards Diana 's charities . In many countries , it was pressed as a double A-side with Something About the Way You Look Tonight . The song was written by Taupin , produced by Sir George Martin , and is the second best selling physical single in history . According to the Guinness Book of Records , Candle in the Wind 1997 is the second highest-selling physical single of all time ( behind Bing Crosby 's White Christmas from 1942 ) , and is the highest-selling single since charts began in the 1950s . After being released , Candle in the Wind 1997 entered at number one in the UK Singles Chart , John 's fourth UK number-one single , and became the best-selling single in UK chart history . In October it became John 's ninth US number-one single , where it topped the Billboard Hot 100 for 14 weeks , and is the best-selling single in Billboard history ; it was the first single certified Diamond in the US . The song also topped the German Singles Chart for seven weeks , the Australian Singles Chart for six weeks , and many other music charts around the world . The 1997 version won John the Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance at the 40th Grammy Awards ceremony in 1998 . At the 1998 Brit Awards the song was nominated for the Brit Award for Best British Single . The lyrics of the earlier version of Candle in the Wind , also written by Taupin , were a tribute to Marilyn Monroe . The opening lines of the 1973 version , Goodbye Norma Jean , though I never knew you at all , were adapted to Goodbye England 's rose , may you ever grow in our hearts .
Sir Elton Hercules John CH CBE ( born Reginald Kenneth Dwight ; 25 March 1947 ) is an English singer , songwriter , pianist , and composer . He has worked with lyricist Bernie Taupin since 1967 ; they have collaborated on more than 30 albums . John has sold more than 300 million records , making him one of the best-selling music artists . He has more than fifty Top 40 hits in the UK Singles Chart and US Billboard Hot 100 , including seven numbers ones in the UK and nine in the US , as well as seven consecutive number-one albums in the US . His tribute single Candle in the Wind 1997 , rewritten in dedication to Diana , Princess of Wales , sold over 33 million copies worldwide and is the best-selling single in the history of the UK and US singles charts . He has also produced records and occasionally acted in films . John owned Watford F.C . from 1976 to 1987 and from 1997 to 2002 , and is an honorary life president of the club . Raised in the Pinner area of London , John learned to play piano at an early age , and by 1962 had formed Bluesology , an R & B band with whom he played until 1967 . He met his longtime musical partner Taupin in 1967 , after they both answered an advert for songwriters . For two years , they wrote songs for artists including Lulu , and John worked as a session musician for artists including the Hollies and the Scaffold . In 1969 , John 's debut album , Empty Sky , was released .
The River Kwai March is a march composed by Malcolm Arnold in 1957 . It was written as an orchestral counter-march to the Colonel Bogey March , which is whistled by the soldiers entering the prisoner camp in the film The Bridge on the River Kwai and again near the end of the film when the bridge is formally dedicated . The Arnold march re-appears ( without the Colonel Bogey March ) several times in the film and is repeated at the finale . The two marches have been recorded together by Mitch Miller as March from the River Kwai - Colonel Bogey . Due to this , the Colonel Bogey March is often mis-credited as River Kwai March . The Arnold march was published by Shapiro , Bernstein & Co. in a piano arrangement by Robert C. Haring . It also forms part of the orchestral concert suite made of the Arnold film score by Christopher Palmer published by Novello & Co .
Mitchell William Miller ( July 4 , 1911 - July 31 , 2010 ) was an American oboist , conductor , record producer and record industry executive . He was involved in almost all aspects of the industry , particularly as a conductor , and artist and repertoire ( A & R ) man . Miller was one of the most influential people in American popular music during the 1950s and early 1960s , both as the head of A & R at Columbia Records and as a best-selling recording artist with an NBC television series , Sing Along with Mitch . A graduate of the Eastman School of Music of the University of Rochester in the early 1930s , Miller began his musical career as a player of the oboe and English horn , making numerous highly regarded classical and popular recordings . He was a choral conductor on television and a recordings executive .
Con te partirò ( Italian : [ kon ˈte partiˈrɔ ] ; With you I shall leave ) is an Italian song written by Francesco Sartori ( music ) and Lucio Quarantotto ( lyrics ) . It was first performed by Andrea Bocelli at the 1995 Sanremo Music Festival and recorded on his album of the same year , Bocelli . The single was first released as an A-side single with Vivere in 1995 , topping the charts , first in France , where it became one of the best-selling singles of all-time , and then in Belgium , breaking the all-time record sales there . A second version of the song , sung partly in English , released in 1996 as Time to Say Goodbye , paired Bocelli with British soprano Sarah Brightman , and achieved even greater success , topping charts all across Europe , including Germany , where it became the biggest-selling single in history . Brightman and Bocelli produced a version with Brightman singing in German and Bocelli in Italian , with this version being available on the CD Time to Say Goodbye . That version alone has now sold more than 12 million copies worldwide , making it one of the best-selling singles of all time . Bocelli also recorded a full Spanish version of the song , titled Por ti volaré ( For You I Will Fly ) . Under all three versions , the song is considered Bocelli 's signature song . [ citation needed ]
Andrea Angel Bocelli OMRI OMDSM ( Italian pronunciation : [ anˈdreːa boˈtʃɛlli ] ; born 22 September 1958 ) is an Italian opera singer , songwriter , and record producer . Celine Dion has said that if God would have a singing voice , he must sound a lot like Andrea Bocelli , and David Foster , a record producer , often describes Bocelli 's voice as the most beautiful in the world . Following a football accident , Bocelli was diagnosed with Traumatic glaucoma , becoming completely blind at age 12 . Since 1982 , Bocelli has recorded 15 solo studio albums of both pop and classical music , three greatest hits albums , and nine complete operas , selling over 90 million records worldwide . He has had success as a crossover performer , bringing classical music to the top of international pop charts . In 1998 , Bocelli was named one of People magazine 's 50 Most Beautiful People . In 1999 , he was nominated for Best New Artist at the Grammy Awards . The Prayer is his duet with Celine Dion for the animated film Quest for Camelot which won the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song . He captured a listing in the Guinness Book of World Records with the release of his classical album Sacred Arias , as he simultaneously held the top three positions on the US Classical Albums charts . Bocelli was made a Grand Officer of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic in 2006 and was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on 2 March 2010 for his contribution to Live Theater .
Sarah Brightman ( born 14 August 1960 ) is an English classical crossover soprano , singer , songwriter , actress , dancer and musician . Brightman began her career as a member of the dance troupe Hot Gossip and released several disco singles as a solo performer . In 1981 , she made her West End musical theatre debut in Cats and met composer Andrew Lloyd Webber , whom she later married . She went on to star in several West End and Broadway musicals , including The Phantom of the Opera , where she originated the role of Christine Daaé . Her original London cast album of Phantom was released in CD format in 1987 and sold 40 million copies worldwide , making it the biggest-selling cast album ever . After retiring from the stage and divorcing Lloyd Webber , Brightman resumed her music career with former Enigma producer Frank Peterson , this time as a classical crossover artist . She has been credited as the creator and remains among the most prominent performers of this genre , with worldwide sales of more than 35 million albums and two million DVDs , establishing herself as the world 's best-selling soprano . Brightman 's 1996 duet with the Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli , Time to Say Goodbye , topped the charts all over Europe and became the highest and fastest-selling single of all-time in Germany , where it stayed at the top of the charts for 14 consecutive weeks and sold over three million copies . It subsequently became an international success , selling 12 million copies worldwide , making it one of the best-selling singles of all-time . She has collected over 200 gold and platinum record awards in 38 different countries . In 2010 , she was named by Billboard the fifth most influential and best-selling classical artist of the 2000s decade in the US and according to Nielsen SoundScan , she has sold 6.5 million albums in the country . Brightman is the first artist to have been invited twice to perform the theme song at the Olympic Games , first at the 1992 Barcelona Olympic Games where she sang Amigos Para Siempre with the Spanish tenor José Carreras with an estimated global audience of a billion people , and 16 years later in 2008 in Beijing , this time with Chinese singer Liu Huan , performing the song You and Me to an estimated four billion people worldwide .
Fred Bertelmann ( 7 October 1925 - 22 January 2014 ) was a German singer and actor .
Freddy Quinn ( born Franz Eugen Helmut Manfred Nidl ; 27 September 1931 , in Niederfladnitz , Austria ) is an Austrian singer and actor whose popularity within the German-speaking world soared in the late 1950s and 1960s . Similar to Hans Albers two generations before him , Quinn adopted the persona of the rootless wanderer who goes to sea but longs for a home , family and friends . Quinn 's Irish family name comes from his Irish born salesman father , Johann Quinn . His mother , Edith Henriette Nidl , was an Austrian journalist . He is often associated with the Schlager scene .
Il Silenzio ( The Silence ) is an instrumental piece , with a small spoken Italian lyric , notable for its trumpet theme . It was written in 1965 ( see Origin below ) by trumpet player Nini Rosso and Guglielmo Brezza , its thematic melody being an extension of the same Italian Cavalry bugle call used by the Russian composer Tchaikovsky to open his Capriccio Italien ( often mistaken for the U.S. military bugle call Taps ) . It has become a worldwide instrumental standard that has sold around 10 million copies . It was a number one hit in Italy , Germany , Austria , and Switzerland , and sold over five million copies by the end of 1967 . Rosso was awarded a gold disc . On 9 January 1965 it reached the Number 2 position in Australia and stayed in the charts for 19 weeks , and in the United Kingdom it peaked at number 8 on the Record Retailer singles chart . In the United States it reached # 32 in the Billboard Easy Listening Charts . In Canada , the song reached # 24 in the RPM Adult Contemporary charts .
Raffaele Celeste Nini Rosso ( 19 September 1926 - 5 October 1994 ) was an Italian jazz trumpeter and composer .
Butterfly is a pop song , written and recorded by the French singer-songwriter , Danyel Gérard ( born Gerard Daniel Khertakian , 7 March 1939 , Paris ) in the late 1960s . It was initially a hit in the French language . In the early 1970s English language words were written , and Gerard recorded it again in the United States . In 1971 he also did German , Spanish and Italian versions . Butterfly was a very popular song internationally , selling over seven million copies . Many other musicians recorded it , both in instrumental and vocal versions . In the U.S. , that list included Eydie Gormé , Goldie Hawn and Eddy Arnold . The single was Number 1 in Germany for fifteen weeks in summer 1971 . It also reached # 2 in South Africa . It reached Number 11 ( and spent 12 weeks ) in the UK Singles Chart in October 1971 . Lack of further chart activity in the UK saw both singer and song branded as a one-hit wonder . It also appeared in the first compilation album put together specifically for telemarketing in the UK , K-Tel 's 20 Dynamic Hits .
Danyel Gérard ( born Gérard Daniel Kherlakian , 7 March 1939 ) is a French pop singer and composer .
( The Lights Went Out In ) Massachusetts is a song by the Bee Gees , released in 1967 . Written by Barry , Robin & Maurice Gibb . Robin Gibb sang lead vocals on this song and it would become one of his staple songs to perform during both Bee Gees concerts and his solo appearances . It later appeared on their 1968 album , Horizontal . The song became the first of the group 's five No . 1 hits in the UK Singles Chart , reached No . 1 in twelve other countries , peaked at No . 11 on the Billboard Hot 100 and eventually became one of the best-selling singles of all time , selling over five million copies worldwide . When the brothers wrote the song , they had never been to Massachusetts . In a UK television special on ITV in December 2011 , it was voted third ( behind How Deep Is Your Love and You Win Again ) in The Nation 's Favourite Bee Gees Song .
The Bee Gees were a pop music group formed in 1958 . Their lineup consisted of brothers Barry , Robin , and Maurice Gibb . The trio were especially successful as a popular music act in the late 1960s and early 1970s , and later as prominent performers of the disco music era in the mid-to-late 1970s . The group sang recognisable three-part tight harmonies ; Robin 's clear vibrato lead vocals were a hallmark of their earlier hits , while Barry 's R & B falsetto became their signature sound during the mid-to-late 1970s and 1980s . The Bee Gees wrote all of their own hits , as well as writing and producing several major hits for other artists . Born on the Isle of Man to English parents , the Gibb brothers lived in Chorlton , Manchester , England until the late 1950s . There , in 1955 , they formed the skiffle/rock and roll group the Rattlesnakes . The family then moved to Redcliffe , in the Moreton Bay Region , Queensland , Australia , and then to Cribb Island . After achieving their first chart success in Australia as the Bee Gees with Spicks and Specks ( their 12th single ) , they returned to the UK in January 1967 , when producer Robert Stigwood began promoting them to a worldwide audience . The Bee Gees have sold between 120 million to 220 million records worldwide , making them one of the world 's best-selling artists of all time . They were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1997 ; the presenter of the award to Britain 's first family of harmony was Brian Wilson , historical frontman of the Beach Boys , another family act featuring three harmonising brothers . The Bee Gees ' Hall of Fame citation says , Only Elvis Presley , the Beatles , Michael Jackson , Garth Brooks and Paul McCartney have outsold the Bee Gees .
My Heart Will Go On is a song recorded by Canadian singer Celine Dion . It serves as the main theme song to James Cameron 's blockbuster film Titanic , which itself based on an account of the transatlantic passenger liner of the same name which sank in 1912 after colliding with an iceberg in the North Atlantic Ocean . The song 's music was composed by James Horner , its lyrics were written by Will Jennings , while the production was handled by Walter Afanasieff , Horner and Simon Franglen . Released as a single from Dion 's fifth English-language studio album , Let 's Talk About Love ( 1997 ) , and the film 's soundtrack , the love power ballad became an international hit , reaching number one in over 20 countries , including Australia , Austria , Belgium , Canada , Denmark , Finland , France , Germany , Ireland , Italy , the Netherlands , Norway , Scotland , Spain , Sweden , Switzerland , the United Kingdom , and the United States . My Heart Will Go On is considered to be Dion 's signature song . With worldwide sales estimated at 18 million copies , it is one of the best-selling singles of all time and became the second-best-selling single by a female artist in history . It was also included in the list of Songs of the Century by the Recording Industry Association of America and the National Endowment for the Arts . The music video was directed by Bille Woodruff and released at the end of 1997 . Dion performed the song to honor the 20th anniversary of the film at the 2017 Billboard Music Awards on May 21 , 2017 .
Céline Marie Claudette Dion CC OQ ( /seɪˌliːn diˈɒn/ , also UK : /- ˈdiːɒn/ , French : [ selin maʁi klodɛt djɔ̃ ] , Quebec French : [ - d͡zjɔ̃ ] ; born 30 March 1968 ) is a Canadian singer . Born into a large family from Charlemagne , Quebec , she emerged as a teen star in her homeland with a series of French-language albums during the 1980s . She first gained international recognition by winning both the 1982 Yamaha World Popular Song Festival and the 1988 Eurovision Song Contest , where she represented Switzerland . After learning to speak English , she signed on to Epic Records in the United States . In 1990 , Dion released her debut English-language album , Unison , establishing herself as a viable pop artist in North America and other English-speaking areas of the world . During the 1990s , she achieved worldwide fame after releasing several best-selling English albums , such as Falling into You ( 1996 ) and Let 's Talk About Love ( 1997 ) , which were both certified diamond in the US . She also scored a series of international number-one hits , including The Power of Love , Think Twice , Because You Loved Me , It 's All Coming Back to Me Now , My Heart Will Go On , and I 'm Your Angel . Dion continued releasing French albums between each English record ; D'eux ( 1995 ) became the best-selling French-language album of all time , while S'il suffisait d'aimer ( 1998 ) , Sans attendre ( 2012 ) , and Encore un soir ( 2016 ) , were all certified diamond in France . During the 2000s , she built her reputation as a highly successful live performer with A New Day . in Las Vegas Strip ( 2003-07 ) , which remains the highest-grossing concert residency of all time , as well as the Taking Chances World Tour ( 2008-09 ) , one of the highest-grossing concert tours of all time . Dion 's music has been influenced by genres ranging from rock and R & B to gospel and classical . Her recordings are mainly in French and English , although she also sings in Spanish , Italian , German , Latin , Japanese , and Mandarin Chinese .
Shape of You is a song by English singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran . It was released as a digital download on 6 January 2017 as one of the double lead singles from his third studio album ÷ ( 2017 ) , along with Castle on the Hill . The dancehall-infused pop song was written by Ed Sheeran , Steve Mac and Johnny McDaid . Due to its interpolation of No Scrubs by TLC , Kandi Burruss , Tameka Tiny Cottle , and Kevin She'kspere Briggs are also credited as writers . The song was produced by Sheeran and Mac . Shape of You peaked at number-one on the singles charts of 34 countries , including the US Billboard Hot 100 ( later becoming the best performing song of 2017 ) , as well as the UK , Australian and Canadian singles charts . It stayed at number one for a record-tying 16 consecutive weeks on the Canadian Hot 100 , as well as 14 non-consecutive weeks on the UK Singles Chart , and 12 non-consecutive weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 . On 10 December 2018 , the song became the first song to hit 2 billion streams and the most streamed song on Spotify . It was also the most-streamed song of the decade on Spotify with 2.4 billion streams by December 2019 . It was the best-selling song of 2017 and the decade in the UK . Shape of You was the best selling-song of 2017 and the best selling digital song worldwide , with combined sales and track-equivalent streams of 26.6 million units according to IFPI . In 2018 , it sold an additionally 14.9 million copies and made a second appearance in the Billboard Year-End , at No .
Edward Christopher Sheeran , MBE ( /ˈʃɪərən/ ; born 17 February 1991 ) is an English singer , songwriter , record producer , and actor . In early 2011 , Sheeran independently released the extended play , No . 5 Collaborations Project . After signing with Asylum Records , his debut album , + ( pronounced plus ) , was released in September 2011 and topped the UK Albums Chart . It contained his first hit single The A Team . In 2012 , Sheeran won the Brit Awards for Best British Male Solo Artist and British Breakthrough Act . Sheeran 's second studio album , x ( pronounced multiply ) , was released in June 2014 . It was named the second-best-selling album worldwide of 2015 . In the same year , x won Album of the Year at the 2015 Brit Awards , and he received the Ivor Novello Award for Songwriter of the Year from the British Academy of Songwriters , Composers and Authors . A single from x , Thinking Out Loud , earned him the 2016 Grammy Awards for Song of the Year and Best Pop Solo Performance . Sheeran 's third album , ÷ ( pronounced divide ) , was released in March 2017 , and was the best-selling album worldwide of 2017 . The first two singles from the album , Shape of You and Castle on the Hill , broke records in a number of countries by debuting in the top two positions of the charts .
Despacito ( American Spanish : [ despa'sito ] ; transl . Slowly ) is a song by Puerto Rican singer Luis Fonsi featuring Puerto Rican rapper Daddy Yankee from Fonsi 's 2019 studio album Vida . On January 12 , 2017 , Universal Music Latin released Despacito and its music video , which shows both artists performing the song in La Perla neighborhood of Old San Juan , Puerto Rico and the local bar La Factoría . The song was written by Fonsi , Erika Ender , and Daddy Yankee , and was produced by Mauricio Rengifo and Andrés Torres . A remix version featuring Canadian singer Justin Bieber was released on April 17 , 2017 , which helped to improve the song 's chart performance in numerous countries , including various number-one positions . Despacito has been widely credited by music journalists as being instrumental in popularizing Spanish-language pop music in the mainstream market again . The worldwide increase of Latin pop music consumption from 2017 onwards has been referred to as the 'Despacito ' effect . It is a reggaeton and Latin pop song composed in common time with lyrics about having a sexual relationship , performed in a smooth and romantic way . Commercially , the song topped the charts of 47 countries and reached the top 10 of six others , making it both Fonsi 's and Daddy Yankee 's most successful single to date . In the United States , it became the first song primarily in Spanish to top the Billboard Hot 100 since Macarena ( Bayside Boys Mix ) in 1996 , subsequently tying the longest-reigning number one on the Billboard Hot 100 at the time with 16 weeks , as well as becoming the longest-running number-one on the Hot Latin Songs chart with 56 weeks . It also became the first Latin song to receive a diamond certification by the Recording Industry Association of America . Internationally , it broke the record for most weeks at number one in Switzerland and Germany and became the longest-reigning foreign language number-one in the United Kingdom .
Luis Alfonso Rodríguez López-Cepero ( born April 15 , 1978 ) , known by his stage name Luis Fonsi , is a Puerto Rican singer , songwriter and actor . He is known for multiple songs , one of them being Despacito , featuring Puerto Rican rapper Daddy Yankee . Luis Fonsi received his first Latin Grammy Award nominations in Record of the Year category and won Song of the Year thanks to the song Aquí Estoy Yo . The song also won three Billboard Latin Music Awards . Despacito became Fonsi 's biggest success winning four Latin Grammy Awards , seven Billboard Latin Music Awards , five Billboard Music Awards and received three Grammy Awards nominations . He also won one Latin American Music Award for Échame la Culpa with Demi Lovato . As of 2018 , he has broken six Guinness World Records and sold more than 11 million records with Despacito . As of February 2020 , Despacito is the most-watched YouTube video of all time , with over 6.6 billion views .
Ramón Luis Ayala Rodríguez ( born February 3 , 1977 ) , known professionally as Daddy Yankee , is a Puerto Rican singer , songwriter , rapper , actor and record producer . Ayala was born in Río Piedras , Puerto Rico , and was raised in the neighborhood of Villa Kennedy Housing Projects . Daddy Yankee is the artist who coined the word Reggaeton in 1994 to describe the new music genre that was emerging from Puerto Rico . He is known as the King of Reggaetón by music critics and fans alike . Ayala aspired to be a professional baseball player , and tried out for the Seattle Mariners of Major League Baseball . Before he could be officially signed , he was hit by a stray round from an AK-47 rifle while taking a break from a studio recording session with reggaeton artist DJ Playero . Ayala spent roughly one and a half years recovering from the wound ; the bullet was never removed from his hip , and he credits the shooting incident with allowing him to focus entirely on a music career . In 2004 , Daddy Yankee released his international hit single Gasolina , which is credited with introducing Reggaeton to audiences worldwide , and making the music genre a global phenomenon . Since then , he has sold around 20 million records , making him one of the best-selling Latin music artists . Daddy Yankee 's album Barrio Fino made history when it became the top-selling Latin music album of the decade between 2000-2009 . In 2017 , Daddy Yankee , in collaboration with Latin pop singer Luis Fonsi , released the hit single Despacito . It became the first Spanish-language song to hit number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 since Macarena in 1996 .
Vassiliki Papathanasiou ( Greek : Βασιλική Παπαθανασίου , born 23 August 1949 ) , generally known as Vicky Leandros ( Greek : Βίκυ Λέανδρος ) , is a Greek singer living in Germany . She is the daughter of singer , musician and composer Leandros Papathanasiou ( Greek : Λέανδρος Παπαθανασίου ; also known as Leo Leandros as well as Mario Panas ) . In 1967 she achieved worldwide fame after gaining fourth place for the country of Luxembourg in the Eurovision Song Contest with the song L'amour est bleu , which became a worldwide hit . She further established her career by winning the Eurovision Song Contest in 1972 with the song Après Toi , again representing Luxembourg . On 15 October 2006 Vicky Leandros was elected town councillor of the Greek harbour town of Piraeus on the Pasok list . Her task concerned the Cultural and International development of Piraeus . She was also Deputy Mayor of Piraeus . It was announced in June 2008 that Leandros decided to leave her position in Greek politics with immediate effect stating that she had underestimated the work load and time needed to fulfil her political obligations and that it had become impossible to combine those duties with her singing career .
Conquest of Paradise is a 1994 song recorded by Greek composer Vangelis . It was the soundtrack from Ridley Scott 's 1992 film 1492 : Conquest of Paradise and the lead single from the album of the same name . The song achieved huge success in many countries , including Belgium , the Netherlands , Germany and Switzerland where it topped the singles chart , but was a relative failure in UK where it only peaked at # 60 . The song 's popularity had been boosted in Germany by boxer Henry Maske using it as his theme song . Its chord progression is based on the old European theme La Follia .
Evángelos Odysséas Papathanassíou [ a ] ( born 29 March 1943 ) , known professionally as Vangelis ( /væŋˈɡɛlɪs/ ; Greek : Βαγγέλης [ vaɲˈɟelis ] ) , is a Greek musician and composer of electronic , progressive , ambient , jazz , and orchestral music . He is best known for his Academy Award-winning score to Chariots of Fire , also composing scores for the films Blade Runner , Missing , Antarctica , The Bounty , 1492 : Conquest of Paradise , and Alexander , and the use of his music in the PBS documentary Cosmos : A Personal Voyage by Carl Sagan . Vangelis began his career working with several popular bands of the 1960s such as the Forminx and Aphrodite 's Child , with the latter 's album 666 going on to be recognized as a progressive-psychedelic rock classic . Throughout the 1970s , Vangelis composed music scores for several animal documentaries , including L'Apocalypse des Animaux , La Fête sauvage and Opéra sauvage ; the success of these scores brought him into the film scoring mainstream . In the early 1980s , Vangelis formed a musical partnership with Jon Anderson , the lead singer of progressive rock band Yes , and the duo went on to release several albums together as Jon & Vangelis . In 1981 , he composed the score for the Oscar-winning film Chariots of Fire , for which he won an Academy Award for Best Original Score . The soundtrack 's single , the film 's Titles theme , also reached the top of the American Billboard Hot 100 chart and was used as the background music at the London 2012 Olympics winners ' medal presentation ceremonies . Having had a career in music spanning over 50 years and having composed and performed more than 50 albums , Vangelis is considered to be one of the most important figures in the history of electronic music .
Oliver Alexander Reinhard Petszokat ( born 10 August 1978 , in Berlin ) , better known by his stage name Oli.P , is a German singer , actor and television presenter . Petszokat , whose father Reinhard Petszokat was a policeman , began ballroom dancing at the age of ten . His biggest dance success was in 1995 as a participant in the winning team for the Youth Cup team of the Dance Sport Federation of North Rhine-Westphalia eV .
Mambo No . 5 is a mambo and jazz dance song originally recorded and composed by Cuban musician Dámaso Pérez Prado in 1949 . The song 's popularity was renewed by German artist Lou Bega 's sampling of the last 30 seconds of the original , released under the same name on Bega 's 1999 debut album A Little Bit of Mambo .
David Lubega ( born 13 April 1975 ) , better known by his stage name Lou Bega , is a German recording artist . His 1999 song Mambo No . 5 , a remake of Pérez Prado 's 1949 instrumental piece , reached Number 1 in many European countries and was nominated for a Grammy Award . Bega added his own words to the song and sampled the original version extensively . Bega 's musical signature consists of combining musical elements of the 1940s and 1950s with modern beats and grooves .
I 'll Be Missing You is a song recorded by American rapper Puff Daddy and singer Faith Evans , featuring R & B group 112 , in memory of fellow Bad Boy Records artist Christopher The Notorious B.I.G . Wallace who was murdered on March 9 , 1997 . Released as the second single from Puff Daddy and the Family 's No Way Out album , I 'll Be Missing You samples The Police 's 1983 hit song Every Breath You Take , with an interpolated chorus sung by Evans and interpolated rhythm . The track also features a spoken intro over a choral version of Samuel Barber 's Adagio for Strings , Another interpolation found in the song is the Christian hymn I 'll Fly Away and O Come Let Us Adore Him . At the 40th Annual Grammy Awards , the song won the Grammy Award for Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group . The single spent eleven weeks atop the US Billboard Hot 100 and reached number one in 15 other countries . With worldwide sales likely over eight million , including shipments of three million copies in the United States and over one million in both Germany and the United Kingdom , the song has become one of the best-selling singles of all time .
Sean John Combs ( born November 4 , 1969 ) , also known by the stage names Puff Daddy , P. Diddy , Puffy , or Diddy , is an American rapper , singer , record producer , entrepreneur , record executive , and actor . Combs was born in New York City but was raised in Mount Vernon , New York . He worked as a talent director at Uptown Records before founding his own record label , Bad Boy Entertainment , in 1993 . Combs ' debut album , No Way Out ( 1997 ) , has been certified seven times platinum . No Way Out was followed by successful albums such as Forever ( 1999 ) , The Saga Continues . ( 2001 ) , and Press Play ( 2006 ) . In 2009 , Combs formed the musical group Dirty Money and released the critically and commercially successful album Last Train to Paris ( 2010 ) . Combs has won three Grammy Awards and two MTV Video Music Awards , and is the producer of MTV 's Making the Band . In 2018 , Forbes estimated his net worth at $ 825 million .
Faith Renée Jordan ( née Evans ; born June 10 , 1973 ) is an American singer , songwriter , record producer , and actress . Born in Lakeland , Florida , and raised in New Jersey , Evans relocated to Los Angeles in 1991 for a career in the music business . After working as a backing vocalist for Al B . Sure ! and Christopher Williams , she became the first female artist to contract with Sean Puff Daddy Combs ' Bad Boy Entertainment recording company in 1994 . On the label , she featured on records with several label mates such as 112 and Carl Thomas , and released three platinum-certified studio albums between 1995 and 2001 : Faith ( 1995 ) , Keep the Faith ( 1998 ) and Faithfully ( 2001 ) . In 2003 , she ended her relationship with the company to sign with Capitol Records . Her first album released on the label , The First Lady ( 2005 ) became her highest-charting album at the time , reaching the top of the US Top R & B/Hip-Hop Albums charts , while the holiday album A Faithful Christmas , released the same year , would become her last release before the company was bought in 2007 . Following a longer hiatus , Evans released her fifth album Something About Faith on the independent label Prolific and Entertainment One Music in 2010 . With a career spanning two decades , Evans has sold over 18 million records worldwide . Other than her recording career , Evans is most known as the widow of New York rapper Christopher The Notorious B.I.G . Wallace , whom she married on August 4 , 1994 , a few weeks after meeting at a Bad Boy photoshoot .
112 ( pronounced one-twelve ) is an American R & B quartet from Atlanta , Georgia . Formerly artists on Bad Boy Records , the group signed to the Def Soul roster in 2002 . They had great success in the late 1990s and early 2000s with hits such as Only You , Anywhere and the Grammy Award-nominated single , Peaches & Cream . The group most notably won a Grammy Award in 1997 for Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group , for featuring in the song I 'll Be Missing You with Sean Combs and Faith Evans .
Believe is a song recorded by American singer Cher for her twenty-second album , Believe ( 1998 ) , released by Warner Bros. Records . It was released as the lead single from the album on October 19 , 1998 . It was written by Brian Higgins , Stuart McLennen , Paul Barry , Steven Torch , Matthew Gray and Timothy Powell , with Cher also contributing , and was produced by Mark Taylor and Brian Rawling . Believe departed from Cher 's pop rock style of the time for an upbeat dance-pop style . It featured a pioneering use of the audio processing software Auto-Tune to create a deliberate vocal distortion , which became known as the Cher effect . The lyrics describe empowerment and self-sufficiency after a painful breakup . Believe reached number one in the United States , the United Kingdom , France , Germany , Australia , Canada , Ireland , Scotland , New Zealand , Spain , Italy , Greece , Norway , Sweden , Denmark , Belgium , Hungary , Switzerland , Poland and the Netherlands . It earned Cher a place in the Guinness Book of World Records as the oldest female solo artist to top the Billboard Hot 100 chart , and became the highest-selling single by a solo female artist in the United Kingdom . It is one of the bestselling singles , with sales of over 11 million copies worldwide . Reviewers praised its production and catchiness and named it one of Cher 's most important releases . It was nominated for the Grammy Award for Record of the Year and won Best Dance Recording . The music video , directed by Nigel Dick , has Cher performing in a nightclub .
Cher ( /ʃɛər/ ; born Cherilyn Sarkisian ; May 20 , 1946 ) is an American singer , actress and television personality . Commonly referred to by the media as the Goddess of Pop , she has been described as embodying female autonomy in a male-dominated industry . Cher is known for her distinctive contralto singing voice and for having worked in numerous areas of entertainment , as well as adopting a variety of styles and appearances during her six-decade-long career . Cher gained popularity in 1965 as one-half of the folk rock husband-wife duo Sonny & Cher after their song I Got You Babe reached number one on the American and British charts . By the end of 1967 , they had sold 40 million records worldwide and had become , according to Time magazine , rock 's it couple . She began her solo career simultaneously , releasing in 1966 her first million-seller song , Bang Bang ( My Baby Shot Me Down ) . She became a television personality in the 1970s with her shows The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour , watched by over 30 million viewers weekly during its three-year run , and Cher . She emerged as a fashion trendsetter by wearing elaborate outfits on her television shows . While working on television , Cher established herself as a solo artist with the U.S . Billboard Hot 100 chart-topping singles Gypsys , Tramps & Thieves , Half-Breed , and Dark Lady . After her divorce from Sonny Bono in 1975 , she launched a comeback in 1979 with the disco album Take Me Home and earned $ 300,000 a week for her 1980-1982 concert residency in Las Vegas . In 1982 , Cher made her Broadway debut in the play Come Back to the Five and Dime , Jimmy Dean , Jimmy Dean and starred in its film adaptation .
Blue ( Da Ba Dee ) is a song by Italian music group Eiffel 65 . It was first released in October 7 , 1998 in Italy by Bliss Corporation and became internationally successful the following year . It is the lead single of their debut album Europop . The song is the group 's most popular single , reaching number one in many countries such as Ireland , the United Kingdom , the Netherlands , France , Sweden , Switzerland , Spain , Portugal , Canada , the United Arab Emirates , Russia , New Zealand , Israel , Lebanon , Finland , Norway , Belgium , Australia , Austria , Greece , Germany , and Hungary , as well as reaching # 6 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States in January 2000 . In the United Kingdom , the song originally entered the top 40 purely on import sales ; it was only the third single to do this . The song also received a Grammy Award nomination for Best Dance Recording at the 2001 Grammy Awards , two years after it was released .
Eiffel 65 is an Italian music group consisting of Jeffrey Jey , Maurizio Lobina and Gabry Ponte . They gained global popularity with their hit singles Blue ( Da Ba Dee ) and Move Your Body , from their 1999 studio album Europop . The singles reached number one in many countries , while the album peaked at number four on the Billboard 200 chart . Their following two albums , Contact ! ( 2001 ) and their 2003 self titled album did not gain as much success , but still managed to gain success in Italy . Over the course of their career , the group won a World Music Award in 2000 for the World Best Selling Italian Group , and a B.M.I USA in Los Angeles , rewarding the most-broadcast song on radio in the United States . They were also nominated at the Grammy Award for Best Dance Recording for Blue ( Da Ba Dee ) . Europop was crowned as the greatest album of the 1990s by Channel 4 . Eiffel 65 also composed remixes of numerous popular songs , and they recorded One Goal , one of the official songs of the UEFA Euro 2000 , and Living In My City , for the 2006 Winter Olympics . With more than 20 million copies sold and many gold , platinum and diamond records , Eiffel 65 is one of Italy 's most popular electronic groups . In 2005 , DJ Gabry Ponte left the group to focus on his solo career , and later that year , the remaining members Jeffrey Jey and Maurizio Lobina formed their own duo called Bloom 06 . In 2010 , the original group reunited ; although Ponte no longer participates in record productions and concerts , he never officially left the group .
Ein Stern ( …der deinen Namen trägt ) ( lit . A star ( .which bears your name ) ) is a song recorded by Austrian artist DJ Ötzi and Nik P. It was released in February 2007 as the lead single from the album , Sternstunden . It reached number one in Germany where it stayed for 13 weeks and Austria , number 2 in Switzerland , and number 5 in the European Union , despite the fact that at the time of its release , some of the most popular radio stations in Austria and Germany declined to play the song because its genre did not fit their programme style . The single has sold more than 2 million copies .
Gerhard Gerry Friedle ( born 7 January 1971 ) is an Austrian entertainer and singer , better known by his stage name DJ Ötzi ( pronounced [ ˈdiːdʒɛɪ ˈœtsiː ] ) . Successful mainly in German-speaking countries , he is best known in the English-speaking world for his 2000 single Hey Baby ( Uhh , Ahh ) , a cover version of the Bruce Channel song Hey ! Baby . His stage name comes from Ötzi the Iceman , the name given to the 5,300-year-old frozen remains of a mummified man discovered in 1991 in South Tyrol 's Ötztal Alps .
Nikolaus Presnik better known as Nik P. ( born 6 April 1962 , in Friesach ) is an Austrian schlager singer . After death of his mother , he moved with his family to Strasbourg . He learned to play the guitar at a young age and at age 19 he established with his cousin , Gottfried Notsch , the musical group Reflex playing local gigs . He met producer Klaus Bartelmuss recording his first studio album Gebrochenes Herz as Nik P und Band in 1997 . His debut single was Dream Lover . In 2005 , Nik P. separated from Reflex and his album Lebenslust und Leidenschaft was certified platinum in Austria . In 2007 , Ein Stern ( .der deinen Namen trägt ) became a big commercial success through a version with DJ Ötzi peaking at # 1 in Austria , Germany and Switzerland . It was certified platinum both in Austria and Germany and gold in Switzerland . In 2008 , based on this success , he won the Echo Music Prize for Single of the Year for the song .