2013 in European music

List of years in European music
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2013 in continental European music in geographical order.

Scandinavia

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Netherlands

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Belgium

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Germany

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  • 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.
  • Other Echo winners include Die Toten Hosen for Best album Ballast der Republik and Best single Tage wie diese, Deichkind are with "Befehl von ganz unten" best Dance act, Unheilig win Best Group Rock/Alternative (national) with Lichter der Stadt.
  • 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.

Switzerland

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France

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Portugal

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Spain

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Italy

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  • 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.
  • Milan-based band Modà's fifth studio album, Gioia, debuts at number-one on the Italian Albums Chart and is certified triple platinum by the Federation of the Italian Music Industry.[9][10]
  • 2010 winner of talent show Amici di Maria De Filippi Emma Marrone has a number-one album with Schiena.[11]
  • 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

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Musical films

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Deaths

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References

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  1. ^ Danish album charts
  2. ^ Official Website
  3. ^ Dutchcharts
  4. ^ Spiegel Online
  5. ^ Local.de
  6. ^ Giuseppe Videtti (17 February 2013). "Mengoni vince il festival". la Repubblica (in Italian). Retrieved 20 April 2013.
  7. ^ "Italian Charts – Marco Mengoni – L'essenziale (song)". Italiancharts.com. Hung Medien. Retrieved 20 May 2013.
  8. ^ "Italian Charts – Marco Mengoni – Pronto a correre (album)". Italiancharts.com. Hung Medien. Retrieved 23 April 2013.
  9. ^ "Italian Charts – Modà – Gioia (album)". Italiancharts.com. Hung Medien. Retrieved 15 September 2013.
  10. ^ "Italian album certifications – Modà" (in Italian). Federazione Industria Musicale Italiana. Retrieved 15 September 2013. Select "Tutti gli anni" in the "Anno" drop-down menu. Type "Modà" in the "Filtra" field. Select "Album e Compilation" under "Sezione".
  11. ^ "Italian Charts – Emma – Schiena (album)". Italiancharts.com. Hung Medien. Retrieved 15 September 2013.
  12. ^ "Amici, vince il rapper Moreno". Corriere della Sera (in Italian). Retrieved 15 September 2013.
  13. ^ "Italian album certifications – Moreno" (in Italian). Federazione Industria Musicale Italiana. Retrieved 15 September 2013. Select "Tutti gli anni" in the "Anno" drop-down menu. Type "Moreno" in the "Filtra" field. Select "Album e Compilation" under "Sezione".
  14. ^ "Italian Charts – Moreno – Stecca (album)". Italiancharts.com. Hung Medien. Archived from the original on 25 September 2013. Retrieved 15 September 2013.
  15. ^ Foxcrawl.com
  16. ^ "Cyruĺnia Svietu | Bristeil". Bandcamp.com. 26 May 2014. Retrieved 30 January 2015.
  17. ^ "Max Richter Scoring 'The Congress'". 7 May 2011. Retrieved 11 June 2014.
  18. ^ "Känn ingen sorg" (in Swedish). SF Bio. Retrieved 24 April 2013.
  19. ^ Keller, Matthias. "Franz Lehrndorfer Langjähriger Organist des Münchner Doms gestorben" (in German). Bayerischer Rundfunk. Archived from the original on 29 January 2013. Retrieved 11 January 2013.
  20. ^ Midgette, Anne (24 February 2013). "Wolfgang Sawallisch, German Conductor, Dies at 89". The New York Times.
  21. ^ Addio al maestro Armando Trovajoli, è stato la musica e l'anima di Roma|La Repubblica
  22. ^ Le compositeur et pianiste Jean Michel Damase est mort hier | Radio France Musique Archived 23 May 2013 at the Wayback Machine
  23. ^ Australian composer Tommy Tycho dies
  24. ^ "Disparition de Jean-François Paillard". Archived from the original on 30 April 2013. Retrieved 18 March 2015.
  25. ^ Obituary: Anders Eliasson, composer
  26. ^ Le compositeur français Henri Dutilleux est mort
  27. ^ Bruno Bartoletti, Maestro Who Shaped Lyric Opera of Chicago, Dies at 86
  28. ^ Henrik Otto Donner on kuollut (in Finnish)
  29. ^ Lutto nel mondo del teatro, morto l'attore-regista Lamberto Puggelli (in Italian)
  30. ^ Muziekpionier Dick Raaijmakers (83) overleden (in Dutch)
  31. ^ Ex-Thomaskantor Hans-Joachim Rotzsch ist 84-jährig gestorben Archived 27 September 2013 at the Wayback Machine (in German)
  32. ^ French Helmer Patrice Chereau Dies at 68.
  33. ^ Addio a Gianni Ferrio (in Italian)
  34. ^ Der Pianist Rudolf Kehrer ist tot (in German)
  35. ^ Oopperalaulaja Tom Krause on kuollut (in Finnish)
  36. ^ "Barbara Hesse-Bukowska nie żyje", Polskie Radio (Polish Radio)
  37. ^ Pioneering Noise Musician Zbigniew Karkowski Dead at 55
  38. ^ Tonsättaren Lars Edlund har avlidit (in Swedish)
  39. ^ Wojciech Kilar nie żyje Archived 30 December 2013 at the Wayback Machine (in Polish)
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