Clueso

Clueso
Clueso
	Clueso & Band, Fritz DeutschPoeten 2018.
Background information
Birth name	Thomas Hübner
Born	9 April 1980
Origin	Erfurt, Germany
Genres	Pop; German hip-hop; electronic; reggae;
Occupation(s)	Singer; songwriter; record producer;
Instruments	Guitar; synthesizer;
Years active	1995–present
Labels	Four Music; Sony Music Entertainment;
Website	www.clueso.de

Thomas Hübner (born 9 April 1980), better known by his stage name Clueso (pronounced [klyˈzo]), is a German singer, rapper, songwriter, and producer. Born in Erfurt, he started performing at the age of 15. His first album Text und Ton was released in 2001. Since then he has released 7 more albums of which the last three, Stadtrandlichter (2014), Neuanfang (2016) and Handgepäck I (2018) reached number 1 of the German Top 100.

His music is notable for being a mix of hip hop, pop and electronic music and sometimes reggae.

Musical career

Clueso, named after Inspector Clouseau in The Pink Panther, started making music in 1995. In 1998 he got to know his future manager Andreas Welskop and gave up his hairdressing apprenticeship. His first vinyl Clüsolo was released on BMG Ufa the same year. In 1999 he moved to the 10vor10-Studios in Cologne with Welskop. A year later he signed a label contract at Four Music and released Text und Ton in 2001. Around that time he performed with Curfew at the MTV HipHop Open in Stuttgart and at Beats for Life in Cologne.

In 2002, Clueso moved back to Erfurt and recorded the Rowdy-Club-Tape 2002. One year later, he started producing his second album Gute Musik, which translates to "good music" (featuring Blumentopf, Steer M, Tilmann Jarmer, Delhia, Tim Neuhaus and Jürgen Kerth), which was finished by 2004. It does not contain any English tracks and concentrates on singing rather than rapping.

In 2005, Clueso represented Thuringia in the Bundesvision Song Contest 2005, with the song "Kein Bock zu gehen", placing 7th with 63 points.[1] The same year he was the partner of Start Ab, the "biggest non-commercial remix contest in Europe".

On 19 May 2006, his third album Weit weg was brought out, where also the song Chicago was to be found. In conjunction with the STÜBAphilharmonie, a Thuringian orchestra, Clueso gave a concert in the Fritz-Club in the former Postbahnhof in Berlin on 3 February 2007, where he performed his songs together with the orchestra and his band in an arrangement for more than 70 instruments. This concert was also released on DVD, entitled Clueso Live or Clueso- Weit weg-Live. In May and June 2007, Clueso was the opening act of Herbert Grönemeyer's 12-Tour and in the same year he was nominated by 1 live for the 1 live radio listener's award, the 1LIVE Krone, in the category Best Live Act.

In September 2007, the single Lala, a song, which was especially recorded for the movie Leroy, was released. On 14 February 2008, Clueso again represented the Federal State of Thuringia in Stefan Raab's Bundesvision Song Contest. With his song Keinen Zentimeter, he came second, only one point behind the winner. On 30 May 2008, his fourth album So sehr dabei and his second single out of it Mitnehm were released. The third single from this album, Niemand an dich denkt, followed in October 2008.

In December 2010 Clueso released a book "Clueso. Von und über" (Clueso. Made By and About).[2]

The fifth studio album "An und für sich" ("In and of itself") was released on 25 March 2011. Same year Clueso collaborated with Udo Lindenberg performing the song "Cello" on the album "MTV unplugged – Live im Hotel Atlantic". The song was released as a single also reaching number 4 in the German charts.

After having released number 1 album "Stadtrandlichter" in 2014, Clueso parted ways with his long-standing band and management team. He wrote his following album about this period of separation and fittingly named it "Neuanfang" ("New Beginning").[3] The album reached number 1 of the German charts. After the release of "Neuanfang" he started working on a new album called "Handgepäck I" ("Hand Luggage I"), a collection of acoustic songs that he has written and collected over the last seven years during several trips and journeys around the world.[4]

Discography

Clueso & Band, 2018

Clueso & Band, 2018

Studio albums

Title	Album details	Peak positions			Certifications
Title	Album details	GER [5]	AUT [6]	SWI [7]	Certifications
Text und Ton	Released: 30 April 2001 Label: Four Music Formats: CD, digital download	—	—	—
Gute Musik	Released: 18 June 2004 Label: Four Music Formats: CD, digital download	53	—	—	BVMI: Gold[8]
Weit weg	Released: 19 May 2006 Label: Text und Ton, Universal Formats: CD, digital download	12	—	62	BVMI: Gold[8]
So sehr dabei	Released: 30 May 2008 Label: Text und Ton, Universal Formats: CD, digital download	3	40	26	BVMI: 3× Gold[8]
An und für sich	Released: 25 March 2011 Label: Text und Ton, Universal Formats: CD, digital download	2	20	24	BVMI: Platinum[8]
Stadtrandlichter	Released: 19 September 2014 Label: Text und Ton, Universal Formats: CD, digital download	1	12	6	BVMI: Gold[8]
Neuanfang	Released: 14 October 2016 Label: Vertigo Berlin, Universal Formats: CD, digital download	1	14	15	BVMI: Gold[8]
Handgepäck I	Released: 24 August 2018 Label: Vertigo Berlin, Universal Formats: CD, digital download	1	17	12

Live albums

Title	Album details	Peak positions			Certifications
Title	Album details	GER [5]	AUT [6]	SWI [7]	Certifications
So sehr dabei – Live	Released: 24 April 2009 Label: Text und Ton, Universal Formats: CD, digital download	—	—	—
Clueso & STÜBA Philharmonie	Released: 9 July 2010 Label: Text und Ton, Universal Formats: CD, digital download	11	—	—
Stadtrandlichter – Live	Released: 13 November 2015 Label: Text und Ton, Universal Formats: CD, digital download	—	—	—

Singles / maxis

2000 – The Disk feat. Metaphysics
2000 – Spiel da nich mit ("Don't play along with it")
2001 – Sag mir wo ("Tell me where")
2003 – Extended Player EP
2004 – Wart' mal ("Just wait")
2005 – Kein Bock zu geh'n (#65 German Top 100) ("Don't wanna go")
2005 – Pizzaschachteln ("Pizza boxes")
2005 – Komm schlaf bei mir ("Clueso Singt Rio Reiser") ("Come, sleep here with me")
2006 – Chicago (#60 German Top 100)
2006 – Out Of Space
2007 – Chicago (Live)
2007 – Lala (For the movie Leroy)
2008 – Keinen Zentimeter (#15 German Top 100) ("Not a Centimetre")
2008 – Mitnehm' (#79 German Top 100) ("Take along")
2008 – Niemand An Dich Denkt (#83 German Top 100) ("Nobody's thinking about you")
2009 – Gewinner (#21 German Top 100) ("Winner")
2011 – Zu Schnell Vorbei (#38 German Top 100) ("Too Quickly Gone")
2011 – Du bleibst ("You stay")
2011 – Beinah ("Almost")
2011 – Cello Udo Lindenberg feat. Clueso (#4 German Top 100)
2014 – Stadtrandlichter ("Lights of the Outskirts")
2014 – Freidrehen ("Freely revolving") (#20 German Top 100)
2016 – Neuanfang ("New Beginning") (#48 German Top 100)
2017 – Wenn du liebst Clueso feat. Kat Frankie ("If you love")
2017 – Achterbahn ("Rollercoaster")
2018 – Du und Ich ("You and Me")
2018 – Vier Jahreszeiten an einem Tag ("Four Seasons in One Day" – Crowded House Cover)
2018 – Wie versprochen ("As promised")

Tour dates

01.06.-14.06.2004 – Gute Musik / Rücken zur Wand Tour with Franky Kubrick
19.11.-16.12.2004 – supporting Die Fantastischen Vier on Viel unterwegs Tour
13.05.-02.10.2005 – Clueso & Band / Summer Tour 2005
21.10.-27.12.2008 – Clueso & Band "So sehr dabei" Club Tour
29 March 2011 – 14 October 2011 – "An und für sich" Tour
24.11.-27.12.2014 – Stadtrandlichter Tour
11.12.2016–14.02.2017 – Neuanfang Club Tour
27.09.-14.10.2017– Neuanfang Tour
12.11.-29.11.2018 – Handgepäck I Club Tour

References

"Bundesvision Song Contest". fan-lexikon.de (in German). Retrieved 19 April 2015.
Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-89602-578-4, 160 p.
https://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/pop/album-der-woche/clueso-veroeffentlicht-neues-album-neuanfang-14500066.html27 October 2016
https://www.offiziellecharts.de/news/item/544-clueso-packt-die-charts-krone-ins-handgepaeck 31 August 2018
"Clueso discography". germancharts.com. Retrieved 10 May 2014.
"Clueso discography". austriancharts.at. Retrieved 10 May 2014.
"Clueso discography". hitparade.ch. Retrieved 10 May 2014.
"Gold-/Platin-Datenbank". Bundesverband Musikindustrie. Archived from the original (To access, enter the search parameter "Andreas Bourani" and select "Suchen") on 24 November 2015. Retrieved 16 January 2013.

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[fan-lexikon-1] "Bundesvision Song Contest". fan-lexikon.de (in German). Retrieved 19 April 2015.

[2] Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-89602-578-4, 160 p.

[3] ttps://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/pop/album-der-woche/clueso-veroeffentlicht-neues-album-neuanfang-14500066.html27 October 2016

[4] ttps://www.offiziellecharts.de/news/item/544-clueso-packt-die-charts-krone-ins-handgepaeck 31 August 2018

[ger-5] "Clueso discography". germancharts.com. Retrieved 10 May 2014.

[aut-6] "Clueso discography". austriancharts.at. Retrieved 10 May 2014.

[sui-7] "Clueso discography". hitparade.ch. Retrieved 10 May 2014.

[BVMI-8] "Gold-/Platin-Datenbank". Bundesverband Musikindustrie. Archived from the original (To access, enter the search parameter "Andreas Bourani" and select "Suchen") on 24 November 2015. Retrieved 16 January 2013.