- Morandi (band)
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Morandi Origin Bucharest, Romania Genres Euro Pop/Dance music Years active 2005–present Labels Universal Music Romania Website http://www.morandi-music.com/ Morandi is a Romanian Europop music group composed of Marius Moga and Andrei Ştefan Ropcea (Randi). The group's name derives from the first two letters of Moga's name and Ropcea's nickname, Randi, creating Morandi.
Aside from being successful in Romania, the group ranked highly on several pan-European charts (including the MTV Europe chart and the World Chart Express) and became probably the most successfully band in the history of Eastern Europe after O-Zone[citation needed]. Their music is very popular among young people in Russia, Bulgaria, Albania, Greece, Montenegro, Serbia, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Poland, Republic of Macedonia, Lithuania and Ukraine. Morandi were nominated as Best Romanian Act both at the 2005 MTV Europe Music Awards and 2006 MTV Europe Music Awards and won the award at the 2008 MTV Europe Music Awards. "Angels" was called "Most successful track 2008" in Russia.
A new album, Zebra, has been deferred several times. Morandi have continued to tour and perform concerts for an extended time. In the fifth week of 2011 Morandi released "Angels" in France. Up to now the song peaked at chart position 16 of the official French music chart.[1]
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Discography
Morandi discography Releases ↙Studio albums 4 ↙Singles 9 ↙Music videos 9 Morandi has released four studio albums, nine singles and nine music videos.
Studio albums
Year Title Certification 2005 Reverse 2006 Mind Fields 2007 N3XT TBA Zebra Singles
The single "Angels" sold 1.45 million copies in Russia and went 7x platinum as ring-back tone and gold as realtone.[2][3] The single "Save me" went 2x platinum with 400,000 copies sold[4]
Year Title Peak[5][6][7] Album SVK BG CZE HU Dance Top40 FR 2004 "Love Me" - - - - - Reverse "Beijo" 54 - - - - 2006 "Falling Asleep" - - - - - Mind Fields "A La Lujeba" - - - - - "Oh La La" (English version of "Beijo") - - - - - Digital Only 2007 "Afrika" - - - - - N3XT "Angels (Love Is The Answer)" 1 1 1 3 16 2008 "Save Me" (feat. Helene) 13 2 1 25 - 2009 "Сolors" 1 1 4 - - Zebra 2010 "Rock The World" 62 - - - - 2011 "Midnight Train" 26 - - - - 2011 "Serenada" - - - - - Number ones 2 - 2 - - Top 10 hits 2 3 3 1 - References
- ^ "Angels" in the French music charts
- ^ http://2m-online.ru/news/detail.php?ID=5655
- ^ http://www.2m-online.ru/news/detail.php?ID=5653
- ^ http://2m-online.ru/news/detail.php?ID=5658
- ^ Slovakia Airplay Chart
- ^ Bulgarian and French chart positions available at acharts.us
- ^ Russian TopHit 100. Please see issue 17/11-21/11/2008.
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