- Nylon (album)
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Nylon Studio album by Anna Vissi Released 28 September 2005
(see release history)Recorded 2005 - 2006 Genre Pop, dance, modern laika, rock, rap Length 74:20 Label Sony BMG Greece/Columbia Producer Nikos Karvelas Anna Vissi chronology Live
(2004)Nylon
(2005)Apagorevmeno
(2008)Singles from Nylon - "Call Me"
- "Lie"
- "Nylon"
- "Gia Teleftea Fora"
- "Kinoumeni Ammos"
- "Erota E Polemo"
- "Everything"
Alternative covers Nylon: DualDiscNylon: Euro EditionNylon is the name of a Greek album by singer Anna Vissi, released in Greece and Cyprus on September 28, 2005, and subsequently in select European countries and Taiwan. The album was released as a DualDisc on October 10, 2005, the first of its kind in Greece, and re-released on May 2, 2006 with the title Nylon: Euro-Edition as a tie-in to Vissi's participation in the Eurovision Song Contest 2006. The album reached Platinum status in less than 24 hours after its release.[1][2]
Contents
Album information
Released in September 2005, Nylon was Anna Vissi's first studio album since the commercially successful 2003 Paraksenes Eikones. Vissi characterized Nylon as her best album so far, with Nikos Karvelas paying a lot of attention to the lyrics of the songs he had written.
Upon release, Nylon went platinum with in 24 hours in Greece. In October 2005, the album was released on the DualDisc format, the first ever in Greece, with the title Nylon: DualDisc. The DualDisc version featured bonus songs and as well as special footage from the recording studio.
With Anna Vissi participation for Greece in the Eurovision Song Contest 2006, the album was once again re-released in May 2006 as Nylon: Euro-Edition with six additional English language songs, including the songs which were amongst her Eurovision entrant options for the Greek national final. The album was later released in Turkey in 2006. In 2007 the Euro-Edition was released in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and Taiwan.
Track listing
Original release
- "Nylon"
- "Logia kai Siopes"
- "Kanenas"
- "Erota I Polemo" (with Goin´Through)
- "Gia Teleftea Fora"
- "Erota Mou Apiste"
- "Kinoummeni Ammos"
- "Gia Sena Tha Pethano"
- "Mi Me Lipithis"
- "Agapi Einai"
- "Dystihima"
- "Venetia"
- "Ta Kalytera Mas Hronia"
- "Eho Tosi Agapi"
- "Telia"
- "Lie" (A. Papacostantinou Club Edit)
DualDisc
DualDisc 1
Audio side
- "Nylon"
- "Logia kai Siopes"
- "Kanenas"
- "Erota I Polemo" (with Goin´Through)
- "Gia Teleftea Fora"
- "Erota Mou Apiste"
- "Kinoummeni Ammos"
- "Agapi Einai"
- "Dystihima"
- "Venetia"
DVD side
- The 10 tracks from the CD side in Stereo PCM & Surround 5.1
- "In Studio Part One"
- "Gia Sena Tha Pethano"
- "Nylon"
- "Erota Mou Apiste"
DualDisc 2
Audio side
- "Gia Sena Tha Pethano"
- "Mi Me Lipithis"
- "Telia"
- "Ta Kalytera Mas Hronia"
- "Eho Tosi Agapi"
- "Lie" (Radio Mix)
- "Lie" (A. Papacostantinou Mix)
- "Call Me" (Original Version)
- "Call Me" (Valentin Radio Mix)
- "Call Me" (Friscia & Lamboy Radio Mix)
DVD side
- The 10 tracks from the CD side in Stereo PCM & Surround 5.1
- "Call Me" (Music Video)
- "Call Me" (Making Of)
- "In Studio Part Two"
- "Erota I Polemo"
- "Gia Teleftea Fora"
- "Logia Kai Siopes"
Euro-Edition
Disc 1
- "Nylon"
- "Logia kai Siopes"
- "Kanenas"
- "Erota I Polemo" (with Goin´Through)
- "Gia Teleftea Fora"
- "Erota Mou Apiste"
- "Kinoummeni Ammos"
- "Gia Sena Tha Pethano"
- "Mi Me Lipithis"
- "Agapi Einai"
- "Dystihima"
- "Venetia"
- "Ta Kalytera Mas Hronia"
- "Eho Tosi Agapi"
- "Telia"
- "Lie" (A. Papacostantinou Club Edit)
Disc 2
- "Everything"
- "Welcome to the Party"
- "Who Cares About Love"
- "A Beautiful Night"
- "Everything" (Remixed by Valentino & C. Siganos)
- "Everything" (Karaoke Version)
Singles
"Call Me"
- "Call Me", the English version of "Eisai" (2003, from the album "Paraksenes Eikones") first appeared on Greek and Cypriot radios on spring of 2005. It was then released on the market on the Gold maxi-single "Call Me".[3] Was later included in the dual disc edition of Nylon.
"Lie"
- Included as a b-side on the maxi-single "Call Me". A remix of the song was included in the original edition of Nylon, and the original version of the song was included in the dual disc edition of Nylon.
"Nylon"
- Prior of the release of the album came the single "Nylon".
"Erota I Polemo"
- "Erota I Polemo" feat Goin' Through, was the third video from the album.
"Everything"
- "Everything" was the Greek entry in Eurovision Song Contest 2006 included in Nylon Euro Edition.
Music videos
- "Call Me"
- "Nylon
- "Erota I Polemo"
- "Everything"
Music
Original release
All the songs were composed by Nikos Karvelas, with the exception of "Lie" being composed by Kyriakos Papadopoulos. All the lyrics are written by Nikos Karvelas with the exception of the rap segment in "Erota I Polemo" written by Nikos Vourliotis (Goin Through).
Euro-Edition
Music:
- Nikos Karvelas]] (tracks 1-15 on CD1 and tracks 1, 3, 5 & 6 on CD2)
- Kiriakos Papadopoulos (track 16 on CD1)
- Dimitris Kontopoulos (track 2 on CD2)
- Pygasos (track 4 on CD2)
Lyrics:
- Nikos Karvelas (all tracks on CD1 and track 3 on CD2)
- Nikos Vourliotis (rap lyrics on track 4 on CD1)
- Anna Vissi (tracks 1 & 5 on CD2)
- Dimitris S (track 2 on CD2)
- Pygasos (track 4 on CD2)
Release history
Region Date Label Format Version Greece September 28, 2005 Sony BMG, Columbia CD Original release Cyprus Greece October 10, 2005 Dual-Disc Cyprus Greece May 5, 2006 Euro-Edition Cyprus Turkey 2006 Austria 2007 Germany 2007 Switzerland 2007 Taiwan 2007 Charts
Nylon peaked at number 1 since its first week of release. The album was certified Platinum in Greece with in 24 hours of its release.
Chart Providers Peak
PositionCertification Greek Albums Chart IFPI 1 Platinum Cypriot Albums Chart All Records Top 20 1 Platinum References
- ^ "ΑΝΝΑ ΒΙΣΣΗ - ΒΙΟΓΡΑΦΙΚΟ" (in Greek). Sony Music Greece. http://www.sonymusic.gr/page/artist/artists_greek.asp?art_id=38. Retrieved February 21, 2010.
- ^ Staff. "Anna Vissi". Maple Jam Music Group. http://www.maplejammusic.com/artists/bios/annavissi.html. Retrieved February 20, 2010.
- ^ "Top 50 Singles". Internet Archive. IFPI Greece. September 18, 2005. Archived from the original on September 24, 2005. http://web.archive.org/web/20050924140922/http://ifpi.gr/chart03.htm. Retrieved November 28, 2010.
Anna Vissi Studio albums As Kanoume Apopse Mian Arhi (1977) · Kitrino Galazio (1979) · Nai (1980) · Anna Vissi (1981) · Eimai To Simera Kai Eisai To Chthes (1982) · Na 'Hes Kardia (1984) · Kati Simveni (1985) · I Epomeni Kinisi (1986) · Tora (1988) · Empnefsi! (1988) · Fotia (1989) · Eimai (1990) · Emeis (1992) · Lambo (1992) · Re! (1994) · O! Kypros (1995) · Klima Tropiko (1996) · Travma (1997) · Antidoto (1998) · Everything I Am (2000) · Kravgi (2000) · X (2002) · Paraksenes Eikones (2003) · Nylon (2005) · Apagorevmeno (2008) · Agapi Einai Esi (2010)Live albums Live! (1993) · Live (2004)CD singles "Autostop" (1980) · Mono I Agapi" (1982) · "Eimai Poli Kala" (1995) · "Min Ksehnas" (1995) · "Amin" (1995) · "Forgive Me This" (1997) · "Agapi Ipervoliki" (2000) · "Everything I Am" (2000) · "Still in Love with You" (2001) · "Mala: I Mousiki Tou Anemou" (2001) · "Call Me" (2005) · "Autostop/Love Is a Lonely Weekend" (2006) · "Everything" (2006) · "Agapi Einai Esi" (2010)EPs The Remixes: Oso Eho Foni & Aftos Pou Perimeno (1997) • The Remixes (2003) • Remixes 2004 (2004)Soundtracks To Tzitziki Kai I Parea Tou (1980) · Daimones (1991) · Ode to the Gods (1993) · Mala: I Mousiki Tou Anemou (2002)DVDs The Video Collection (2001) · Live (2005) · Nylon - The Dual Disk (2005) · Eurovision Song Contest Athens 2006Compilations Ta Kalitera Mou Tragoudia (1980) · Oles Oi Epityhies Tis Anna Vissi (1982) · Ta Prota Mou Tragoudia (1993) · Anna Vissi (1999) · Back to Time (Complete EMI Years) (2007) · The Essential Anna Vissi (2007)Related articles Discography · Videography · Awards and nominations · Concert tours · Cyprus in the Eurovision Song Contest · Greece in the Eurovision Song Contest 1980 · Greece in the Eurovision Song Contest 2006Categories:- Anna Vissi albums
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