Artist · chart history
Tokio Hotel
Band Magdeburg Germany Formed 2001
Tokio Hotel formed in 2001 in Magdeburg, Germany. Tokio Hotel has 2 chart appearances on 1 radio countdown from 1 station on RockLists, spanning 2007. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Monsoon”, which appears on 1 list with a best position of #3. The station that charted Tokio Hotel most often is Studio Brussel (Flanders, Belgium), with 2 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2007.
Tokio Hotel came out of Magdeburg in 2001 with a lot of ambition: singer Bill Kaulitz, Tom Kaulitz on guitar, Georg Listing on bass and Gustav Schäfer on drums. After a demo under the name Devilish and a contract with Sony BMG Germany that was terminated, they reemerged as Tokio Hotel on Universal in 2005 with Schrei, which sold more than half a million copies and threw off four top-five singles in Germany and Austria.
2007 was the year they went global. They released Zimmer 483, featuring "Übers Ende der Welt", alongside Scream, their first album in English, home of the sweeping, melodramatic "Monsoon". Together the two sold more than 2.5 million copies, and the emo-tinged pop rock, all glossy guitars and Bill's plaintive wail, landed them singles in France, Spain, Portugal and Italy.
The awards followed fast. In September 2008 they won Best New Artist at the MTV Video Music Awards, the first German band ever to take one home, and they collected a string of MTV Europe Music Awards, including Headliner in 2008 and Best Group in 2009. From 2014 they turned toward electropop and synth-pop, and their most recent album is 2001, from 2022.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Tokio Hotel on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Monsoon | 1 | #3 | – | 2007 | |
| 2 | Übers Ende der Welt | 1 | #51 | – | 2007 |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
Every countdown appearance
| Year | # | Song | Countdown |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 3 | Monsoon | Studio Brussel De Eindafrekening 2007 |
| 2007 | 51 | Übers Ende der Welt | Studio Brussel De Eindafrekening 2007 |
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