Automatisch

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"Automatisch"
Automatisch cover hq.jpg
Single by Tokio Hotel
from the album Humanoid
B-side "Humanoid"
Released18 September 2009 (Germany)
Genre Pop rock
Length3:15
Label Interscope, Cherrytree
Songwriter(s) B. Kaulitz, T. Kaulitz, D. Roth, P. Benzner, D. Jost
Producer(s) B. Kaulitz, T. Kaulitz, D. Roth, P. Benzner, D. Jost
"Automatic"
Automatic cover hq.jpg
Single by Tokio Hotel
from the album Humanoid
Released22 September 2009 (United States)
Genre Pop rock
Length3:15
Label Universal
Songwriter(s) B. Kaulitz, T. Kaulitz, D. Roth, P. Benzner, D. Jost
Producer(s) David Roth, Patrick Benzner, David Jost
Tokio Hotelsingles chronology
"Heilig"
(2008)		"Automatisch" / "Automatic"
(2009)		""World Behind My Wall/Lass Uns Laufen""
(2010)

"Automatisch" and "Automatic" are the first singles from German pop rock band Tokio Hotel's third German studio album and second English studio album Humanoid . "Automatisch" was released in German-speaking countries on 18 September 2009 and "Automatic" was released in the United States on 22 September 2009. [1] [2]

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Music video

Craig Wessels of Wicked Pixels, the most-awarded animation-studio in South Africa, [3] directed the music video, shot over three days in the Kalahari Desert in South Africa. [4] The video features the band driving separately in muscle cars and with computer generated humanoid robots. [5] The music video for "Automatic" was released online on September 3, 2009, while the video for "Automatisch" was released a day later. [6] [7]

Formats and track listings

#TitleSongwritersLength
1"Automatisch"B. Kaulitz, T. Kaulitz, D. Roth, P. Benzner, D. Jost3:16
2"Automatic"B. Kaulitz, T. Kaulitz, D. Roth, P. Benzner, D. Jost3:16
#TitleSongwritersLength
1"Automatisch"B. Kaulitz, T. Kaulitz, D. Roth, P. Benzner, D. Jost3:16
2"Humanoid"B. Kaulitz, T. Kaulitz, D. Roth, P. Benzner, D. Jost3:45
  • Bonus Tokio Hotel fan magnet
#TitleSongwritersLength
1"Automatic"T. Kaulitz, B. Kaulitz, D. Roth, P. Benzner, D. Jost3:16
2"Automatisch"B. Kaulitz, T. Kaulitz, D. Roth, P. Benzner, D. Jost3:16
#TitleSongwritersLength
1"Automatic"B. Kaulitz, T. Kaulitz, D. Roth, P. Benzner, D. Jost3:15
2"Automatisch"B. Kaulitz, T. Kaulitz, D. Roth, P. Benzner, D. Jost3:15
3"Humanoid (English Version)"B. Kaulitz, T. Kaulitz, D. Roth, P. Benzner, D. Jost3:48
4"Automatic (Remote Control Mix)"B. Kaulitz, T. Kaulitz, D. Roth, P. Benzner, D. Jost3:17

Charts

Chart (2009)Peak
position [8]
Austrian Singles Chart [9] 14
Belgian Singles Chart (Flanders) [10] 23
Belgian Singles Chart (Wallonia) [11] 16
Dutch Singles Chart [12] 75
French Singles Chart [13] 2
German Singles Chart [14] 5
Hungarian Singles Chart [15] 10
South Africa 5FM Charts11
Spanish Singles Chart [16] 21
Swedish Singles Chart [17] 36
Swiss Singles Chart [18] 44

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