| "Der blaue Planet" | ||||
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| Single by Karat | ||||
| from the album Der blaue Planet | ||||
| Released | January 01, 1981 | |||
| Genre | Rock | |||
| Length | 5:23 | |||
| Label | Amiga | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Norbert Kaiser Ulrich Swillms | |||
| Producer(s) | Jürgen Lahrtz | |||
| Karat singles chronology | ||||
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Der blaue Planet (German for The Blue Planet) is a 1982 hit by the East German band Karat. [1] The album of the same title was the most successful album published in East Germany, being sold more than 1.1 million times in East Germany and about 500,000 times in West Germany.
The song was on the album with the same name [2] and in 2003 the band released a new version of this song.
| Chart (1981) | Peak position |
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| East German Singles Chart | 2 |
| Der blaue Planet | ||||
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| Released | May 1999 | |||
| Recorded | 1999 | |||
| Genre | Synthpop | |||
| Length | 25:50 | |||
| Label | Zoth Ommog | |||
| Producer | Melotron and Olaf Wollschläger | |||
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