Dove si vola (album)

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Dove si vola
EP Dove si vola cover.jpg
EP by
Marco Mengoni
ReleasedDecember 4, 2009
Recorded2009
Genre Pop
Length24:55
Language
  • Italian
  • English
Label Sony Music
Producer
Marco Mengoni chronology
Dove si vola
(2009)		 Re matto
(2010)
Singles from Dove si vola
  1. "Dove si vola"
    Released: December 3, 2009

Dove si vola is the debut extended play by Italian singer Marco Mengoni. The record peaked at number 9 in the Italian Albums Chart [1] and sold more than 70,000 copies in Italy, [2] receiving Platinum certification from the Federation of the Italian Music Industry. [3]

Contents

Background and release

In December 2009, Mengoni won the third season of the Italian talent competition series X-Factor . The 7-track EP was recorded during his partecipation at the singing contest, and it was released by Sony Music on 4 December 2009, [4] two days after his winning. [5] [6]

Dove si vola includes the previously unreleased song with the same title, written by Bungaro and Saverio Grandi [7] and released as lead single. Mengoni performed it for the first time on 25 November 2009, during the semi-final live show of the talent show. The other tracks are "Lontanissimo da te", and 5 covers of popular Italian and international songs, chosen from the ones that his judge Morgan assigned him during the competition. [8]

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Dove si vola"
3:58
2."Man in the Mirror"
4:06
3."Psycho Killer"
3:20
4."Insieme a te sto bene"
3:19
5."L'amore si odia"
  • Diego Calvetti
  • Marco Ciappelli
2:52
6."Almeno tu nell'universo"
4:04
7."Lontanissimo da te"
  • Piero Calabrese
  • Massimo Calabrese
  • Roberto Procaccini
  • Marco Del Bene
3:32

Charts

Chart (2009)Peak
position		CertificationSales
Italian Albums Chart [9] 9 [1] Platinum [3] 70,000+ [2]

Year-end charts

YearChartPosition
2009Italian Albums Chart47 [10]
201061 [11]

Personnel

References

  1. 1 2 "MARCO MENGONI - DOVE SI VOLA (ALBUM)". italiancharts.com. Archived from the original on 13 July 2011. Retrieved 16 February 2011.
  2. 1 2 "Marco Mengoni: già oltre 70 mila copie" (in Italian). ANSA. 16 December 2009. Retrieved 16 February 2011.
  3. 1 2 "Certificazioni ARTISTI - Dalla settimana 1 del 2009 alla settimana 43 del 2010" (PDF) (in Italian). FIMI. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 April 2012. Retrieved 31 July 2013.
  4. ↑ "Dove si vola di Marco" (in Italian). iTunes . Retrieved February 17, 2011.
  5. ↑ Andrea Laffranchi (December 2, 2009). "X Factor, vince Marco e va a Sanremo" (in Italian). Il Corriere della Sera.
  6. ↑ Pippo Augliera (December 3, 2009). "Marco Mengoni vince a X Factor aggiudicandosi il Premio della Critica e vola alto in classifica con il suo Ep" (in Italian). www.musicalnews.com. Archived from the original on June 13, 2015. Retrieved February 17, 2011.
  7. ↑ "Marco, Mengoni Marco - Dove si vola (Cd)" (in Italian). FNAC. Archived from the original on July 22, 2011. Retrieved February 17, 2011.
  8. ↑ Laura Gorini (January 7, 2010). "Marco Mengoni- Dove si vola (SonyMusic), l'ep di debutto della nuova stella della musica italiana" (in Italian). www.musicalnews.com. Archived from the original on October 7, 2013. Retrieved February 17, 2011.
  9. ↑ italiancharts.com - Marco Mengoni "Dove si vola" Archived July 13, 2011, at the Wayback Machine .
  10. ↑ "Classifiche annuali dei cd, dvd, compilation più venduti e digital download più scaricati online nel 2009" (in Italian). FIMI. January 19, 2010. Archived from the original on January 23, 2010. Retrieved February 17, 2011.
  11. ↑ "Classifiche annuali dei dischi più venduti e dei singoli più scaricati nel 2010" (in Italian). FIMI. January 17, 2011. Archived from the original on January 21, 2011. Retrieved February 14, 2011.
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