| "Vincent" | ||||
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| Single by Sarah Connor | ||||
| from the album Herz Kraft Werke | ||||
| Released | 5 April 2019 | |||
| Genre | Pop | |||
| Length | 4:43 | |||
| Label | Polydor | |||
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"Vincent" is a song by German singer Sarah Connor, released on 5 April 2019 by Polydor Records as the lead single from her tenth studio album Herz Kraft Werke . [1] [2] It was released along with the album announcement. Connor co-wrote the song with Peter Plate and Ulf Sommer.
Connor wrote the track after hearing from a mother that her teenage son had come out as gay. [3] She said that the song "stands symbolically for all boys and girls in puberty, in search of orientation and identity". [3] The name is fictitious. [4]
Idolator called the track a "soaring pop anthem". [5]
On 12 April 2019 "Vincent" debuted in the German charts at number 29 before dropping down to number 77 by the middle of May, by which time the song had been censored or banned by some radio stations on account of the sexual content of its opening lyrics. [6] Consistent with the Streisand effect the song subsequently rose to a peak position of number 9 as the track remained in the German charts for the rest of 2019. [7]
Connor announced the track on her Instagram in early April 2019. [8]
Weekly charts
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| Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
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| Austria (IFPI Austria) [14] | Platinum | 30,000‡ |
| Germany (BVMI) [15] | Platinum | 400,000‡ |
‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone. | ||
Sarah Connor is a German pop singer. She rose to prominence after she signed with X-Cell Records in 2000 and released her debut album Green Eyed Soul (2001) the following year. She followed it with a series of successful albums, including Unbelievable (2002), Key to My Soul (2003), Naughty but Nice (2005), Christmas in My Heart (2005), Soulicious (2007), Sexy as Hell (2008) and Real Love (2010). Several songs from these albums became hit singles on the pop record charts, including the number-one hits "From Sarah with Love", "Music is the Key", "Just One Last Dance", "Living to Love You" and "From Zero to Hero". In 2015, Connor's first German language project Muttersprache became her second chart-topper after a decade.
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