Tokio Hotel
Tokio Hotel is a
rock band from
Germany, founded in 2001 by singer
Bill Kaulitz, guitarist Tom Kaulitz, drummer Gustav Schäfer and bassist Georg Listing.
The quartet have scored four number one singles and have released three
number one albums in their native country, selling nearly 5 million CDs
and DVDs there.
After recording an unreleased demo-CD under the name "Devilish" and having their contract with
Sony BMG Germany terminated, the band released their first German-language album,
Schrei, as Tokio Hotel on
Universal Music Germany in 2005.
Schrei sold more than half a million copies worldwide
and spawned four top five singles in both Germany and Austria. In 2007, the band released their second German album
Zimmer 483 and their first English album
Scream which have combined album sales of over one million copies worldwide and helped win the band their first
MTV Europe Music Award for Best InterAct. The former,
Zimmer 483, spawned three top five singles in Germany while the latter,
Scream, spawned two singles that reached the top twenty in new territories such as
France,
Portugal,
Spain and
Italy. In September 2008, they won in the US their first
MTV Video Music Award (VMA) for Best New Artist. In October 2008, they won four awards including Best International Artist and Song of the year at
Los Premios MTV Latinoamérica
(MTV Video Music Awards Latin America) held in Mexico. Tokio Hotel
became the first German band ever to win an award at the MTV VMAs and
also at the MTV Latin America Awards. They also picked up the Headliner
award at the
MTV Europe Music Awards 2008 held in
Liverpool on November 6, 2008 and the Award for Best Group on November 5, 2009 at the
MTV Europe Music Award (EMA) held in Berlin. They won an Award for Best World Stage Performance on November 7, 2010 at the
MTV Europe Music Awards in Madrid. In July 2011, they became the first German band to win an
MTV Video Music Awards Japan (VMAJ). And won MTV's 2012 Musical March Madness.
Band members
- Studio albums
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