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Tarkan (album)

Tarkan is a 1999 compilation album by Tarkan, composed of songs released in his 1994 A-Acayipsin and 1997 Ölürüm Sana albums.[1] It was initially released in France in 1998 but due to the success of his single "Şımarık", it was given a wider European release on 1 April 1999, with 14 tracks.[2] Due to its popularity it was re-released with 15 tracks on 27 September in the same year.[3] The sales of this album won Tarkan a Monaco World Music Award.

Tarkan
Compilation album by
Tarkan
Released27 September 1999
RecordedErekli Tunç, Imaj & Istanbul Plak (Istanbul, Turkey) ADS & Guillaume Tell (France), Dynamic Work (Milan, Italy), Black Out (Belgium)
GenrePop
Length62:55
LabelUniversal
ProducerMehmet Söğütoğlu, Laurent Marimbert
Tarkan chronology
Ölürüm Sana
(1997) 		Tarkan
(1999) 		Karma
(2001)
Singles from Tarkan
  1. "Şımarık"
    Released: 1998
  2. "Şıkıdım"
    Released: 1999
  3. "Bu Gece"
    Released: 1999

Track listing edit

# Song Composer Lyricist Time
1 Şımarık (Radio Edit) Sezen Aksu, Tarkan Sezen Aksu 3:10
2 Ölürüm Sana Tarkan Tarkan 4:05
3 Bu Gece (Kır Zincirlerini) (Radio Edit) Tarkan Tarkan 3:53
4 Şıkıdım (Hepsi Senin Mi?) (Radio Mix) Sezen Aksu Sezen Aksu 3:15
5 Salına Salına Sinsice Tarkan Tarkan 3:56
6 İkimizin Yerine Tarkan, Sezen Aksu Tarkan, Sezen Aksu 4:42
7 İnci Tanem Tarkan Tarkan 5:38
8 Dön Bebeğim Ümit Sayın Ümit Sayın 4:45
9 Başına Bela Olurum Tarkan Tarkan 4:11
10 Gül Döktüm Yollarına Tarkan Tarkan 4:08
11 Unut Beni Tarkan Tarkan 4:08
12 Beni Anlama Ozan Çolakoğlu Pakize Barışta 4:08
13 Delikanlı Çağlarım (Anonymous) Tarkan 3:43
14 Şımarık (Long Version) Sezen Aksu, Tarkan Sezen Aksu 3:54
15 Bu Gece (Kır Zincirlerini) (Original Version) Tarkan Tarkan 5:29
16 Şıkıdım (Hepsi Senin Mi?) (Original Version) Sezen Aksu Sezen Aksu 3:54

Extra information edit

The Japanese export had two bonus tracks, "Bu Gece" (Kir Zincirlerini) Club Remix and "Şımarık" (Malagutti Remix).

Music videos edit

  • "Şıkıdım"
  • "Şımarık"
  • "Bu Gece"

Charts edit

Chart (1998 / 1999) Peak
position
Hungarian Albums Chart[4] 6
German Albums Chart 7
Swiss Albums Chart 17
Austrian Albums Chart 22
French Albums Chart 26
Belgian Albums Chart 30
Dutch Albums Chart 33
Swedish Albums Chart 53

Year-end charts edit

Chart (1999) Position
German Albums Chart[5] 71

Sales edit

Region Certification Certified units/sales
Mexico — 300,000[6]
United States — 50,000[6]

Notes edit

  1. ^ Tarkan Translations
  2. ^ Universal Germany Archived 2011-07-17 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ Universal Germany Archived 2011-07-17 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ Hungary Top 40
  5. ^ "Top 100 Album-Jahrescharts" (in German). GfK Entertainment. Retrieved September 8, 2016.
  6. ^ a b Valdes-Rodriguez, Alisa (July 22, 2000). "Turkish Singer's Latin Success Sealed With a Kiss, or Two". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on June 8, 2021. Retrieved June 8, 2021.

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