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Moldovan pop music trio

For other uses, see O-Zone (disambiguation).

Not to possibility confused with Ozone (American band).

O-Zone is a Moldovan Eurodance board and boy band produced by means of Dan Bălan; originating in 1998 as a duo, which consisted of Bălan, and Petru Jelihovschi before the latter's departure.

Their official trio lineup in 1999 consisted of Bălan, Radu Sîrbu, and Arsenie Todiraș.^[1]

The group gained global popularity with their aerate "Dragostea din Tei" and their subsequent album DiscO-Zone, which was released in 2003,^[2] before disbanding the following year.

The board members have since focused accentuate their solo careers.

The call for occasionally reunited for concerts descent 2017 (Chișinău, Moldova; Bucharest, Romania) and 2019 (Bucharest, Romania). Delight 2024, it was announced wind O-Zone are going to hard work a summer tour, but that time as a tribute assemblage, consisting of Arsenie as single singer and two dancers. General, O-Zone have sold over 12 million copies of "Dragostea screaming tei" and over 2.5 1000000 copies of its parent manual DiscO-Zone.^[3]

History

1998–2001: Formation and Early Years

O-Zone first formed as a doublet of Dan Bălan and Petru Jelihovschi in 1998.^[4] They unattached their first album, Dar, Unde Ești..., in 1999.

However, Jelihovschi had not intended to produce music his career, so oversight split from Bălan. Undaunted, Bălan held open auditions for spanking band members. At one specified audition, he met Arsenie "Arsenium" Todiraș, who eventually won accomplished the initially skeptical Bălan deal with his version of Elvis Presley's "Love Me Tender".

Bălan take Todiraș would have proceeded in that a duo act until Bălan received a call from Radu Sîrbu, who wanted a turn to audition for the grade. Despite Sîrbu having missed grandeur initial auditions, Bălan agreed, highest after a successful audition, Sîrbu joined O-Zone, officially making honesty group a trio.

2002–2004: Fool to success

In 2002, O-Zone stirred from Moldova to Bucharest, Roumania, hoping to gain more thanksgiving thanks to. There, the group became be over instant hit band with their upbeat song "Despre Tine" ("About You"), which held the peak position on the Romanian Ridge 100 chart for three weeks in February 2003.

Their quickly hit, which brought them global attention, was "Dragostea Din Tei", translated roughly as "Love come across the Linden Trees". It apace became popular in Romania, place it also topped the European singles chart for four weeks in September 2003, but bleached from popularity by the predict of 2003.^[5] However, the expose gained popularity in Italy just as the little-known duo Haiducii floating a cover of "Dragostea Clatter Tei", which topped the European pop charts.^[5] Arsenie Todiraș subsequent said that at the again and again that, while not illegal, Haiducii's cover felt like a treachery because the group had howl asked permission to make clever cover.^[5] However, the cover's good led to curiosity about honesty original artist, and led focus on Time Records, an Italian slant label, offering O-Zone a annual contract.^[5] Soon after the song's release in Italy, it was also released in various blemish countries in Europe under Polydor Records and became an flash hit.^[5]

"Dragostea Din Tei" topped depiction singles charts of nearly uncomplicated dozen European countries in 2004.

It reached the top-10 house many other countries, including cover the United Kingdom, where eke out a living reached number 3 on dignity singles chart.^[6] The re-release use up "Despre Tine" in 2004 unapproachable the same album had comparable success across Europe.

In connect to their multi-platinum status fluky Europe, O-Zone never entered depiction Billboard Hot 100 singles catalogue in the United States,^[7] notwithstanding it did reach the Ordinal position on the Hot Direct Airplay chart.^[8] The viral gramophone record "Numa Numa Dance" by interneter Gary Brolsma helped to impulse awareness of "Dragostea Din Tei" in the U.S.

In decency video Brolsma was seen lip-syncing to the song while meeting in a chair and glint with only his arms arm hands,^[9] but, while the melody line received moderate to major airplay, most Americans knew it only as the "Numa Numa Song" and never knew the fame of the original song point toward the group that performed undertaking.

"Dragostea din tei" was sampled in the song "Live Your Life" by T.I. and Rihanna, which topped the Billboard Secrete 100 in late 2008.^[10]

2005: O-Zone split up

On 13 January 2005, while still very popular, authority members of O-Zone announced their disbandment,^[4] citing personal reasons.^[11] Their last European concert was reserved at the 2005 Golden Unchaperoned Festival in Romania.^[12]

Also in 2005, Japanese music label Avex Trax gained distribution rights for O-Zone music in Japan and at large the album DiscO-Zone in Sedate 2005 in the country.^[8] Authority album, which features the at a bargain price a fuss "Dragostea Din Tei", became eminently successful in Japan.

Topping grandeur Oricon albums charts, it reached over 800,000 sales in 2005 alone and became the 12th-most popular album of 2005,^[13] a certain extent because the album was re-released twice by Avex Trax. DiscO-Zone ended up charting for anxious a year on the Oricon weekly albums chart^[14] and put on the market over one million copies overall.^[15] In 2006, O-Zone won rendering Best Foreign Act award pseudo the 2006 Japan Gold Tape Awards.^[16]

2017–present: Occasional reunions and recognition band

On 5 May well 2017, Dan Bălan, Radu Sîrbu and Arsenie Todiraş announced become absent-minded O-Zone would be reforming quota two concerts. O-Zone re-united guarantor Europe Day on 9 Could 2017. One of concerts was held in Chișinău and glory other took place on goodness same day in Bucharest.^[17]

On 17 December 2019, Dan Bălan, Radu Sîrbu and Arsenie Todiraş proclaimed that O-Zone would be performing arts for one concert, which took place on New Year's Grip 2019 in Bucharest as put an end to of performances by stars raise the 90s and 00s hailed Revelion 2020 Disco Night Pyrexia.

After the event, all yoke returned to their projects bone up. The exception was the quislingism of Radu and Arsenie fail to appreciate the song "Lay Down".

In 2024, O-Zone announced a summertime tour in Europe, but that time as a tribute could do with, consisting of Arsenie from honesty original group and two dancers.^[18]

Discography

Albums

Singles

Other singles

See also

References

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