Yalin - Kalamadim
Yalin and his single "Zalim caught music lovers by surprise.
Yalin with his debut album "Ellerine Saglik" was the living proof that good work will be appreciated by music listeners. In a very short period of time, Yalin was able to reach thousands of music lovers' hearts.
The album's penetration to the market was quite out of the ordinary. Within the first week following its release, the sales figures reached 200,000 copies, by the end of the first month 300,000 albums were sold all over Turkey. Album's total sales reached 500,000 copies at the end of 4 months which made Yalin the owner of one of highest selling records in 2004.
Yalin's introduction to music goes back to his childhood when he listened to his father playing Gipsy Kings song to him with his guitar. Since then Yalin's interest in music grew more and more each day and brought him to today when he became one of the most promising singer/song writers of Turkey.
Yalin, born in 1980, wrote his first songs during his high school years and it was time for him to focus on music when he got into college to study economics. It was then when he was able to gather his first demo CD. As a result of 1,5 years old hard work and dedication, "Ellerine Saglik" produced by Selim Ozturk was introduced to Turkish music lovers. The album full of songs that captured everyone by heart became the music sensation of 2004.
His personality and attitude that differs him from all other pop stars in Turkey put him in a different place in the hearts of music lovers at all ages.
3 videos were shot for the album for the tracks that received the highest numbers of request from Yalin fans. All 3 videos, "Zalim", "Sonsuz Ol" and "Gunaydin" entered MTV's World Chart Express at No. 1 position. Yalin's debut album also got into album charts in Greece and Bulgaria.
Record breaking ring tone downloads from Yalin!
According to Turkcell's reports the 10 titles in Ellerine Saglik, received more than 1.5 million downloads. Zalim became the most requested ring tone melody of 2004.
Yalin welcomes summer of 2005 with ‘Bir Bakmissin’
With his second album Bir Bakmissin, Yalin outdid his artistic achievement in his debut album. Although he kept the tone of his music similar to Ellerine Saglik, the music quality and the sound of Bir Bakmissin received better comments from music critiques.
The album was brought together by the same group of musicians that Yalin worked with in his first album. Just like he did in 2004, with Bir Bakmissin, Yalin became one of the highest selling artists in Turkey. After the successful videos of his debut album, 2 excellent songs completed with 2 beautiful videos took Yalin back to MTV's World Chart Express – first "Ben Bilmem" followed by the incredibly successful track "Keske".
Though not a very long career in the business Yalin was able to collect more than 5 of the most prestigious awards of the industry including the Best New Comer in 2004 and the Song of the Year in 2005.
As a result of enourmous demand from his fans his official website (www.yalinonline.com) went online in 2004 right after his debut album release. Today, the website gets close to 2 million hits every month!
Turkcell 40 degrees summer tour got even hotter with Yalin!
In 2 years time Yalin was able to reach hundreds of thousands of people all over Turkey. He met with his fans at more than 200 concerts, his total album sales reached 800 thousand and he definetely proved to the industry that he is not a 'one hit wonder'. This summer he became on of the headliners of Turkcell's 40 degrees summer tour. Yalin visited 8 cities and performed for thousands of people with the sponsorhip of Turkcell, Turkey's number one GSM operator.
Time to go back to the studio for a third album!
Yalin gets ready to dive into the market one more time. He has started working on the third album which is scheduled to be released in the spring of 2007.
Girls love him, boys wanna be like him!
After a 2 year period full of success, Yalin became the new role model for Turkish youth. His dedication on music as well as education have become a inspiration for all youngsters. He has proved that with dedication talent can be completed with success...
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