Ari Koivunen Fan Page - ProfilesArchive

About Me

Ari Koivunen is the winner of the 2007 Finnish Idols competition. Prior to entering Idols, Koivunen won the Finnish Karaoke Championships in 2005 and placed third in the Karaoke World Championships the same year.
Curiosity detail about Idols: where else in the world would someone sing (and win by doing so!) Scorpions, Whitesnake, Deep Purple, Iron Maiden, Stratovarius and Sonata Arctica at an Idols competition than in Finland! Ari Koivunen is THE first ever Idols winner in the world who has won by singing heavy metal.
Koivunen's debut album, Fuel For The Fire, was released on May 30th. The album was also released for download sale on May 21st. This has truly been a record breaking album in Finland: it is THE most downloaded album ever and since its release it stayed 12 weeks in a row as NR1 in the official chart, something that none other Finnish band/artist has ever done before! And now it has already sold DOUBLE PLATINUM (over 60 000 copies), way to go Ari!!!
Special Double Platinum edition, including a DVD with Live material, was released in Finland on November 21st. Also a special edition was released for sale in Japan on October 24th and it has done really well: just after a one week sale is was ranked as number 17th in the Metal Ranking list. It had sold even more than HIM.
ARI'S SECOND ALBUM "BECOMING" WILL BE RELEASED ON JUNE 11, 2008! News source Sony BMG.
Photos by Rikuli
Live Photos 2008 - Enjoy! New photos will be added from time to time, throughout the year.
Live Photos from 2007 - Enjoy!
Watch the NEW VIDEO: Angels Are Calling
Watch the video: Angels Are Calling (Live @ Huuma)
Watch the video: Hear My Call

My Interests

Music, heavy metal karaoke, skateboarding, poker, billiard, golf.

I'd like to meet:

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Piece of News

Several new dates added to the Tour calendar, among them Ari's first gigs in JAPAN on May 29 & 30, 2008! Lots of new photos added, we hope you like them!
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Disclaimer

We take no responsibility in accuracy of the Tour calendar. However, the information and new dates are checked regularly and changes are corrected whenever needed.

Music:

Debut album was released May 30, 2007

Double Platinum Edition was released November 21, 2007

Books:

This book was published in May 2007. It has 120 pages and lots of photos, only in Finnish.
ISBN: 978-951-0-33528-4

Heroes:

Jaska Vitikainen (ex Royal Tramps band)

Click the banner above to order official fan products!

My Blog

Links to videos

Here is list to all the songs that Ari sang at Idols + some other good quality videos found on the internet. Unfortunatelly most of the video links from Idols have been removed due to a copyright clai...
Posted by Ari Koivunen Fan Page on Wed, 07 Nov 2007 08:12:00 PST

Give Me A Reason - video

Ari Koivunen's new video has been published today and you can watch it for free HERE The video will be available there until this Sunday, May 18th. You have to register there in order to be able to vi...
Posted by Ari Koivunen Fan Page on Thu, 15 May 2008 09:33:00 PST

Album title & songtitles released

The title of Ari's second album has been released, it is Becoming. Cover design by Thomas Ewerhard The album will include the following songs: - Raging Machine- Under The Burning Sky- Give Me A Reas...
Posted by Ari Koivunen Fan Page on Thu, 08 May 2008 01:43:00 PST

Ari @ Nosturi, Helsinki

Koivuset @ Nosturi, Helsinki. May 1st, 2008Most important news first: YES, we got to hear the new single Give Me A Reason wow! And yes, it sounded very very good indeed! There has been a lot of spec...
Posted by Ari Koivunen Fan Page on Fri, 02 May 2008 11:39:00 PST

New single --> First radio play on May 5th!

Ari's second album is scheduled to be released on June 11, 2008. First single of this album is called Give Me A Reason and it is being mastered this week. It is written by the producers Nino Laurenne ...
Posted by Ari Koivunen Fan Page on Tue, 22 Apr 2008 03:51:00 PST

Ari @ Apollo Live Club, Helsinki

Ari & his band & Petra (from very popular Finnish girl band called TikTak) had a very special gig at Apollo Live Club, Helsinki on April 16, 2008. What made it special was that Petra was...
Posted by Ari Koivunen Fan Page on Thu, 17 Apr 2008 02:54:00 PST

Ari Live @ Emma Gala

See Ari´s great performance at Emma Gala, March 8, 2008! The songs are Fuel For The Fire and Hear My Call. Video by 0alleycat0 Just in case there are problems with the video clip above, here ...
Posted by Ari Koivunen Fan Page on Sat, 08 Mar 2008 02:35:00 PST

On The Rocks gig

Ari had a great gig at On The Rocks club Helsinki on March 6, 2008. The set list was as following: Don´t Try To Break Me, Sign Of Our Times, Fuel For The Fire, God Of War, Losing My Insanity, Stormwin...
Posted by Ari Koivunen Fan Page on Sat, 08 Mar 2008 06:43:00 PST

New songs

Ari performed 3 new songs at Finnish Metal Expo on February 16, 2008. The songs are: - Hero´s Gold - Keepers of the Night - Sign of Our Times See cool photos from FME at the following links: FME photo...
Posted by Ari Koivunen Fan Page on Mon, 18 Feb 2008 12:52:00 PST

Ari wins Newcomer of the Year Award

Ari Koivunen won Newcomer of the Year 2007 award at Finnish Metal Awards and was celebrated at Finnish Metal Expo gala on February 15, 2008. Ari was also competing in 2 other categories: Singer of the...
Posted by Ari Koivunen Fan Page on Sat, 16 Feb 2008 02:01:00 PST