''10 H.M.'' (Short for ''10 Hronia Mazi'',

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: ''10 Χρόνια Μαζί''; English: ''10 Years Together'') is an

album An album is a collection of audio recordings (e.g., music) issued on a medium such as compact disc (CD), Phonograph record, vinyl (record), audio tape (like 8-track cartridge, 8-track or Cassette tape, cassette), or digital distribution, dig ...

released by Greek singer

Despina Vandi Despina Malea (; born 22 July 1969), known as Despina Vandi (), is a Greek singer. Born in Tübingen near Stuttgart, Germany, Vandi's family returned to Kavala, Greece when she was six years old. After moving to Athens in the early 1990s, Vandi ...

starting on December 6, 2007. It is her 12th album from the beginning of her career, and her 10th album with

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. It is also her first studio album of new material since her 2004 release of ''Stin Avli Tou Paradisou''. The album is dedicated to the 10-year collaboration with

and features a track of the same name. The album is a triple CD, with the first CD containing pop/rock songs, the second CD containing Modern Laika songs and third CD containing new remixes of older songs. The album is completely written and produced by

and released by

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. The main sponsor is

WIND Hellas Wind Hellas (formerly TELESTET Hellas and later also TIM Hellas) was a Greek integrated telecommunications provider with headquarters in Athens, Greece. As of September 2010, Wind was the third largest mobile operator in Greece (after Cosmote ...

. The album went platinum status (47.000) in Greece and platinum (10.000) in Cyprus. On June 24, 2008, the album was repackaged with the title ''10 Hronia Mazi: It's Destiny'' as one disc. The repackaged version includes the song "

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" by

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featuring Despina Vandi that was composed by

. The one-disc repackage version features all the songs from the original first and second discs, excluding all the remixes (with the exception of "Ta Lefta" (Remix)) and disc three.

Track listing

Singles and music videos

The following singles were officially released to radio stations and made into Music Videos. Additional songs such as, "Girismos", "Se Hreiazomai", "Sindromo Sterisis" and "Kathe Mera", despite not having been released as singles, managed to gain radio airplay. "Thelo" :" Thelo" was released on 10/10 at 10 AM to all radio stations simultaneously to celebrate the 10 years of collaboration. The song was Number 1 on the Nielsen ''Greece Top 20 Chart'' for 5 straight weeks. "10 Hronia Mazi" :"10 Hronia Mazi" is the second single of the album which released on radio stations all over the Greece on November 16, 2007. It is about Vandi's ten year collaboration with

. The music video premiered December 7 on

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. "Agapi" :"Agapi" is the third single of the album. The music video premiered on

on March 6, 2008. It reached number 5 on the Greek radio airplay chart. "Fantasou Apla" :"Fantasou Apla" is the fourth single and was released on April 24, 2008 on

in the form of a music video. was filmed at the same time as "Agapi". "I Gi Ki I Selini" :"I Gi Ki I Selini" is the fifth single and was released on June 17, 2008. Her performance at the "MAD Video Music Awards 2008" was used as the music video of the single. "Destiny" :"

" is a song by

, with vocals by Despina Vandi. The song was released as radio-single and was included on Vandi's repackaged CD "10 Hronia Mazi: It's Destiny". She also performed the song with Schiller on June 17, 2008 on the stage of the "MAD Video Music Awards 2008". "Tha' Thela" :"Tha' Thela" is the seventh single and was released on September 18, 2008 on

. The music video features the live performance of the song at Love Radio party which took place on May 12, 2008.

Release history

Charts

The album went platinum, selling 30,000 copies, in its first week and made its debut at number 4 on the Greek Albums Chart beaten by Mihalis Hatzigiannis,

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and

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. The album placed ninth on the

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annual albums chart for 2007. The album re-entered the chart for one week at number 39 on 22nd week of 2008 before leaving the chart once again. The album returned on charts after the repackaging at number 10 and then spent two weeks at number 15. Almost 4 years after its release, on the 20th week of 2011, the album re-entered at number 3 and on the 21st week it falls at 4.

Credits and personnel

;Personnel * Antonis Andreou – trombone * Romeos Avlastimidis – violin * Achilleas Diamantis – guitars (electrics, acoustics, twelve-strings) * Akis Diximos – second vocals, background vocals * Spiros Dorizas – drums * Nektarios Georgiadis – background vocals * Pantelis Gkertsos – guitars (electrics) * Takis Haramis – bass * Giorgos Hatzopoulos – guitars (acoustics, twelve-strings, electrics) * Panos Hronopoulos – remix * Telis Kafkas – bass * Trifon Koutsourelis – orchestration, programming, keyboards, remix * Giannis Lionakis – orchestration, programming, guitars (acoustics, electrics), tzoura, baglama, keyboards, remix * DJ Luke – remix * Giannis Mpithikotsis – bouzouki, baglama, tzoura * Christos Mpousdoukos – violin * Vasilis Nikolopoulos – drums, remix, snare drum *

– music, lyrics, orchestration, programming, keyboards, pneumatic, remix * Giorgos Roilos – percussion * Soumka – remix * Manos Theodosakis – trumpet *

– vocals * Thanasis Vasilopoulos – clarinet, ney * Antonis Vlahos – orchestration, mix * Nikos Voutouras – orchestration, mix * Nikos Zervas – keyboards ;Production * Thodoris Hrisanthopoulos – mastering * Trifon Koutsourelis – sound * Vasilis Nikolopoulos – sound, mix *

– production manager, mix * Vaggelis Siapatis – sound, computer editing * Giorgos Stampolis – production ;Design * Dimitris Dimitroulis – make up * Christos Karatzolas – photo cover * Alexandra Katsaiti – styling * P. Koutsikos – art direction * Stefanos Vasilakis – hair styling * A. Vasmoulakis – art direction Credits adapted from the album's liner notes.

References

External links

Official website

Official Despina-Phoebus Micro-site for album

Official Phoebus website
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