Sehnsucht

The second album was released on 22 August 1997, through Motor Music in Europe and Slash Records in the United States. It was recorded between November 1996 and July 1997 at Temple Studio in St. Paul's Bay, Malta, and runs 43:51. It went to number one in Germany and Austria, three in Switzerland, thirteen in Finland, seventeen in Sweden, twenty-three in New Zealand, twenty-five in Australia, twenty-eight in Hungary, twenty-eight in the Netherlands, thirty-six in Flanders, forty-five on the Billboard 200 and seventy-six in France. It is the only album sung entirely in German to be certified platinum by the RIAA in the United States. The singles were "Engel" and "Du hast", and "Du hast" was later nominated for a Grammy. The title is German for longing or desire. The running order given here is the original pressing's; every edition that runs past eleven tracks is a special edition.