The ranking of those huge western rock n' roll bands is going to change. Tokio Hotel, coming from Germany with an average age at 20 and 3 No.1 hit albums after 5 years career, has sold out more than 6 millions records and gotten more than 40 awards, which including the best group at the EMAs 2009. The media calls this band "the most successful german artists in 20 years". Even the Twilight star admited himself as a Tokio Hotel fan openly! Lead singer Bill Kaulitz drives all the girls from the whole world crazy with his handsome, visual rock like look, even the twin designers of the famous canadian brand Dsquared have fallen for him and invited him to take the runway walk as VIP at Milan Fashion Week. All of this just threatens another idol band Jonas Brothers so much, some press has even labeled Tokio Hotel "European Jonas Brothers". According to this said Bill: They are nice but they do stuff more as Pop, and we are rock band, it's very different.
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Tokio Hotel is Kaulitz twins Tom and Bill as guitarist and lead singer, bassist Georg Listing and drummer Gustav Schäfer. Most attention is focused on the twins with stunning styles. Bill and Tom are not only on the cover of the german GQ magazine, but also invited together by the famous designers of Dsquared, who are also twins, to the Milan Fashion Week this year. Exaggerated hairstyles and cool eye shadow as his own trademark, Bill has even opened the Dsquared show modeling the for time in his life. Black feathered leather rock n' roll stuff with his skinny figure, Bill Kaulitz caught all eyes of the world.
Since the focus for Tokio Hotel is on the twins, it's not strange that they are compared with Jonas Brothers when they publicize their latest English album Humanoid in the USA. Some people even described Tokio Hotel as "the European Jonas Brothers coming to the States". When asked about the opinion of the compare with Jonas Brothers, lead singer Bill answered with a wry smile: we had met at some award show and they impressed us as very polite people. But we are not to be compared, they are more like pop music and we play rock, it's really very different!
The album sales of Taiwan is mainly based on the British and American artists, and in the passing few years, it's a miracle that the german band Tokio Hotel owned a lot of fans in Taiwan without any campaign. Some fans set us blogs for the band spontaneously and the visitors have been over 370,000. The fans together petitioned the record company to release the albums in Taiwan. The latest English album Humanoid has added one more DVD, including exclusive photos of Tokio Hotel in 3D visual effect and three songs in karaoke version. Tokio Hotel had thanked the fans in Taiwan for the support in an overseas phone interview with the Taiwan record company. They also hoped that they could visit Aisa soon and meet up with the asian fans.
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