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Freier Fall
Freier Fall (English: Free Fall) is the debut studio album by Austrian recording artist Christina Stürmer. Recorded after her participation in the ORF 1 talent show Starmania, where she had finished runner-up, it was released by Amadeo, a Universal Music subsidiary, on 16 June 2003 in Austria. Upon its release, it became one of the most successful debuts in years, reaching number-one on the Austrian Albums Chart and finishing second on the Ö3 Austria year-end chart. It was eventually certified 4× Platinum by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), indicating sales in excess of 120,000 copies.
Article summary
Freier Fall (English: Free Fall) is the debut studio album by Austrian recording artist Christina Stürmer. Recorded after her participation in the ORF 1 talent show Starmania, where she had finished runner-up, it was released by Amadeo, a Universal Music subsidiary, on 16 June 2003 in Austria. Upon its release, it became one of the most successful debuts in years, reaching number-one on the Austrian Albums Chart and finishing second on the Ö3 Austria year-end chart. It was eventually certified 4× Platinum by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), indicating sales in excess of 120,000 copies.
Key claims
- release date: 2003-06-16 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95
Discussion questions
- Summarise the article in your own words. Which single claim would you verify first, and why?
- The record states that the release date is "2003-06-16". What evidence would count against this claim?
- Which claim in this article is most likely to be revised as the sources update? How would you check its current status?
- If two sources disagreed about one of these facts, what would you need in order to trust one over the other?
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