"Übers Ende der Welt" and "Ready, Set, Go!" are rock

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 songs by German

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 alternative rock

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 band Tokio Hotel

Tokio Hotel

Tokio Hotel is a pop rock band from Germany, founded in 2001 by singer Bill Kaulitz, guitarist Tom Kaulitz, drummer Gustav Schäfer and bassist Georg Listing...

. The German version of the song, "Übers Ende der Welt", was released as the first single from their second album Zimmer 483

Zimmer 483

Zimmer 483 is the second album by the German rock band Tokio Hotel. It was released in Germany on 23 February 2007. The album yielded four singles including "Übers Ende der Welt", "Spring nicht" and "An deiner Seite "...

and it is the album's opening track.

The song was later translated into English and re-recorded for Tokio Hotel's first English-language album Scream

Scream (Tokio Hotel album)

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under the title "Ready, Set, Go!". The English version was released as the second single from the album Scream in mainland Europe and was released as the band's debut single in the United Kingdom

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. This song was also released as the debut single in Canada

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 via MuchMusic

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. The music video was nominated for the "Best Pop Video" award as well as winning the "Best New Artist" award at the 2008 MTV Video Music Awards

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The English version later appeared as a playable track in the European version of Guitar Hero On Tour: Decades and as a downloadable track for the Rock Band series.

They collaborated with Jade Puget of AFI

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 to create a remix of Ready Set Go. It was included as a bonus track on their album Scream

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Music video

The music video for the German version, "Übers Ende der Welt", features the four band members as workers, walking through a futuristic but bleak city, along with a group of catatonic co-workers. They are all dressed in the same grey overalls while carrying large pipes. When the workers pass a corridor, they notice Tokio Hotel playing the song on a stage at the end of the corridor. The workers, including the band members in their worker-characters, run towards the performance and subsequently escape from the city by climbing up the walls of the sky-scrapers around the stage. Scenes of the catatonic workers in a dining hall, silently watching a test screen (which eventually explodes) are also included in the video. The video concludes with a shot of the band members (in their worker-characters) standing on top of one of the city's sky-scrapers, blinded by the sunlight.

The most recent version of the music video for "Ready, Set, Go!" is visually identical to the German "Übers Ende der Welt" music video.

In early 2008, an alternate music video for "Ready, Set, Go!" was frequently shown on The N cable television channel. The music video played in between commercial breaks. This version did not feature the band members portrayed as workers, but it did feature the band playing in front of the test screen seen in the original German music video.

The video had entered the Much More Music Top 10 countdown briefly during the time when the band performed a concert in Toronto

Toronto

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 on February 10, 2008 at The Mod Club

Mod Club Theatre

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Formats and track listings

These are the formats and track listings of major single releases of "Übers Ende der Welt" and "Ready, Set, Go!".

• CD single: Übers Ende der Welt

1. "Übers Ende der Welt" (single version) - 3:35
2. "Übers Ende der Welt" (akustik version) - 3:27

• CD maxi single: Übers Ende der Welt

1. "Übers Ende der Welt" (single version) - 3:35
2. "Übers Ende der Welt" (akustik version) - 3:27
3. "Hilf mir fliegen" - 3:44
4. "Tokio Hotel in Moskau" (video)
5. "Tokio Hotel Gallery"

• 7" Vinyl UK single: Ready, Set, Go!

1. "Ready, Set, Go!" - 3:34
2. "Black" - 3:21

• CD single: Ready, Set, Go!

1. "Ready, Set, Go!" - 3:34
2. "Übers Ende der Welt" (single version)- 3:35
3. "Übers Ende der Welt" (acoustic version) - 3:27
4. "Hilf mir fliegen" - 3:44

• CD UK single: Ready, Set, Go!

1. "Ready, Set, Go!" - 3:34
2. "Live Every Second" - 3:51

• CD maxi single: Ready, Set, Go!

1. "Ready, Set, Go!" - 3:34
2. "Ready, Set, Go!" (Grizzly remix) - 3:16
3. "Black" - 3:21
4. "Ready, Set, Go!" (music video)

Release history

Song	Country	Date
"Übers Ende der Welt"	Germany Germany Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...	26 January 2007
"Ready, Set, Go!"	Europe Europe Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...	24 August 2007
	United Kingdom United Kingdom The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...	27 August 2007
	United States United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...	11 March 2008

Charts

Chart (2007) 1	Peak position
Ö3 Austria Top 40 Ö3 Austria Top 40 Ö3 Austria Top 40 is the name of the official Austrian singles chart, as well as the radio show which presents it, aired Fridays on Hitradio Ö3. The show presents the Austrian singles, ringtones and downloads chart. It premiered on 26 November 1968 as Disc Parade and was presented by Ernst Grissemann...	1
Belgian Singles Chart	30
Danish Singles Chart	3
French Singles Chart	5
German Singles Chart	1
Swiss Singles Chart	2
Chart (2007-2008) 2	Peak position
Belgian Singles Chart	26
Canadian Hot 100 Canadian Hot 100 The Canadian Hot 100 is a music singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine which ranks songs in Canada. The chart debuted in the Billboard issue dated June 16, 2007 and was made available for the first time via their online services on June 7, 2007...	80
Dutch Top 40 Dutch Top 40 The Dutch Top 40 is a weekly music chart, which started as the "Veronica Top 40", because the offshore radio station Radio Veronica was the first to introduce it. It remained "The Veronica Top 40" until 1974, when the station was forced to stop broadcasting...	31
UK Singles Chart UK Singles Chart The UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official Charts Company on behalf of the British record-industry. The full chart contains the top selling 200 singles in the United Kingdom based upon combined record sales and download numbers, though some media outlets only list the Top 40 or the Top 75 ...	77
U.S. Billboard Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles The Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles is a chart published weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States. It lists the top 25 singles below number 100 that have not yet charted on the Billboard Hot 100. Sometimes, however, singles halt their progress on this chart, and never appear on the Hot 100...	19

Notes

• ¹: First table of Chart positions (2007) are of the German version, "Übers Ende der Welt"
• ²: Second table of Chart positions(2007-2008) are of the English version, "Ready, Set, Go!"

Year-end charts

Chart (2007)	Rank
German Singles Chart Media Control Charts The official music charts in Germany are gathered and published by the company Media Control GfK International on behalf of Bundesverband Musikindustrie...	56