Though Austrian pop star Christina Stürmer's initial claim to fame was coming in second to Michael Tschuggnall on Starmania, a Pop Idol-like televised singing contest, her career eventually eclipsed his with a string of award-winning albums and singles. After topping the charts in her homeland, she released her international debut album, Schwarz Weiss, and quickly became one of the biggest-selling Austrian artists in German-speaking Europe. In the 2010s, she released a string of number one albums: Lebe lauter (2006), In Dieser Stadt (2009), Ich Hör Auf Mein Herz (2013), and Seite an Seite (2016). She kept the momentum going into the next decade with the 2021 Lemo collaboration "Nur Mensch" and a career-encompassing MTV Unplugged concert release in 2023.