- hard rock
- glam metal
- rock
- Germany
- formed 1965, Hannover
- 3 albums
- 3 Dutch Top 40 hits
- 1984–2025
Scorpions is a group from Germany, formed in 1965 in Hannover. Over the years, Rudolf Schenker, Lothar Heimberg, Wolfgang Dziony, Klaus Meine, Michael Schenker, Uli Jon Roth, Francis Buchholz, Jürgen Rosenthal and five others played in the group. The collection holds three albums by the group, released between 1984 and 2025: Love At First Sting (1984), Crazy World (1990) and From The First Sting (2025). Three records reached the Dutch Top 40, one of them the top spot. The highest was Wind Of Change: number 1 in week 22 of 1991.
Source: MusicBrainz and Discogs
Albums by Scorpions
By kind of album and then by year of release. Click a cover and you get the tracks per side, with the whole album on Spotify.
Sound of Scorpions
Scorpions sounds more acoustic than the shelves on average, at a tempo around 130 bpm.
Across 32 tracks on the shelves. The mark and the small number: the average of the whole collection.
Timeline of Scorpions
The 13 members of Scorpions, with the years they belonged to the group, including anyone who left for a while and came back. The thin lines are the albums and the red lines are the entries in the Dutch Top 40. Point at a line and click for the album or the weekly chart. A linked name has its own page.
Rudolf Schenker
Lothar Heimberg
Wolfgang Dziony
Klaus Meine
Michael Schenker
Uli Jon Roth
Francis Buchholz
Jürgen Rosenthal
Herman Rarebell
Matthias Jabs
Ralph Rieckermann
James Kottak
Paweł Mąciwoda197019801990200020102020Member of the groupAlbumDutch Top 40Still a member
Concert videos of Scorpions
All concert videosFour clips from one concert, newest concert first and per concert in the order of the night, filmed on a phone from the audience. Click a clip to play it here.
Scorpions in the Dutch Top 40
In the Dutch Top 40, Scorpions had three records. Each record shows its peak position, how long it stayed in the chart and the week of that peak.
week 22, 199137weeks in the chart
with 3 records1987first entry
week 9, 19871991latest entry
week 38, 19912years with an entry
- 1Wind Of ChangeScorpions199114 weeks
- 4Still Loving YouScorpions198713 weeks
- 4Send Me An AngelScorpions199110 weeks
Source: top40.nl
Frequently asked questions
How many albums by Scorpions are in the collection?
There are three, released between 1984 and 2025: Love At First Sting (1984), Crazy World (1990) and From The First Sting (2025).
Which Dutch Top 40 hits did Scorpions have?
Scorpions had three records in the Dutch Top 40, one of them at number 1. The best-charting record is Wind Of Change, which reached number 1 in week 22 of 1991.
Who played in Scorpions?
Over the years that was Rudolf Schenker, Lothar Heimberg, Wolfgang Dziony, Klaus Meine, Michael Schenker, Uli Jon Roth, Francis Buchholz, Jürgen Rosenthal, Herman Rarebell, Matthias Jabs, Ralph Rieckermann, James Kottak and Paweł Mąciwoda. The timeline shows the years each member belonged to the group; anyone with a page of their own is linked in the side column.
Are there concert videos of Scorpions?
Yes: four clips from one concert, filmed from the audience, newest concert first. They play on this page.
How do you play the music of Scorpions?
Open an album and use the round Spotify button after a track. The Dutch Top 40 entries have the same button. The music plays in the player at the bottom of the page and keeps going while you browse on. This needs one-time consent for Spotify. A concert video plays when you click the clip.
Keep exploring
If you have landed here, you probably want to keep going: an album, an artist, a week in the Dutch Top 40 or a concert.