''Ceca 2000'' (or simply ''2000'') is the tenth studio album by

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n singer Ceca. It was released on 29 December 1999 by

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Overview

The official release of the album took place on 29 December 1999, on the same day Ceca presented the album at the

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in Belgrade. The singer held a press conference and also performed several new songs, including "Crveno" and "Crni sneg" in a duet with

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. The singer also announced that the album was released in a circulation of 295 thousand copies: 265 thousand on cassettes and 30 thousand on CDs. At the same time, Ceca presented the official calendar for 2000, which was attached as a gift to ''Pink revija'' magazine. The photos used for the album cover and calendar were taken by Dejan Milićević. Two music videos "Dokaz" and "Crveno" were also released and both shot by Milićević. In addition, videos were shot for the songs "Oproštajna večera" and "Votka sa utehom", but they were never released. A website www.ceca2000.co.yu was specially launched to promote the album, which became one of the first music sites in Yugoslavia, today the site is no longer active. On 12 January 2000, the singer made her first appearance on television with new material in the ''Maksovizija'' program on Pink TV. Further promotion of the album stopped on 15 January 2000, when Ceca's husband,

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, was killed.

Critical reception

In 2018,

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from ''Leskovačke Vesti'', when compiling the rating of the "50 best folk albums of all time", placed the album in thirty-second place, noting that it is one of the best albums of both Ceca and the entire Balkan pop-folk music.

Track listing

Personnel

* Ceca – vocals * Dragan Kovačević Struja – accordion, arrangement, keyboards * Dragan Ivanović – acoustic guitar, bass guitar, keyboards * Aleksandar Milić – arrangement, production * Đorđe Janković – arrangement, co-production, keyboards, mastering, programming, mixing * Aleksandar Radulović – backing vocals, guitar * Džej Ramadanovski – backing vocals * Maja Marković – backing vocals * Trio "Passage" – backing vocals * Ivica Maksimović – bouzouki * Dobrinko Popić – guitar * Dragan Ristevski – trumpet * Nebojša Ivanović – trumpet Credits are adapted from the album's liner notes.

References

External links

* {{Authority control 1999 albums Ceca (singer) albums PGP-RTB albums Serbian-language albums