Yusuf Güney is a Turkish singer who currently lives in London. Together with Rafet El Roman, their song ''Aşk-ı Virane'' was the number one single for 16 weeks in the Turkish charts in 2008 and thus the most successful song of the year.

Life and career

He initially worked as a songwriter and in 2008 his song "Aşk-ı Virane" was included in Rafet El Roman's album '' Bir Roman Gibi'' and he was featured on it as well. The two later shot a music video for the song and it became a successful hit, ranking number-one on

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for 17 weeks. In 2009, the song was chosen as "Song of the Year" at the

Turkey Music Awards Kral Turkey Music Awards (previously known as Kral TV Video Music Awards between 1995 and 2009, Kral Music Awards between 2009 and 2012, and Turkey Music Awards between 2013 and 2016) were the annual music awards in Turkey. The first awards were g ...

. Following this success, Güney released his first album '' Bir Sevda Masalı'' which was produced by Rafet El Roman and released on 12 February 2009 under the label Emre Plak. The first music video for this album, was made for the song "Heder Oldum Aşkına" written by Rafet El Roman. The song ranked second on Turkey's official music charts, and 99th on Europe Radio List. In May, another music video was recorded for the song "Aşkım Aşklarından Bulasın", which was written by himself. It ranked number 6 on Turkey's charts. Güney's second album '' Aşka İnat'', which included 10 songs, was released on 3 May 2010 by Emre Plak.Billboard Listelere Bakış
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Discography

Albums

* ''Bir Sevda Masalı'' (2009) * ''Aşka İnat'' (2010) * ''Sevgi Arsızı'' (2013) * ''Kaptan'' (2016)

EPs

* ''Kader Rüzgarı'' (2012)

Singles

* "Bunalım" (2013) * "Hazin" (2014) * "Kördüğüm" (2016) * "Yaradanım" (2018) * "Çak Bi Beşlik" (2019) * "Duydun Mu?" (2020) * "Zamansız Yağmur" (''Musa Eroğlu ile Bir Asır 2'') (2022) * "Boş Kafalar" (2022)

Duets

* "Aşk-ı Virane" (with Rafet El Roman) * "Aşka İnat" (with Rafet El Roman and Eren Atsoy) * "Değilsin" (with Şeyma Erdoğan) * "Kendine İyi Bak" (with Semra San)

Charts

References

External links

Official Websise
Living people People from Trabzon Turkish-language singers from the United Kingdom Turkish emigrants to the United Kingdom 1984 births 21st-century Turkish singers 21st-century Turkish male singers {{Turkey-musician-stub