Am seidenen Faden (album)

Am seidenen Faden (By a Silken Thread) is the second studio album by German recording artist Tim Bendzko, released by Sony Music Columbia on 24 May 2013 in German-speaking Europe. Bendzko re-teamed with frequent collaborator music producer Swen Meyer to work on the album and also consulted Christian "Crada" Kalla to provide additional production on the songs. Am seidenen Faden debuted and peaked at number one on the German Albums Chart, becoming Bendzko's first album to do so, and was certified 2× Platinum by the Bundesverband Musikindustrie (BVMI) for sales in excess of 400,000 copies.

Critical reception
laut.de editor Artur Schulz rated the album two stars out of five. He found that "on his second album, Bendzko comes dangerously close to conventional Schlager niceness, but always has enough fuel in the tank to not get stuck there. The banks of the well-kept chansons sometimes come into view, but remain inaccessible. Am Seidenen Faden is certainly suitable as a saving album for unhappily in love summer holidays." Deutsche Presse-Agentur wrote that "the whiz kid from 2011 once again shows catchy potential in his new songs in a jazzy pop-soul style. As with "Nur noch kurz die Welt retten" from his debut album or the winning title of the Bundesvision Song Contest "Wenn Worte meine Sprache wären", the album impresses with catchy melodies [...] You can't necessarily tell that the songs that have now been released were created from a single source and in the same phase of life together with the songs from the previous album. The new pieces on the double album are a little less soft, but just as down-to-earth."

Chart performance
Am seidenen Faden debuted at number one on the German Albums Chart, becoming Bendzko's first album to do so. In 2016, it was eventually certified double platinum by the Bundesverband Musikindustrie (BVMI) for sales in excess of 400,000 copies. In Austria and Switzerland, the album marked his first top ten entry. It peaked at number four and number seven, respectively.

Track listing
Notes
 * undefined signifies a co-producer