"Automatisch" and "Automatic" are the first singles from German

Music of Germany

Forms of German-language music include Neue Deutsche Welle , Krautrock, Hamburger Schule, Volksmusik, Classical, German hip hop, trance, Schlager, Neue Deutsche Härte and diverse varieties of folk music, such as Waltz and Medieval metal....

 pop rock

Pop rock

Pop rock is a music genre which mixes a catchy pop style and light lyrics in its guitar-based rock songs. There are varying definitions of the term, ranging from a slower and mellower form of rock music to a subgenre of pop music...

 band Tokio Hotel

Tokio Hotel

Tokio Hotel is a pop rock band from Germany, founded in 2001 by singer Bill Kaulitz, guitarist Tom Kaulitz, drummer Gustav Schäfer and bassist Georg Listing...

's third German studio album and second English studio album Humanoid. "Automatisch" was released in German-speaking countries on September 18, 2009, and "Automatic" was released in the United States on September 22, 2009.

Music video

The music video was directed by Craig Wessels of Wicked Pixels, the most awarded animation studio in South Africa, and was shot over three days in the Kalahari desert in South Africa

South Africa

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. The video features the band driving separately in muscle car

Muscle car

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s and with computer generated

Computer-generated imagery

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 humanoid robots. The music video for "Automatic" was released online on September 3, 2009 while the video for "Automatisch" was released a day later.

Formats and track listings

• Automatisch CD-Single: 2 Track

  #	Title	Songwriters	Length
  1	"Automatisch"	D. Roth, P. Benzner, D. Jost, B. Kaulitz, T. Kaulitz	3:16
  2	"Automatic"	D. Roth, P. Benzner, D. Jost, B. Kaulitz, T. Kaulitz	3:16

• Automatisch CD-Single: Premium

  #	Title	Songwriters	Length
  1	"Automatisch"	D. Roth, P. Benzner, D. Jost, B. Kaulitz, T. Kaulitz	3:16
  2	"Humanoid"	D. Roth, P. Benzner, D. Jost, B. Kaulitz, T. Kaulitz	3:45

• Bonus Tokio Hotel fan magnet

• Automatic CD-Single

  #	Title	Songwriters	Length
  1	"Automatic"	D. Roth, P. Benzner, D. Jost, T. Kaulitz, B. Kaulitz	3:16
  2	"Automatisch"	D. Roth, P. Benzner, D. Jost, B. Kaulitz, T. Kaulitz	3:16

• Automatic Australian iTunes Download

  #	Title	Songwriters	Length
  1	"Automatic"	D. Roth, P. Benzner, D. Jost, B. Kaulitz, T. Kaulitz	3:15
  2	"Automatisch"	D. Roth, P. Benzner, D. Jost, B. Kaulitz, T. Kaulitz	3:15
  3	"Humanoid (English Version)"	D. Roth, P. Benzner, D. Jost, B. Kaulitz, T. Kaulitz	3:48
  4	"Automatic (Remote Control Mix)"	D. Roth, P. Benzner, D. Jost, B. Kaulitz, T. Kaulitz	3:17

Charts

Chart (2009)	Peak position
Austrian Singles Chart	14
Belgian Singles Chart Ultratop 50 Ultratop 50 singles, often just Ultratop 50, is the weekly chart of fifty best-selling singles in Flanders, Belgium, and is produced and published by the Ultratop organization. The chart has existed since March 31, 1995...  (Flanders Flanders Flanders is the community of the Flemings but also one of the institutions in Belgium, and a geographical region located in parts of present-day Belgium, France and the Netherlands. "Flanders" can also refer to the northern part of Belgium that contains Brussels, Bruges, Ghent and Antwerp... )	23
Belgian Singles Chart Ultratop 50 Ultratop 50 singles, often just Ultratop 50, is the weekly chart of fifty best-selling singles in Flanders, Belgium, and is produced and published by the Ultratop organization. The chart has existed since March 31, 1995...  (Wallonia)	16
Dutch Singles Chart	75
French Singles Chart	2
German Singles Chart	5
Hungarian Singles Chart Mahasz Mahasz is the Hungarian music industry association, founded in 1992. Mahasz hands out the Hungarian Music Awards and maintains the music charts for Hungary....	10
South Africa 5FM Charts	11
Spanish Singles Chart	21
Swedish Singles Chart	36
Swiss Singles Chart	44