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Error (song)

single by Madeline Juno

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 13, 2026
Entity authorityQ15808581
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Error is the debut single of German singer-songwriter Madeline Juno from her album The Unknown, and is part of the soundtracks of the movies Fack ju Göhte and Pompeii. It competed in Unser Song für Dänemark, the German national selection for the Eurovision Song Contest 2014.

Background

"Error" was written by the German composers David Jost, Madeline Juno and Dave Roth and produced by Dave Roth. The cover, which is completely in black and white, shows Madline Juno scratching a transparent wall.

Release and promotion

The single was released on 1 November 2013 in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Error is available as a single track, maxi single and as EP single. The EP single contains three remixes and an acoustic version of "Error" and the song "Second Time Around" as B side. The EP additionally contains the music video. Juno performed the song live in the television show Verstehen Sie Spaß?. and in the late night show SWR3 latenight, and in the NDR Talk Show.

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The public source identifies “Error (song)” as single by Madeline Juno. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Error, song and single.

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This entry incorporates text from Error (song)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.