"die" is german for "the" (plural); "lollipops" is a loanword from english. the most common german word for lollipop is "lutscher", but germans now also use "lollipop". the band debuted in july 2000 with an album called "die lollipops" and have released new cds, videos, and audio books at the rate of about two per year. as of 2005, their label had sold more than 1.5 million of their cds and videos, of which 8 made it to gold, and one made it to platinum. note that the meanings of the terms platinum and gold are different for different countries: in germany gold signifies 100,000 sales and platinum 200,000.