It is a medium scandal watching th enew survey of most sold tracks in Germany compiled by media control. The big commercial Eurovision winner Jedward is not listed anywhere although their Lipstick ruled all download charts for a full week. A few days after the contest media control announced a separate survey of Eurovision tracks – Jedward on top followed by British entry Blue. The recent press information of media control does not mention Jedward at all. Highest new entry related to the contest comes by Blue shooting to number 7. It is given Jedward would rank inside top 5 probably close to number 1. Independent chart blog oljo is questioning: does Jedward’s music company undermining their artist’s success?? Or even worse: do they manipulate the charts? – These concerns are heavy but based on the fact that number 1 artist Pietro Lombardi is under contract at UNIVERSAL too. Additionally German yellow press shitstorms the Eurovision contest by moaning bout an airplay boycott for (commercially associated) DSDS artists. It’s a „war“ private casting show against European show event. UNIVERSAL as one of the big players in the business obviously supports the first one. Registering the Jedward track as chart eligle could have set pressure to Pietro Lombardi.
Having the DSDS winner Pietro Lombardi a second week at the top means a sixth number one hit in a row that spends at least two weeks there. We have seen such a feat last year between end of January and beginning of Decmeber already by passing 9 consecutive number 1 hits spending at least two weeks at the top. To see how charts behaviour of tracks has changed we should have a look at the year 2009 and before. Back than it was usual having four or five (or even more) number one hits falling down after a fortnight.
Highest new entry of the week covering sales from 13th to 19th May is related to another huge event than superstar castings or Europe’s most adored hits. It is the German Bundesliga and its new champion club Borussia Dortmund that propelled a single up the list. The very young team under coach Jürgen Klopp had its most successfull season since 10 years ruling the whole year almost every match and assuring its championship already two matches before the final day. Celebrating this success (it is the 7th championship the club won since 1945) the club asked German symphonic rock band Krypteria for recording an anthem – Die BVB-Hymne 2011. Accompanied by the BVB Jahrhundertchor (BVB Century Choir) it is the recording attracting most people. The CD comes with an original piece of stadium grass – a tough gimmick.
It is Krypterias 3rd chart hit – the second top 10 entry after Liberatio went to number 3 in Januar 2005 when it was used as the background sound of a TV advertising for donations helping people in Thailand and Indonesia after the tsunami disaster. In the years between the band was active and recorded some new material but did not chart at all. Now as they have a big event’s support Krypteria is gaining it’s second biggest hit to date.
Accompanying BVB Jahrhundertchor appeared in the charts for the first time at the very beginning of last year. It was the centennial anthem of the club Schon seit 100 Jahren (Already for a 100 years) that was listed at number 80 for a single week.
Last flash story for this week: Gagamania comes to an end!
New single Judas badly fails by entering only at a mere position 23. The Edge Of Glory as the second Gaga track entering this week reaches number 28 by downloads only.
That's what European party pop sounds like: East vs. West
Seven of the 10 best sold tracks in Germany in the week 6th to 12th May name at list one European act as main artist. Pretty much! The Top 5 is completely ruled by European producers (if you count RedOne as a European too which is not completely correct). Perhaps we might witness a further run of European acts to the top – the German „super stars“ probably will loose their crown of being the most sold tracks in Germany. But there are several tracks of the Eurovision contest performing really strong within the recent iTunes charts.
Let’s go back to the official media control chart which is reflecting some older events. A new European hit (in both meanings coming from Europe plus being popular all over Europe) lands in the German list at number 27. It is Romian Alexandra Stan who comes with Mr. Saxobeat – well known Romanian Euro pop like served by INNA still catchy – the video more or less simple (I would call it Eastern Europe like but we all know – there are some people living in Eastern Europe as well who really not share the cliché of the men eating and sexy high heel woman). Having Edward Maya, INNA and Alexandra Stan in the charts within a year means a Romanian pop invasion never seen before. The country seems to really take a place on the map of pop music.
From the opposite of Europe comes Bob Sinclar. The other French DJ who invaded the German charts a few years ago is back with a infectious „collaboration“. He took one of the signature tracks of 1977 from Italy A Far L’Amore Comincia Tu sung by Italian star Raffaella Carra and did a 2011 rework. A funny video shot in Milano featuring a lot of fashion stars like Domenico Dolce & Stefano Gabbana and ready is the new hit. Indeed the original was a European hit climbing to number 9 in the UK (under the title Do It Do It Again) and reaching number 4 in Germany making her known as a one hit wonder in these countries. In Italy (and as well in Spain) she is still a star – just presenting the Italian results at the Eurovision final.
The remix Far L’Amore comes to Germany via Switzerland and Austria where the track already ranks as a medium hit. IN Germany it starts its chart life at position 64.
The original video shot in Milan and a reworked one which is in a way tough also (hope it won’t be blocked that fast
The DSDS final shows the biggest impact on the overall sales. Number 1 and 2 are the final contestants. And even a song again performed in the show jumps up the list again although it did so several times before. I’m talking bout Run made famous by Leona Lewis. Her take is again a massive downloaded hit jumping 58 – 26 in the weekly survey. And again: I really don’t know who did not yet bought that track. It is the 63rd chart week at all – the 33rd alone during her recent chart run.
Another funny DSDS effect: Marchin’ on by OneRepublic is back in the chart after a three months break. It enters at position 92 – I guess that new interest is caused by the very often mentioned similarities between winning song Call My Name.
Smaller new hits arrive at the very end of the chart. Spanish musician HUECCO enters with Idiota a single released in 2006 for the first time. It is his second chart hit in Germany. Why he now can attract a broeder audience – I really don’t know. Probably he had some TV adverts running as his new album Dame Vida is going to be released in June and some concerts in Germany are announced.
An Italian Band singing German – that’s a thing hard to find. Frei•Wild from Brixen in South Tyrol is the one that achieved some wider popularity. Their latest offering is a special edition of the album Gegengift (Antidote) for the 10th anniversary. That edition includes a completely new single also: Weil du mich nur verarscht hast (Cause you was kdding me). As always it is a track very inbetween irony, self-righteousness, humour, machoism and wisdom. Fans for sure do know what the band is „really“ thinking. The track enters at position 87.
Austrian Darius & Finlay launch their seventh chart hit in Germany. For She’s A Freak the dance project took Tibration into the studio – simple dance floor stuff charting at 91.
At the very end of the list Herbert Grönemeyer as the third German artist this week enters the German chart. Fernweh (wanderlust) is the second single from his album Schiffsverkehr (Ship Traffic) and the 34rd charting single naming him as artist. Fernweh is new at position 93.
Let’s go back to the official media control chart which is reflecting some older events. A new European hit (in both meanings coming from Europe plus being popular all over Europe) lands in the German list at number 27. It is Romian Alexandra Stan who comes with Mr. Saxobeat – well known Romanian Euro pop like served by INNA still catchy – the video more or less simple (I would call it Eastern Europe like but we all know – there are some people living in Eastern Europe as well who really not share the cliché of the men eating and sexy high heel woman). Having Edward Maya, INNA and Alexandra Stan in the charts within a year means a Romanian pop invasion never seen before. The country seems to really take a place on the map of pop music.
From the opposite of Europe comes Bob Sinclar. The other French DJ who invaded the German charts a few years ago is back with a infectious „collaboration“. He took one of the signature tracks of 1977 from Italy A Far L’Amore Comincia Tu sung by Italian star Raffaella Carra and did a 2011 rework. A funny video shot in Milano featuring a lot of fashion stars like Domenico Dolce & Stefano Gabbana and ready is the new hit. Indeed the original was a European hit climbing to number 9 in the UK (under the title Do It Do It Again) and reaching number 4 in Germany making her known as a one hit wonder in these countries. In Italy (and as well in Spain) she is still a star – just presenting the Italian results at the Eurovision final.
The remix Far L’Amore comes to Germany via Switzerland and Austria where the track already ranks as a medium hit. IN Germany it starts its chart life at position 64.
The original video shot in Milan and a reworked one which is in a way tough also (hope it won’t be blocked that fast
The DSDS final shows the biggest impact on the overall sales. Number 1 and 2 are the final contestants. And even a song again performed in the show jumps up the list again although it did so several times before. I’m talking bout Run made famous by Leona Lewis. Her take is again a massive downloaded hit jumping 58 – 26 in the weekly survey. And again: I really don’t know who did not yet bought that track. It is the 63rd chart week at all – the 33rd alone during her recent chart run.
Another funny DSDS effect: Marchin’ on by OneRepublic is back in the chart after a three months break. It enters at position 92 – I guess that new interest is caused by the very often mentioned similarities between winning song Call My Name.
Smaller new hits arrive at the very end of the chart. Spanish musician HUECCO enters with Idiota a single released in 2006 for the first time. It is his second chart hit in Germany. Why he now can attract a broeder audience – I really don’t know. Probably he had some TV adverts running as his new album Dame Vida is going to be released in June and some concerts in Germany are announced.
An Italian Band singing German – that’s a thing hard to find. Frei•Wild from Brixen in South Tyrol is the one that achieved some wider popularity. Their latest offering is a special edition of the album Gegengift (Antidote) for the 10th anniversary. That edition includes a completely new single also: Weil du mich nur verarscht hast (Cause you was kdding me). As always it is a track very inbetween irony, self-righteousness, humour, machoism and wisdom. Fans for sure do know what the band is „really“ thinking. The track enters at position 87.
Austrian Darius & Finlay launch their seventh chart hit in Germany. For She’s A Freak the dance project took Tibration into the studio – simple dance floor stuff charting at 91.
At the very end of the list Herbert Grönemeyer as the third German artist this week enters the German chart. Fernweh (wanderlust) is the second single from his album Schiffsverkehr (Ship Traffic) and the 34rd charting single naming him as artist. Fernweh is new at position 93.
chart flash 11-20: A completely new Top 5
What a week! Three new entries inside the Top 5 – two of them right at the top. Both launched by the big TV event Deutschland sucht den Superstar (Germany is searching for the super star) – abr. DSDS. Winner of the show – 18 years old Pietro Lombardi is shooting to number 1 right after the final’s end. Call My Name is the first song doing so since one complete year when winner of last year’s season Mehrzad Marashi propelled to the top right after the final. Two years ago a single shooting direct to nr. 1 was kind of a usual feat. In 2009 eight of 14 number one entered the charts direct at the top. Last year there were only two of 11 number one hits doing so. Does the digital age change the chart behaviour slightly?
Call My Name is not only the new straight number one hit after a long time, it also broke the record of being the fastest selling online single in one day gaining gold status within 26 hours for selling 125.000 copies. The full CD release was in shops three days later – boosting the week’s sales to unbelievable heights.
Right behind Pietro Lombardi his recent girlfriend and DSDS-competitor Sarah Engels enters the list with same song Call My Name. This track is available as download only – reaching number 2 means an still rare feat. Unfortunately number 2 in such a week is number two at the breaking news also – nobody really takes notice.
There are much more stories behind the two artists at the top. Pietro Lombardi is not only the first straight number 1 artist in a year – he is the first German number 1 act in almost a year too. Only Lena shot one week to number 1 in between right after her Eurovision win last year. Right now it looks like only DSDS and an unbelievable Song Contest win have the power of propelling German artists to number 1. Nobody is wonder ing that last time we had two German acts at number 1 and 2 was also one year ago when Mehrzad Marashi occupied the top spot and Lena held firm at runner’s up position for complete four weeks in May 2010.
Two DSDS stars at the top was last seen in June 2008 when actual winner Thomas Godoj ranked with Love Is You over 2007 winner Mark Medlock and his Summer Love. The two main DSDS stars of one season had a battle at the top of the charts also in April 2003 when very first winner ever – Alexander went first number 1 with Take Me Tonight followed two weeks later by Daniel K. and his You Drive Me Crazy. Both changed places at the top for three weeks.
Having two versions of one song at the top is a feat happening only every 30 years probably. We have to go back to June 1984 when Self Control by Laura Branigan was number one followed directly by the original version of Italian Raf for three weeks.
The third new entry this week is a French–US–Trinidad collaboration. Other weeks of this year would have seen a track starting at number 5 as the story of the week – not so this recent issue. Though Where Them Girls At by David Guetta feat. Flo Rida and Nicki Minaj is worth some few words. It is the 7th single / track charting this year on which the French DJ David Guetta appears as an performing artist making him the most present act of 2011. He made that feat last year already. Both years Rihanna follows right behind him – so there is a constant interest in the main acts of commercial pop music.
For the two main acts on Where Them Girls At the track is the third consecutive Top 10 hit bringing David Guetta to an total of 7 top hits meanwhile Flo Rida collects 4 Top 10 hits under his belt so far. To continue with the comparison Guetta – Rihanna, the lady from Barbados already had 3 Top 10 hits this year summarizing a whole 15 Top 10 hit singles at all.
Third act of Where Them Girls At is pretty new to the German chart. Nicki Minaj makes her chart debut as the third new act this week.
Appendix on 20th May
I was wrong by telling you that the last song occupying number 1 and 2 in different versions was Self Control. 20 years after that track – in June 2004 – Dragostea Din Tei shot to number one performed by Moldavian O-Zone. A few weeks later at the end of June the version of Romanian Haiducii climbed to number 2. After two weeks the Haiducii take slided a little down till number 4 but came back at the end of July to repeat the number 1 and 2 game for a further week.
Sorry for the disinformation!
Call My Name is not only the new straight number one hit after a long time, it also broke the record of being the fastest selling online single in one day gaining gold status within 26 hours for selling 125.000 copies. The full CD release was in shops three days later – boosting the week’s sales to unbelievable heights.
Right behind Pietro Lombardi his recent girlfriend and DSDS-competitor Sarah Engels enters the list with same song Call My Name. This track is available as download only – reaching number 2 means an still rare feat. Unfortunately number 2 in such a week is number two at the breaking news also – nobody really takes notice.
There are much more stories behind the two artists at the top. Pietro Lombardi is not only the first straight number 1 artist in a year – he is the first German number 1 act in almost a year too. Only Lena shot one week to number 1 in between right after her Eurovision win last year. Right now it looks like only DSDS and an unbelievable Song Contest win have the power of propelling German artists to number 1. Nobody is wonder ing that last time we had two German acts at number 1 and 2 was also one year ago when Mehrzad Marashi occupied the top spot and Lena held firm at runner’s up position for complete four weeks in May 2010.
Two DSDS stars at the top was last seen in June 2008 when actual winner Thomas Godoj ranked with Love Is You over 2007 winner Mark Medlock and his Summer Love. The two main DSDS stars of one season had a battle at the top of the charts also in April 2003 when very first winner ever – Alexander went first number 1 with Take Me Tonight followed two weeks later by Daniel K. and his You Drive Me Crazy. Both changed places at the top for three weeks.
Having two versions of one song at the top is a feat happening only every 30 years probably. We have to go back to June 1984 when Self Control by Laura Branigan was number one followed directly by the original version of Italian Raf for three weeks.
The third new entry this week is a French–US–Trinidad collaboration. Other weeks of this year would have seen a track starting at number 5 as the story of the week – not so this recent issue. Though Where Them Girls At by David Guetta feat. Flo Rida and Nicki Minaj is worth some few words. It is the 7th single / track charting this year on which the French DJ David Guetta appears as an performing artist making him the most present act of 2011. He made that feat last year already. Both years Rihanna follows right behind him – so there is a constant interest in the main acts of commercial pop music.
For the two main acts on Where Them Girls At the track is the third consecutive Top 10 hit bringing David Guetta to an total of 7 top hits meanwhile Flo Rida collects 4 Top 10 hits under his belt so far. To continue with the comparison Guetta – Rihanna, the lady from Barbados already had 3 Top 10 hits this year summarizing a whole 15 Top 10 hit singles at all.
Third act of Where Them Girls At is pretty new to the German chart. Nicki Minaj makes her chart debut as the third new act this week.
Appendix on 20th May
I was wrong by telling you that the last song occupying number 1 and 2 in different versions was Self Control. 20 years after that track – in June 2004 – Dragostea Din Tei shot to number one performed by Moldavian O-Zone. A few weeks later at the end of June the version of Romanian Haiducii climbed to number 2. After two weeks the Haiducii take slided a little down till number 4 but came back at the end of July to repeat the number 1 and 2 game for a further week.
Sorry for the disinformation!
Having two new entries inside the Top 10 overshadows all other movements a little. There are two climbers worth to notice. Dutch singer Caro Emerald rises two places to number 4 after her song A Night Like This was presented within the TV show Let’s Dance. The plot of the show is watching VIPs trying to do standard dances like rumba, cha cha cha, waltz et al. A Night Like This was used as the music for the Cha-cha-cha. For Caro Emerald number 4 is the highest place she ever managed to climb on. It took the song 11 weeks to get here.
The second climber is the all star crew around Pitbull. Give Me Everything in its second chart week can „break“ into the Top 10 giving leading Pitbull a follow up to his recent Number one On The Floor (alongsides main star JLO) and a fourth Top 10 hit as a credited artist. NE-YO after an almost three years break can return to the Top 10. Give Me Everything is no more than his second chart hit climbing that high. For the really first time Afrojack & Nayer can reach the upper 10 ranks.
A big jump up the list is done by Aloe Blacc. After Loving You Is Killing Me appeared as a background track at Germany’s Next Top Model the song climbed to number 16 two weeks ago. The interest in the song died soon – last week Loving You Is Killing Me tumbled down to number 30 again. Until it was performed in the semi final of DSDS by Ardian Bujupi – the looser of that almost last episode. Suddenly a huge fan base of the TV show recognised the song as worth of be buyed. Loving You Is Killing Me ranks now at number 12 – making it the best performing song of the show within the chart. And I really wonder why Ardian had to leave the show ...
Final winner Pietro Lombardi only can propell Wenn das Liebe ist (If it is love) by Glashaus (Glass House) to position 61.
A future hit is arriving within the Top 20 this recent week with Set Fire To The Rain by Adele is climbing four further places to number 20. Set Fire To The Rain is set to be the third single from her album 21. In Belgium, the Netherlands and in Italy the song already went to top hit status climbing into the Top 5. In Germany the interest for the song is grewing steadily finding ist way to the Top 20 as an digital album cut without any officially announced release date. That’s in fact a very unusual chart career. Most of the tracks listed are proper set and supported by commercials, TV adverts or similar presence in the media. Not so Set Fire To The Rain – probably another sign of possible democratization of the charts.
The German acts
Finally they did it! Jupiter Jones grab with their ballad Still the crown of being the most sold German production. It took the band 9 weeks and of course the four guys benefit from the lack of very strong German releases. In the official list by media control they slide 18 – 19 being the only German track within the Top 20.
Number 2 of the interne German tracks sales chart is Groove Coverage and their take on Angeline. I dropped a few words about it already last wednesday.
Leading the survey for six weeks the heydays of Strobo Pop are history right now. Die Atzen mit Nena drop 17 – 23 officially standing here as the third best sold German track.
The most successfull album by a German artist is still Schiffsverkehr (Ship Traffic) offered by Herbert Grönemeyer. New in the list is Cassandra Steen with her third album Mir so nah (So Close To Me) which lands at position 5 in the album chart. Supported by this success the leading single Gebt alles (Give All) is jumping back the singles list up to position 36.
These days Europe is looking at Dusseldorf. The Eurovision Song Contest takes place and the attention of the medias is huge. Since it was announced that Dusseldorf will host the contest some articles have been wrote why that boring city? Is it really the capital of pop music? – Probably it is not the German capital, but it aint at all a no go area for popular music. Probably most known the synth electro band Kraftwerk that had a few hits in the 70s and early 80s. These days a further band is bringing Dusseldorf back to the musical map of Germany. Broilers (meaning broiler / roast chicken but is used in Germany only regional; funny: the English plural S) are a fun punk band playing music for more than 15 years. 2011 they moved to a new label: JKP – and now finally entering their first chart hit. Harter Weg (Hard Way) starts its life at position 41. Probably real punk fans might say the new sound of Broilers is too fun, too commercial … well, real punk never made its way into German charts. It was always a funny or ironic version … or even worse, a mainstream adapted cleansed kind of punk. I am not here to judge about that – find your own opinion:
After start of the movie Kids Turbo the soundtrack of it also rises up the list. Though Scooter’s Friends Turbo can’t impress that much jumping only 59 – 43. It is so far the lowest charting track in their whole career.
Assuming that there is something like a continental connection and productions from Europe should have a stronger link to Germany than others I always have a special look at European releases. In the case of Romanian INNA the link to Switzerland, France or the UK seems much stronger than the one to Germany. At least what the official charts can tell. Sun Is Up is listed in the dance charts and in the iTunes charts for weeks . It never made the way into the official charts. After being used on TV in the Germany’s Next Top Model show the track can enter the list. Sun Is Up jumps to number 26 on downloads only. It is this the highest place INNA made in her two and a half year long chart career.
Norwegian duo MADCON released a third single from their album Contraband. For Outrun The Sun they took also Maad*Moiselle into the studio. The single starts right now at position 27 just in the moment when Freaky Like Me slides down 34 – 46 in its 24th chart week. Even last year’s Glow is still appearing in the charts tumbling down this week 49 – 65. Certainly the new track will not match the success of its two predecessors.
The second climber is the all star crew around Pitbull. Give Me Everything in its second chart week can „break“ into the Top 10 giving leading Pitbull a follow up to his recent Number one On The Floor (alongsides main star JLO) and a fourth Top 10 hit as a credited artist. NE-YO after an almost three years break can return to the Top 10. Give Me Everything is no more than his second chart hit climbing that high. For the really first time Afrojack & Nayer can reach the upper 10 ranks.
A big jump up the list is done by Aloe Blacc. After Loving You Is Killing Me appeared as a background track at Germany’s Next Top Model the song climbed to number 16 two weeks ago. The interest in the song died soon – last week Loving You Is Killing Me tumbled down to number 30 again. Until it was performed in the semi final of DSDS by Ardian Bujupi – the looser of that almost last episode. Suddenly a huge fan base of the TV show recognised the song as worth of be buyed. Loving You Is Killing Me ranks now at number 12 – making it the best performing song of the show within the chart. And I really wonder why Ardian had to leave the show ...
Final winner Pietro Lombardi only can propell Wenn das Liebe ist (If it is love) by Glashaus (Glass House) to position 61.
A future hit is arriving within the Top 20 this recent week with Set Fire To The Rain by Adele is climbing four further places to number 20. Set Fire To The Rain is set to be the third single from her album 21. In Belgium, the Netherlands and in Italy the song already went to top hit status climbing into the Top 5. In Germany the interest for the song is grewing steadily finding ist way to the Top 20 as an digital album cut without any officially announced release date. That’s in fact a very unusual chart career. Most of the tracks listed are proper set and supported by commercials, TV adverts or similar presence in the media. Not so Set Fire To The Rain – probably another sign of possible democratization of the charts.
The German acts
Finally they did it! Jupiter Jones grab with their ballad Still the crown of being the most sold German production. It took the band 9 weeks and of course the four guys benefit from the lack of very strong German releases. In the official list by media control they slide 18 – 19 being the only German track within the Top 20.
Number 2 of the interne German tracks sales chart is Groove Coverage and their take on Angeline. I dropped a few words about it already last wednesday.
Leading the survey for six weeks the heydays of Strobo Pop are history right now. Die Atzen mit Nena drop 17 – 23 officially standing here as the third best sold German track.
The most successfull album by a German artist is still Schiffsverkehr (Ship Traffic) offered by Herbert Grönemeyer. New in the list is Cassandra Steen with her third album Mir so nah (So Close To Me) which lands at position 5 in the album chart. Supported by this success the leading single Gebt alles (Give All) is jumping back the singles list up to position 36.
These days Europe is looking at Dusseldorf. The Eurovision Song Contest takes place and the attention of the medias is huge. Since it was announced that Dusseldorf will host the contest some articles have been wrote why that boring city? Is it really the capital of pop music? – Probably it is not the German capital, but it aint at all a no go area for popular music. Probably most known the synth electro band Kraftwerk that had a few hits in the 70s and early 80s. These days a further band is bringing Dusseldorf back to the musical map of Germany. Broilers (meaning broiler / roast chicken but is used in Germany only regional; funny: the English plural S) are a fun punk band playing music for more than 15 years. 2011 they moved to a new label: JKP – and now finally entering their first chart hit. Harter Weg (Hard Way) starts its life at position 41. Probably real punk fans might say the new sound of Broilers is too fun, too commercial … well, real punk never made its way into German charts. It was always a funny or ironic version … or even worse, a mainstream adapted cleansed kind of punk. I am not here to judge about that – find your own opinion:
After start of the movie Kids Turbo the soundtrack of it also rises up the list. Though Scooter’s Friends Turbo can’t impress that much jumping only 59 – 43. It is so far the lowest charting track in their whole career.
Assuming that there is something like a continental connection and productions from Europe should have a stronger link to Germany than others I always have a special look at European releases. In the case of Romanian INNA the link to Switzerland, France or the UK seems much stronger than the one to Germany. At least what the official charts can tell. Sun Is Up is listed in the dance charts and in the iTunes charts for weeks . It never made the way into the official charts. After being used on TV in the Germany’s Next Top Model show the track can enter the list. Sun Is Up jumps to number 26 on downloads only. It is this the highest place INNA made in her two and a half year long chart career.
Norwegian duo MADCON released a third single from their album Contraband. For Outrun The Sun they took also Maad*Moiselle into the studio. The single starts right now at position 27 just in the moment when Freaky Like Me slides down 34 – 46 in its 24th chart week. Even last year’s Glow is still appearing in the charts tumbling down this week 49 – 65. Certainly the new track will not match the success of its two predecessors.
Chart flash 11-19: Jessie J finally arrives + a dance tracks battle
Nothing more boring than an old number one. The press information of media control today is offering exactly this. The number one of the sales week 29th April to 5th May. But everybody knows the new number one of the week just right now going on. It will be Pietro Lombardi the winner of Germany’s casting show DSDS who was voted last Saturday. – I will tell you more next week.
First we have to check the week before Pietro was the new superstar. It was the time when JLO feat. Pitbull ruled everything. They both together had the power of spending a fifth week at the German top spot with On The Floor . It is also unlikely seeing the couple returning to the top. The next event is knocking at the door right now and we will witness a battle DSDS vs. Eurovision Song Contest in seven days time for sure. The battle just started within the press.
Highest new entry storms the list on download sales only. Jessie J feat. B.o.B’s Price Tag was a number 1 hit in the UK already in February. Finally the single is released in Germany also and jumps right to number 3. It is the breakthrough for Jessie J. who had a first medium hit with Do It Like A Dude a month ago. B.o.B now hits the German Top 10 for the second time. His Airplanes featuring Hayley Williams spent two weeks at number 8 in October last year. Usually the physical release causes a boost in sales and a jump within the list. In the case of Price Tag increased sales from 6th May on might led to number 3 again … the company somehow suffers from bad timing in its release schedule.
Two dance floor tracks enter the charts this recent week. The more successful is Party Rock Anthem offered by US American LMFAO – I would name the project as one of the craziest and toughest electro party acts today. The anthem enters the list at number 7. The German definition of party – or let’s take it as the definition of 10 years ago – climbs to number 22 in the figure of Groove Coverage. The project still does nothing else than taking old hits and recording them in a new version including a dance floor beat. With Angeline they really show courage. The original called Lotosblume by German Schlager group Die Flippers found its way to the charts in 1989 and reached number 23. It was at that time a hit attracting mostly elder people. Groove Coverage now tries to convert the melody for a younger audience. I really doubt that it works very well … LMFAO seems much more alive and innovative than Groove Coverage.
Angeline by Groove Coverage
The original version by Die Flippers (remixed somewhen in the 2000s)
First we have to check the week before Pietro was the new superstar. It was the time when JLO feat. Pitbull ruled everything. They both together had the power of spending a fifth week at the German top spot with On The Floor . It is also unlikely seeing the couple returning to the top. The next event is knocking at the door right now and we will witness a battle DSDS vs. Eurovision Song Contest in seven days time for sure. The battle just started within the press.
Highest new entry storms the list on download sales only. Jessie J feat. B.o.B’s Price Tag was a number 1 hit in the UK already in February. Finally the single is released in Germany also and jumps right to number 3. It is the breakthrough for Jessie J. who had a first medium hit with Do It Like A Dude a month ago. B.o.B now hits the German Top 10 for the second time. His Airplanes featuring Hayley Williams spent two weeks at number 8 in October last year. Usually the physical release causes a boost in sales and a jump within the list. In the case of Price Tag increased sales from 6th May on might led to number 3 again … the company somehow suffers from bad timing in its release schedule.
Two dance floor tracks enter the charts this recent week. The more successful is Party Rock Anthem offered by US American LMFAO – I would name the project as one of the craziest and toughest electro party acts today. The anthem enters the list at number 7. The German definition of party – or let’s take it as the definition of 10 years ago – climbs to number 22 in the figure of Groove Coverage. The project still does nothing else than taking old hits and recording them in a new version including a dance floor beat. With Angeline they really show courage. The original called Lotosblume by German Schlager group Die Flippers found its way to the charts in 1989 and reached number 23. It was at that time a hit attracting mostly elder people. Groove Coverage now tries to convert the melody for a younger audience. I really doubt that it works very well … LMFAO seems much more alive and innovative than Groove Coverage.
Angeline by Groove Coverage
The original version by Die Flippers (remixed somewhen in the 2000s)
Global Connections: Europe – North America
Times are changing slowly. An slowly growing interest for European acts finds its way into the commercial charts. This recent week we can count 11 tracks with participation of at least one European act. Very popular are right now collaborations between North-American and European acts. We find three of them actually rocking the top of the charts with Snoop Dogg vs. David Guetta at number 2, Pitbull and his all star collective including Dutch Afrojack entering at 11 and Martin Solveig plus Dragonette still sneaking at number 13 this week. All three working the same way: a popular act from America (it is very likely a hiphop act, except Dragonette that is a straight poprock project) is remixed or reworked by an European DJ. And even the number one On The Floor credited to JLO feat. Pitbull is in the end produced and mixed by no one else than Moroccan-Swedish producer RedOne who became popular by producing most of the hits for Lady Gaga.
It is an open secret now that international collaborations hit the nerve of a global society much more than national defined sounds. Of course such music has its fans too. Completely German productions can be found at 18, 19 and 20 with Die Atzen mit Nena, a steadily rising Jupiter Jones and Bushido feat. J-LUV. The sound of these three could not be more different: electro party, rockpop and rap mixed with soul. Last time we had three German productions within the Top 20 was end of March when Lena, Milk&Sugar and culcha candela crowded up the upper places.
We will have the European focus for sure the next days cause the Eurovision Song Contest is knocking at the door. First prognoses are talking bout a win of Hungarian Kati Wolf. We know more in seven days time.
It is an open secret now that international collaborations hit the nerve of a global society much more than national defined sounds. Of course such music has its fans too. Completely German productions can be found at 18, 19 and 20 with Die Atzen mit Nena, a steadily rising Jupiter Jones and Bushido feat. J-LUV. The sound of these three could not be more different: electro party, rockpop and rap mixed with soul. Last time we had three German productions within the Top 20 was end of March when Lena, Milk&Sugar and culcha candela crowded up the upper places.
We will have the European focus for sure the next days cause the Eurovision Song Contest is knocking at the door. First prognoses are talking bout a win of Hungarian Kati Wolf. We know more in seven days time.
Chart flash 11-18: The rapping week
Mr. Pitbull is the artist of the moment. Alongside with Jennifer Lopez he spends a fourth week right at the top of the German single chart. And the rapper enters the list with his new single Give Me Everything at number 11 as the highest new entry. The track seems to have a closer connections to the number 11 as it is the 11th track for Pitbull charting in Germany. And it is the 11th track for accompanying NE-Yo also. Latter has an uncredited appearance in the charts with 50 cent’s Baby By Me charted more than a year ago. NE-YO misses narrowly a next Top 10 hit but having now his biggest hit since his Closer rose to number 4 in 2008.
Most luckily of the pack officially credited might be perhaps Afrojack who reaches by now the broadest audience ever. First he appeared last summer alongside David Guetta having a medium hit with Louder Than Words. His very own release Take Over Control was a club hit but only made it two weeks in the official charts at the end of last year. – The last of the artists of the track is Nayer. I’ve never heard of him …
The most successful new German release is offered also by a rapper. Bushido is not only a rapper but the most releasing rapper of Germany right now. He is promoting his 14th album Jenseits von Gut un Böse (Beyond Bad And Evil) that is scheduled for 13th May. Three weeks before the single Vergiss mich (Forget Me) appeared in shops. It is a very minimal track about a lost love. To show a more soulful perspective Bushido asked German singer J-LUV to perform the chorus. Describing a heartache feeling is quite new for Bushido – so the start of the track is a little confusing. After a few seconds the world returns to theold coordinates of Bushido. As always the rapper performs as the strong man who never could be hurt. He aggressively and dismissively rants about his past especially the girl friend itself. Of course in his eyes she was lying and unfaithful so he had to force the breakup (of which he suffers right now). – Could be the begin of a complexe story but it is not. That would be a complete change of the usually simply thinking rapper which probably would confuse the fan crowd too much. In the end Bushido describes our reality simply like ever before. – The track starts at number 19 in the week of its release. That is a little weak in comparison to the leading singles of his predecessing albums. Too much romantic heartache feeling ?
Most luckily of the pack officially credited might be perhaps Afrojack who reaches by now the broadest audience ever. First he appeared last summer alongside David Guetta having a medium hit with Louder Than Words. His very own release Take Over Control was a club hit but only made it two weeks in the official charts at the end of last year. – The last of the artists of the track is Nayer. I’ve never heard of him …
The most successful new German release is offered also by a rapper. Bushido is not only a rapper but the most releasing rapper of Germany right now. He is promoting his 14th album Jenseits von Gut un Böse (Beyond Bad And Evil) that is scheduled for 13th May. Three weeks before the single Vergiss mich (Forget Me) appeared in shops. It is a very minimal track about a lost love. To show a more soulful perspective Bushido asked German singer J-LUV to perform the chorus. Describing a heartache feeling is quite new for Bushido – so the start of the track is a little confusing. After a few seconds the world returns to theold coordinates of Bushido. As always the rapper performs as the strong man who never could be hurt. He aggressively and dismissively rants about his past especially the girl friend itself. Of course in his eyes she was lying and unfaithful so he had to force the breakup (of which he suffers right now). – Could be the begin of a complexe story but it is not. That would be a complete change of the usually simply thinking rapper which probably would confuse the fan crowd too much. In the end Bushido describes our reality simply like ever before. – The track starts at number 19 in the week of its release. That is a little weak in comparison to the leading singles of his predecessing albums. Too much romantic heartache feeling ?
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