Germany’s music lovers are lazy or tired of buying always the same sound. Or lazy of buying new CDs at all. Why do you spend money for music? Cause you are crazy about it, you want to listen to it again and again, you want to own it. Mostly you need no longer then a few days and you are looking for some new stuff. That’s how the music market all over the world works. It doesn’t work so well right now in Germany. We do have an almost static Top 15 this week. The newest song inside the Top 15 is number 2 – Sweat by Snoop Dogg vs David Guetta which is in the list for four weeks. A complete month without any attracting new release.
Highest new climber to the upper regions sits at 16 with Aloe Blacc jumping 17 places and finally pushing his Loving You Is Killing Me to Top 20 status. In its fourth chart week the track shows as a real successor of huge hit I Need A Dollar that climbed up to number 4 last autumn. The new track appears at some compilations such as BRAVO Black Hits 24 or the soundtrack of Germanys Next Top Model. Due to that TV show the track finally attracts some more people than it could as a pure CD single. By the way – CD market in Germany seems more and more under pressure. The Aloe Blacc single is not available everywhere. Even the biggest online seller amazon only lists the digital download version. That is a reason too why the track does not show up higher in the list. The rule of chart compiling media control of counting the amount of money spent on musci sales turns into a clear detriment for online singles. Probably this policy will be skipped very soon.
Almost the same story to tell about German production. We had to welcome in the last few weeks a lot of new German music – but the most successful track is still Strobo Pop by Die Atzen mit Nena which goes no higher than number 18 this week.
Number 2 of the German only list is occupied by Jupiter Jones and their first single hit Still. The band had some TV appearances – all outside the classic music industry shows. Finally they also appearedin the soap opera Hand aufs Herz (To be honest / Hand on your heart) which reaches a more younger audience. That constant presence made the single Still kind of a slow burner. In its seventh chart week the track reaches the Top 20 – right at number 20.
The TV performance at INA’s night – unplugged
Back as one of the three most popular (most sold) German tracks is Berlin City Girl by Berlin culcha candela. The track slides one place down in the official chart to number 32.It is already the14th chart week.
Talking bout German music we should have a look to the album charts. Highest new entry there are The Baseballs. Their second album Strings’n’stripes enters the list at number 6. Sounds good isn’t it? But let’s have a look outside Germany. In Austria the album starts at number 3, in Switzerland even at number 1. Topping the story their debut album Strike hit the list in the UK at number 4 – Germany only saw it at number 6. You probably know what I am going to tell you: German music is not that popular in Germany as it is outside. No wonder the single of The Baseballs Hello only enters the list at 100. In Austria it already climbed to number 41, Switzerland reports number 68. The original by Martin Solveig + Dragonette reigns in Germany still at number 11.
New entry at number 18 of the album chart are Frida Gold. Their debut single Zeig mir wie du tanzt (Show Me How You Dance) was highly promoted in November last year. Now the album Juwel (Jewel) follows and can gain number 18. Simoultaneously the second single Wovon sollen wir träumen (Of What We Should Dream Of) is climbing back the singles list to number 48.
Back in the charts after a one year break is the most successful act of the past two decades Scooter. Friends Turbo is the 45th chart entry for the trio. As they were a closed phenomenon always existing completely besides all trends and hypes they finally start to self-reference. Friends Turbo is nothing less than a cover of their number 3 hit Friends released in 1995. The honour of bringing Scooter back to life (although they never were dead in between) goes to a Dutch movie which just now came to German theatres: New Kids Turbo. The movie broke end of last year the Dutch record of people watching it at the very first weekend. In Germany the movie shot to number 1 at the first week too. So – be aware Friends Turbo jumping up the list in two weeks also. Meanwhile Scooter does have an 18th consecutive year at least one chart hit per year.
„Friends Turbo” and the Original of 1995
Chart flash 11-17: I Really Miss New Tracks
Let me tell you one thing first: I do love pop music. And I do love the charts. But sometimes it is really hard to do so. If you find the Top 3 completely the same as last week this is perhaps a sign of very good and beloved tracks. If one find such constellation every third or fourth week one could doubt the quality of songs. Maybe it’s more an effect of fearfull release schedules or a public very conservative. Or the really new and fresh sound does not find the way into the market. Who knows.
In case of the recent list we whitnes a static Top 3. I would say it is caused by really catchy productions. And I would say dance floor and club sound spiced with some Eurodance samples of the late 80s or 90s is the must be of today. On top of the German chart JLO feat. Pitbull, Snoop Dogg vs. David Guetta and Rihanna are cemented non movers. For Jennifer Lopez it is the third week at the top spot.
After having 5 of 7 new entries coming from Germany last week the new list shows three American productions as the highest new entering tracks. Leading the pack is the trio Dr. DRE featuring Eminem & Skylar Grey. The track I Need A Doctor is the second single from long awaited and announced album of Dr. DRE himself Detox. The first single Kush never made it into the German charts. So I Need A Doctor is the first time Dr. DRE appears in the list as a main artist for over 9 years. Of course he had some hits as a producer meanwhile most recently We Made You the very first come back single of EMINEM released in 2009. Eminem instead does have his 24th chart entry by now. And Skylar Grey finds her way into the German chart for a second time.
This all star collaboration should ensure a proper chart career. But the track is entering the list only at number 25 in its first week. It is this already the third week in a row that the highest new entry charts lower than position 20. Do we really lack of interest for new tracks?
In case of the recent list we whitnes a static Top 3. I would say it is caused by really catchy productions. And I would say dance floor and club sound spiced with some Eurodance samples of the late 80s or 90s is the must be of today. On top of the German chart JLO feat. Pitbull, Snoop Dogg vs. David Guetta and Rihanna are cemented non movers. For Jennifer Lopez it is the third week at the top spot.
After having 5 of 7 new entries coming from Germany last week the new list shows three American productions as the highest new entering tracks. Leading the pack is the trio Dr. DRE featuring Eminem & Skylar Grey. The track I Need A Doctor is the second single from long awaited and announced album of Dr. DRE himself Detox. The first single Kush never made it into the German charts. So I Need A Doctor is the first time Dr. DRE appears in the list as a main artist for over 9 years. Of course he had some hits as a producer meanwhile most recently We Made You the very first come back single of EMINEM released in 2009. Eminem instead does have his 24th chart entry by now. And Skylar Grey finds her way into the German chart for a second time.
This all star collaboration should ensure a proper chart career. But the track is entering the list only at number 25 in its first week. It is this already the third week in a row that the highest new entry charts lower than position 20. Do we really lack of interest for new tracks?
New German tracks and a TV show penetrating all
What’s going on? There are some European productions very successful right now in Germany. A French DJ is hitting almost the top helping an US hiphop star to having his biggest hit to date. Supported by the interest for the new track the predecessor jumps back into the Top 20 to. Who’s That Chick? sits pretty at Number 19 in its 20th chart week.
More European sounds wanted? A Dutch woman is jumping up the list to Number 5 with an 60ies inspired song. A Finnish band and a Belgian singer are joining both inside the Top 10. – Only German productions do not show up that good. Best sold German track since four weeks Strobo Pop by Die Atzen mit Nena slides down two places to Number 16.
The most popular new German track is caused by the show most important for the actual pop business – DSDS (Germany’s take on Idol). But it is last year’s season that now has a second participant entering the charts. MENOWIN Fröhlich – the scandalized challenger of Mehrzad Marashi finally released his first CD single called If You Stayed. The hardcore fanbase announced weeks before a concerted action to assure a triple platin hit . Finally that action failed totally. If You Stayed lands at highest new entry at Number 21. He is the fourth candidate of the show having a chart entry but at this time also the one with the smallest success. Winner Mehrzad Marashi does had two Top 10 hits, recall candidate Jennifer Braun had much more luck within the casting for the Eurovision Song Contest in Oslo that saw her as the second finalist having a Top 10 hit with I Care For You. And even Number 5 of the show – Thomas Karaoglan aka Der Checker had a Top 20 hit in July last year. Probably the career of MENOWIN just ends before it started.
Second highest new entry also comes from Germany. Söhne Mannheims (Sons of Mannheim) are back. The all star project is going to launch their next album – the fourth one named Barrikaden von Eden (Barricades Of Eden). It is scheduled for May. The first single Ist es wahr (Aim High) (Is it true?) reached the shops on 8th April – highly promoted on TV by an action called „Tolerance Day“. As always it is a song for the better ones of this world speaking about a better world and the courage of not being corrupted.
For lead singer Xavier Naidoo this track is the 49th chart hit in Germany.
German TV show Number 1 is DSDS having on 9th April a battle Europe vs. America. Winner was European Caro Emerald by having her first big success in Germany after her song was performed by Zazou Mall. Track number 2 having a huge impact by a performance in the show is Use Somebody. Marco Angelini (just eliminated 2 days ago) performed the song released in original by Kings Of Leon. The track re-enters the German list at 30.
Track Number 3 boosted by the show is Eurovision interlude song Glow. The song was performed by one of the big favourites Ardian Bujupi. Right after the show on TV the version by Norwegian MADCON climbed up the iTunes charts – enough to ensure a jump back to 41 in the week’s survey. The track now is no less than 45 consecutive weeks noted in the German charts – it is the fourth longest running track of the recent list.
Also the second song perormfed by Ardian takes a jump back. I Need A Dollar by Aloe Blacc has 28 chart weeks under its belt now and is climbing back 74–46.
The second big male favourite Pietro Lombardi also has its moment in the show. Funnily he chose (or was chosen) a song already presented in the show at thebeginning of February. Mad World had at that time a short 3 weeks chart run reaching Number 66. Now the ballad by Michael Andrews featuring Gary Jules is back at 47. It is still a very heart touching ballad – even in the version of the much too young Pietro.
More European sounds wanted? A Dutch woman is jumping up the list to Number 5 with an 60ies inspired song. A Finnish band and a Belgian singer are joining both inside the Top 10. – Only German productions do not show up that good. Best sold German track since four weeks Strobo Pop by Die Atzen mit Nena slides down two places to Number 16.
The most popular new German track is caused by the show most important for the actual pop business – DSDS (Germany’s take on Idol). But it is last year’s season that now has a second participant entering the charts. MENOWIN Fröhlich – the scandalized challenger of Mehrzad Marashi finally released his first CD single called If You Stayed. The hardcore fanbase announced weeks before a concerted action to assure a triple platin hit . Finally that action failed totally. If You Stayed lands at highest new entry at Number 21. He is the fourth candidate of the show having a chart entry but at this time also the one with the smallest success. Winner Mehrzad Marashi does had two Top 10 hits, recall candidate Jennifer Braun had much more luck within the casting for the Eurovision Song Contest in Oslo that saw her as the second finalist having a Top 10 hit with I Care For You. And even Number 5 of the show – Thomas Karaoglan aka Der Checker had a Top 20 hit in July last year. Probably the career of MENOWIN just ends before it started.
Second highest new entry also comes from Germany. Söhne Mannheims (Sons of Mannheim) are back. The all star project is going to launch their next album – the fourth one named Barrikaden von Eden (Barricades Of Eden). It is scheduled for May. The first single Ist es wahr (Aim High) (Is it true?) reached the shops on 8th April – highly promoted on TV by an action called „Tolerance Day“. As always it is a song for the better ones of this world speaking about a better world and the courage of not being corrupted.
For lead singer Xavier Naidoo this track is the 49th chart hit in Germany.
German TV show Number 1 is DSDS having on 9th April a battle Europe vs. America. Winner was European Caro Emerald by having her first big success in Germany after her song was performed by Zazou Mall. Track number 2 having a huge impact by a performance in the show is Use Somebody. Marco Angelini (just eliminated 2 days ago) performed the song released in original by Kings Of Leon. The track re-enters the German list at 30.
Track Number 3 boosted by the show is Eurovision interlude song Glow. The song was performed by one of the big favourites Ardian Bujupi. Right after the show on TV the version by Norwegian MADCON climbed up the iTunes charts – enough to ensure a jump back to 41 in the week’s survey. The track now is no less than 45 consecutive weeks noted in the German charts – it is the fourth longest running track of the recent list.
Also the second song perormfed by Ardian takes a jump back. I Need A Dollar by Aloe Blacc has 28 chart weeks under its belt now and is climbing back 74–46.
The second big male favourite Pietro Lombardi also has its moment in the show. Funnily he chose (or was chosen) a song already presented in the show at thebeginning of February. Mad World had at that time a short 3 weeks chart run reaching Number 66. Now the ballad by Michael Andrews featuring Gary Jules is back at 47. It is still a very heart touching ballad – even in the version of the much too young Pietro.
Chart flash 11-16: European Power with David Guetta and Caro Emerald
JLO feat. Pitbull are still Number 1. Good. The American invasion still works … but there are some challengers on the way.
The story of the week is the climber to Number2: Snoop Dogg vs. David Guetta and their collaboration Sweat. The French DJ right now helps the US rapper having his biggest hit in Germany to date. Never before in his almost 20 year long chart career Snoop Dogg was higher noted than No.3. Now he sets up two Top3 hits in a row. – 19 years after it went first No.2 in Germany the hookline of Felix’ Don’t You Want Me again reaches that position. The man itself who does support these moves – David Guetta – gets his third hit which climbs No.2 or higher. Last time he hit number 1 was way back in late August 2009 with Sexy Bitch. Since than he had seen three times the Top 10. He is still one of the big names in the music business of now spending this recent week a 50th week within the Top 10. That’s what acts like Timbaland and Beyoncé did in their career so far.
The press release of media control on Tuesday lacks of new entries. Probably we see again a quiet week with an music industry acting like stupid children. Instead the DSDS show again feeds the news with headlines. This actual week it is Caro Emerald from the Netherlands who benefits from a performance at the show. Candidate Zazou Mall performed A Night Like This … and had to go at the end of the show. Seeing the original track rising nonetheless is a clear vote on the great song and the very weak performance of Zazou.
Caro Emerald finally hits also in Germany the upper region of the chart. In her home country The Netherlands she went to number 2 in early 2010. In Austria the single right now climbs to Number 1. Even in Romania and Poland Caro Emerald is a top act. Will she have the power of attracting people in Germany even without a TV show performance? By now A Night Like This is a slow burner spending 8 weeks in the charts continously rising and getting the last kick by the show. The recent iTunes charts list the song even 10 days after in the Top 10. Only the radio airplay chart does not list it.
The story of the week is the climber to Number2: Snoop Dogg vs. David Guetta and their collaboration Sweat. The French DJ right now helps the US rapper having his biggest hit in Germany to date. Never before in his almost 20 year long chart career Snoop Dogg was higher noted than No.3. Now he sets up two Top3 hits in a row. – 19 years after it went first No.2 in Germany the hookline of Felix’ Don’t You Want Me again reaches that position. The man itself who does support these moves – David Guetta – gets his third hit which climbs No.2 or higher. Last time he hit number 1 was way back in late August 2009 with Sexy Bitch. Since than he had seen three times the Top 10. He is still one of the big names in the music business of now spending this recent week a 50th week within the Top 10. That’s what acts like Timbaland and Beyoncé did in their career so far.
The press release of media control on Tuesday lacks of new entries. Probably we see again a quiet week with an music industry acting like stupid children. Instead the DSDS show again feeds the news with headlines. This actual week it is Caro Emerald from the Netherlands who benefits from a performance at the show. Candidate Zazou Mall performed A Night Like This … and had to go at the end of the show. Seeing the original track rising nonetheless is a clear vote on the great song and the very weak performance of Zazou.
Caro Emerald finally hits also in Germany the upper region of the chart. In her home country The Netherlands she went to number 2 in early 2010. In Austria the single right now climbs to Number 1. Even in Romania and Poland Caro Emerald is a top act. Will she have the power of attracting people in Germany even without a TV show performance? By now A Night Like This is a slow burner spending 8 weeks in the charts continously rising and getting the last kick by the show. The recent iTunes charts list the song even 10 days after in the Top 10. Only the radio airplay chart does not list it.
Diva Battle
It was a hard fight between superstar of today and a superstar of the days ten years ago. The winner is: good old JLO. For the first time in her career she tops the German chart. The track in question is the for her untypical euro dance track On The Floor.It took the diva almost 12 years to reach the top position. Same result in most of the other countries of central Europe. On The Floor is the first No.1 JLO single in Austria and France too. The last act finding its way to the German mainstream that late was German band Rammstein which topped the chart 12 and a half year after it appeared first in the list. That was in October 2009.
JLO’s companion on the track US/Cuban rapper Pitbull managed having a No.1 hit within 4 years. That’s not really fast but much earlier than the highly advertised RnB-diva. Finally with On The Floor a track goes back to the top which did so 22 years ago.Lambada in original recorded by French project Kaoma was a huge success in late 1989. Now it is back in people’s mind still fascinating the whole world.
Climbing 6–1 JLO feat. Pitbull is the first act jumping at the top position from outside the Top 5 since Lena did so last year after her success at the Eurovision song contest. In case of JLO the jump up to No.1 was caused by the performance of the last six contestants of German DSDS (Deutschland sucht den Superstar – Germany’s take on Idol). JLO thanked master of the show Dieter Bohlen with a video kiss already for the big support. – And now let’s dance!
The DSDS Top 6 version
Looser of the race at the top this week was Rihanna. Her S & M climbed 5 – 2 stalling narrowly behind JLO. The lady collecting most chart weeks this year so far is also the one spent most weeks inside the German Top 10 in the last two years. Her recent track is already her 15th inside the Top 10 and the third this year alone. Four times she found herself at No.2 ,three times she went to No.1 – probably the young lady is generous enough to see JLO overround her for once.
Another euro dance remake track jumps up the list. Snoop Dogg vs David Guetta make their way up to No.6 in their second chart week. Sweat is what we should name as the best CD reelase of the week. It is the sixth Top 10 hit for both. Rapper Snoop Dogg saw No3 twice: in 2005 in companion with Charlie Wilson & Justin Timberlake and the hit Signs and lasz year on the side of Katy Perry and her California Gurls. Meanwhile the French DJ is a little more successful (especially the last two years) having already a No.1 hit under his belt with Sexy Bitch. He is one of the very few European stars who can launch regularly Top hits (often in companion with American stars).
The huge US American invasion on the German chart is completed by Katy Perry ft. Kanye West who vault with E.T. 17–10 giving Katy Perry a fifth Top 10 hit in a row – all launched within little more than a year. There is only one artist performing better: the one and only Rihanna.
Kanye West instead is a rare guest in the top of the German charts. E.T. is only the third track on which he appears as an artist. The biggest hit to date was American Boy alongside Estelle which went No.5 in 2008.
There is a European hit growing slowly: Caro Emerald hits the Top 20 finally with her hit A Night Like This. It is the seventh chart week for the track which kept growing since its first appearance. This week it holds firm at 18 and probably we will see her rising next week further cause the song was featured within the DSDS show on 9th April.
The German hits
Good news: The two highest new entries are from German acts.
Bad news: Cassandra Steen only manages jumping to 39 which is the lowest best new entry this year so far. Her song Gebt alles (Give everything) is the first release from her upcoming album Mir so nah (Close To Me). It is a very soulful single – Cassandra Steen once again underlines her status as the No.1 female voice of German soul.
Eight places behind Cassandra Steen band Frida Gold land their second hit Wovon sollen wir träumen (Of what we should dream about) starts only one rank lower than their debut Zeig mir wie du tanzt (Show Me How You Dance) in December last year. It is another good mood singalong song. IMO they only need a little more support by some mainstream media and they will have huge success.
In the week of the German–English-Battle at DSDS the most successful German single still is Strobo Pop by Die Atzen mit NENA (No.14) not featured in the show. Newcomer band Jupiter Jones now rank with the ballad Still as the second most sold German track rising 30–23 . The band is just now on tour through Germany – probably its quality on stage causes sales of the single as well.
Third track within the German only ranking isBerlin City Girl by culcha candela (32–25).
German TV and the chart
The big hit maker on TV this week is DSDS. The motto of the show on 2nd April was „German vs. English“. The winner in chart terms is English – had anybody really thought it could be otherwise?
We told it already – the no.1 is a clear effect of the show. Second winner and huge jumper in the chart is Leona Lewis. Her Run (actually everybody should know the original is from Snow Patrol) climbs back the list for the ...fourth (??) time. I really don’t understand how this effect works. Anybody who somehow is attracted by the song should have it on his or her mp3 player. The song is one of the all time favourite in casting shows – it is heard a hundred times in different versions. Although every time one sings Run in a show like DSDS the track jumps back. Do people really erase the tracks on their player that fast? Well – Run is back at 29. It is the 58th chart week for the track. At the DSDS show it was sung by Sarah Engels who still is in the show.
Also Sarah’s German song enters the chart as the highest German track of the show. Symphonie is originally recorded by Silbermond. The track is back at 75.
Given TV support but from a completely different edge caused the sudden new entry of Andreas Gabalier. He’s a young Austrian artist playing very folcloristic Schlager. In his home country he has success since two years – two Top 5 albums and three singles inside the Austrian Top 20 is the result so far. Last autumn I sing a Liad für di (I Sing A Song For You) entered the Austrian Top 10 . On 2nd April he was guest at Carmen Nebel’s personal show live in Klagenfurt followed by 6 million people. The young star made the audience in Klagenfurt as crazy as the folks in front of the screen. I sing a Liad für di enters the chart on downloads only – a single release is not scheduled in Germany. Maybe the entry at 65 will change the plans of his company.
JLO’s companion on the track US/Cuban rapper Pitbull managed having a No.1 hit within 4 years. That’s not really fast but much earlier than the highly advertised RnB-diva. Finally with On The Floor a track goes back to the top which did so 22 years ago.Lambada in original recorded by French project Kaoma was a huge success in late 1989. Now it is back in people’s mind still fascinating the whole world.
Climbing 6–1 JLO feat. Pitbull is the first act jumping at the top position from outside the Top 5 since Lena did so last year after her success at the Eurovision song contest. In case of JLO the jump up to No.1 was caused by the performance of the last six contestants of German DSDS (Deutschland sucht den Superstar – Germany’s take on Idol). JLO thanked master of the show Dieter Bohlen with a video kiss already for the big support. – And now let’s dance!
The DSDS Top 6 version
Looser of the race at the top this week was Rihanna. Her S & M climbed 5 – 2 stalling narrowly behind JLO. The lady collecting most chart weeks this year so far is also the one spent most weeks inside the German Top 10 in the last two years. Her recent track is already her 15th inside the Top 10 and the third this year alone. Four times she found herself at No.2 ,three times she went to No.1 – probably the young lady is generous enough to see JLO overround her for once.
Another euro dance remake track jumps up the list. Snoop Dogg vs David Guetta make their way up to No.6 in their second chart week. Sweat is what we should name as the best CD reelase of the week. It is the sixth Top 10 hit for both. Rapper Snoop Dogg saw No3 twice: in 2005 in companion with Charlie Wilson & Justin Timberlake and the hit Signs and lasz year on the side of Katy Perry and her California Gurls. Meanwhile the French DJ is a little more successful (especially the last two years) having already a No.1 hit under his belt with Sexy Bitch. He is one of the very few European stars who can launch regularly Top hits (often in companion with American stars).
The huge US American invasion on the German chart is completed by Katy Perry ft. Kanye West who vault with E.T. 17–10 giving Katy Perry a fifth Top 10 hit in a row – all launched within little more than a year. There is only one artist performing better: the one and only Rihanna.
Kanye West instead is a rare guest in the top of the German charts. E.T. is only the third track on which he appears as an artist. The biggest hit to date was American Boy alongside Estelle which went No.5 in 2008.
There is a European hit growing slowly: Caro Emerald hits the Top 20 finally with her hit A Night Like This. It is the seventh chart week for the track which kept growing since its first appearance. This week it holds firm at 18 and probably we will see her rising next week further cause the song was featured within the DSDS show on 9th April.
The German hits
Good news: The two highest new entries are from German acts.
Bad news: Cassandra Steen only manages jumping to 39 which is the lowest best new entry this year so far. Her song Gebt alles (Give everything) is the first release from her upcoming album Mir so nah (Close To Me). It is a very soulful single – Cassandra Steen once again underlines her status as the No.1 female voice of German soul.
Eight places behind Cassandra Steen band Frida Gold land their second hit Wovon sollen wir träumen (Of what we should dream about) starts only one rank lower than their debut Zeig mir wie du tanzt (Show Me How You Dance) in December last year. It is another good mood singalong song. IMO they only need a little more support by some mainstream media and they will have huge success.
In the week of the German–English-Battle at DSDS the most successful German single still is Strobo Pop by Die Atzen mit NENA (No.14) not featured in the show. Newcomer band Jupiter Jones now rank with the ballad Still as the second most sold German track rising 30–23 . The band is just now on tour through Germany – probably its quality on stage causes sales of the single as well.
Third track within the German only ranking isBerlin City Girl by culcha candela (32–25).
German TV and the chart
The big hit maker on TV this week is DSDS. The motto of the show on 2nd April was „German vs. English“. The winner in chart terms is English – had anybody really thought it could be otherwise?
We told it already – the no.1 is a clear effect of the show. Second winner and huge jumper in the chart is Leona Lewis. Her Run (actually everybody should know the original is from Snow Patrol) climbs back the list for the ...fourth (??) time. I really don’t understand how this effect works. Anybody who somehow is attracted by the song should have it on his or her mp3 player. The song is one of the all time favourite in casting shows – it is heard a hundred times in different versions. Although every time one sings Run in a show like DSDS the track jumps back. Do people really erase the tracks on their player that fast? Well – Run is back at 29. It is the 58th chart week for the track. At the DSDS show it was sung by Sarah Engels who still is in the show.
Also Sarah’s German song enters the chart as the highest German track of the show. Symphonie is originally recorded by Silbermond. The track is back at 75.
Given TV support but from a completely different edge caused the sudden new entry of Andreas Gabalier. He’s a young Austrian artist playing very folcloristic Schlager. In his home country he has success since two years – two Top 5 albums and three singles inside the Austrian Top 20 is the result so far. Last autumn I sing a Liad für di (I Sing A Song For You) entered the Austrian Top 10 . On 2nd April he was guest at Carmen Nebel’s personal show live in Klagenfurt followed by 6 million people. The young star made the audience in Klagenfurt as crazy as the folks in front of the screen. I sing a Liad für di enters the chart on downloads only – a single release is not scheduled in Germany. Maybe the entry at 65 will change the plans of his company.
ECHO stories
Yes – I told you in the short flash on Tuesday that there is no story about the recent list of most sold single tracks in Germany. But you know – never trust a single blogger. There is always something to tell. At least some tales about older tracks still crowding up the charts. One of these songs is Rolling In The Deep by English singer Adele which climbs back four places to No.4 after her performances in Germany. In her home country the UK she just broke the record of holding most weeks at No.1 in the album charts as a female soloist by standng there for 10 weeks. She not only dethroned queen of pop Madonna – she also occupies the No.2 of the album list with her predecessor album 19 and is No.1 in the track list with Someone Like You. Chart commentator James Masterton actually only find these words: Stop Buying Adele Records.
Of course also in Germany Adele is one of the most talked about artists of the moment. There are countless features about her on TV most popular probably her performance at the more or less boring ECHO award ceremony broadcasted on 24th March. Needless to say that everybody’s darling found her way to the underground mashup scenery as well. For having a little taste of what’s going on I present one of my favourites right here:
Divide & Create – Crazy In The Deep .... Adele vs. Gnarls Barkley
In companion with Rolling In The Deep a second track from Adele’s album 21 is entering the list as an album cut. We’re talking ’bout Set Fire To The Rain a heart touching ballad which is announced as the next official single release. It has by now no scheduled release date but sits actually at 89 on downloads only.
Another act benefiting from the ECHO is British HURTS. They got the award as best international newcomer and performed live as well. Stay jumps back 13 – 8 and their hit Wonderful Life does so 66 – 49 in its 34th chart week.
Most successful German track still is Strobo Pop. Die Atzen mit Nena climb one place to 14. Second place in the German only survey is still Lena with her Taken by a Stranger sliding 23 – 27 in the official tracks list. And even culcha candela is still the third of the German tracks with Berlin City Girl sliding 28 –32. One who should be a candidate of bringing tracks to a larger audience is Clueso. He lands this week the highest CD album start at No.2 in that list.The single Zu schnell vorbei (Over too fast) taken from that album jumps up the list 53 – 42. That’s unfortunately not enough to share the crown of the most popular German tracks. But there is hope: his last hit Gewinner (Winner) took 16 week in 2009 to peak at 21.
Are you interested what else is going in German music business? Well – a new mixture of Atzen sound and brainless party discofox has entered the club scene. „Inventors“ of the sound is the DJ duo Finger & Kadel. They already had a medium hit with Die mit dem roten halsband (The one with the red collar) in late 2007 under the name Frank Styles presented by F&K. After getting that attention for the first time they produced much more for the clubs and dancefloor the following years. Always sampling short German lyrics. Finally they chose one of the most popular German party hits called Wahnsinn first released in 1983 by Wolfgang Petry. The song had some short chart appearances in the version of Die Lollies (1998) and DJ Nordkurve (2002) – the most successful take was the one of Wolfgang Petry’s son Achim Petry who recorded it for the 2008 season of the so called Dschungel Camp. The latter went to Nr. 17 in the German charts. Now a next try is starting its chart life. Finger & Kadel mixed the chorus with some Benny Benassi sounds and lyrics. As I said before – to me it sounds like the next step of the very popular Atzen sound but it’s very unlikely that the track will rise higher (new entry at 58).
The original version of 1983
German rapper Fler offers a second track from his recent album Airmax Muzik II. Predecessor Nie an mich geglaubt (Never believed in me) was a digital only release spending one single week at No.64 in February. Minutentakt (Minute Circle) comes as a full CD release but performs only slightly better. No.60 in the week of its release is far away from the success he had a few years ago.
Of course also in Germany Adele is one of the most talked about artists of the moment. There are countless features about her on TV most popular probably her performance at the more or less boring ECHO award ceremony broadcasted on 24th March. Needless to say that everybody’s darling found her way to the underground mashup scenery as well. For having a little taste of what’s going on I present one of my favourites right here:
Divide & Create – Crazy In The Deep .... Adele vs. Gnarls Barkley
In companion with Rolling In The Deep a second track from Adele’s album 21 is entering the list as an album cut. We’re talking ’bout Set Fire To The Rain a heart touching ballad which is announced as the next official single release. It has by now no scheduled release date but sits actually at 89 on downloads only.
Another act benefiting from the ECHO is British HURTS. They got the award as best international newcomer and performed live as well. Stay jumps back 13 – 8 and their hit Wonderful Life does so 66 – 49 in its 34th chart week.
Most successful German track still is Strobo Pop. Die Atzen mit Nena climb one place to 14. Second place in the German only survey is still Lena with her Taken by a Stranger sliding 23 – 27 in the official tracks list. And even culcha candela is still the third of the German tracks with Berlin City Girl sliding 28 –32. One who should be a candidate of bringing tracks to a larger audience is Clueso. He lands this week the highest CD album start at No.2 in that list.The single Zu schnell vorbei (Over too fast) taken from that album jumps up the list 53 – 42. That’s unfortunately not enough to share the crown of the most popular German tracks. But there is hope: his last hit Gewinner (Winner) took 16 week in 2009 to peak at 21.
Are you interested what else is going in German music business? Well – a new mixture of Atzen sound and brainless party discofox has entered the club scene. „Inventors“ of the sound is the DJ duo Finger & Kadel. They already had a medium hit with Die mit dem roten halsband (The one with the red collar) in late 2007 under the name Frank Styles presented by F&K. After getting that attention for the first time they produced much more for the clubs and dancefloor the following years. Always sampling short German lyrics. Finally they chose one of the most popular German party hits called Wahnsinn first released in 1983 by Wolfgang Petry. The song had some short chart appearances in the version of Die Lollies (1998) and DJ Nordkurve (2002) – the most successful take was the one of Wolfgang Petry’s son Achim Petry who recorded it for the 2008 season of the so called Dschungel Camp. The latter went to Nr. 17 in the German charts. Now a next try is starting its chart life. Finger & Kadel mixed the chorus with some Benny Benassi sounds and lyrics. As I said before – to me it sounds like the next step of the very popular Atzen sound but it’s very unlikely that the track will rise higher (new entry at 58).
The original version of 1983
German rapper Fler offers a second track from his recent album Airmax Muzik II. Predecessor Nie an mich geglaubt (Never believed in me) was a digital only release spending one single week at No.64 in February. Minutentakt (Minute Circle) comes as a full CD release but performs only slightly better. No.60 in the week of its release is far away from the success he had a few years ago.
Flash 11-14: No news at all
Nothing so boring like a non changing top of the chart. Bruno Mars sits still at the top spot with his grenade. It is the sixth week having that track the most sold one in Germany. With Lady Gaga still occupying No.2 we have a fifth week with grenade and Born This Way holding firm at 1 & 2. Seeing Sunrise Avenue and their hollywood hills climbing back to No.3 the trio is complete like two and three weeks ago when all the tracks were the most sold in Germany already – actually in a different order.
Not only the very top appears almost static. Even further down the list the big change does not take place.
Best new track comes with the new release of Snoop Dogg. His Sweat remixed by French DJ David Guetta lands on digital sales at No.19. The rapper last heard in a guest role on Katy Perry’s California Gurls is back as a solo/main artist in the German Top 20 after a three years break. His last single Sensual Seduction rose to No.15. The French DJ accompanying him brings a sixth track in the charts of this year. He continues his series of Top 20 hits which now takes almost two years – only interrupted by the No39-track Louder Than Words charting back in August last year .
The track Sweat itself is built around the hook line of Don’t You Want Me – a No.2 dance track for British producer Francis Wright known as Felix. Once again the good old 90s Eurodance sound is the base for a recent chart hit of an US star. Take it for sure the track will jump next week the list when the complete CD release sales take into account.
Bizarrely the track is released as a single in Europe only. The US sees the T-Pain collaboration Boom rising as the first take from the upcoming album Doggumentary.
The original hookline from 1992 done by Felix
The best CD start comes by Take That which sees their new single Kidz entering the list at 20. It is the first time ever that a release has bigger success in Germany than in their home country the UK.
Not only the very top appears almost static. Even further down the list the big change does not take place.
Best new track comes with the new release of Snoop Dogg. His Sweat remixed by French DJ David Guetta lands on digital sales at No.19. The rapper last heard in a guest role on Katy Perry’s California Gurls is back as a solo/main artist in the German Top 20 after a three years break. His last single Sensual Seduction rose to No.15. The French DJ accompanying him brings a sixth track in the charts of this year. He continues his series of Top 20 hits which now takes almost two years – only interrupted by the No39-track Louder Than Words charting back in August last year .
The track Sweat itself is built around the hook line of Don’t You Want Me – a No.2 dance track for British producer Francis Wright known as Felix. Once again the good old 90s Eurodance sound is the base for a recent chart hit of an US star. Take it for sure the track will jump next week the list when the complete CD release sales take into account.
Bizarrely the track is released as a single in Europe only. The US sees the T-Pain collaboration Boom rising as the first take from the upcoming album Doggumentary.
The original hookline from 1992 done by Felix
The best CD start comes by Take That which sees their new single Kidz entering the list at 20. It is the first time ever that a release has bigger success in Germany than in their home country the UK.
U.S. stars are big – Germans try to party
Ten new entries – three of them inside the Top 20. There is some life in the charts. Some older tracks finally see decreasing sales giving way for newer ones which rising up the list like On The Floor by JLO feat. Pitbull and Yeah 3x by Chris Brown. Both tracks reach new peaks with No.6 resp. 7.
U.S. American artists are successful especially. 12 of the Top 20 tracks are from or in collaboration with US American artists. Europe only sees 8 artists at the upper end of the chart. The highest rank occupied by a German track is only No.15. Die Atzen mit NENA climb five places after a performance at Die ultimative Chartshow (The ultimate chart show) on Friday 18th March. Topic of the episode was „Themost successful party hits of the new millenium“. Well, Strobo Pop is one of the newer party hits but right now it can also be named as the most sold production coming from Germany of the moment.
Second best German track is Taken by a Stranger by Lena tumbling 15 – 23 … bad signs for her participation at the Eurovision contest. Third place goes to Berlin project culcha candela and their Berlin City Girl sitting pretty at No.28.
After a year of having some German tracks always somewhere in the Top 20 or even Top 10 it seems right now that German artists does not find the right mood for the audience in their home country … or is it just a short break in releasing mass compatible music? We’ll watch it. Meanwhile the well promoted comeback of German band Guano Apes might not convince. Oh What A night is the first original release since six years. The band splitted up in 2006 but met again in 2009 giving some concerts and finally decided to record new material. The band had within the last two years a lot of live performances for testing that new material. The new album Bel Air is in stores right now. I assume it will have the huge impact as announced. The three predecessors with complete original material all went Top 5 within the album charts, two of them topped the list. In singles terms The Guano Apes were not that mainstream. They had five Top 10 hits between 1997 and 2004 peaking No.3 with their take on Kumba Yo! in 2001. With Oh What A Night charting at a low No.46 the Apes miss so far what one could call a big come back. Indeed the track sounds very similar to their earlier work. The complete album features some different sounds also –that might probably be more convincing.
A complete newcomer to the German hit list is the producer team Plastik Funk. Located in Dusseldorf the duo is active since 2003. They did a lot of remixes and released a handful of own tracks more or less successful at the dance floor. Their first ever mainstream chart entry is a rework of a track they released in 2006 first. Everybody Dance Now! (sometimes credited as Everybody Dance Now! 2011) is as one easily recognises a new version of the old classic Gonna Make You Sweat brought to a worldwide smash hit in 1990/91 by C&C Music Factory in names Robert Clivillés and David B. Cole. In Germany they held five weeks at the top becoming No.8 in the year’s end list. The „chorus“ yell „Everybody Dance Now“ became popular and was used in hundreds of dance productions since then. In 2006 French DJ Bob Sinclar made a rework featuring Cutee B, Dollarman and some other artists. The version was a Top 20 hit in whole Europe reaching the top in a few countries. That was the time Plastik Funk did a first cover of the classic too. It was played in clubs but never became a mainstream hit – maybe the Bob Sinclar version was too strong. Now the two DJs newly took the track and released it in a completely new version. Chart entry at No.59 in the week of its release – well not that bad for a dance production.
Version of 2011
Version of 2006
The original from 1990
And here is another chart debutant. Probably this actual placing will be the one and only ever for Andrea Renzullo. Well, he is no more than 15 years old. In November last year he performed Leona Lewis’ Run at Das Supertalent (Germany’s Got Talent) – the video of the performance on youtube had almost one million views – Leona Lewis shot back to the charts reaching with No.3 its highest peak ever. Since that time the track is in the list clinging on this week on No.90. – Now the young man who made the song famous again offers his own single. Heal is a very soft and very unspecific pop song. He might be a favourite of the TV show – he won’t be a star alone. Sorry.
As mentioned above – Die ultimative Chartshow generated some re-appearances. Most significant the re-entry of the Guru Josh Project and their Infinity 2008. A performance at the show (the track is listed in the show as No.18) brought the track back to No.64 – it is the 72nd chart week and the highest rank since June2009.
By the way: No.1 of the Chart Show list is Gossip with Heavy Cross. The track now spends 93 consecutive weeks within the German charts. It is by doing so the second longest running hit in Germany accompanied by Last Christmas and For You. Only DJ Ötzi & Nik P. collected 13 more weeks with Ein Stern (der deinen Namen trägt).
U.S. American artists are successful especially. 12 of the Top 20 tracks are from or in collaboration with US American artists. Europe only sees 8 artists at the upper end of the chart. The highest rank occupied by a German track is only No.15. Die Atzen mit NENA climb five places after a performance at Die ultimative Chartshow (The ultimate chart show) on Friday 18th March. Topic of the episode was „Themost successful party hits of the new millenium“. Well, Strobo Pop is one of the newer party hits but right now it can also be named as the most sold production coming from Germany of the moment.
Second best German track is Taken by a Stranger by Lena tumbling 15 – 23 … bad signs for her participation at the Eurovision contest. Third place goes to Berlin project culcha candela and their Berlin City Girl sitting pretty at No.28.
After a year of having some German tracks always somewhere in the Top 20 or even Top 10 it seems right now that German artists does not find the right mood for the audience in their home country … or is it just a short break in releasing mass compatible music? We’ll watch it. Meanwhile the well promoted comeback of German band Guano Apes might not convince. Oh What A night is the first original release since six years. The band splitted up in 2006 but met again in 2009 giving some concerts and finally decided to record new material. The band had within the last two years a lot of live performances for testing that new material. The new album Bel Air is in stores right now. I assume it will have the huge impact as announced. The three predecessors with complete original material all went Top 5 within the album charts, two of them topped the list. In singles terms The Guano Apes were not that mainstream. They had five Top 10 hits between 1997 and 2004 peaking No.3 with their take on Kumba Yo! in 2001. With Oh What A Night charting at a low No.46 the Apes miss so far what one could call a big come back. Indeed the track sounds very similar to their earlier work. The complete album features some different sounds also –that might probably be more convincing.
A complete newcomer to the German hit list is the producer team Plastik Funk. Located in Dusseldorf the duo is active since 2003. They did a lot of remixes and released a handful of own tracks more or less successful at the dance floor. Their first ever mainstream chart entry is a rework of a track they released in 2006 first. Everybody Dance Now! (sometimes credited as Everybody Dance Now! 2011) is as one easily recognises a new version of the old classic Gonna Make You Sweat brought to a worldwide smash hit in 1990/91 by C&C Music Factory in names Robert Clivillés and David B. Cole. In Germany they held five weeks at the top becoming No.8 in the year’s end list. The „chorus“ yell „Everybody Dance Now“ became popular and was used in hundreds of dance productions since then. In 2006 French DJ Bob Sinclar made a rework featuring Cutee B, Dollarman and some other artists. The version was a Top 20 hit in whole Europe reaching the top in a few countries. That was the time Plastik Funk did a first cover of the classic too. It was played in clubs but never became a mainstream hit – maybe the Bob Sinclar version was too strong. Now the two DJs newly took the track and released it in a completely new version. Chart entry at No.59 in the week of its release – well not that bad for a dance production.
Version of 2011
Version of 2006
The original from 1990
And here is another chart debutant. Probably this actual placing will be the one and only ever for Andrea Renzullo. Well, he is no more than 15 years old. In November last year he performed Leona Lewis’ Run at Das Supertalent (Germany’s Got Talent) – the video of the performance on youtube had almost one million views – Leona Lewis shot back to the charts reaching with No.3 its highest peak ever. Since that time the track is in the list clinging on this week on No.90. – Now the young man who made the song famous again offers his own single. Heal is a very soft and very unspecific pop song. He might be a favourite of the TV show – he won’t be a star alone. Sorry.
As mentioned above – Die ultimative Chartshow generated some re-appearances. Most significant the re-entry of the Guru Josh Project and their Infinity 2008. A performance at the show (the track is listed in the show as No.18) brought the track back to No.64 – it is the 72nd chart week and the highest rank since June2009.
By the way: No.1 of the Chart Show list is Gossip with Heavy Cross. The track now spends 93 consecutive weeks within the German charts. It is by doing so the second longest running hit in Germany accompanied by Last Christmas and For You. Only DJ Ötzi & Nik P. collected 13 more weeks with Ein Stern (der deinen Namen trägt).
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
Posts
