In Britain the year 2012 starts with an uncommon mass of high quality products inside the charts. In Germany it is much more about selling well known hits and their remixes – it is Après Ski time. Cheesy dance productions benefit the most of this collective party mood this recent week. It makes DJ Antoine feat. The Beat Shakers rising 21–17 with their Ma Chérie which is a mixture of Mr. Saxobeat and Welcome To St. Tropez. For a second time the Swiss DJ can reach the German Top 20 – giving him slowly the status he has in his home country. The Beat Shakers who deliver voice (and hook line) mark a historical moment in pop business: they are the first Serbian act reaching the Top 20 in Germany.
Compared to DJ Antoine’s predecessor Welcome To St. Tropez (remixing Timati feat. Kalenna) the recent single follows a similar pattern. It takes a slow rise – now it collects 15 chart weeks. Welcome To St. Tropez ended up at number 3. Well, that’s a challenge. – It is still a question whether just entering track I’m On You can follow that pattern too. So far the remix of the Timati, P. Diddy & Dirty Money track lands at number 85 as DJ Antoine’s fifth chart hit in Germany.
Also rising again is the other big Swiss DJ of the moment. Collaboration team Mike Candys & Evelyn Ft. Patrick Miller was just honoured with Gold for 150.000 sold units of their dance hit One Night In Ibiza. The list sees the track taking a 54–39 leap.
It’s not only about the completely poor Après Ski sound–there are some regular dance productions benefitting from the lust for shaking too. First of all Kelly Rowland feat. The WAV.s make a huge jump to number 31 in their seventh chart week. Maybe this RedOne production finally catches fire. Also The DiscoBoys take their chance releasing a cover of Around The World as their next proper single. The original recording by project ATC was a number 1 hit in 2000 heavily melking the formula of cheesy and completely naive (or should I say childish?) eurodance pop. The new version drives the tune into a pseudo glamorous hedonistic disco track. The video hardly tries to be cool–unfortunately that’s the big difference to the original: it never supposed to be a good track and never was. People who seriously party to Around The World can only look embarassing–including semi tough rappers.
By the way: you can listen to the original Russian version from 1996 here.
Another dance track already released back in December is reanimated these days. The Swedish House Mafia vs. Knife Party reappears at number 63 with their Antidote. Still it is the track of the trio performing the weakest. – Also David Guetta heavily profits this week. His track Turn Me Back from the Nothing But The Beat album re-enters the list at number 77. There are some new remixes announced for the end of the month–the track featuring Nicki Minaj will hang around the list for sure next weeks.
The second big hit maker of the week is the casting show The Voice Of Germany once again. Besides a lot of typically short re-appearances of well known hits one act really profits from the airing. It is the coach team of The BossHoss. Their recent album Liberty Of Action still ranks inside the album Top 10 while the single Don’t Gimme That rises continously. This actual week it reaches the Top 20 giving the band its highest rank ever on the singles list. Certainly the track will rise to its peak next week when sales after Live Show #4 are take into account. In that show The BossHoss staged live with their hit.
Besides this longtime effect the show also causes directly the highest new entries in the German single’s list. Seeing the rates tumbling down for the third live show on January 13th the impact ain’t that massive compared to the week before. The highest new entry of the week Up by James Morrison featuring Jessie J was presented in the show by James Morrison and coach Xavier Naidoo. The single lands at number 19 in its first week on sale. It is James Morrison’s second single from the Awakening album and turns out to be the worst charting single since he stormed to number 1 with Broken Strings in late January 2009. To tell you a positive story–predecessor I Won’t Let You Go is propelled by the performance back up the charts and lands proper at number 64.
The best selling contestant for now is Katja Friedenberg. At the show she was kicked out by her coach Xavier – in reality she was the favourite of a lot of people. Number 41 for her take on Flugzeuge im Bauch (Airplanes In My Stomach) is much better than the performance of her Turning Tables interpreted a week earlier. The original of Flugzeuge im Bauch was a hit for Herbert Grönemeyer in 1985. It reached number 44. It became much more famous when it was covered by German Oli P. who brought the new recording to number 1 for seven weeks in 1998. The success in Austria and Switzerland was similar.
Comparing the original and the new version one will easily find the recent one surprisingly pathetic and chanson like. The one by Herbert Grönemeyer had much more connection to the real life and real emotions. Maybe that lack of authentic feelings is the reason why she had the leave the show.
Mic Donet is the second contestant who can launch a second chart hit–and he is one of the really big favourites of the show. On January 13th he performed the Killer / Papa Was A Rolling Stone medley first combined on a record in 1993 by George Michael while performing the Five Live concert remembering and celebrating the just died Freddie Mercury. The medley was a huge hit in Great Britain where it was released as a double A-side single with Somebody To Love. It never reached the list in Germany. Both parts of the medley were popular in Germany before. The original version of Killer was a hit twice. First it reached number 2 in 1990 credited to British dance producer Adamski only. Singer on that release was Seal who released an own version credited to him alone a year later. Once Killer was again a minor hit in Germany. It was in 1999 when German DJ ATB released it in a heavy trance version reaching number 31 in Germany.
The Temptations made the track Papa Was A Rollin’ Stone famous in Germany. Their version reached number 11 in 1972. In 1990 the version of Was Not Was reached number 14.
This is the Mic Donet version on TVoG
TvoG looses audience–one big reason are the starts of 2012 season of Deutschland sucht den Superstar (German version on Idols) and of the casting for the Eurovision Song Contest. The first show of Unser Star für Baku (Our Star For Baku) featured a contestant singing After Tonight a song written and recorded by US/Canadian Justin Nozuka. It was the only single hit for Nozuka in Germany reaching number 93 in 2009. In Switzerland and France the song had a much better chart performance. Now the track is back in the list–number 51 so far is the best position for the star.
The version presented in the show
Strange things going on at the low end of the list. An 9 years old song re-appears in the face of Lose Yourself by EMINEM. An instrumental version is used as the title theme of German TV serial Lenßen & Partner–a semi documentary about a lawyer and his cases. The serial started somewhen in 2003. Three years ago it was closed down. The old seasons of course are broadcasted in heavy rotation in the morning. A few days ago the channel SAT.1 announced a new season starting in March 2012. Probably these news caused a run on the DVDs of the past season and propelled the EMINEM track into the charts again. That’s my theory–if anyone knows a better reason, please let me know.
03-12: Hits Made By TVOG
A casting show blows several hits in the single’s charts. We do have 13 new entries – 12 of them are related to the show in question. The 13th hit also has support by a TV series. If there were no TV the music industry would still sleep.
And this recent week shows impressively how stars are made. It’s not about clever songwriting or performing in an unbelievably cool way. Not at all. It is all about BEING performed in a casting show. That’s the way how German singer songwriter Philipp Poisel became popular. He had his first success with single and album Wo fängt dein Himmel an? (Where does your heaven start?) in 2008. In 2010 he had even more success mainly albumwise. In October his single Eiserner Steg (Iron [Landing] Stage) made the first significant impact to the charts after prominently provided by the German movie What a Man. But still – number 21 was the end of the line. Now – after that same track was performed by Benny Fiedler at casting show The Voice of Germany – the tracks jumps 100–4 giving the original artist his first appearance at the very top of the single’s list. Simultanously the version of Benny Fiedler is entering the list at number 25 too. It is the first time in German TV and music history that the versions recorded at the show are available officially as a single track. I guess it will change the drive of the show dramaticly as everybody knows right now who is the big favourite of the casting. In the case of TVOG it is Benny Fiedler. How do the fans of other contestants react right now? And is it really about the good voice that one is crowned? Or just a simple act of mobilizing a lot of people via web2.0 applications? – Certain is the fact that the original artist profits much more of an performance than the contestant itself. Comparing both it is hard to decide which one is the more heartful.
The original by Philipp Poisel and the version by Benny Fiedler
Meeting Philipp Poisel at number 4 marks the end of an seven weeks abstinence of German songs in the Top 5. The last seen that high was Rammstein’s Mein Land at the end of November.
Same story for a song that is famous already but never made it into the German charts. I’m talking ’bout radiohead’s debut Creep which was a Top 10 hit in the United Kingdom in 1992. In the Friday issue of the show Michael Schulte sang the song. His version enters the charts at number 62 – 12 ranks above him the original comes in and gives British Radiohead their highest place ever reached in Germany. It is only their fourth track that can hit the German charts – the last one appeared eight years ago. So this is the very first come back of the year – caused by a casting show.
I guess you all know the original – this is the version from the show
The show enabled a lot of other tracks to enter the charts (again). Sorted by popularity Ich kenne nichts (das so schön ist wie du) (I Don’t Know Anything (As Beautiful As You)) is the big gainer. The track was performed by Xavier Naidoo and his candidates during the voting. The original recording from 2003 was number one for a single week in June that year. According to different sources the track collected already 29 to 36 chart weeks – actually it had several chart runs since it’s original appearance and probably is one of Xavier Naidoo’s signature tracks. Last time it was seen in the lists was back in 2010 when it had a four weeks run reaching number 47. Now it re-enters at an impressing number 20 – the highest rank since its first chart run in 2003.
Rea Garvey opened the show one day later with his candidates by performing his recent hit Can’t Stand The Silence. As an effect the single jumps back up the charts 69–46 in its 18th chart week.
The performance at TvoG: Ich kenne nichts Team Xavier / Can’t Stand The Silence Team Rea
10 of the 24 contestants can reach a rank in the charts. Leading the pack is – as I told before – Benny Fiedler at 25. Percival and Behnam Moghaddam follow with their takes on Hedonism originally recorded by Skunk Anansie in 1997 and The Sound Of Silence. The first one was the only proper hit for Skunk Anansie. Now it comes in at 40 in the new version. The Sound Of Silence was a hit for Simon & Garfunkel in 1966 when it reached number 9. The song is back at number 41.
Further contestants arriving: at 70 Max Giesinger with the Coldplay song Fix You – originally released in 2005 reaching number 65 back then. Mic Donet performed Ain’t No Sunshine and gives the famous song its second chart appearance of all time. Only once in 1998 the US American band 4 the Cause brought its version into the list at number 52. The original by Bill Whiters never charted in Germany. Rüdiger Skoczowsky had to leave the show after his first live performance – the audience loved his version of Without You anyway. It can enter at number 80 – the original by David Guetta feat. USHER still holds at number 16.
The most loved girl/woman of the two shows was Jasmin Graf. Her version on Wovon sollen wir träumen climbs to number 81 – the more pop oriented original by Frida Gold already is 41 weeks in the charts rising softly 55–51 this week. Seeing the ladies entering only at the end of the survey underlines the old rule: Gents are the big deal in casting shows – they do have tons of female fans who spend money on downloads and whatsoever and they love to call several times for their adored idol. The male audience is much more reserved. They probably would go crazy airing a soccer casting.
Katja Friedenberg also is in the charts. Her interpretation of Adele’s Turning Tables stops at 86 – probably she was disadvantaged by choosing an almost unknown song. We will watch her in one weeks time.
The last candidate who turns into a chart act is Dominic Sanz. He performed With Or Without You known in the version by Irish U2. Like Rüdiger Skoczowsky also Dominic Sanz had to leave the show – probably his chart career ends before it really started with a number 98 rank.
Please find the videos of all the performances at the official TvoG-Site
Of course not only the songs of the candidates made a remarkable impact to the survey. Also the songs presented in between got a small push. The new Snow Patrol single This Isn’t Everything You Are enters after the band performed in the show. Coming in at number 52 it isn’t the really big start. So a performance in the show isn’t an immediately given hit. That had to accept Söhne Mannheims too. They performed – including juror Xavier Naidoo their latest single hit Für dich (For You) – only clinging on at number 65.
The only new entry not related with The Voice of Germany this week is culcha candela’s new single Wildes Ding (Wild Thing). It lands at number 12. If there were only one person left finding the Berlin multicultural band innovative – this recent release should immmediately stop that kind of ideas. The track is a proper hit produced single lending all the key catchers of past hits – in the end you listen to a softened version of Atzen Pop successful a year ago. The lyrics are about the male dreams of a perfect woman. And – surprise surprise – it is a princess that turns into a vamp at night. No wonder the track was chosen for being the title track of just started TV show Dschungelcamp which has unbelievably high rates.
At the very top there is nothing new. Gotye stands a fourth week there. Somebody That I Used To Know is the first single since Rihanna’s We Found Love that does so. Of course Rihanna took three runs at Number 1 for collecting four weeks. The last song holding at least four consecutive weeks as the best sold single was New Age by Marlon Roudette in autumn past year.
Michel Teló is still on the rise with his Nooosssaa! Ai Se Eu Te Pego! gaining 3 places and stopping at number 2. Will the football anthem reach number 1 in teh next days? According to most recent iTunes lists it will. That might be the first Brazilian number 1 in Germany.
With the invasion of German artists the density of German productions at the upper end increases. We do have four German productions inside the Top 20 – that sounds much, although back in October there were four porductions alone inside the Top 10. Right now there is a strong demand in songs in German. The four German songs inside the Top are sung in German – end of october we’ve seen a similar presence but none of the tracks were inside the Top 10.
German language always has a heighth when Après Ski season is coming up – meaning we face the usual stupid hits sneaking through the charts. This week Markus Becker enters the list with a rework of his last single Heli-Heli Helikopter. For the Après Ski version Markus Becker invited Austrian Marco Mzee of The Mountain Brothers to join him. The new version can be found at number 67 – the video might show you what the party is about.
And this recent week shows impressively how stars are made. It’s not about clever songwriting or performing in an unbelievably cool way. Not at all. It is all about BEING performed in a casting show. That’s the way how German singer songwriter Philipp Poisel became popular. He had his first success with single and album Wo fängt dein Himmel an? (Where does your heaven start?) in 2008. In 2010 he had even more success mainly albumwise. In October his single Eiserner Steg (Iron [Landing] Stage) made the first significant impact to the charts after prominently provided by the German movie What a Man. But still – number 21 was the end of the line. Now – after that same track was performed by Benny Fiedler at casting show The Voice of Germany – the tracks jumps 100–4 giving the original artist his first appearance at the very top of the single’s list. Simultanously the version of Benny Fiedler is entering the list at number 25 too. It is the first time in German TV and music history that the versions recorded at the show are available officially as a single track. I guess it will change the drive of the show dramaticly as everybody knows right now who is the big favourite of the casting. In the case of TVOG it is Benny Fiedler. How do the fans of other contestants react right now? And is it really about the good voice that one is crowned? Or just a simple act of mobilizing a lot of people via web2.0 applications? – Certain is the fact that the original artist profits much more of an performance than the contestant itself. Comparing both it is hard to decide which one is the more heartful.
The original by Philipp Poisel and the version by Benny Fiedler
Meeting Philipp Poisel at number 4 marks the end of an seven weeks abstinence of German songs in the Top 5. The last seen that high was Rammstein’s Mein Land at the end of November.
Same story for a song that is famous already but never made it into the German charts. I’m talking ’bout radiohead’s debut Creep which was a Top 10 hit in the United Kingdom in 1992. In the Friday issue of the show Michael Schulte sang the song. His version enters the charts at number 62 – 12 ranks above him the original comes in and gives British Radiohead their highest place ever reached in Germany. It is only their fourth track that can hit the German charts – the last one appeared eight years ago. So this is the very first come back of the year – caused by a casting show.
I guess you all know the original – this is the version from the show
The show enabled a lot of other tracks to enter the charts (again). Sorted by popularity Ich kenne nichts (das so schön ist wie du) (I Don’t Know Anything (As Beautiful As You)) is the big gainer. The track was performed by Xavier Naidoo and his candidates during the voting. The original recording from 2003 was number one for a single week in June that year. According to different sources the track collected already 29 to 36 chart weeks – actually it had several chart runs since it’s original appearance and probably is one of Xavier Naidoo’s signature tracks. Last time it was seen in the lists was back in 2010 when it had a four weeks run reaching number 47. Now it re-enters at an impressing number 20 – the highest rank since its first chart run in 2003.
Rea Garvey opened the show one day later with his candidates by performing his recent hit Can’t Stand The Silence. As an effect the single jumps back up the charts 69–46 in its 18th chart week.
The performance at TvoG: Ich kenne nichts Team Xavier / Can’t Stand The Silence Team Rea
10 of the 24 contestants can reach a rank in the charts. Leading the pack is – as I told before – Benny Fiedler at 25. Percival and Behnam Moghaddam follow with their takes on Hedonism originally recorded by Skunk Anansie in 1997 and The Sound Of Silence. The first one was the only proper hit for Skunk Anansie. Now it comes in at 40 in the new version. The Sound Of Silence was a hit for Simon & Garfunkel in 1966 when it reached number 9. The song is back at number 41.
Further contestants arriving: at 70 Max Giesinger with the Coldplay song Fix You – originally released in 2005 reaching number 65 back then. Mic Donet performed Ain’t No Sunshine and gives the famous song its second chart appearance of all time. Only once in 1998 the US American band 4 the Cause brought its version into the list at number 52. The original by Bill Whiters never charted in Germany. Rüdiger Skoczowsky had to leave the show after his first live performance – the audience loved his version of Without You anyway. It can enter at number 80 – the original by David Guetta feat. USHER still holds at number 16.
The most loved girl/woman of the two shows was Jasmin Graf. Her version on Wovon sollen wir träumen climbs to number 81 – the more pop oriented original by Frida Gold already is 41 weeks in the charts rising softly 55–51 this week. Seeing the ladies entering only at the end of the survey underlines the old rule: Gents are the big deal in casting shows – they do have tons of female fans who spend money on downloads and whatsoever and they love to call several times for their adored idol. The male audience is much more reserved. They probably would go crazy airing a soccer casting.
Katja Friedenberg also is in the charts. Her interpretation of Adele’s Turning Tables stops at 86 – probably she was disadvantaged by choosing an almost unknown song. We will watch her in one weeks time.
The last candidate who turns into a chart act is Dominic Sanz. He performed With Or Without You known in the version by Irish U2. Like Rüdiger Skoczowsky also Dominic Sanz had to leave the show – probably his chart career ends before it really started with a number 98 rank.
Please find the videos of all the performances at the official TvoG-Site
Of course not only the songs of the candidates made a remarkable impact to the survey. Also the songs presented in between got a small push. The new Snow Patrol single This Isn’t Everything You Are enters after the band performed in the show. Coming in at number 52 it isn’t the really big start. So a performance in the show isn’t an immediately given hit. That had to accept Söhne Mannheims too. They performed – including juror Xavier Naidoo their latest single hit Für dich (For You) – only clinging on at number 65.
The only new entry not related with The Voice of Germany this week is culcha candela’s new single Wildes Ding (Wild Thing). It lands at number 12. If there were only one person left finding the Berlin multicultural band innovative – this recent release should immmediately stop that kind of ideas. The track is a proper hit produced single lending all the key catchers of past hits – in the end you listen to a softened version of Atzen Pop successful a year ago. The lyrics are about the male dreams of a perfect woman. And – surprise surprise – it is a princess that turns into a vamp at night. No wonder the track was chosen for being the title track of just started TV show Dschungelcamp which has unbelievably high rates.
At the very top there is nothing new. Gotye stands a fourth week there. Somebody That I Used To Know is the first single since Rihanna’s We Found Love that does so. Of course Rihanna took three runs at Number 1 for collecting four weeks. The last song holding at least four consecutive weeks as the best sold single was New Age by Marlon Roudette in autumn past year.
Michel Teló is still on the rise with his Nooosssaa! Ai Se Eu Te Pego! gaining 3 places and stopping at number 2. Will the football anthem reach number 1 in teh next days? According to most recent iTunes lists it will. That might be the first Brazilian number 1 in Germany.
With the invasion of German artists the density of German productions at the upper end increases. We do have four German productions inside the Top 20 – that sounds much, although back in October there were four porductions alone inside the Top 10. Right now there is a strong demand in songs in German. The four German songs inside the Top are sung in German – end of october we’ve seen a similar presence but none of the tracks were inside the Top 10.
German language always has a heighth when Après Ski season is coming up – meaning we face the usual stupid hits sneaking through the charts. This week Markus Becker enters the list with a rework of his last single Heli-Heli Helikopter. For the Après Ski version Markus Becker invited Austrian Marco Mzee of The Mountain Brothers to join him. The new version can be found at number 67 – the video might show you what the party is about.
New Year's Eve Parties
Usually the start of the year is a quiet week. Nobody is really surprised that we don’t have any new entry that week. But we have a lot of re-entering tracks. 15 hits of the past months appear again in the survey – that’s a lot. It is in fact the biggest amount since two years. January the 8th 2010 we saw 23 tracks coming back. But now let’s leave the long tail of the list and go straight to the top.
Gotye (feat. Kimbra) is a third week there in Germany and now equals the feat of Lana del Rey who did so right before he took over the Number 1. The former number 1 star still holds firm at the runner’s up position meaning we do have another very static Top in Germany.
Having two number 1 singles each topping the charts at least three continous weeks is a feat last seen from April to June last year when On The Floor by JLO feat. Pitbull spent five weeks at the top directly followed by Call My Name in the version of last year’s superstar Pietro Lombardi.
The big climber this week comes from Brasilia. Michel Teló jumps up 12 places to number 5 with his soccer related latino hit Nooosssaa! Ai Se Eu Te Pego!. Although right now the Bundesliga has its winter break till January 20th a lot of people love the song and related videos about goal celebrations of soccer players all over Europe. The track does have good prospects of climbing higher next week.
The second big gainer comes in the figure of Taio Cruz whos Troublemaker takes a 19 places leap to number 13. As I can find no other obvious reason I assume the strong interest is caused by people who searched for the right party tracks to celebrate new years eve. Lower down the list there are a lot of other gainers for probably the same reason as they are Animal by r.i.o. Feat. U-JEAN rising 62–48 and reaching a new peak, Mr Saxobeat the summer hit by Alexandra Stan bouncing back 63–49 in its 35th chart week and even I sing a Liad für di by Austrian Andreas Gabalier rises 78–50. Taio Cruz at this moment leads the party kings as he sees his Higher (in companion with Kylie Minogue) re-entering also – at number 78.
German duo Glasperlenspiel profits directly of an performance at a New Year’s Eve party. They staged at the Brandenburger Tor in Berlin which was broadcasted live in public TV. Their hit ECHT returns afterwards to number 20 – it is now the second most sold German track behind Cello recorded unplugged by Udo Lindenberg feat. Clueso. Number three in the survey of best sold German tracks is still Tim Bendzko with his song Nur noch kurz die Welt retten.
Also Frida Gold gets a boost after performing at the Berlin party. Wovon sollen wir träumen rises again 76–55 in its 40th chart week.
Third artist finding a lot of new fans in Berlin was – unbelievably – DJ Ötzi. The singer re-enters with both his performed songs. I sing a Liad für Dich comes in at 72 – it is by the way the highest entering track – and his huge hit Ein Stern (der deinen Namen trägt) appears for a 107th week at 85.
DJ Ötzi also had a TV appearance at the New Year’s Eve party of channel RTL2 presenting après ski hits. Probably this event was the second best watched that night. Even Mickie Krause is back with his Mallorca hit Schatzi, schenk mir ein Foto (Darlin’, Give Me A Photo). It is already the 30rd chart week of the track. Mickie Krause never had a hit longer appearing inside the German charts. Probably we will have the track all the next weeks in the list as the après ski and carnival season just starts. Also Jürgen Drews can re-enter the list with Wenn die Wunderkerzen brennen ... I really hope you’re not afraid of the closer future.
Every year at the first chart issue one track appears for a single week. It is ABBA’s seasonal hit Happy New Year. First released as a single in Germany in 1999 it collected three chart weeks. Since 2009 the song re-appears continously reaching very instable success. In 2009 it overtook the peak from its original chart run by one position and stopped at number 77. This year the track re-enters at 75 giving ABBA the highest place since 1992 when Dancing Queen had a revival. In the Netherlands the song stopped last year at number 8 – this year it can reach again number 11. The recent success might be explained by the fact that the start of the year 2012 was in the middle of the chart week – so really all purchases count in this single week. Other years the sales started a few days before New Year’s Eve and peaked right at January 1st which probably dated in two different weeks. – Die hard fans had the chance of purchasing a precious collector’s item at ABBA’s official homepage at the end of November. UNIVERSAL released a silver sparkling vinyl edition of Happy New Year limited to 500 copies – unfortunatly a lot of commercial sellers grabbed several copies for selling these at platforms like eBay for about 200 Euros. Once again a music label did not really care about the real music fans – it’s a pity and probably the reason why a lot of people doesn’t mind about the problems the music industry always attests.
Gotye (feat. Kimbra) is a third week there in Germany and now equals the feat of Lana del Rey who did so right before he took over the Number 1. The former number 1 star still holds firm at the runner’s up position meaning we do have another very static Top in Germany.
Having two number 1 singles each topping the charts at least three continous weeks is a feat last seen from April to June last year when On The Floor by JLO feat. Pitbull spent five weeks at the top directly followed by Call My Name in the version of last year’s superstar Pietro Lombardi.
The big climber this week comes from Brasilia. Michel Teló jumps up 12 places to number 5 with his soccer related latino hit Nooosssaa! Ai Se Eu Te Pego!. Although right now the Bundesliga has its winter break till January 20th a lot of people love the song and related videos about goal celebrations of soccer players all over Europe. The track does have good prospects of climbing higher next week.
The second big gainer comes in the figure of Taio Cruz whos Troublemaker takes a 19 places leap to number 13. As I can find no other obvious reason I assume the strong interest is caused by people who searched for the right party tracks to celebrate new years eve. Lower down the list there are a lot of other gainers for probably the same reason as they are Animal by r.i.o. Feat. U-JEAN rising 62–48 and reaching a new peak, Mr Saxobeat the summer hit by Alexandra Stan bouncing back 63–49 in its 35th chart week and even I sing a Liad für di by Austrian Andreas Gabalier rises 78–50. Taio Cruz at this moment leads the party kings as he sees his Higher (in companion with Kylie Minogue) re-entering also – at number 78.
German duo Glasperlenspiel profits directly of an performance at a New Year’s Eve party. They staged at the Brandenburger Tor in Berlin which was broadcasted live in public TV. Their hit ECHT returns afterwards to number 20 – it is now the second most sold German track behind Cello recorded unplugged by Udo Lindenberg feat. Clueso. Number three in the survey of best sold German tracks is still Tim Bendzko with his song Nur noch kurz die Welt retten.
Also Frida Gold gets a boost after performing at the Berlin party. Wovon sollen wir träumen rises again 76–55 in its 40th chart week.
Third artist finding a lot of new fans in Berlin was – unbelievably – DJ Ötzi. The singer re-enters with both his performed songs. I sing a Liad für Dich comes in at 72 – it is by the way the highest entering track – and his huge hit Ein Stern (der deinen Namen trägt) appears for a 107th week at 85.
DJ Ötzi also had a TV appearance at the New Year’s Eve party of channel RTL2 presenting après ski hits. Probably this event was the second best watched that night. Even Mickie Krause is back with his Mallorca hit Schatzi, schenk mir ein Foto (Darlin’, Give Me A Photo). It is already the 30rd chart week of the track. Mickie Krause never had a hit longer appearing inside the German charts. Probably we will have the track all the next weeks in the list as the après ski and carnival season just starts. Also Jürgen Drews can re-enter the list with Wenn die Wunderkerzen brennen ... I really hope you’re not afraid of the closer future.
Every year at the first chart issue one track appears for a single week. It is ABBA’s seasonal hit Happy New Year. First released as a single in Germany in 1999 it collected three chart weeks. Since 2009 the song re-appears continously reaching very instable success. In 2009 it overtook the peak from its original chart run by one position and stopped at number 77. This year the track re-enters at 75 giving ABBA the highest place since 1992 when Dancing Queen had a revival. In the Netherlands the song stopped last year at number 8 – this year it can reach again number 11. The recent success might be explained by the fact that the start of the year 2012 was in the middle of the chart week – so really all purchases count in this single week. Other years the sales started a few days before New Year’s Eve and peaked right at January 1st which probably dated in two different weeks. – Die hard fans had the chance of purchasing a precious collector’s item at ABBA’s official homepage at the end of November. UNIVERSAL released a silver sparkling vinyl edition of Happy New Year limited to 500 copies – unfortunatly a lot of commercial sellers grabbed several copies for selling these at platforms like eBay for about 200 Euros. Once again a music label did not really care about the real music fans – it’s a pity and probably the reason why a lot of people doesn’t mind about the problems the music industry always attests.
01-2012: A Slow Start
The year 2012 starts with a slow downed list. As usual the first week only have single new entries – so does this recent. The one and only comes in at number 92. But first – let’s have a look to the most sold singles.
Also at the top nothing new. Australian Gotye holds a second week at number 1 with Somebody That I Used To Know. It is now the most successful Australian track since We No Speak Americano occupied the top spot for seven weeks in late summer 2010.
The list dated on January 6th reflects the sales between December 23rd and 29th–so we see a lot of party tracks rising. Probably it is caused by the search for the right music to celebrate new year’s eve or just to fill the new mp3 player. Most prominent gainer are LMFAO their Sexy And I Know It rises five places to number 8 giving them a second Top 10 hit. It took the duo 10 weeks to find such strong interest and there might be a chance that this success is a more sustainable one.
Rising continously also Michel Teló’s song Nooosssaa! Ai Se Eu Te Pego! – probably a lot of people like to dance Latin American style. It arrives now at number 17. One of the dance favourites of the last months obviously is One Night In Ibiza offered by Swiss Mike Candys & Evelyn Ft. Patrick Miller. The track jumps 83–45. Also the very similar Welcome To St. Tropez by DJ Antoine vs. Timati feat. Kalenna – one of the big hits of the past year – jumps back 64–46. Even the classic club tune Sky And Sand by Paul & Fritz Kalkbrenner jumps back 78–51 in its 91st week. Further gainer of the big party track search: David Guetta featuring Taio Cruz + Ludacris get a re-appearance with Little Bad Girl at 55, r.i.o. Feat. U-JEAN with Animal can rise again 82–62 and also Sak Noel sees his Loca People (What The F**k!) leaping 81–64. Also rising PITBULL feat. NE-Yo, Afrojack & Nayer with Give Me Everything that lands at 68.
Of course also the more romantic songs found a greater interest during the festive days. We see rising Christina Perri with Jar Of hearts. to number 10 and South Korean pianist YIRUMA with River Flows In You enters the Top 20 (probably here the presence of the Twilight movie in theatres supports the interest for the song as well). Further down the charts also Kelly Clarkson sees her Mr Know It All rising 80–54 for probably the same reason.
The last „battle“ show of The Voice Of Germany was aired on Friday, December 23rd and leaves traces inside the list. Most emotional moment was the Sing Off of the Xavier Naidoo team. Most loved performance according to the sales impact was the one by Max Giesinger. He performed Sex_On_Fire originally known from Kings_Of_Leon – the track re-enters the German list for a 10th time at 58. It is the 67th chart week at all. Max Giesinger by the way was chosen afterwards to stay in the show as well.
A day before that was Bobby Bobbs of the team Nena who had the most chances inside the audience. His performed song grenade (originally by Bruno Mars) can take a leap 92–66 in its 50th chart week. Bobby himself had to leave the show.
And now we have a look at the announced new entry. It is a late Christmas tune. Natasha Bedingfield was chosen to cover the train song Shake Up Christmas for the advertisement of an big soft drink company. Remember Melanie Thornton? She did so at the beginning of the millenium and had a huge success still working nowadays. Natasha Bedingfield is not that lucky – the single was avaiable since November. Anyway it reaches the list only now at a very low number 92. Maybe she will have this December another chance.
The actual list is dominated by two artists. David Guetta and Bruno Mars both start the year as most popular acts right now having each five tracks inside the list. Watching the whole Top 100 it is remarkable that a bunch of 16 acts delivers at least two songs each to the survey which is summarized an amount of 44 hits.
Also at the top nothing new. Australian Gotye holds a second week at number 1 with Somebody That I Used To Know. It is now the most successful Australian track since We No Speak Americano occupied the top spot for seven weeks in late summer 2010.
The list dated on January 6th reflects the sales between December 23rd and 29th–so we see a lot of party tracks rising. Probably it is caused by the search for the right music to celebrate new year’s eve or just to fill the new mp3 player. Most prominent gainer are LMFAO their Sexy And I Know It rises five places to number 8 giving them a second Top 10 hit. It took the duo 10 weeks to find such strong interest and there might be a chance that this success is a more sustainable one.
Rising continously also Michel Teló’s song Nooosssaa! Ai Se Eu Te Pego! – probably a lot of people like to dance Latin American style. It arrives now at number 17. One of the dance favourites of the last months obviously is One Night In Ibiza offered by Swiss Mike Candys & Evelyn Ft. Patrick Miller. The track jumps 83–45. Also the very similar Welcome To St. Tropez by DJ Antoine vs. Timati feat. Kalenna – one of the big hits of the past year – jumps back 64–46. Even the classic club tune Sky And Sand by Paul & Fritz Kalkbrenner jumps back 78–51 in its 91st week. Further gainer of the big party track search: David Guetta featuring Taio Cruz + Ludacris get a re-appearance with Little Bad Girl at 55, r.i.o. Feat. U-JEAN with Animal can rise again 82–62 and also Sak Noel sees his Loca People (What The F**k!) leaping 81–64. Also rising PITBULL feat. NE-Yo, Afrojack & Nayer with Give Me Everything that lands at 68.
Of course also the more romantic songs found a greater interest during the festive days. We see rising Christina Perri with Jar Of hearts. to number 10 and South Korean pianist YIRUMA with River Flows In You enters the Top 20 (probably here the presence of the Twilight movie in theatres supports the interest for the song as well). Further down the charts also Kelly Clarkson sees her Mr Know It All rising 80–54 for probably the same reason.
The last „battle“ show of The Voice Of Germany was aired on Friday, December 23rd and leaves traces inside the list. Most emotional moment was the Sing Off of the Xavier Naidoo team. Most loved performance according to the sales impact was the one by Max Giesinger. He performed Sex_On_Fire originally known from Kings_Of_Leon – the track re-enters the German list for a 10th time at 58. It is the 67th chart week at all. Max Giesinger by the way was chosen afterwards to stay in the show as well.
A day before that was Bobby Bobbs of the team Nena who had the most chances inside the audience. His performed song grenade (originally by Bruno Mars) can take a leap 92–66 in its 50th chart week. Bobby himself had to leave the show.
And now we have a look at the announced new entry. It is a late Christmas tune. Natasha Bedingfield was chosen to cover the train song Shake Up Christmas for the advertisement of an big soft drink company. Remember Melanie Thornton? She did so at the beginning of the millenium and had a huge success still working nowadays. Natasha Bedingfield is not that lucky – the single was avaiable since November. Anyway it reaches the list only now at a very low number 92. Maybe she will have this December another chance.
The actual list is dominated by two artists. David Guetta and Bruno Mars both start the year as most popular acts right now having each five tracks inside the list. Watching the whole Top 100 it is remarkable that a bunch of 16 acts delivers at least two songs each to the survey which is summarized an amount of 44 hits.
2011 – That Was The Chart Year
No surprise at the top of the singles list of the year 2011: On The Floor recorded by JLO feat. Pitbull is the most sold single of the past twelve months. The single was five weeks at number one in April and May strongly promoted due to the fact that it was the opening song for one of the live shows of Deutschland sucht den Superstar (Germany’s Idols). After Jennifer Lopez’ performance at Wetten dass…? (Bet that…) in June the song rebounded for a single week to the top spot after a six weeks break. The song so far spent 41 weeks inside the German charts, 25 of them in the Top 10 – it sneaks at number 72 still in the last issue of the year. It is far and away JLO’s most successful song in Germany and her very first number 1 hit after an almost 12 years long chart career.
JLO is the single queen – at the albums list we do have another female star. It is of course Adele and her album 21. The most successful single taken from it was Rolling In The Deep which also was one of the most significant songs of the year listed at number 4 in the 2011 survey. The song spent 51 weeks inside the charts – that’s only one week less than the whole year – and it held two weeks the number one spot in February, dethroned by Bruno Mars and his grenade (number 3 in 2011).
We did have 15 different number 1 songs – that’s two more than the year before but the same amount as in 2009 and 2008. So we could call the year a very usual one.
The longest number 1 runner was New Age by Marlon Roudette. 8 weeks – the complete September and October – the track was the most sold one in Germany. Number 6 in the survey of the year. The artist is back at the top after a 5 years break. In 2006 he had a number 1 hit with his project Mattafix.
Three acts reached the Top for the fourth time: The Black Eyed Peas with The Time (Dirty Bit) (number 36) – and they now had number one hits over a seven years span –, Lady Gaga with Born This Way (number 17) and Rihanna with We Found Love (number 13).
The longest way to number 1 had Danza Kuduro by Lucenzo feat. Don Omar which took full two months to reach the top.
Leaving number 1 territory we truly can describe a battle between a DJ and a rapper for being the most active act of the year. Seeing Cuban-USAmerican rapper Pitbull at the top of the singles list reflects the presence of this artist in 2011. He collected 168 chart entries over the whole year making him only the second most present artist in 2011. The real king in terms of chart weeks is – you already know it – French DJ David Guetta. He appeared 216 times with 16 different tracks in the list. The most successfull week was the issue from September 9th, when he had nine different tracks in the survey. It was the week when his album Nothing But The beat was released. His most successful single hit according to sales figures was Sweat – the rework of Snoop Dogg’s recording Wet – that is listed at number 7 in the list of the year.The track occupied number 2 for four weeks in April /May and missed the top cause JLO & Pitbull sticked there. In 2011 David Guetta had 5 more tracks reaching the Top 10 – 4 of them in a row – giving him 39 Top 10 weeks, what is NOT the best result in 2011. Again Pitbull is the one beating him out with 45 weeks inside the Top 10.
Overshadowed by that battle and the two very strong ladies the most active female star of the year misses the really big headline. Rihanna had 8 hits in 2011, 5 of them top ten, she appeared full 151 weeks inside the list. In every other chart year she would be celebrated as the queen.
Another act that growed in the shadow is Flo Rida. In 2011 he launched four Top 10 hits finally reaching number 1 with Good Feeeling at the end of the year. I guess he will be one of the big names in 2012 too.
The most successful newcomer is a casted star: Pietro Lombardi had three single hits this year, his debut Call My Name shot straight to number 1 and spent four weeks there (number 5 in the year’s survey) before tumbling down to number 7. The appearance of his latest release Goin’ To L.A. gives the impression that his star is already sinking. But first the look back: Pietro Lombardi has the honour of being the best sold German act. In the survey follows Tim Bendzko with Nur noch kurz die Welt retten (number 10) and Jupiter Jones with Still (number 20).
Finally some trivias: There are two songs in 2011 that spent more than 40 weeks inside the charts in different versions. It is Waka Waka – the anthem of the 2010 world championship – which was available as a single by Shakira and in a German version by Spongebob. The song ranked still at number 33 in 2011. Probably more present was Hello by Martin Solveig and Dragonette which ranked at number 5 at the beginning of the year and had a cover version inside the charts recorded by Berlin band The Baseballs.
A chart record was set by Paul & Fritz Kalkbrenner when their Sky And Sand reached its peak at number 29 on November 11th – in its 83rd chart week. Another long time benchmark was set in the very last week of the year when Happy Xmas (War Is Over) by John Lennon & Yoko Ono with the Plastic Ono Band and the Harlem Community Choir reappeared in the list. The song was noted for the first time in February 1973 and now has an almost 39 years chart run reaching position 46 as the highest.
The act having the longest chart career of all present in 2011 is Mama Africa Miriam Makeba. She came to new chart life due to a remix of her hit Pata Pata from 1968 by Milk&Sugar. The single spent eight weeks in the list rising to number 33. Miriam Makeba now was present in the German charts for 43 and a half year. Talking ’bout come backs in 2011 I have to mention Eva Jacob who had her last chart entry in 1965 with the Andrew Sisters. 45 and a half years later she was part of the Dschungel Allstars 2011 that had a short stop alongside Zipfelbuben in February 2011. So technically she holds the record of being absent from the charts for the longest time.
Although 2011 was the least successful year for German SCOOTER the band is right now the act with the longest continuity of hits. 2011 was their18th year in a row releasing at least one chart hit. All time leader Peter Alexander still is far and away with 29 consecutive years.
Least successful acts: Peter Maffay – who really played a sad (and naive) role around the Bushido/BAMBI discussion – added this year two singles to his impressive collection of 47 chart hits, although the past 23 did not cross posiiton 25 – the last time he was seen higher was in 1983 with Nessaja.
To mention also the duo Eichensohn/Davenstedt that spent a single week at number 100 with the track FFF.
JLO is the single queen – at the albums list we do have another female star. It is of course Adele and her album 21. The most successful single taken from it was Rolling In The Deep which also was one of the most significant songs of the year listed at number 4 in the 2011 survey. The song spent 51 weeks inside the charts – that’s only one week less than the whole year – and it held two weeks the number one spot in February, dethroned by Bruno Mars and his grenade (number 3 in 2011).
We did have 15 different number 1 songs – that’s two more than the year before but the same amount as in 2009 and 2008. So we could call the year a very usual one.
The longest number 1 runner was New Age by Marlon Roudette. 8 weeks – the complete September and October – the track was the most sold one in Germany. Number 6 in the survey of the year. The artist is back at the top after a 5 years break. In 2006 he had a number 1 hit with his project Mattafix.
Three acts reached the Top for the fourth time: The Black Eyed Peas with The Time (Dirty Bit) (number 36) – and they now had number one hits over a seven years span –, Lady Gaga with Born This Way (number 17) and Rihanna with We Found Love (number 13).
The longest way to number 1 had Danza Kuduro by Lucenzo feat. Don Omar which took full two months to reach the top.
Leaving number 1 territory we truly can describe a battle between a DJ and a rapper for being the most active act of the year. Seeing Cuban-USAmerican rapper Pitbull at the top of the singles list reflects the presence of this artist in 2011. He collected 168 chart entries over the whole year making him only the second most present artist in 2011. The real king in terms of chart weeks is – you already know it – French DJ David Guetta. He appeared 216 times with 16 different tracks in the list. The most successfull week was the issue from September 9th, when he had nine different tracks in the survey. It was the week when his album Nothing But The beat was released. His most successful single hit according to sales figures was Sweat – the rework of Snoop Dogg’s recording Wet – that is listed at number 7 in the list of the year.The track occupied number 2 for four weeks in April /May and missed the top cause JLO & Pitbull sticked there. In 2011 David Guetta had 5 more tracks reaching the Top 10 – 4 of them in a row – giving him 39 Top 10 weeks, what is NOT the best result in 2011. Again Pitbull is the one beating him out with 45 weeks inside the Top 10.
Overshadowed by that battle and the two very strong ladies the most active female star of the year misses the really big headline. Rihanna had 8 hits in 2011, 5 of them top ten, she appeared full 151 weeks inside the list. In every other chart year she would be celebrated as the queen.
Another act that growed in the shadow is Flo Rida. In 2011 he launched four Top 10 hits finally reaching number 1 with Good Feeeling at the end of the year. I guess he will be one of the big names in 2012 too.
The most successful newcomer is a casted star: Pietro Lombardi had three single hits this year, his debut Call My Name shot straight to number 1 and spent four weeks there (number 5 in the year’s survey) before tumbling down to number 7. The appearance of his latest release Goin’ To L.A. gives the impression that his star is already sinking. But first the look back: Pietro Lombardi has the honour of being the best sold German act. In the survey follows Tim Bendzko with Nur noch kurz die Welt retten (number 10) and Jupiter Jones with Still (number 20).
Finally some trivias: There are two songs in 2011 that spent more than 40 weeks inside the charts in different versions. It is Waka Waka – the anthem of the 2010 world championship – which was available as a single by Shakira and in a German version by Spongebob. The song ranked still at number 33 in 2011. Probably more present was Hello by Martin Solveig and Dragonette which ranked at number 5 at the beginning of the year and had a cover version inside the charts recorded by Berlin band The Baseballs.
A chart record was set by Paul & Fritz Kalkbrenner when their Sky And Sand reached its peak at number 29 on November 11th – in its 83rd chart week. Another long time benchmark was set in the very last week of the year when Happy Xmas (War Is Over) by John Lennon & Yoko Ono with the Plastic Ono Band and the Harlem Community Choir reappeared in the list. The song was noted for the first time in February 1973 and now has an almost 39 years chart run reaching position 46 as the highest.
The act having the longest chart career of all present in 2011 is Mama Africa Miriam Makeba. She came to new chart life due to a remix of her hit Pata Pata from 1968 by Milk&Sugar. The single spent eight weeks in the list rising to number 33. Miriam Makeba now was present in the German charts for 43 and a half year. Talking ’bout come backs in 2011 I have to mention Eva Jacob who had her last chart entry in 1965 with the Andrew Sisters. 45 and a half years later she was part of the Dschungel Allstars 2011 that had a short stop alongside Zipfelbuben in February 2011. So technically she holds the record of being absent from the charts for the longest time.
Although 2011 was the least successful year for German SCOOTER the band is right now the act with the longest continuity of hits. 2011 was their18th year in a row releasing at least one chart hit. All time leader Peter Alexander still is far and away with 29 consecutive years.
Least successful acts: Peter Maffay – who really played a sad (and naive) role around the Bushido/BAMBI discussion – added this year two singles to his impressive collection of 47 chart hits, although the past 23 did not cross posiiton 25 – the last time he was seen higher was in 1983 with Nessaja.
To mention also the duo Eichensohn/Davenstedt that spent a single week at number 100 with the track FFF.
Christmas Carols And TV Castings
The last chart week of the year and we do have a new number 1. As some digital sales analysts reported a week ago Australian Gotye climbs to number 1 in Germany. Somebody That I Used To Know is the 15th and last number 1 single this year. So we had two number one hits more than in 2010 and the same amount as in the two years before. It is also the sixth debut single of an artist that can climb to number 1 in 2011. And it is a number one coming from an Australian act after a one year break. In December 2010 it was Empire Of The Sun who reached the top spot with We Are The People after its use as a commercial soundtrack. Taking in consideration that Gotye is a native Belgian he is the first Belgian artist at number 1 since March 2010 when Stromae occupied the top position for two weeks with Alors On Danse. By the way: it was the debut single for Stromae also – since his number 1 hit nothing more from him poped in the list. Accompanying Kimbra is the first artist from New Zealand reaching the German top.
The success of Gotye comes due to the release of the physical CD single on Decmeber 16th as well as due to the use of the track for advertising the Christmas programme of TV channel Pro7.
A significant move is made by Lady Gaga Superstar. She is more a performance and video star than a musical genius. The video for Marry The Night was released beginning of December simultaneaously with the CD and finally the track sales increases slowly. This week it reaches number 17 giving her a 10th Top 20 hit – it’s only the third to miss the Top 10.
The recent list is reflecting sales in the week just before Christmas, so let’s have a look at the annual Christmas carols. There we can witness a change: the most popular Christmas song this year is in fact All I Want For Christmas Is You by Mariah Carey. It beats out the long time favourite Last Christmas by Wham! narrowly as it sits one place ahead of Wham! at number 24. It is the highest rank the song can reach since 2008 when it rose to number 18. The past two years it stalled at number 28 respectively number 38. The new interest is caused by a newly recorded version featuring Justin Bieber as duetting partner. Unfortunately the charts do not list the versions separately due to te fact that the duet is only a B-side. Anyway according to iTunes the original version recorded in 1994 is the still the most popular. Number 3 of the Christmas anthems is – like the years before – Wonderful Dream (Holidays Are Coming) offered by Melanie Thornton.
Looking at the list we can see that well known hits of the past months rise again up the list. Rosenstolz Wir sind am Leben reverts 55–45, Still by Jupiter Jones rises 59–46 . It is given that next week this trend will be even stronger.
German hits: Most sold German song is still Cello performed unplugged by Udo Lindenberg feat. Clueso (number 9). All other German productions are far and away behind that leader. Tim Bendzko ranks with Nur noch kurz die Welt retten (Just To Save The World) at 27 in its 30th chart week, Glasperlenspiel (Glass Bead Game) with Echt (Pure) rises again to number 28.
The highest new entry is a German one although it comes in only at number 48. It is the winner of talent casting show Das Supertalent. In fact Leo Rojas is a street musician from Ecuador. On the TV final the reunion with his mother was well set – the TV nation spent all emotions and voted the nai (pan flute) player for the win. As an effect his winning track Einsamer Hirte / The lonely shephard can enter the sales charts too.
It is kind of cynical that Leo Rojas is the celebrated one – hundreds of similar musicians ain’t recognized in German daily life. Probably that’s part of the business. Back to the music itself: Einsamer Hirte is a well known tune. In 1977 it became popular by James Last & Gheorghe Zamfir and reached number 22 in Germany. In 2003 the recording was used as the closing track in Quentin Tarantino’s movie Kill Bill Vol.I.
With Leo Rojas entering the list Germany sees two South Americans within the list. Brazilian Michel Telé jumps 49–26 with his soccer anthem Nooosssaa! Ai Se Eu Te Pego!.
Casting fever still burns for The Voice Of Germany. The live show from Friday, December 16th saw Lena Sicks battling against Heiko Schmidt. Both had to perform Eisberg (Iceberg) originally recorded by newcomer Andreas Bourani. The track re-enters at number 59. – Battle number two with huge emotional potential: Lisa Martine Weller versus Marijana Vuckovic. The song to perform was Another Way To Die made famous by Jack White & Alicia Keys for the soundtrack of the James Bond movie Quantum Of Solace from 2008. Winner of the showdown was Lisa Martine Weller – the track surprisingly re-enters the list at number 65. It is the 19th chart week for the song that climbed to number 8 in late 2008. I call that re-appearance surprisingly cause the track is mentioned as very inconvenient and hard to love since it was presented for the first time. Plus it is a three years old track – usually older songs only have a chance in the sales charts if they are performed by an very adored participant or the winner itself. Well, that might be a sign for meeting Lisa Martine again at the final shows…
Another movie track was the most touching a day before at live battle show number 1: Falling Slowly from the 2006 Irish movie Once that was awarded with an Oscar for the Best Song in 2008. Michael Schulte was the one who one the battle in the TV show with the song – the original was recorded by Glen Hansard & Markéta Irglová who both are now newcomer to the German charts – well, Glen Hansard had came already once in touch with the list as cast member of 1992 movie The Commitments.
Battle number 2 on that Thursday: Alicia Emmi Berg versus Kim Sanders. Both had to perform Only Girl (In The World). Kim Sanders (known from collaborations with Culture Beat, Schiller or Heppner) was chosen as the winner – original interpretation by Rihanna is back at 100.
Last TV influenced re-entry. Friday 16th again – different channel – completely different audience. The NDR Talkshow is watched by more older and intellectual people. Within the last show French ZAZ perforemde her hit je veux and unbelieveably as it seems – there are still enough people who didn’t had the song in their collection. So a new demand arose throwing ZAZ back in the list at number 60 which is her 41st chart week at all.
And now ... for all you – especially the many Russian speaking readers – I wish you a Happy New Year – С новым годом
The success of Gotye comes due to the release of the physical CD single on Decmeber 16th as well as due to the use of the track for advertising the Christmas programme of TV channel Pro7.
A significant move is made by Lady Gaga Superstar. She is more a performance and video star than a musical genius. The video for Marry The Night was released beginning of December simultaneaously with the CD and finally the track sales increases slowly. This week it reaches number 17 giving her a 10th Top 20 hit – it’s only the third to miss the Top 10.
The recent list is reflecting sales in the week just before Christmas, so let’s have a look at the annual Christmas carols. There we can witness a change: the most popular Christmas song this year is in fact All I Want For Christmas Is You by Mariah Carey. It beats out the long time favourite Last Christmas by Wham! narrowly as it sits one place ahead of Wham! at number 24. It is the highest rank the song can reach since 2008 when it rose to number 18. The past two years it stalled at number 28 respectively number 38. The new interest is caused by a newly recorded version featuring Justin Bieber as duetting partner. Unfortunately the charts do not list the versions separately due to te fact that the duet is only a B-side. Anyway according to iTunes the original version recorded in 1994 is the still the most popular. Number 3 of the Christmas anthems is – like the years before – Wonderful Dream (Holidays Are Coming) offered by Melanie Thornton.
Looking at the list we can see that well known hits of the past months rise again up the list. Rosenstolz Wir sind am Leben reverts 55–45, Still by Jupiter Jones rises 59–46 . It is given that next week this trend will be even stronger.
German hits: Most sold German song is still Cello performed unplugged by Udo Lindenberg feat. Clueso (number 9). All other German productions are far and away behind that leader. Tim Bendzko ranks with Nur noch kurz die Welt retten (Just To Save The World) at 27 in its 30th chart week, Glasperlenspiel (Glass Bead Game) with Echt (Pure) rises again to number 28.
The highest new entry is a German one although it comes in only at number 48. It is the winner of talent casting show Das Supertalent. In fact Leo Rojas is a street musician from Ecuador. On the TV final the reunion with his mother was well set – the TV nation spent all emotions and voted the nai (pan flute) player for the win. As an effect his winning track Einsamer Hirte / The lonely shephard can enter the sales charts too.
It is kind of cynical that Leo Rojas is the celebrated one – hundreds of similar musicians ain’t recognized in German daily life. Probably that’s part of the business. Back to the music itself: Einsamer Hirte is a well known tune. In 1977 it became popular by James Last & Gheorghe Zamfir and reached number 22 in Germany. In 2003 the recording was used as the closing track in Quentin Tarantino’s movie Kill Bill Vol.I.
With Leo Rojas entering the list Germany sees two South Americans within the list. Brazilian Michel Telé jumps 49–26 with his soccer anthem Nooosssaa! Ai Se Eu Te Pego!.
Casting fever still burns for The Voice Of Germany. The live show from Friday, December 16th saw Lena Sicks battling against Heiko Schmidt. Both had to perform Eisberg (Iceberg) originally recorded by newcomer Andreas Bourani. The track re-enters at number 59. – Battle number two with huge emotional potential: Lisa Martine Weller versus Marijana Vuckovic. The song to perform was Another Way To Die made famous by Jack White & Alicia Keys for the soundtrack of the James Bond movie Quantum Of Solace from 2008. Winner of the showdown was Lisa Martine Weller – the track surprisingly re-enters the list at number 65. It is the 19th chart week for the song that climbed to number 8 in late 2008. I call that re-appearance surprisingly cause the track is mentioned as very inconvenient and hard to love since it was presented for the first time. Plus it is a three years old track – usually older songs only have a chance in the sales charts if they are performed by an very adored participant or the winner itself. Well, that might be a sign for meeting Lisa Martine again at the final shows…
Another movie track was the most touching a day before at live battle show number 1: Falling Slowly from the 2006 Irish movie Once that was awarded with an Oscar for the Best Song in 2008. Michael Schulte was the one who one the battle in the TV show with the song – the original was recorded by Glen Hansard & Markéta Irglová who both are now newcomer to the German charts – well, Glen Hansard had came already once in touch with the list as cast member of 1992 movie The Commitments.
Battle number 2 on that Thursday: Alicia Emmi Berg versus Kim Sanders. Both had to perform Only Girl (In The World). Kim Sanders (known from collaborations with Culture Beat, Schiller or Heppner) was chosen as the winner – original interpretation by Rihanna is back at 100.
Last TV influenced re-entry. Friday 16th again – different channel – completely different audience. The NDR Talkshow is watched by more older and intellectual people. Within the last show French ZAZ perforemde her hit je veux and unbelieveably as it seems – there are still enough people who didn’t had the song in their collection. So a new demand arose throwing ZAZ back in the list at number 60 which is her 41st chart week at all.
And now ... for all you – especially the many Russian speaking readers – I wish you a Happy New Year – С новым годом
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