May 22nd 15: The Week Of The Superstar Final

The sensation to tell today is: There is no new no.1. Still Ain't Nobody (Loves Me Better) by Felix Jaehn Feat. Jasmine Thompson rules both the official singles (sales) charts and the newly established Mega Charts. It is this the third week for the song and it now is hard on the way of becoming one of the most successful deep house no.1 tracks ever.
Midweek leader Jason Derulo finally lands at #2 with his Want To Want Me and has good perspectives being the hardest contestant to Felix Jaehn–but Swedish Eurovision entry by Måns Zelmerlöw won't win tonight.

Calling these little action sensational would be a cheating–the true sensation is that the winner of casting monster show DSDS Severino (Seeger) misses completely the Top. And that's not enough. By landing at number 10 with Hero Of My Heart he almost completely fails.
Although the rates of the show held on a low level compared to the 2000er years the show still had its audience. The big crash for the winner came right after the final on May 16th: News were spread around that Severino Seeger had to appear on court due to his cheating actions some years ago. The RTL channel and DSDS master Dieter Bohlen immediately distanced themselves from the newly crowned superstar. And so do the fans. The second single Love Me Like This was scheduled for 22nd of May–it is very likely seeing it miss an entry on the survey at all.
So far every winner of DSDS at least had a week long spot at no.1 with the first single. Except Elli Erl on second season who only peaked at number 3. Now there is set a new negative record. Good thing is having a 13rd season next year only can make things better.
Seeing Madcon's Don't Worry climbing again to #3 should be evidence enough for the still unbroken sales power of DSDS. The song was performed at the beginning of the final by the last three candidates.


Further on the way up David Guetta is. His Hey Mama (accompanied by Nicki Minaj & Afrojack now climbs 22–15 giving him the second Top20 entry after his #1 hit Dangerous in November/December 2014.

Worth noting the fact is that we do have five German productions inside the Top10 and a complete 8 inside the Top20. So after a short dullness in February/March we are back on the level of 2014 when German productions had there best presence in May and December.


Talking 'bout German productions and TV shows we have to mention the start of second season of Sing meinen Song. On Tuesday 19th of May first episode was aired focused on songs of Yvonne Catterfeld. Simultaneously latest album of the singer Lieber so from 2013 was re-released. As an effect the title song enters the list as an album cut as well. Number 23 is the highest rank the singer achieved since 2006. Additionally her latest single Pendel re-enters at #84 too.
Andreas Bourani also involved in the show can benefit from his appearance. His last single Auf anderen Wegen jumps 61–37 in its 35th chart week and will rise further for sure as next episode is spotted on his songs.

April 17th 15: Record Breaking Jump To No 1

As the German charts appear weekly since 1971 one might assume that everything has been seen. It isn't like that. Times change and so do the charts and movements inside. This week we witness a record breaking jump to number 1. Of course the biggest jump to the top is the one from outside the list. Before the late 90s that feat wasn't seen on the list. Nowadays it is kind of common having songs start their chart life directly at the Top. So far there were 103 songs doing so.
Most of songs of course reach the top from inside the charts. Mostly it happens with a rise from inside the Top 5. This week we see See You Again by Wiz Khalifa Feat. Charlie Puth storming to Top in its fifth week coming from number 39 which breaks the record setting feat of the Pet Shop Boys in July 1987. Back then the duo had its heydays bringing new releases to its peak very fast. It's A Sin started by going 26–1 in 1987 followed by Always On My Mind with a 20–1 jump in January 1988 and Heart in April same year going 17–1. Only YMCA by the Village People and Pump ab das Bier by Werner Wichtig managed to hold tight with that feat. The first one shot 24–1 in December 1978 the latter one 18–1 in February 1990.

The new record comes due to the arrival of Furious 7 in cinemas on April 2nd. See You Again features as the closing song referring to the death of actor Paul Walker. As the movie still leads the box list it is certain seeing the song on Top next week too.

Another trivia can be told: See You Again is the third movie related number 1 in 2015.

Talkin' 'bout the impact of Furious 7 also six other songs taken–four of them originally taken from the Soundtrack–perform well as there are:
Ride Out by Kid Ink, Tyga, Wale, Rich Homie Quan 45–21–all four artists involved reach a new career peak
G.D.F.R. by Flo Rida Featuring Sage The Gemini and Lookas 38–25 in its 18th chart week
Go Hard Or Go Home by Wiz Khalifa & Iggy Azalea 98–47
How Bad Do You Want It (Oh Yeah) by Sevyn Streeter new at number 67–first charting single of the American singer.
Get Low by Dillon Francis / DJ Snake new at number 79
Turn Down For What by DJ SNake and Lil Jon re-entering at number 84 adding a 41st chart week–the song appeared first time in the survey exactly one year ago


Robin Schulz delivers the highest new entry at #7 with Headlights (feat. Ilsey). The singer is known so far as song writer for Pitbull and JLO. Headlights is the second Top10 hit in 2015 for the German superstar DJ and fourth since the beginning of his chart career almost exactly a year ago.

At number 11 second German superstar DJ is launching a follow up to his debut. Felix Jaehn sits still pretty at number 3 with his remix of OMI's Cheerleader while Ain't Nobody (Loves Me Better) (feat. Jasmine Thompson) enters the list. It is this a cover version of a song originally recorded by Rufus & Chaka Khan in 1983. The original never got chart success but since than the song entered in six different versions peaking at number 8 in 1989 in a remix version of the original. The take by Felix Jaehn now is the second most successful.


DSDS effects
The 12th season of Deutschladn sucht den Superstars is on air with recalls and re-recalls. One first hiatus was the performance of Severino Seeger, Antonio Gerardi, Christoph Cronauer and Kevin Spatt who performed Caruso on April 8th 2015. The song was recorded originally by Italian Lucio Dalla in 1986 but became mostly popular in 2012 after the singer died. Than it reached number 2 in Italy and got certain attention by participants on casting show contestants. In Germany popularity rose due to schlager star Helene Fischer who recorded a cover version on her 2014 album Farbenspiel- live.
After it was performed on TV the song enters the charts for the very first time at number 61. It is only the second chart entry for the Italian singer–17 years after his debut appearance–and it is a new career peak.

27th of March 15:

Ellie Goulding's Love Me Like You Do does not falter a bit. It still stands at number 1 position in its sixth week. And already has written chart history as I reported past week.

Nailed at number 2 OMI's Cheerleader is due to the hands on by Felix Jaehn. It is the 12th chart week of the song at all and the sixth consecutive at number 2. Well–just before this run it had a short week at number 1 as well.

With Lost Frequencies and Are You With Me going 5–3 there is a slight move going on at the top end. And perspectives are good for getting the track a number 1. It is now the most successful Belgian production since MILOW's You And Me (In My Pocket). That is exactly four years ago.

New inside the Top 10 James Bay is. His Hold Back The River goes 14–6 in its ninth chart week. And new at number 10 British trio Years & Years comes in with it debut single King. So the Top10 once again is deeply in British hands. Seven out of ten productions come from the island. Counting the tracks by its origin (or at least the origin of artists involved) we see the best sold 14 songs with participation of Europeans. This result eclipses the one of May past year.


TV influenced re-entries
Although the current season of Deutschland sucht den Superstar is aired right now the biggest impact of a TV show comes this week from an event aired by public TV. Florian Silbereisen was presenting Die Besten im Frühling (Best of Spring)–a Schlager show– on 14th of March 2015. A bunch of stars and big names where on the show but most impressive Roland Kaiser was. His duet with Maite Kelly Warum hast du nicht nein gesagt re-enters the list at number 59. The single is published since September 2014 and became something of a sleeping hit. The label just spread the message that a release on CD will follow in April. So that song might become the next big thing of German schlager.

And finally DSDS. Of course the casting format also has an impact on the charts. On the show on 14th of March an well known candidate had his performance again. Menderes Bağcı performed on every season but never made it into the final rounds. This year he chose Love Never Felt So Good originally recorded by Michael Jackson (&Justin Timberlake). His performance gave him a chance to enter the recall shows–as we know already also 2015 he was fired from the rest of the show. The chosen song meanwhile gets some chart honour again and re-enters for a week at number 71 in its 22nd chart week.

23rd of Jan 2015: Calvin Harris storms to the Top

There is some unusual action going on right on the Top of the German list. Since 2004 there was no Nr.1 in January that left the Top after a single week. In 2015 it is so again. KWABS is taking Walk back from number 1 making space for another British production. It is Calvin Harris Feat. Ellie Goulding which takes a five places leap to number 1 with Outside. It is the first number 1 hit coming from outside the Top 5 since last January's 9–1 jump by Pharrell Williams' Happy. The difference is: Pharrell did that step in the 4th chart week–Calvin Harris and Ellie Goulding already have some impressive 13 chart weeks under their belt with Outside. It is this the slowest walk to number 1 since We Are The People by Empire Of The Sun took 14 weeks to land at the Top in December 2010. (Actually that long way came according to the fact that their first two chart runs of 9 weeks stopped at number 65. After its use in a commercial the song only took five weeks for getting top.) So one could count Big City Life by Mattafix the song that was the last number 1 waiting a long time till it topped the list. On January 20th 2006 it was the 15th chart week for the duo that saw it at number 1 for the first time.
Mattafix's Marlon Roudette also was the last British act at number 1 that was dethroned by another British act. On October the 28th 2010 it was–sic–Calvin Harris accompanying Rihanna who got number 1 with We Found Love.

Some more statistics? Calvin Harris is the third DJ who can a second number 1 hit in this current decade. So the producer trio now is Guetta-AVICII-Harris. Ellie Goulding sits at number 1 for the very first time. She only had a short number 2 visit as a member of the Band Aid 30 in November 2014.


At number 6 the first new song of the year 2015 comes in. It is Du liebst mich nicht taken from the brand new album of Ado Kojo. For the song he accompanies with blog star Shirin David. They heavily quote the Nr.1 hit from Sabrina Setlur produced in 1997.
The couple so far is the best performing new act of 2015 and the best sold German production of the moment.

Also new inside the Top 1o Mark Ronson & Bruno Mars are. Uptown Funk! goes 14–7 in its eighth chart week. It is the first time Mark Ronson achieves the Top10 since his hit Valerie (featuring Amy Winehouse) reached number 4 in 2008. Bruno Mars was stopping at number 7 for last in October 2012 with Locked Out Of Heaven.

The third new Top 10 hit comes from Taylor Swift. Blank Space is the third consecutive Top10 entry from her–going this week 12–9.

This strong turnover on the top makes Auf anderen Wegen by Andreas Bourani the song with the longest Top10 history. It now spends an 11th week here sitting still pretty at number 10. Well–the days of it might by counted as well.


On The Rise
It for sure will become big: Firestone by Norwegian Kygo Feat. Conrad goes 33-19 in its 3rd chart week. It is hard on the heels of Nico & Vince and Martin Tungevaag who brought the country back into the international pop business the past months.
With full weeks sales AYO by Chris Brown & TYGA goes 71–23 giving the first one his biggest hit since summer 2012. TYGA never was higher before. It is certainly given the song will not rise further. Chris Brown might not mind–he just enters at number 30 alongside Kid Ink and his new recording Hotel.
As a kind of surprise OMI and his song Cheerleader still rises stopping now at number 27. In contrast completely expected Meghan Trainors new single Lips Are Movin goes straight up too–this week resting at number 29.
At number 39 Sam Smith reaches a new peak with I'm Not The Only One. The song already spends the 13th week in the list.

DSDS 12
On January the 7th the 12th season of Deutschland sucht den Superstar (DSDS) started. Even the hardest fans think the show had already their best times far behind–well a performance on the show still generates demand. So the fact with Ardian Bujupi's single Boom Raka Tak. The DSDS semi finalist of 2011 released the song in September 2014 without any glimpse of success. Now two sisters danced to the song on TV–and the sales figure rise. Boom Raka Tak lands at number 60 and gives the almost superstar his second chart entry at all.

Anti-PEGIDA protest
Maybe this is the most unusual thing inside this issue of the charts. A political statement generates a hit. It was on 10th of January 2015 that schlager singer Roland Kaiser made a speech on the Je suis Charli demonstration in Dresden. His words were very direct banning the PEGIDA protesters as extremists and racists. This fact alone is hardly seen in the schlager scene.
The effect shows that not every fan of that music is a stupid nationalist. The latest single by Roland Kaiser Warum hast du nicht einfach nein gesagt released in September now enters the list at number 67. It is the highest position since 1994 for the singer. Probably politics can made stars too.