Feb 9th 18: Record Breaking Ed Sheeran

week no. 10 for Perfect by Ed Sheeran at #1. It is his second #1 hit that can spend a two figures week at the top. Only two acts before did so: Boney M. in the 1970s and Freddy Quinn back in the 1950s when charts appeared monthly.
Additionally #2 goes to Ed Sheeran too. A year ago he already did so with Shape Of You and Castle On The Hill. He is the one and only artist ever doing so.

Post Malone spends a twentieth week inside the top10 with Rockstar.

2nd Feb 18

- Ed Sheeran holds firm at #1 with Perfect. With 24 weeks at the top at all he now is more successful than Rihanna.
- more than one and a half year after his #1 hit One Dance drake is back in the top 10. His new offering calls God's Plan. It is only his third top 10 hit so far.

29th December 17: The Real Christmas Charts

The last issue of the year and it looks so different to all the others of 2017. But let's start from the beginning.

At the very top this week reflects completely the year. Still at #1 Ed Sheeran stands. He serves with the best sold single of the year as Shape Of You invaded the charts at January and still sells well. The #1 song this current week of course is Perfect which is as popular due to the duet version with Beyoncé.
In 2017 Ed Sheeran spent 19 weeks at #1. This is the best performance for an recording artist since the beginning of the weekly charts. So far this mark was held by Boney M. which in 1978 managed to occupy 18 weeks at the top position.
To mention dueting partner Beyonce as well: With a span of more than ten years she is the artist with longest #1 career of 2017.

As this list reflects all sales from 22nd to 28th of December this is the survey definitely showing which hits people like on Christmas most. The list is fully crapped with seasonal tunes which perform better than in any other year–a situation similarly seen on the British charts. So there is a lot to tell about Christmas carols this year. Here we are:

#3 All I Want For Christmas Is You Mariah Carey: In 2016 the song reached its all time peak at #5. In 2017 the song performs even better as it climbs two further places to #3 23 years and 24 days after it charted for the very first time. So it even beats the result of Last Christmas that had an exactly 11 days shorter way to its all time peak.
And here is:

#4 Last Christmas Wham!: the ultimate Christmas pop song for more than a decade. It reached its peak at #4 in 2007–well the list reflecting its success was issued on January 4th 2008. Back than it had 72 chart weeks under his belt. Ten years later it eclipses its own feat. Meanwhile it collected 128 weeks–only one week short of the record held by Sky And Sand by Paul & Fritz Kalkbrenner which also is the song that had a longer run to reach its peak.

#8 Driving Home For Christmas Chris Rea: jumping 22–8 in its 48th chart week the song now is the most succesfull single by Chris Rea of all times. Even better it is the very first appearance inside the German top 10 for the British singer. Starting his chart career in Germany in August 1984 it took him 33 years to become a real top 10 act. The song itself had a 31 years run to its so far peak. It charted first in December 2002–so its chart career "only" spans a period of 15 years so far.

#10 Wonderful Dream (Holidays Are Coming) Melanie Thornton: this is one of the younger Christmas classics. Released in 2001 it peaked back than at #4 and recharted every season performing not lower than #41. This season it dips the top10 for the very first time since its initial chart run. It is the 107th chart week and the second most listed song right behind Last Christmas.

#12 Hallelujah Pentatonix: Last year's #1 Christmas song still is popular in 2017 too. It ranks now as the fifth best sold Christmas tune which is quite a good result. Hallelujah still is the one and only singles chart entry of the a capella project.

#14 Merry Christmas Everyone Shakin' Stevens: Recorded in 1985 the song reaches its peak at #14 after 32 years although it only spent eight weeks on the charts–four weeks this year alone. The popularity of this song is a quite new occurance as it reappeared in December 2015 for the first time after its first chart entry. Now it becomes Shakin' Stevens' twentieth top20 hit.

#15 Happy Xmas (War Is Over) John Lennon & Yoko Ono and The Plastic Ono Band (with The Harlem Community Quire): The song peaks at #15 almost 45 years after it first appeared on the German charts. It is far and away the Christmas song spanning the longest time period with its chart appearances. For this feat there were 19 chart weeks taken.
Two years ago the song reached its all time peak at #40 so far.

#18 Thank God It's Christmas Queen: In its tenth chart week the Queen's Christmas song reaches the top20. So far its best performance was #48 reached in 2016. When it first entered the list in 1984 it peaked at #57.

#22 Santa Tell Me Ariana Grande: Recorded in 2014 the song this year has its first chart run. By jumping 99–22 it takes the biggest leap inside the charts in 2017–and doubtlessly one of the biggest in chart history. Santa Tell Me is Ariana Grande's 11th chart hit.

#24 FelÍz Navidad José Felícíano: 10 years ago the song for the very first time achieved the charts. Since then it re-appeared every season reaching its peak so far in its 36th chart week.

#27 Wonderful Christmastime Paul McCartney: In only its fifth chart week and second season the 1979 recorded song reaches its so far peak at #27.

#29 Do They Know It's Christmas Band Aid: In 1984 Midge Ure and Bob Geldof started the Band Aid project and somehow initiated the tradition of big promoted charity singles. Back then the single was a huge hit occupying #1 for two weeks. In 2017 the song reaches its highest position since 33 years at #29. All versions later recorded only had short seasonal impact and never outsold the original. The 2014 incarnation performs now at #56.

#30 It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas Michael Bublé: Christmas song time is Michael Bublé time. It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas might become a long time classic and the signature song for the Canadian singer. In its fourth season and seventh chart week the song achieves #30.

#36 Christmas Time Bryan Adams: Most Christmas songs are sweet pop or 1950s/60s inspired tunes. There are only a very view rock Christmas carols. Christmas Time is one of them. Recorded in 1985 it charted for a single week on January 13th 1986 at #67. 2015 and 2016 the song re-appeared for single weeks too both years reaching higher positions. This year it is listed for two consecutive weeks for the very first time. #36 marks an all time peak.

#38 Jingle Bell Rock Daryl Hall John Oates: Originally the song was recorded by Bobby Helms in 1957 and became a standard tune on several Christmas editions. Two weeks ago the song charted for the very first time in Germany–in a recording from 1983 at #92. This week the recording re-enters at #38 and now ranks as the most popular version of that song. The version by Bobby Helms clings on at #81 only spending its second chart week.

#43 Underneath The Tree Kelly Clarkson: In 2013 Kelly Clarkson recorded a Christmas album Wrapped In Red. This year two songs from the collection can made it as single tracks into the list. Whilst Underneath the tree is the highest really new song on the list. These are Kelly's 18th and 19th chart hit.

#45 White Christmas Michael Bublé duet with Shania Twain: The most famous version by Bing Crosby recorded in 1941 had four chart runs between 2007 and 2011 and peaked at #53. The recording by Michael Bublé sets new limits by jumping in its second chart week 94–45.

#48 My Only Wish (This Year) Britney Spears: season three, chart week five–the song for the first time reaches the upper half of the list.

Recorded in 2017:
#51 Santa's Coming For Us SiA: This is the best performing Christmas song recorded in 2017
#55 You Make It Feel Like Christmas by Gwen Stefani featuring Blake Shelton
#64 Christmas Eve Kelly Clarkson

Further Christmas songs:
#52 Christmas Lights Coldplay: 2010 recorded; season four; highest performance since its initial release
#57 The Best Side Of Life Sarah Connor: recorded 2006; first appearance since 2009
#65 Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree Brenda Lee: recorded in 1958; second season and second chart week; all-time peak. The singer now exactly matches the time span of hits as Udo Jürgens does: 57 years and 150 days. It means both held the record of longest lasting chart career.
#71 The Power Of Love Frankie Goes To Hollywood: absent for one season the song is back in its 29th chart week (including the chart run due to a remix in 1993); sixth chart run; highest position since January 2010
#92 It's The Most Winderful Time Of The Year Andy Williams: second season; performs lower than 2016; stretches the chart appearance of Andy Williams to 54 and a half year–three years short off Brenda Lee
#96 Merry XMas Everybody Slade: third chart run, appeared in 2008 last time
#98 In der Weihnachtsbäckerei Rolf Zuckowski und seine Freunde: fifth season, missed an appaerance 2016, now it is back in its sixth chart week
#100 Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town Bruce Springsteen: same place as one year ago; the original by Frank Sinatra appears completely newly at #85

First time in charts although recorded years before:
#59 Merry Christmas Happy Holidays *NSync: recorded in 1998, gives the band a 15th chart entry after 15 years of absence from the charts
#62 Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas Sam Smith: recorded 2014, chart entry number 10
#66 I'll Be Home Meghan Trainor: released 2014; lowest performing chart hit for the singer
#75 Please Come Home For Christmas Eagles: after an absence of more than 22 years USAmerican band Eagles is back; recorded in 1978 and is only the fifth chart hit for the band
#76 All I Want For Christmas Is New Years Day HURTS: recorded in 2010–the year when the band started its career; it is now the tenth chart entry and ends an almost four years absence
#78 Santa Baby Eartha Kitt with Henri René and his Orchestra: recorded in 1953; only the third chart entry for the singer; a chart come back after 33 years – it is the longest break ended in 2017.
#85 Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town Frank Sinatra: recorded in 1948 it is the first chart appearance; Frank Sinatra was absent for 24 years; this is chart entry no. six. Bruce Springsteen's take on this tune already charted a year ago.
#91 Step Into Christmas Elton John: recorded in 1973, it is the artist's 51st chart entry and ends an almost 14 years long absence from the list

Et voilá–there a 33 Christmas songs inside the list! What a feat.

More statistics: There are only 56 tracks involving Europeans. The last time this rate dropped below 60% was in July 2016.

22nd December 17: EMINEM's Back

Seemingly Perfect is the Christmas tune of 2017. Pushed by the duet version with Beyonce the song holds firm for a third week at #1. Of course this recent list covers sales within the week right before Christmas days. In seven days time we know what Germany loves to listen to at Christmas.

With this week at #1 Ed Sheeran establish himself as the artist appearing at #1 in 2017 most. It is the 18th week–so he also is the best performing #1 act of the whole decade. Only Justin Bieber might be taken as more successful if one count his appearance on Despacito as full performance.
18 weeks at #1 in one calendar year–it's a feat last seen in 1978 when Boney M. collected 19 weeks with to #1 hits.

2017 definitely was the year of German rap. The past two weeks came from German rap acts too. This week the best new album comes again from a rap star although it is an USAmerican veteran. EMINEM is back at #2 with his latest offering Revival. As best selling single track from the collection the collaboration with Ed Sheeran River shoots to #3 on the songs list. It is the fourth top 10 song for the British singer in 2017 and the fourth reaching #3 or higher. EMINEM meanwhile collected 17 top 10 hits.

Raf Camora's album Anthrazit RR now is available for free–as leading single track Gotham City invades the list at #9 as paid download/stream alone. Part 1 of the album again goes 63–29 in its 17th chart week.

Back to real Christmas songs. All I Want For Christmas Is You and Last Christmas still leading the seasonal list at #5 and #11. At #20 a third new classic tune lands with Wonderful Dream (Holidays Are Coming) by Melanie Thornton. It is the first time since 2008/09 that the song can achieve top20 status. Now it spends its 108th week inside the list.
15 years after it first appeared in the list Driving Home For Christmas by Chris Rea achieves a new peak at #22. It is one place better than its peak two years ago. The song already gets its 47th chart week.
Eight places higher than last season Merry Christams Everyone by Shakin' Stevens lands. The song reaches its new peak at #30 32 years after it first appeared on the list. Although it is a slightly young classic tune as it enters the list regularly since 2015 only–so it spent so far seven weeks inside the charts.
A real new time classic is It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas recorded by Canadian Michael Bublé. The song had its peak so far two years ago by getting to #49. This year it already reaches #48–and there are still some days to sell.
At #54 Wonderful Christmastime by Paul McCartney reaches a new peak. The song recorded in 1979 started charts life last year and now spends its fourth week inside the list.
Also Britney Spears celebrates a new peak for her Christmas song My Only Wish (This Year). It is the third consecutive year that it appears in the charts and it is the third consecutive year it reaches a peak–currently #81.


With only 60 productions involving Europeans the continent is as weak present on the survey as in July 2016 when only 58 productions with Europeans were listed.

December 15th 17: Raf Camora vs. Azet

It is the second week for Perfect by Ed Sheeran (feat. Beyoncé) holding firm at #1. In 2017 it is the 17th week at #1 for the singer. It matches the result of Luis Fonsi & Daddy Yankee.

Highest new entry comes in at #6. It is the pre-release for RAF CAMORA's sequel album Anthrazit RR called Sag nix. It is the third top10 hit for the rapper in 2017 alone–not bad at all although Kollegah & Farid Bang have six top 10 entries in 2017. Might be consolation seeing RAF CAMORA as the artist with most chart entries in 2017 with 29 different tracks. Kollegah & Farid Bang only made 21 tracks charting in 2017.

Two places behind Azet lands with Gjynah. It is his second top 10 hit and his sixth chart entrie at all. Raf Camora started similarly a year ago. So one might witness an upcoming megastar here.

Third song entering the top10 is Wham! with Last Christmas. The song spends its fifth week inside–with its fourth run. Last year it peaked at #7.

December 8th 17: Sheeran Or Kollegah?

The year 2017 started with a huge impact by Ed Sheeran. Later on the singer set some chart records by releasing his album Divide. This week he manifests his status as most successful artist of 2017 by letting his song Perfect fly to #1. The final kick to get there came by the release of duet version with Beyoncé. We already know that effect from most selling single 2017 Despacito that was a hit already but became #1 after an additional release with extra star appearance. In the UK and the US the new track really is credited on the official list–the German survey still works with different rules so at #1 only Ed Sheeran is credited.

It is the second #1 for the British singer. Hidden accompanying Beyoncé as well gets her second #1 appearance. Her one and only #1 song so far dates back more than 10 years. In 2007 she occupied #1 for a single week dueting with Shakira on Beautiful Liar. Even her last top 10 appearance from 2010 was a duet: Telephone with Lady Gaga.

Although Ed Sheeran seems to be untouchable he ain't. As Kollegah & Farid Bang launch their album Jung Brutal Gutaussehend 3 and invade the song charts with tracks from this album. Highest one is Ave Maria at #5 followed by Rap wieder Rap at #7 and Es wird Zeit at #8. It is only the second time that an act launches three simultaneous new entries inside the top 10. In 2010 it was Lena who managed that feat first. Her appearance still is better as she started at #1, 3 and 4.
With six top10 hits in one calendar year the rap duo now ranks alongside David Guetta who did so in 2011 already.

Even better the performance inside the top20 is. Kollegah & Farid Bang launch eight hits there. It also boosts the statistic of German productions to an amount of ten–the best result in 2017–nine of them are in German which is a feat not seen since decades.

The first Christmas tunes arrived past week. Now the seasonal impact is much bigger. Still leading the list is All I Want For Christmas Is You by Mariah Carey which goes 37–9 adding a third top10 week to its account.
Second best selling Christmas single is Last Christmas by Wham! from 1984. It goes 52–14 in its 126th chart week.
Ten further Christmas related songs re-appearing inside the list. These plus the 15 new entries by Kollegah & Farid Bang makes this recent list the one with the biggest turnover of songs in 2017: 31 songs of the survey were not listed the week before. It is the biggest change since May 2014 and even more as the list of August 1989 when the top75 changed into the top 100.

November 17th 17: BAUSA on top for week six

- week no. six for BAUSA with Was du Liebe nennst. It is the longest running #1 in German since Sido Feat. Andreas Bourani held firm at the top for six weeks two years ago with Astronaut.
- Ed Sheeran goes up one place to #3 with Perfect–it is fourth top3 hit at all
- The Imagine Dragons get their fourth top10 hit with Whatever It takes rising 12–7. It is the second top 10 entry in 2017.
- second new entry on the top 10 is Feel It Still by Portugal The man


- Beyoncé for the first time since seven and a half year is appearing inside the top 20 Eminem's Walk On Water enters the list at #16 and features her voice.

May 19th 17: Static Top 8 + Failing Big Music Events

Although the past week was packed with massive music events first time since three years the complete top 8 looks same as the week before. So #1 also is the same. It is the fourth week for Despacito by Luis Fonsi Ft. Daddy Yankee (feat. Justin Bieber). The song is #1 in 13 countries all over the world including newly in Australia, the USA and Canada. Plus a 17th week in Spain. Bam!
Ed Sheeran amongst these eight with two songs Shape Of You at #3 and Galway Girl at #7 now collects 41st top 10 week this calendar year alone. He now approaches the result of chart heroes like Felix Jaehn in 2015 (43 weeks), Justin Bieber in 20116 (44 weeks) and Pitbull in 2011 (45 weeks).

New inside the top 10 only is There's Nothing Holdin' Me Back by Shawn Mendes at #9. It is the third top 10 hit for the Canadian singer following Treat You Better from past summer.
With the arrival of Shawn Mendes there are four songs involving Canadians (if one count the #1 remix as full appearance) – it is a new height for artists from the North American country.

Back to top 10 status Symphony by Clean Bandit Featuring Zara Larsson goes. It is the third top 10 week for this song.

Highest new entry is the second album teaser from KC Rebell Summer Cem. Murcielago comes in at #14 and is for both the highest rank ever achieved. KC Rebell by this sets a new record: It is his 26th chart entry–none of them ever reached top 10 status. The collabo album Maximum will be released mid June. I guess than KC Rebell will get his first top 10 hit at all.
So far also first teasing song Nicht jetzt performs still quite well at #40 in its fourth chart week.

The ultimate #1 on the album's list is the new collection by Helene Fischer. She also can launch two single tracks inside the song's top 20: Herzbeben lands at #19 and Flieger at #20–these are only the third and fourth top 20 hit for the German schlager superstar. With "only" three album tracks inside the current song's list the album performs as successful as the 2013 collection Farbenspiel but more weak than the TV show in May 2013 which gained four simultaneous hits.

The other big event of the week was the Eurovision Song Contest taking place in Kiyv. Winner on sales is a lady who finished the contest fourth. German televotings saw her on a second place–the German jury did not mention her at all. So Blanche from Belgium is the secret winner as her City Lights performs best by entering the charts at #37. Still her result is left behind the past #4 from Belgium Luc Nottet who saw his Rhythm Inside peaking at #21 two years ago.
The sensation of the contest Salvador Sobral comes in at #43 with Amar Pelos Dois. German televoters liked him the most, the German jury set him #2–on sale he lands exactly there.

Biggest gainers of the week are Maggie Lindemann who's Pretty Girl (remixed by Cheat Codes) jumps 34 places to #37 and Mark Forster who sees his Sowieso jump 36 places to #60. Both songs do this in the second chart week.
Biggest loosers of the week are "superstar" Alphonso Williams tumbling 21–70 and–indeed–bibi h. crashing from #9 down to #86. Well–both do have a second chart week at all. That's a feat.

April 14th 17: British Record + Echo Awards

What a race! The midweek charts saw Ed Sheeran and his Shape Of You dropping to #3. A few days later it still shines as the #1 song of the week in its 14th consecutive week. It is now the longest running #1 by an British artist at all. Leaving the epic run of Sarah Brightman (+ Andrea Bocelli) with Time To Say Goodbye (Con Te Partiro) in 1996/97 one week behind as it beats the run of Tom Jones' Delilah that ruled the list from 1st of May to 31st of July 1968 which are 92 days or 13 weeks and one day.
Additionally the song is listed as the 10th longest running #1 hit of all times. It shares the honor with Dragostea Din Tea by O-Zone which in fact was the last #1 hit spending 14 weeks at the top spot–13 years ago.

The challenger of Ed Sheeran was and is the new single of Die Toten Hosen. Unter den Wolken was presented at the award ceremony for the ECHOs on 6th of April and immediately stormed the list. At the end of the week sales decreased dramatically–the iTunes list for Monday 17th sees the song ranking only at #40.
Anyway it is the 4th single of the band reaching the top 3–three of them did so in this current decade. Another nine songs reached top10 status and Unter den Wolken stands as the 43rd chart hit of the band at all. Their first song entering the list was Hier kommt Alex back in November 1988.

The "anti ECHO son" Menschen Leben Tanzen Welt by Jim Pandzko Feat. Jan Böhmermann leaps 84–10. It is the second top 10 entry for the comedian.

April 7th 16: Best Performing No.1 Since Eight Years

Shape Of You seems to be nailed to the top. It is the 13th week there and so matches the result of Lady Gaga's Poker Face in spring 2007, although the lady made it in two runs separated by a three weeks break. The last song occupying the top for 13 consecutive weeks was Dragostae Din Tei by O-Zone in summer 2004. That song had a 14 weeks run at the top–a stat to eclipse in next weeks time.
If one is keen on records this might be interesting: Ed Sheeran now matches the result of Tom Jones who was listed at #1 for 13 weeks with Delilah. Exactly it ruled the chart issues from 1st of May to July 15th 1968 (counting till July 31st 1968). So far Tom Jones served as the British solo male with the longest #1 ride.

Still and steadily rising Jax Jones reaches #3 this week with You Don't Know Me. The track is noted for an eighth week.

At the lower end of the top 20 two songs entering. First one Symphony by Clean Bandit the succeeder of #1 hit Rockabye. Featured singer is Zara Larsson. Both with Symphony have a fifth top 20 hit–Clean bandit only if one count their unnamed appearance on Do They Know It's Christmas in December 2014.
At #18 US American rapper Future reaches the top 20 for the very first time. Mask Off goes up five places in its fifth chart week.

Highest new entry starts chart life at #30. It is the first song off anounced album Ich bin 3 Berliner by Berlin rapper Ufo361. Für die Gang might be the first sign of an upcoming invasion of this song chart's newcomer.

Roots by singer songwriter Alice Merton seems to be a sleeper hit. In its ninth chart week the song reaches the upper half of the list for the very first time. It rests so far at #43.

The real gainers are:
That's What I Like by Bruno Mars going up 33 places to #51 in its second chart week
Ciao Adios by Anne-Marie going 25 places to #46 in its third chart week


To forecast a real hit one should look at #84. There Menschen Tanzen Leben Welt by Jim Pandzko Feat Jan Böhmermann (both names are for one person) lands after a few hours of availability online. The song is a parody on German singer songwriter hits of the past months as released by Tim Bendzko or Max Giesinger. It is a given thing that Menschen Leben Tanzen Welt will have a place inside the top 10 in next weeks time.

March 31st 17: Best Performing #1 Of The Decade

Indeed it is Ed Sheeran's 12th week at #1 with Shape Of You. It now doubles the result of Human by Rag'n'Bone Man at the end of past year which became the longest running #1 hit by a British male solo artist since the beginning of weekly chart issues. In one point Ed Sheeran tops Rag'n'Bone Man–he is the first British one with 12 consecutive weeks at #1. To find a similar run one had to go back to summer 2004 when Moldavian O-Zone had a non interrupted run of 14 weeks with Dragostea Din Tei. Meaning Shape Of You now is the longest running #1 of the current decade.

The top 6 of the list looks almost identically whilst at #7 a new hot hit stops. It is the new offering by Jason Derulo Feat. Nicki Minaj & Ty Dolla $ign and named Swalla that goes six further places in its fifth chart week. With this leading artist Derulo adds a seventh top 10 hit to his account, Nicki Minaj already counts while Ty Dolla $ign gots his third. Only Jason Derulo managed doing so on his own–both featured artists had all their top10 entries as featured guests. Three of the Nicki Minaj hits were presented by David Guetta alone.

A second testosterone flavored song enters the top 10 exactly at #10. It is the collaboration of Luis Fonsi Ft. Daddy Yankee Despacito. For Daddy Yankee it is a return to hit status after 12 years. Back in June 2005 he peaked at #7 with Gasolina.


DRAKE's album More Life goes 7–13 in its second week. Leading single Passionfruit takes the opposite way. It goes 27–18 and is the first top 20 entry for the Canadian since his big #1 hit One Dance one year ago.
Also Get It Together featuring Black Coffee & Jorja Smith, Blem and Portland are doing climbs upwards. First one ten places to #67, second seven places to #73 and the third six places to #77. That behavior is really unusual for album tracks.

The album with the biggest impact is not the one occupying #1 (the reunion of the Kelly Family) but it is #2: Maxwell and his Kohldampf. Propelled by the album release also single tracks made it in the list–the best one landing at #41 Stress mit mir (featuring RAF Camora). Three further songs enter at the lower end of the list plus Safari from Maxwell's past EP re-enters at #95.


Gainers of the week
Symphony Clean Bandit featuring Zara Larsson +23 places to #25 in its 2nd chart week
Cold Maroon 5 Ft. Future +17 places to #43 in its sixth chart week due to a new available remix by Hot Shade & Mike Perry
September Song JP. Cooper +15 places to #56 in its 3rd chart week

Not real a big gainer but well–reaching a new peak in its 11th chart week Wincent Weiss achieves his third top50 hit with Feuerwerk stopping by at #47. Unter meiner Haut and Musik sein both performed much better by gaining #6 in spring 2015 and #27 in autumn 2016.
Same situation for Zuna. ?Wieso? reaches #50 as his third song inside the upper half in 2016 alone.

March 24th 17: Ed - Zuna - Drake

Week number 11 for Ed Sheeran occupying the German top. Shape Of You now falls only one week short of Rag'n'Bone Man who at the end of 2016 became the English male artist having the longest run at #1 since the beginning of the weekly German charts in 1971.
Week number 26 with a British act at #1 and week number 43 with an European #1–that are the figures for now.

Gainer of the week is Zuna with his track Nummer 1. Past week it entered at #74 after two weeks on sale. Now it sits pretty at #7 and is the very first top 10 hit for Dresden KMN Crew. Alongside Zuna also crew mate Azet appears on the track.
Propelled by the success of the new song also ?Wieso? can reach a new peak. It reaches #52 in its 8th week.

Inside the top 20 also Luis Fonsi Ft. Daddy Yankee arrive with Despacito. It is the first time since summer 2005 that Daddy Yankee can appear that high again while Luis Fonsi has his very first chart hit at all.

Highest new entry is the second teaser song for Kontra K's next album Gute Nacht scheduled for April 24th. Mehr als ein Job lands at #24 similar to the first release Diamanten a month ago. Latter one still sneaks around the list–so it is only the second song by the rapper that achieves a more than one week run inside the charts. His biggest hit so far came back in June 2014 with Wölfe peaking at #19 and spending eight weeks on the survey.

The album having the biggest impact on the singles list is the new offering by DRAKE More Life. It lands on the album's list on #6 only but serves with several single tracks on the song charts led by Passionfruit at #27. All the rest sneaks in lower than #75. With a total of seven tracks from the new album + One Dance Drake stays behind the result of Ed Sheeran who still has 13 different songs inside the list.
The strong appearance of DRAKE pushes the total of songs by Canadians to 15–last seen in November 2015 when Justin Bieber invaded the list.


In its seventh chart weeks No Roots by Alice Merton seems catching a little more fire. The song goes 81–67 and still got some space to rise further.

March 17th 17: Ed Sheeran's 10th Week

Also a week after the big invasion Ed Sheeran serves the most wanted song of the week. Shape Of You now spends a tenth week at the German top as album : (Divide) also leads the list for a second week. This recent year only Helene Fischer and The Rolling Stones had the honour doing so.
This recent week expands the British leadership over the German list to 25 consecutive weeks. Never before British acts had done so before. Additionally the full list contains 33 songs with British participation–one more than past week.

Back to Ed Sheeran: Second song is Galway Girl which climbs three places to #5 and serves as the third hit for the singer that reaches the top5 in 2017. With Castle On The Hill clinging on at #7 there are again three songs by Ed Sheeran inside the top 10.
A fourth song sits at #20 with Perfect.
Almost all songs off the album again chart in this week. Only Save Myself drops out from #56 which means Ed Sheeran does have this week 15 simultaneous hits.


The story of the week might be connected to the 6-3 rise of club tune Tuesday. Producer and DJ Burak Yeter is only the second Turkish born producer reaching the German top 3. So far it was Mousse T. who peaked there with Sex Bomb in 1999. The only "real" Turkish act reaching the German top 10 was Tarkan who peaked with Şımarık at #6 in 1997.

New inside the top 10 You Don't Know Me by Jax Jones Feat. Raye is. The song comes in at #6 in its fifth chart week.
To #16 Stay by ZEDD & Alessia Cara rises. It is the third chart week for the song.
Second new comer to the top 20 is the new offering by Jason Derulo Swalla. The production features Nicki Minaj and Ty Dolla $ign. The latter one adds a third top 20 hit after Work From Home (featured by Fifth Harmony) and Sucker For Pain in 2016. Jason Derulo and Nicki Minaj had a two years absence from the top 20.

Biggest gainer of the week jumps 46 places to #40. Due to release of album Die bunte Seite der Macht teasing single So schön kaputt reaches a new peak. It is the second chart hit for Berlin duo SDP.
Mask Off is the first track by Future reaching the upper half of the German charts by jumping 44 places to #39 in its second chart week. He already has two lower appearances as featured artist under his belt. Mask Off belongs to the new US rap sound tracks approaching Europe since a few months.

The highest new entry comes in as low as #47. It is Waterfall by production duo Stargate who already has some super hits under its belt but never mentioned as main artist. This is the very first chart entry featuring P!NK & SIA.

March 10th 17: The Ultimate Ed Sheeran Week

As Ed Sheeran's third album : (Divide) storms to #1 this week also the singles list is highly contained with songs from it. In his home country Britain he serves with nine of the top 10 songs and launches all 16 songs off his album inside the top 20. It is of course not one but a lot of records-just read James Masterton's chart commentary.

In Germany Ed Sheeran is not as big although he is setting some bench marks also. Leading the list still Shape Of You spends a ninth week there. This continuity also makes the start of 2017 as calm and steady as 2013 was. To remember you: Shape Of You is only the second #1 song of this current year.
Single #2 Castle On The Hill returns 9–3 while Galway Girl rushes in at #8 as the third top 10 entry. Last artist doing so was Justin Bieber in November 2015 although a little less successful as he "only" occupied #4, #7 and #8. So Ed Sheeran is the best performing male artist of a single week in terms of top 10 chart positions beaten out only by Lena who in March 2010 had three simultaneous hits at #1, #3 and #4.

Inside the top 20 there are six songs from the Ed Sheeran album. This presence is stronger than the one by King of Pop Michael Jackson right after his death in July 2009 when he had four simultaneous hits inside the top 20.
And finally all 16 songs of the album can enter as single tracks also–the lowest at #56. So he beats out the result of Bonez MC Raf Camora set in September past year with 15 out of 15 tracks from one album.

The big impact made by Ed Sheeran pushes British music to a new height. 12 songs involving British acts inside the top 20 is a very strong presence. The full Top 100 see 32 songs with British participation. It is much but well–the mid 80s had results like up to 45% of the back than top75.


Yes, there are a few other stories left. First of all Kygo & Selena Gomez reach #2 with their collabo It Ain't Me. The song now matches Kygo's past top hit Stole The Show which stopped at #2 in June 2015.
Jax Jones Ft. Raye also storms up the list landing at #12 with You Don't Know Me in its fourth chart week.

Did we talk about records above. Well–here is something close to: This week is the first one since 3rd April 1989 with a Top20 completely missing a German act. Back than there were the Jeremy Days rising to #21 with Brand New Toy shortly missing the top 20. The highest German production now is Stay by ZEDD (featuring Alessia Cara) rising 21 places to #24. To find a low performance like this one has to go two weeks more backwards: On March 20th 1989 best performing German act was Sandra with We'll Be Together dropping down to #24.
Highest song in German is Ohne mein Team by Bonez MC RAF Camora feat. Maxwell sliding five places to #22. It is the lowest appearance of German tracks since 16 years. On 2nd of July 2001 the highest song in German came in at #35 in the face of Dickes B by Seeed feat. Black Kappa.

With Die immer lacht by Stereoact feat. Kerstin Ott leaving the list this week after 62 weeks the longest running hit now is Hulapalu by Andreas Gabalier which still ranks at #60 in its 63rd chart week.

March 3rd 17: Week Eight For Ed Sheeran

Well – Ed Sheeran still is the one who has the survey under his regency. Shape Of You spends an eighth consecutive week at #1 which adds him as the 17th chart act of this current decade doing so.
It is the 40th consecutive week with European participation at #1. Ten weeks short of the period June 19th 2015 to April 15th 2016.

At #4 the highest new entry stops in. Something Just Like This is a collaboration between super acts The Chainsmokers & Coldplay. The USAmerican DJ/producer duo so launches its second top 5 hit in 2017–predecessor Paris is overtaken by just one place. Once again it features itself as THE EDM act of the day. Coldplay adds a fifth top 10 hit to its all time account–the last one was Adventure Of A Lifetime at the end of 2015.

There are three more top10 entries. First of all Katy Perry's new single Chained To The Rhythm goes 13–6 in its third chart week. It is the tenth top 10 hit for the singer but the first since three years when Dark Horse rose to #6.
Third top 10 entry is dance track Tuesday by Turkish DJ Burak Yeter. It jumps eight places to #8 in its fourth chart week.
And finally Rag'n'Bone Man has a second top 10 hit by Skin rising one place to #10 in its fifth chart week.

It is this a very weak issue for German productions as the whole top20 only have one song on whom a German producer participated. It is Shed A Light by Robin Schulz & David Guetta Feat. Cheat Codes at #18. Best performing song in German is Ohne mein Team by Bonez MC RAF Camora feat. Maxwell sitting still pretty at #22. The last time songs in German performed as low was back in August past year. Having only one German production inside the top 20 dates back to October 2013. The song than was Stolen Dance by Milky Chance performing at #8.

Short under the top 20 two songs land with a big jump. At #21 You Don't Know Me by Jax Jones Feat. Raye stops by. It comes from #54 in its third chart week.
Due to carnival days Johnny Däpp by Austrian Lorenz Büffel is the biggest gainer of the year so far vaulting 55 places to #28. It is a given thing that in next weeks time nobody will care about that song anymore.

A 30 ranks leap takes Australian Bag Raiders to #60 with Shooting Stars. It is the second chart entry for the duo following top 20 hit Way Back Home from summer 2011.
20 places up is the result for newcomer Marian Hill. Its single Down stops at #67.
And also Lana del Rey jumps up the list. Her latest single Love lands at #68 after an 21 ranks leap. It is her highest performance since West Coast that peaked at #22 in June 2014.

Feb 24th 17: KYGO Is Back

Ed Sheeran holds firm at the top for a seventh week with Shape Of You. So it definitely is one of the big hits of 2017. And it writes chart history as it now adds the 22nd consecutive week of having a British act at the German top. I checked the lists before 1971 too and so I have the honour to tell you: Never before in chart history British acts performed as successful.

This period of course might end soon as there are no proper candidates for #1 coming from Britain in this moment. The highest new entry which lands at #3 is a Norwegian-USAmerican collaboration between DJ KYGO and singer Selena Gomez. It Ain't Me marks the return to chart power for the DJ after half a year of abstinence. It is his third Top 3 hit following 2015 success Stole The Show that peaked at #2 in June 2015.
Selena Gomez hits top 10 status for the very first time. So far her German chart debut Naturally was the highest performing single by peaking at #12 in spring 2010.

New inside the top20 Burak Yeter is. The Turkish born DJ brings his German chart debut Tuesday in its third week to hit status.

In opposite to the British hiatus of productions Germans are quite underrepresented this week. The highest German production lands as low as #19 in the face of Robin Schulz in collaboration with David Guetta & Cheat Codes. Shed A Light drops down seven places. The highest track using German language sits newly at #20 with the next available track by Zuna Cazal.


Songs On The Rise
RE at #48 Imagine Dragons Beliver 2nd chart week
+25 places Jax Jones Feat. Raye You Don't Know Me #54 in its 2nd week
+12 places AJR Weak #40 in its 4th week
+12 places Julia Michaels Issues #46 in its 3rd week

Feb 17th 17: Ed Sheeran Beats Fifty Shades Darker

It wasn't as sure that the start of Fifty Shades Darker had no further impact on the leading song from the soundtrack I Don't Wanna Live Forever. Indeed Zayn & Taylor Swift still rank at #2 while Ed Sheeran's Shape Of You spends a sixth week at #1 in Germany.
It is this the 21st consecutive week with a British production at #1. Never before in history of weekly German charts (since 1971) British productions ruled that long this country. So far it was the 20 weeks long period from October 1987 to February 1988 when Rick Astley (twice), The Bee Gees and the Pet Shop Boys appeared hand in hand at the German top.

The Chainsmokers rise one single place to #3 with Paris. It is the second top3 success after Closer back in early autumn past year.

Two songs are new inside the top 10. There are at #9 the first chart entry for French Maitre Gims Loin–the song jumps nine places in its fourth chart week.
In its third chart week Scared To Be Lonely rises seven ranks to #10. It is for both Martin Garrix & Dua Lia the second top 10 entry. For Dua Lipa it comes back to back to her appearance on the Sean Paul single No Lies which peaked at #10 in January and this week sits pretty at #16 while Martin Garrix had his Animals peaking at #4 back in autumn 2013.

The follow up to Human this week lands at #13. It is the third chart week for Rag'n'Bone Man's Skin. Simultaneously the album Human lands at #2 in its first week on sale. #1 comes from Majoe whos Auge des Tigers is the second hip hop album at the German top in 2017. From this album also three solo tracks can enter the singles list at the lower end (#82 resp. #83) both with a long row of featured artists which causes a new negative record: KC Rebell now appeared on 23 chart singles without reaching the top 10. The highest rank he achieved was #15. So he performed less successful as Westernhagen who also had 23 hits charted but peaked at #11. Third on this overview is Farid Bang now having 21 chart entries under his belt the highest peaking as low as #28.

At #3 on the album list the soundtrack to Fifty Shades Darker lands. Fromt his compilation not only #2 comes but also #30 Helium by SIA and #87 The Scientist in the version of Corinne Bailey Rae who after 10 years and nine months can launch her second chart entry. Her first Put Your Records On peaked at #75 in May 2006.
The third track from the movie album comes in at #88 with Nick Jonas & Nicki Minaj and their Bom Bidi Bom.

Feb 10th 17: Ed Sheeran Under Pressure

First Ed Sheeran gains the crown a fifth week with Shape Of You. So far the list seems stable and quiet. As long as we don't look at #2. There the signature song of the second Fifty Shades Of Grey movie jumps. I Don't Wanna Live Forever (Fifty Shades Darker) is the highest peaking release of both artists involved so far. ZAYN had his highest appearance a year ago with his solo debut Pillowtalk peaking at #5 (and immediately dropping out of the top10 the next week)–well as part of the Band Aid 30 cast he had a disguised #2 visit in the end of 2014 already. Taylor Swift herself really never touched the top 3 before. Her best selling single Shake It Off peaked at #5 for three weeks in autumn 2014. With her ninth chart entry she finally can come close to real chart honours.
The growing interest for the song comes exactly a week before the movie is in cinemas. Just today it is released–so there might some trouble take place at the very top of the charts.

At #9 a new entry inside the top 10 arrives with a 21 places jump. It is Steady 1234 and it brings Jasmine Thompson a third time to top 10 status. Again she appears as featured artist alongside the US-American producer VICE. She already has a #1 hit under her belt with 2015 massive hit Ain't Nobody (Loves You Better). Her solo releases did not catch any fire–the best selling Adore only managed to reach a #91 in 2014.

Again it is a week without any German production inside the top 10. The highest German still ist Mark Forster sliding down with Chöre two ranks to #13. It is this the lowest presence of German songs since October 2013 when Willst du by Alligatoah was the highest performing song at #14.

Jumping 19 places in its third chart week Loin by Maitre Gims enters the top 20 at #18 and surprisingly performs better in Germany as in all French speaking countries including Switzerland.
A further new top 20 hit comes in two places deeper. And it also is an ethno inspired song as Chantaje by Shakira Feat. Maluma presents a pure raggaton beat. It is Shakira's first top20 performance after more or less three years. Back in 2014 she had two hits: Can't Remember To Forget You (featuring Rihanna #8) and Dare (La La La) (#12).


The highest new entry this week comes in at #29. It is the leading single from upcoming album Spirit by Depeche Mode–the 14th album. For Depeche Mode the anouncement of a new album always caused some rush. Where's The Revolution in contrast completely fails. It is the first time since 1983 (album Construction Time Again) that a pre-release of an Depeche Mode album misses the top 20. Maybe it will change in next weeks time when the full effect of the video release drops some more demand in the song. So far it is the 52nd chart entry for the band–a feat done by only a few acts in chart history.

The gainers of the week are:
Despacito by Luis Fonsi Ft. Daddy Yankee going up 46 places (second biggest jump this year so far) to #47
Weak by AJR leaping 26 places to #52 in its second week
Dancing On My Own in the version of Calum Scott rising 16 places to a new peak at #64 in its sixth chart week

Feb 3rd 17: More New Music And A ComeBack

The first month of 2017 is gone and the top 10 almost completely is changed. The artist of the year seems to be Ed Sheeran as he spends a fourth week at #1 with Shape Of You. Additionally Castle On The Hill returns back to #2–it is the second time this year having Ed Sheeran occupying the first two ranks. Pretty at #3 Rockabye by Clean Bandit clings on–the hit from the tail end of 2016. So we do have a fourth week with a complete British top 3.

The renewing of the top 10 also this weeks continues. At #7 there is newly inside the top Way Down We Go by Icelandic band Kaleo. It rises seven places in its fourth weeks and so belongs to the very fast growing hits of now. The last top 10 hit coming from Iceland was seen in May/June 2012 when Of Monsters And Men had their Little Talks peaked at #5.

The sad story comes for German productions. As there are no new releases are around the highest ranking German song now slides out of the top 10. The song in question is Chöre by Mark Forster which has its turn on #11 this week. It is this the first time since November 2016 that no German production is placed higher than #11.

The highest new entry comes in at #19. It is a collaboration of Martin Garrix & Dua Lipa. Scared To Be Lonely follows Garrix' top 20 hit from past autumn In The Name Of Love while Dua Lipa launches a third top 20 entry with the recent production–the direct predecessor No Lies (alongside Sean Paul) still ranks well at #10.

And there are still some more future hits to come, as there are:
- Steady 1234 by VICE Feat. Jasmine Thompson & Skizzy Mars going 57–30 in its third chart week
– Loin by French Maitre Gims Feat. Dany Synthé going 74–37 in its second week
- Handclap by Fitz and The Tantrums going 80–59 in its second week
- Bad And Boujee by MIGOS Feat. Lil Uzi Vert going 88–65 in its third week
- I Got You by Bebe Rexha going finally 89–67 in its fourth chart week, the song first appeared on the charts in early November past year

On #93 an artist returns to chart honors who was 10 years ago one of the supporters of Raggaton fame in Europe. Daddy Yankee had one top 10 hit with Gasolina in 2005. A year later minor hit Rompe showed up for seven weeks. More than ten years later– exactly this current week the Daddy is back as featured artist on Luis Fonsi's single Despacito. So far it is the lowest charting song of the Puerto Ricanian.

Jan 13th 17: New Superstar Ed Sheeran

Bam–there he comes! With two new entries directly at the top Ed Sheeran sets himself as one of the most successful acts of these days. Within the past five years he launched six top songs the highes peaking at #2. Now he adds his first #1 song and a runners up and simultaneously adds a chart record. Never before an act charted with two songs at #1 and #2. So far it was Lena who launched three hits in one week at #1, #3 and #4.

Having the same artist at #1 and #2 is a feat seen already a few times. Last appearing in June 2013 when Pharrell Williams was featured on both. Showing exactly the same act on both ranks only once happened before: in July 1970 Simon & Garfunkel had a double with El Condor Pasa (If I Could) and Cecilia.

A third story can be told about the new #1 song. As Steve Mac appears as producer and writer on Shape Of You and Rockabye he is the first musician dethroning itself since Pharrell Williams in 2013.


At #9 a third song enters the top 10. It is I Don't Wanna Live Forever (Fifty Shades Darker by ZAYN & Taylor Swift that goes up five places. It is the second top 10 hit for ZAYN as he achieved #5 with his debut Pillowtalk a year ago. Taylor Swift reaches the top 10 after a two years break again with her fourth top 10 entry.