Nov 3rd 17: Fourth Week For BAUSA

The midweek charts had detect a strong challenger for the #1 slot as Perfect by Ed Sheeran reached #2. Later this week the song got a stronger weakness sitting now pretty at #5 again and giving way to Was du Liebe nennst by BAUSA spending a fourth week at the top spot. At runners up position now Camila Cabello ranks with her ode to Havana which is far and away the best appearance she ever claimed.

There is no new entry to the top 10 but two songs re-entering. The higher one at #9 is New Rules by Dua Lipa which gains a new peak in its 14th chart week. So far the song has occupied #10 for three weeks than dropping out for a full month and now rising 12–9 again. New Rules now matches the result of predecessor and so far biggest hit Scared To Be Lonely alongside Martin Garrix.
Second top10 re-entry is Mi Gente by J balvin & Willy William going 11–10 after a single week outside. It is the 13th top10 week which makes the song one of the nine longest running top10 hits in 2017.

Highest new entry comes from Selena Gomez X Marshmello. Wolveslands at #14 in its first chart week. It is Selena Gomez' fourth hit in 2017. Marshmello right now has another hit Silence sitting pretty at #7.

The Imagine Dragons launch a second top20 hit this year with Whatever It Takes going 29-15. Meanwhile Thunder fades slowly to #20.
Also Norwegian DJ Kygo gets a second top20 hit in 2017 with Stargazing taking five places up to #18. It is already chart week no. six for that song.
At #19 What Lovers Do by Maroon 5 Feat. SZA goes. It is the first top20 appearance for the band since three years.

Watching the top 20 one can witness a strong presence of artists from the US. Between #11 and #20 there are nine songs involving US artists–eight songs are from US acts alone. It is this a very strong return as three years ago there were weeks with only two or even one top20 song involving stars from the US.

Worth mentioning:
Sunrise Ave's Help You Hate Me slowly catches fire as it goes 61–43 in its sixth chart week. Times when the band invaded top10 status easily seem long ago.
Kogong is the newest offering by Mark Forster who re-released his album TAPE enriched with that song. In its third chart week Kogong goes 78–53.
A 87–68 jump is taken by Charlie Puth with his song How Long.

Hulapalu by Andreas Gabalier spends a 85th week inside the top100. It now is the 15th highest result of chart weeks of all times. Well–the best performing single still is Sky And Sand by Paul & Fritz Kalkbrenner that collected 129 non consecutive chart weeks.

12th of Sep 2014: Four New Entries Inside the Top20

Number 1
lovers on the sun by David Guetta feat. Sam Martin now becomes one of the big hits of the year. Holding firm at number 1 it is the third single in 2014 occupying the Top for at least 5 weeks. Leader of the trio still is Happy by Pharrell Williams which spend a full 8 weeks as the most selling single.

Also the rest of the Top5 is static making MAROON 5 the highest mover. MAPS goes 12–6 after the full album titled V is entering the albums list at number 6. It is a new peak for the single that entered the survey five weeks before at number 10.

The highest new entry comes in at number 10. Actually the last song starting that high was just mentioned MAPS. Now the song calls Superheroes and comes from Irish The Script. The band is most known for its number 2 hit Hall of Fame which invaded the charts late 2012. Since then only one song could gain some chart success. Superheroes is the second out of seven chart entries of the band that can reach the Top 10 and the first Irish production appearing here since–well the Script-predecessor.

This week also marks a big change: it is the first time in 2014 that Atemlos durch die Nacht by Helene Fischer does not appear inside the Top 10. The song now reaches is lowest rank this year by dipping to number 11. After 36 Top10 weeks the song holds the record for this decade and ranks on the second place of the all time list. Only Ein Stern (der deinen Namen trägt) by DJ Ötzi & Nik P. has been spending more weeks that high: 42.

The end of summer is obvious by a bunch of new single releases invading the list. There are three further tracks entering the list directly inside the Top 20.
At number 14 German band 2wei 5ünf 7ieben lands its second chart hit with Baby du riechst. New at number 18 is British DJ ZHU who makes his German chart debut with the single Faded. And finally CLUESO offers a new album. The teasing single is Freidrehen that lands at number 20 in its first chart week. It is the first time since early 2012 that he appears that high again.


On the rise for a few weeks Meghan Trainor is. This week her All About That Bass once again jumps full 20 places stopping at number 41. The full physical release is scheduled for beginning of October.

Also the new single by Katy Perry This Is How We Do makes a 22 places leap again. It lands at number 46 this week.

Hot Spot 04-12-13

Yes, it is the fourth week on Top for Passenger and his Let Her Go. German music buyers love romantic sound. The last time a British act had four weeks at the German top is back in autumn 2011 when Calvin Harris turned Rihanna’s We Found Love into a dance track. Of course–that was not a pure British production and the four weeks were collected over a six weeks span. Well, the real British number 1 track occupying the top spot at least four weeks had its run just before Calvin Harris stormed to number 1. The one I’m talking about is Marlon Roudette. His New Age held eight weeks at the top in September and October 2011. The sound of this huge hit is almost the same as Let Her Go. So probably we will have the new song for some more weeks sitting pretty at number 1.

The only new one inside the Top 10 is Taylor Swift whose I Knew You Were Trouble dips in for the first time at number 10. It is the very first top 10 entry for the artist at all. - With this again the 10 best sold songs are mainly coming from the US (7). There are only three tracks coming from the UK and one from Germany. The big variety of productions from very different areas of this world is definitely gone.


US Rapper Wax becomes more and more popular. His single Rosana this week reaches the Top 20. In Austria the song already is a Top 10 hit.


Love some DSDS stories? Well–looks like Ricardo Bielecki is the big favourit of the season. Last week he helped Impossible becoming a hit–this week Swedish House Mafia gots a late sales boost again. Don’t You Worry Child winds up 10 places after it was performed on March 30th. It is already 29 weeks inside the list.

Further impressive performances on the show: Susan Albers performed She Wolf (Falling To Pieces)–the original recording by David Guetta Feat. SIA re-enters at number 56. + Lisa Wohlgemuth staged with I Follow Rivers–it winds up the original by Lykke Li 15 places and helps the cover by Triggerfinger back to number 100.


Some more impressive moves:
Watching Justin Bieber alongside will.i.am entering the charts as the second highest new entry at number 22 is much more worth mentioning as his upcoming single All Around The World also charts–a week before it is released as a digital single at all. It sits pretty at number 99 waiting for things to come next week.

After some weeks on air as the soundtrack for a commercial to Internet Explorer 10 Blake Lewis’ single Your Touch catches fire and rockets up 66–32.

Easter TV programme has left traces: Til Schweiger’s comedy Kokowääh was premiered on free TV–as an effect main title Snowflakes by White Apple Tree re-enters at number 36. It is the highest rank since it charted for the very first time two years ago.

A few days before their tour in Germany starts the Imagine Dragons got some heavy airplay and big promotion. Their album Night Visions rises 98–78, the single Radioactive goes 52–39.

Saturday 29th of April a national One Direction fan day were held. It boosts the single One Day Or Another back to the upper half of the German list.

The release of The Twilight Saga – Part 2 on DVD caused a new demand for one of the main tracks of the movie A Thousand Years (Part 2). The recording by Christina Perri reenters at number 87.

Some strange coinscidences: there were some news about Adam Levine–singer of Maroon 5. First of all: he was not a lady-killer when he was young. Well–very serious news. The other was about the decoration by CMI for his huge impact on pop culture. Maybe that award made some people looking for songs of the Band–Moves Like Jagger (featuring Christina Aguilera visits the charts again at number 98. The track was listed last time almost exactly a year ago.

25-12: Soccer Fever II

There is almost only one event that impacts music consuming in Germany right now. It starts with the number 1 song. Die Toten Hosen are back on the Top after a two weeks break. It is the third week for Tage wie diese (Days like this) and the song falls only one week short of the result of their only Nr.1 hit before Zehn kleine Jägermeister from 1996. Tage wie diese first was published as the anniversary single for the band. Later it became a hymn for the Bundesliga winning Borrusia team from Dortmund. Now the song is used by public channel ARD foradvertising its broadcasting of matches. So the hiatus might take one or two weeks longer.

Also the official anthem of the EM rises eight places to number five. Finally German Oceana can launch her first Top 10 hit in her home country. Number 5 might not be the end of the fame of Endless Summer.

New soccer songs are entering the list. KAY ONE is the German rapper who really is connected with football. Two years ago he offered Fackeln im Wind and reached Top 10 status. This year it is Finale wir kommen (Final, we’re approaching). It enters the list a week before the official release on CD at number 54. So we will find it much higher in one week’s time for sure.



Matze Knop offers the next (and last for this week) soccer related fun song called Die Besten in Europa (The Best In Europe). The lyrics are about the hope of winning the championship. To ensure a little more seriousness the comedian asked sport reporter Waldi Hartmann for dueting with him. And the journalist agreed. Don’t know why. But the song stands for how reporting on the matches is going on in German media.



Other soccer related songs rise up the list.Ukrainian Los Colorados find some more friends and jumps 94–60 with I Like To Move It. Four years ago Mickie Krause had a hit called Orange trägt nur die Müllabfuhr (Only The Garbage Boys are wearing Orange). It is of course a spottlied on the Dutch soccer team that wears this colour. This year the track re-appears at number 77. Another song by Mickie Krause is in the list again too. Schatzi, schenk mir ein Foto (Honey, Give Me A Photo) is not really a soccer anthem but it is played at so called fan miles and public viewing places as well. So let’s add the upcoming summer hits to this section too. Tacatà rises slowly to number 8. So TACABRO is a Top 10 act in Germany now also. And also Gusttavo Lima rises with Balada (Tchê tcherere tchê tchê. The song reaches number 34 in its second chart week still on downlaod sales only.


Some not football related songs also can rise or start inside the list. After full release on CD Payphone by Maroon 5 Feat. Wiz Khalifa jumps into the Top 10. The song reaches number 4 in its second week in the list giving Maroon 5 there second consecutive Top 5 hit following last years number 2 song Moves Like Jagger. Wiz Khalifa with the collaboration harvests his biggest hit at all so far in Germany.


With start of the new commercial campaign for the MAGNUM Infinity Icecream on 4th of June in theatres (and on TV) the track used for it Infinity 2012 by Guru Josh (and remixed by DJ Antoine takes a 20 places leap landing inside the Top 20 for the third time in 22 years.



gossip and her singer Beth Ditto are really stars in Germany. For the final of Heidi Klum’sGermany’s Next Top Modell on July 7th the band was invited for opening the show. Of course they performed their recent hit Perfect World which rises nine places due to digital sales on thursday evening alone. Probably the song will rise much further next week when CD sales of Friday are taekn into account.

Even more impressive is the leap taken by Justin Bieber after his performance on tha final show. His song Boyfriend jumps 50–16 on downloads of a few hours. The song reaches a new peak in Germany giving him a fourth Top 20 hit.


Ivy Quainoo comes with a new single. You Got Me is the succeeder to Do You Like What You See which was the winning song for the casting show The Voice of Germany. The new song is a soulful one with a lot of power starting its chart life at number 31.




Italian band Frei•Wild is a current example of German nationalism. Most of its recordings sound simple or naive no matter if they talk about love or the relation to the home. The band also recorded an own version of the German anthem. In all its lyrics Frei•Wild celebrates the link to the country, to the German land. It is a very tricky field where the band is moving. Recent project is a charity single for a childrens village in Brixen. For recording the song 1000 Meilen, 1000 Worte (1000 miles, 1000 words) the band invited artists from all over Germany. From very different styles. Böhse Onkelz and Eisbrecher were in the studio as well as Kastelruther Spatzen and Mr. President. All together they want to collect money and help the children. The song itself anyway sounds a little scary to me.




It is a long and sad story about dubstep in German speaking countries. It really took the labels more than 5 years for react on the new sound. Kids already are addicted to it. You can here it everywhere on mp3 players, playlists, at independent radio stations. But it really needed the major use of Alex Clare’s Too Close for making the sound also a commercial phenomenon. Almost a year after its release and after topping the charts in UK the NERO single Promises can enter the lists in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Somehow this feat happened by an incident. There is no information given on a re-release or a new promotion. Probabaly it is kind of an viral effect … well, hopefully this is the start of a serial of NERO hits. Number 67 for Promises is something which can only get better.


On tour in Germany Jay Z & Kanye West finally can reach the charts with their duet Niggas In Paris. Probably the visit will be a short one. Number 90 after their staging in Frankfurt looks like.

European Hits

Indeed a busy week. The German chart counts 13 new entries – three of them inside the Top 10. When did we really had this last time?
13 new tracks (I mean REALLY new tracks – not only Re-Entries) entered the list at the end of July for the last time. It was somehow the last working week in music business. Three new entries inside the Top 10 happened right after the end of the DSDS superstar casting show in May. You see – it is not that unusualhaving a lot of good new music in the shelves although it feels like after a four months break.

I’ve already talked about the new Number 1from Marlon Roudette. Let’s drop some words ’bout the other new entries inside the Top 10. MAROON 5 featuring Christina Aguilera can land with Moves Like Jagger on downloads only at number 3. Impressive! CD sales count from next week’s list on – I’m curious about how high they can rise. So far Moves Like Jagger reaches the highest position a MAROON 5 track ever had. Only This Love reached number 5 in 2004. Christina Aguilera is much more used to find herself inside the Top 10. Moves Like Jagger is the 11th track naming her as an artist and doing so. But also her had to wait for more than four years since her last appearance that highhappened. It was Tell Me alongside P.Diddy that went number 5.

The third Top 10 new entry is the summer hit coming from Spain. If you were this summer somewhere in Europe at a party you for sure danced to Loca People (What The F**K!) served by DJ Sak Noel. The track is a hit in almost whole Europe. Just right now it started having a life in Canada too. Finally the track is available in Germany also and enters on downloads only at number 9. Again we will see next week where the track can rise when the CD is fully released. By the way: exactly one year ago the last track from a Spanish artist went Top 10. It was I Like It by Enrique Iglesias.



Having two European productions entering the top end of the list we count eight tracks of the Top 10 with at least one European artist involved. US-American artists are still the most present even in Germany with four tracks at least featuring an US act. Talking ’bout big European hits I must add that David Guetta launches his next promotional single Night Of Your Life at number 12. The predecessor Lunar – a completely instrumental dance track produced with Dutch Afrojack heavily using the Daft Punk formula – is entering the list at a very low position 84. It makes David Guetta having 11 tracks charted in 2011. Last year he had 9 respective 10 tracks if you count his role as a producer of Kelis’ Acapella too. Don’t know exactly when one act did something similar before. Michael Jackson had 23 tracks charted in 2009 – the year he died. A still living act with more than 10 tracks charted in a year were nobody else than The Beatles. The boys from Liverpool had 14 songs in the German charts in 1964. David Guetta is hard on the heels of that feat – there are more than 3 months left for him.

Another European act paid some attention to in German speaking countries is Dutch Caro Emerald. Her overwhelming hit A Night Like This still crowds up the upper ranks of the list – this week sliding 21–24 in the 27th chart week – so new single Stuck stands in the shadow of the predecessor. The swing inspired track enters at 41 on full CD release and gives her a third chart hit in Germany.



German tracks
Strong European track doesn’t mean a similar impact from German artists. Tim Bendzko still leads the German pack with Nur noch kurz die Welt retten softly sliding 5–4. Next best sold German track is Still – the long burning hit by Jupiter Jones still noted inside the Top 20 and also Andreas Bourani with Nur in meinem Kopf (Just In My Head) is selling well sliding 23–25. The acts following are Frida Gold, Casper and new in the shelves doreen aka Doreen Steinert. She had her first big success with casting band Nu Pagadi in 2004 but started quickly a solo career. Most recently she duetted with her boyfriend Sido and his enemy-friend Fler in 2009. Finally she offers a full album titled vorsicht zerbrechlich (Attention Fragile). Leading single is wie konntest du nur (How the hell could you) – a heartfull ballad about a broken love. All we know from doreen are ballads like this – probably the album is the right one for fully „enjoying“ heart aches. The CD so far performs cautious – I guess only fans of doreen bought the track. But she is the first contestant of upcoming Bundesvision Song Contest that will held 29th september in Cologne. This year there will perform a lot of big German acts – it will be a tough struggle for sure. And the impact on sales will be huge as well. It is certain even doreen will see her track rising in the list too – I’m curious whether she can launch her best performing track at all. We’ll see it.



Next song competing at BuVi Song Contest and getting first attention is Zum Laichen und Sterben ziehen die Lachse den Fluss hinauf (For Spawning And Dying Salmons Migrate A River Upwards). The song is brought by Tomte singer Thees Uhlmann. With the track he announces his first solo album that is titled after him. The lyrics tell the story of a whole life starting somewhen in childhood and expressing permanently the certainty that pain and fun are always close to each other. One of the significant words are „Life is like fire. It burns and gives warm.“ Very poetic.



Significantly the most successfull German productions have German lyrics too. Highest non German track is Hi-A Ma Pata Pata by Milk&Sugar feat. Miriam Makeba & Jungle Brothers dropping 41–53. German language seems gaining new popularity in pop business. Matching that thesis Geboren um zu leben (Born For Living) by UNHEILIG this week counts its 82nd consecutive week in the charts which makes it the longest running German track at all – overtaking Die längste Single der Welt by Wolfgang Petry from 1996. If we count all chart weeks – even those that were collected after a break – Geboren um zu leben is so far the third longest runner in German. It is hard on the heels of Das Beste (The Best) by Silbermond (Silver Moon). Leading the survey is still (and probably never be overtaken) Ein Stern (der deinen Namen trägt) (A Star (Named After You) by DJ Ötzi & Nik P. released in 2007.

Further German releases performing at the very down end of the list:
A new rock band coming from Berlin is Haudegen (Mortuary Sword). Well, band seems to be a little wrong – it is actually a duo. Both have been active as rap singers a few years long. To bring some more emotion into their tracks they decided to rename and change the style. Since last summer they appaer under the new name. An first EP and an album followed in autumn last year and May this year. The third single from that album is Zu Hause (At Home). It is – as most of their new tracks – a soft rock song about coming home and finding the right place for living – the place where you born. Seems strange to me in a world changing more and more into global and mobile one. It is a reaction to that new world made by people who can’t effort the luxury of travelling and working everywhere. No money means every place in the world is a wrong place. What counts in that situation is the home feeling, the place one is used to, the place of childhood. In that sense Haudegen is kind of a political rock duo – by the way a more right wing oriented. The world shown in their video is kind of creepy too.



Supported by the release of her album Frei (Free) LaFee can see her single Ich bin (I Am) having a boost in sales and reappearing in the German list. Nonetheless it is one of her worst performing singles – the album stalls at number 14 which is also a poor result for her.


Two oddities of German music business (and chart) at last today:
Killer Love the debut of Pussycat Dolls’ singer Nicole Scherzinger had its release back in March in Europe – except in Germany (and Austria I guess). Why? Nobody really knows. In the UK the singer launched three simultan Top 3 hits from that album including Nr.1 single Right There. In Germany nobody cares. Finally the album is announced and is in stores since the end of August. As leading single in Germany Right There was chosen (after that track was the biggest success in the UK and the U.S.). Release date was somewhen in June – but without any big promotion and as a download single only. Two weeks before the album the bigger promotion started – another official release date was reported still as download only single. Well – the effect: Right There enters at a low position 61. Seems that UNIVERSAL as the company of Ms. Scherzinger doesn’t see her as a single star at all or even worse doesn’t act for the singles’ market anymore. The big money can be milked only with album releases … I guess such focus ain’t what pop music lives on.

The recent Number 1 in Germany comes with support by a German movie. Even the last German movie that had such an impact titled Kokowäh (Coq au vin – in a acoustically written translation) brings a track back in people’s mind after released on DVD. Snowflakes by US-American White Apple Tree had a life as a medium hit back in march. Now the track sells again in bigger figures bringing Snowflakes again in the official German list at 65. The band is right now much more popular in middle Europe than in their home country.

Second track of the movie’s soundtrack Stay by British HURTS can rise up the list too. It lands at 77 this week. The DVD of Kokowäh meanwhile storms to Number 1 at the official lending charts and to Number 2 at amazon’s list.