It is week no. eight for
Human by
Rag'n'Bone Man at the top of the German list. The song now matches the result of
New Age by
Marlon Roudette which also had an eight weeks run at #1 in autumn 2011. Both singers now are best performing British male solo performers of this century so far. 25 years back it was
Phil Collins with
Another Day In Paradise who performed better.
Whether Rory Graham will match or even break this record really depends on how strong
Clean Bandit will perform next days. So far
Rockabye climbs one place to runner's up position and finally brings British music back to full performance. The first time since
January 2015 the first two places are occupied by British artists. Funny fact besides: The act at #2 back than also was
Clean Bandit well performing with its last hit single
Real Love.
With four tracks of the top 10 involving British acts the country really have a strong presence in music business right now.
Climbing seven places to #6
Mark Forster once again becomes the best performing German act and brings back to top 10 status a song in German.
Chöre is part of the official movie score to
Willkommen bei den Hartmanns which leads the German movie charts for a second week. It is Mark Forster's fourth top 10 hit under his own name and the second this year. As part of
EFF he does have a third top 10 hit under his belt and so follows as second best performaing act of the year behind
Justin Bieber.
Talking 'bout Justin Bieber: As
Let Me Love You this weeks leaves the top 10 the longest running top 10 song now is
Sound Of Silence in the version of USAmerican
Disturbed. It sits pretty at #7 in its 13th top 10 week–spending 24 weeks at all inside the German charts.
The current #1 in the US is the biggest gainer inside the German charts. It is the first chart entry for
Rae Sremmurd Black Beatles that jumps 56 places to #25. It is very likely that we will see the track rising further next weeks.
After the death of Canadian
Leonard Cohen his most famous songs find a way into the list as there is at first
Hallelujah first recorded in 1984. The song charts at #27 for the very first time–at least in the version of Leonard Cohen himself. It charted before by
Jeff Buckley in 2012 (18 years after it was recorded)
Xavier Naidoo in 2014 and by the
Pentatonix a week ago. The best performance so far had the version of Xavier Naidoo peaking at #27 too.
Leonard Cohen himself only had one chart hit before. It was his single
Lover Lover Lover that peaked at #9 in early 1975. After 42 and a half year the singer is back in the list. It is the longest absence from the list since weekly charts are released. If one considers the monthly lists as well Leonard Cohen is beaten by
Paul Kuhn who had an absence of 43 years and 153 days,
Scott McKenzy who re-entered the list after 44 years and 197 days and
Evy Jacob who reappeared in 2011 as member of the
Dschungel Allstars after 45 years and 241 days. In June 1965 she charted as member of the
Jacob Sisters.
With a span of almost 43 years Leonard Cohen has the third longest presence on the weekly lists after
José Felícíano and
Paul McCartney.
Leonard Cohen has two more tracks invading the charts. At #61 his very first single
Suzanne from 1967 charts for the very first time. In France the song shot to #3 this current week. At #81 the title track of his latest album
You Want It Darker appears. The album meanwhile occupies #2.
A few places below the next teaser track for
KC Rebell's new album
Abstand arrives. The track calls
TelVision and features his mate
PA Sports as well as
Kianush and
Kollegah. Latter one now collects his 50th chart entry at all. This result falls short behind the one of
Depeche Mode and
Scooter but only needed four years to achieve such an amount.
The same week
Sido can launch a 45th chart hit with
Masafaka landing at #65. He now overtook
Michael Jackson (44 hits) and falls short of
The Rolling Stones (46 hits).
All this sounds impressive but is only cute by watching the result of master
Bushido. He appears this current week as featured artist on a 62nd chart entry mentioning his name. (
Statements by
Shindy at #67) It is as much as
Madonna collected in her whole career. But the rapper additionally has three more hits undercover as a member of
Berlins Most Wanted and
23. He officially can be called the second most active artist of all time. Leader of the list still is
Peter Alexander with 82 different entries.
Rising tracks to watch:
Sexual by
Neiked Feat. Dyo going 62–46 in its fifth week
Bad Ideas by
alle farben rising slightly 57–47 in its fifth week
Most sold single of 2016 is Faded by Norwegian newcomer Alan Walker. It appeared first on January 15th and reached the top four weeks later where it spent ten weeks. The song sits pretty at #65 in the last issue of the year so it had a 51 weeks chart run so far. With two further top 10 hits (Sing Me To Sleep #10 and Alone #8) Alan Walker is the most succesfull new act in 2016 at all and establishes himself as one of the steadiest act. He is joined by Bonez MC & RAF Camora who also could launch three consecutive top 10 hits at the end of 2016. The triple also was completed by Calvin Harris who added two top 10 songs in 2016 to his account.
Back to Bonez MC. He is the newcomer of the year in some other terms. First of all his collaboration album with RAF Camora Palmen aus Plastik ranks as the best sold rap album of the year (#12 on the official album charts of the year) and at #5 (resp. #20) with partner Gzuz and High & Hungrig II. On the singles charts 35 tracks involving him were listed on the charts. Never before an act had that much tracks charting in one calendar year–even after Michael Jackson's death in 2009 "only" 23 songs charted again. Additionally Bonez MC had three times more than 10 tracks simultanously in the list. He definitely is the most present artist of the year 2016.
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