May 26th 17:

It is the fifth week for Despacito by Luis fonsi Ft. Daddy Yankee holding firm at #1. Even though predecessor Shape Of You spent 15 weeks at the top this result ain't as bad. Well–after the epic run of 16 weeks in 1990 for Verdammt ich lieb dich by Matthias Reim the remix project Tom's Diner by DNA & Suzanna Vega made it up to a seven weeks run. Could this figure already called a rule?
In 1978 the suceeder of Boney M's Rivers Of Babylon (17 weeks with a single week break) was You're The One That I Want by Olivia Newton John & John Travolta who added a six weeks #1 appearance (with two breaks).

As the #1 is steady also the rest of the top 10 is quite calm. The top 3 leaves totally unmoved including Shape Of You by Ed Sheeran at #3. With its 20th top10 week it enters the ten longest running top 10 hits of the current decade matching the results of Love Yourself (Justin Bieber in 2015/16), Geiles Leben (Glasperlenspiel same time) and Call Me Maybe (Carly Rae Jepsen in 2012).

The highest new entry stops at #8. It is the new single by Robin Schulz teasing his upcoming album Uncovered and his eighth top 10 hit within three years. Singer James Blunt was absent from that chart height for three and a half year. At the end of 2013 his Bonfire Heart hit #1.

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.

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.

Nov 20th 15: Biebermania

First of all there is no story atop. Adele's Hello still outsells all other competitors and spends a fourth week at #1. It is her 50th top 10 week at all which introduces her to the top 3 female artists of this decade as she accompanies Lady Gaga (50 top 10 weeks since the beginning of 2010 as well) and Rihanna (112 top 10 weeks in this current decade alone).

The story of #2 is much more impressive. Geiles Leben by Glasperlenspiel spends a sixth consecutive week there. It is now the longest running #2 hit since 2011. Back than it was Moves Like Jagger by Maroon 5 & Christina Aguilera that had a seven weeks run at the runners up position.

The top story comes at #3 of the album's list. There the new album of Justin Bieber lands. It misses again the top like all other releases before. Still it is the strongest seller of the teenie idol missing the #1 due to new releases of giants like Helene Fischer and One Direction. The true impact can be seen by a look at the single's list. Sorry climbs one place to #4 again, at #7 Love Yourself enters as the most cherry picked song of the new collection, and even his first release this year What Do You Mean? returns to top 10 status at #8. So we have three Bieber releases inside the top 10 accompanied by five further tracks invading the lower end of the charts.
Three songs of one artist simultaneously inside the top 10–that's a feat hardly seen. I just remember the impressive breakthrough of Lena in 2010. Can anybody remember a further case?

Thanks to a performance on The Voice of Germany on Friday 13th Ed Sheeran's Photograph swaps back to #10 adding a 14th top 10 week to its account. Although the longest running top 10 hit right now is Lieblingsmensch by Namika sitting pretty at #9.
Talking 'bout European acts it is this week a special one as we see "only" seven tracks coming from Europe. It is the worst figure since the first week of 2015. So this year is a pretty good for European music–even better than 2014. On the other hand a former big player in pop business really suffers from success. US American productions heavily miss the very big attention they got for decades. Last week there were only 23 tracks featuring US American acts. This week the top 10 is completely free from acts of the USA. The highest US American rises to #11 in the face of Matt Simons. His Catch & Release attracts people in Germany due to a remix–by Dutch project Deepend. The highest song truely produced in the USA stucks at #15 featuring the two superstars Charlie Puth & Meghan Trainor on the song Marvin Gaye.

The other country on the sub-continent Canada is in opposite as successfull as hardly before. As mentioned above Justin Bieber serves with eight entries but he is not the only Canadian inside the list. With the arrival of The Weeknd's The Hills at #20 there are five tracks inside the top 20 involving Canadians. In total there are 15 tracks under appearance of Canadians inside the Top 100 include newcomer Alessia Cara who enters at #96.


At #48 a reaction on the Parisian suicide attacks on Novembre 13th arrives. As an act of solidarity with the 89 killed at Le Bataclan theatre a campaign was created to buy the song Save A Prayer in the cover version of EoDM (Eagles of Death Metal). Originally the song was recorded by British Duran Duran in 1982. The band announced that it will donate their proceeds from the campaign to charity.

18th of July 2014: Is Robin Schulz the artist of the year?

A fifth week at the top makes Prayer in C the second longest running number 1 of 2014 so far. Only Happy by Pharrell Williams performed better with eight weeks at the top.
If one count the remix of Mr Probz' Waves as a full and regular Robin Schulz entry than he is the most successful artist of the year by now collecting nine weeks at the top so far.

As the number 1 also the rest of the Top 10 is almost frozen. OneRepublic manages to climb a further place to number 3 with its Love Runs Out and Helene Fischer now spends a 29th week inside the Top 10 with her Atemlos durch die Nacht. It now matches the result of Butterfly by Daniel Gerard (1970) and A Song Of Joy by Miguel Rios (1971) which are so far the two songs with the second longest Top 10 appearance. The absolut record still stands at unbelievable 42 weeks for Ein Stern (der deinen Namen trägt) by DJ Ötzi & Nik P. from the year 2007.

The only song new inside the Top 10 comes from British Drum'n'Bass act SIGMA that vaults four places to number 8 with their production Nobody To Love

One of the very rare significantly moving tracks is Chandelier the very first solo single charting in Germany by SIA. The track so far sneaked through the lowest ends of the list for five weeks reaching only position 81. Now with the full released album 1000 Forms Of Fear in the back the single can leap to number 44. In France the song right now reached number 1.

The second significant mover is Zuhause by Adel Tawil Featuring Matisyahu. The track was released on the album Lieder and supported as a single track by special versions performed on SWR radio. Just before every match of the German team at the FIFA WM Adel Tawil changed the lyrics and recorded the track newly. The song now jumps 96–50.

Due to the WM also the inofficial anthem of the Bundesliga (and following EM) of 2012 re-enters the list. Tage wie diese by Die Toten Hosen adds a 83rd chart week at number 81.

6th of June 2014:

Very often straight number 1s appear as an flash in the pan. Big success right after the song is available and than … a quickly decreasing interest in the song. And there are real hits that start straight at the Top. Traum by German rapper CRO is the latter one. The song spends a third week at the Top of Germany’s single charts. The last one doing so was Jason Derulo with Talk Dirty in early autumn 2013.

Rising to no.3 Mark Forster becomes the next successful young German singer songwriter. Au revoir (Featuring Sido) is the highest rank Mark Forster so far achieved. It eclipses the result of Einer dieser Steine from last November on which he accompanied rapper Sido and which stopped at no.4.

In it's 33rd chart week and in its 23rd Top10 week Atemlos duch die Nacht by Helene Fischer rises again two places stopping at number 4. It is the longest Top10 habitation for a song since three years. And it looks like more and more fans purchase the song. The new demand comes due to the final of TV show Let's Dance where Atemlos durch die Nacht was one of the songs for the finalists.

New inside the Top 10 Kiesza is the first Canadian artist since a year who manages to invade the German list that high. Hideaway lands at number 8 and follows Justin Bieber's #That Power.

With a proper album released German DJ/producer Alle Farben gets his first chart hit She Moves - Far Away to Top10 status. The track lands at number 9 in its seventh chart week and is the fifth German production inside the Top10 which is a very rare picture.

The highest new entry comes due to an episode of the show Sing meinen Song. On 27th of May Gregor Meyle was the artist of interest in the production. Sarah Connor's version of his Keine(r) ist wie du has had the most impact on all viewers–the song enters at number 12 and gives the singer her best chart result since 2008. The original also enters the list–no.40 is the second best position for the singer in Germany. In Switzerland the song already is now the best performing song at all. His first ever chart hit and best performing recording in Germany Niemand re-enters at number 65 and collects a seventh chart week.
More show impact can be watched inside the list further down. Xavier Naidoo enters with his version of Du bist das Licht at number 46, the original from 2012 lands at number 70 and the single by Gregor Meyle Hier spricht dein Herz lands at number 54. All toghether the singer has five song inside the current Top100. The album compilation of the show this week enters number 1 inside the albums list.


What else?
German techno and happy hardcore project SCOOTER celebrates its 52nd chart hit under its own name. Bigroom Blitz (Feat. Wiz Khalifa) lands at number 43 which is the highest position in three years. With this chart entry the project has the third biggest amount of hits in the list behind Peter Alexander who had 81 and Madonna with so far 60 hits. Anyway the German act only took 20 years for its result. Its first entry was back in October 1994.

A viral youtube-hit brings The Proclaimers back into the list. Jack Hyer mad his proposal with a video shot in 28 countries and backgrounded with I'm Gonna Be (500 miles). The track originally recorded in 1988 had its first chart appearance in Germany after it was used within the movie Benny & June. It had its highest position at number 40. This week it stands again at number 67.

King soccer shows his more and more what will go on the next weeks. Pitbull Feat, Jennifer Lopez & Cláudia Leitte sit pretty at number 19, Shakira goes 47–29 and finally the first German FIFA WM related song enters in the face of Stefan Raab's Wir kommen, um ihn zu holen at number 82. The song was released midweek so the impact in next weeks time might be bigger. The full CD release follows immediatly.

14th of February 2014:

Another week we see Pharrell Williams Happy about being No.1 in Germany. It is the fifth week at the Top which means Happy is the longest standing No.1 for the singer. Additionally his total of number 1 weeks is 11 which makes him as successful as AVICII. Only Rihanna had more in this decade: a full 16 weeks at the Top since January 1st 2010.

REVOLVERHELD finally has a fourth Top 10 hit with Ich lass für dich das Licht an rising 11–7. The new demand comes due to its release on CD. According to chart position the song already has overtaken Halt dich an mir fest which is so far the most sold single of the band. The highest position REVOLVERHELD gained with Helden 2008 in exactly that year.

A fortnight before its release on CD Can't Remember To Forget You goes Top 10. It is Shakira's 11th Top 10 single in Germany – Rihanna performs much better. So far she has 21 Top 10 singles under her belt–matching the result of ABBA. For becoming the act with most Top 10 singles she has to add some more. The all time record still is an unbelievable amount of 36 Top 10 hits set by Caterina Valente between 1954 and 1962–of course only if you count her hits as Club Italia/Indonesia/Honolulu to herself. Otherwise the record is held by Peter Alexander with 35 Top 10 hits under his own name.

Looks like German producer ZEDD right now becomes a mainstream star. His single Stay The Night (featuring Haley Williams of Paramor) enters the Top 20 at number 15 one week ahead of its release as a proper CD single. In the US he already is a star–decorated with an Grammy award as Best Dance Recording for predecessor Clarity three weeks ago.

TV soap Berlin – Tag und Nacht launches a third hit. After Ole (2012) and Chris Prinz (2013) it is now JJ alias Très Jolie who released a production. Bow! (You Gotta Kick It) lands at number 20 which marks the highest position for a track related to the soap.

Single number 4 from AVICII's album True is the track Addicted To You which will be released as full single in April. Already now the track becomes hit status by rising 95–28. Predecessor Hey Brother performs still well inside the Top 20.


DSDS infected hits
Since 8th of January the 11th season of DSDS (Deutschland sucht den Superstar) is aired. So far only jury member Kay One benefitted from the new presence–his hits V.I.P. and Keep Calm Fuck You returned to the list and sneaking through the bottom down regions of the list. This week also Ich hass es dich zu lieben returns to number 91.

The first song performed by a contestant this week gets in the list. It is the ballad When I Look At You originally recorded by Miley Cyrus that returns at number 60. The original chart appearance stopped in August 2010 at number 85–so this is a new peak. The album the song is taken from The Time Of Our Lives is right now digitally re-released. What an impact for a simple TV show.

07-26-13

It is the second week for Swedish AVICII at the top of the German list. Exactly one year ago there was the last Number one coming from that Scandinavian country. It was LYKKE LI's I Follow Rivers that had a five weeks run at the very top. In between we had Icona Pop challenging to number 3 with I Love It and of course the last single of the Swedish House Mafia Don't You Worry Child peaking at number 12. Adding Loreen's Eurovision winning song Euphoria to that survey Sweden is the most successful European country besides Great Britain to launch pop music in Germany.

Back to Top 10 status James Arthur now delivers one of the three singles spending more than 13 weeks inside the Top 10. It joins Can't Hold Us by Macklemore X Ryan Dalton (14 times) and Scream & Shout by will.i.am & Britney Spears (17 times only in 2013).

Highest new entry is Stress ohne Grund by German rappers Shindy & Bushido. The song is accompanied by a scandal as the lyrics contain defamations of people of the public life in Germany. Some of them reported an offence to the law. The track (and the album by Shindy containing it) were indexed a week after its release. Of course the scandal did fire demand so Stress ohne Grund lands at number 19 - highest position for a track by Bushido since two years and a peak for newcomer Shindy's career.

39-12: Germany loves German music (and some Austrian tunes too)

A new Number 1 offered by a new trio: MARTERIA • YASHA • MISS PLATNUM are the new stars starting with their new single Lila Wolken (Violet Clouds) right at the Top. It is the third single in 2012 starting chart life at the highest position. And it is the third Number 1 coming from a German act. After the superstar and the DJ remix it is the probably most important style that finally can gain the Top spot: German HipHop reaches it’s commercial zenit.

Having the third German production at number one means we really have German music back to it’s success. In 2011 there was only one act from Germany topping the weekly charts – probably the bottom of the “crisis” of German music. The last heydays from the early 2000s when at least five track each year topped the list seems still far and away. All in all we watch five German productions inside the Top 10 which is quite an impressive fact. In the whole Top 100 there are 31 tracks produced by German acts. I really do not know when we had such a situation the last time.


Back to the song starting at number 1: Lila Wolken is a soft hymn for free night life. It tells about the search for having the choise and the luck seeing the morning sky. It lifts Marteria and Miss Platnum with their third chart hit to number 1. For the latter on it took almost exactly five years getting here. – A second track from the EP of the trio can enter the charts on single downloads. It is Feuer which reaches position 52.




The next new entry comes due to a performance at new season of Das Supertalent. Jean-Michel Aweh performed Wie soll ein Mensch das ertragen originally recorded by Philipp Poisel–right after the show the two years old song shoots to number 5 reaching a new peak. It is the second song of Philipp Poisel reaching the Top 5 after being performed in a casting show. And it is his third Top 5 hit in 2012 making him the most successful German act this year. Rapper CRO only had two Top 5 hits this year so far.

Supported by the new demand also the latest single Wolke 7 alongside Max Herre jumps back up the list and lands at number 9. In the same manner (but slightly more dimmed) Eiserner Steg rises 67–46 in its 40th chart week and Ich will nur comes back for a short appearance at number 97. So we see four tracks of Philipp Poisel inside the recent list.

Also the other song performed by the candidate Jean-Michel re-enters the charts. It is Revolverheld’s Halt dich an mir fest recorded with Marta Jandová of Die Happy. The song was a long time seller in 2011. Now it comes back at number 60.


And yet another Top 10 story: Carly Rae Jepsen spends a twentieth week inside the Top 10 and is so far the longest Top 10 runner of the year. Hard on the heels follows I Follow Rivers by Lykke Li which so far collected 18 weeks.


A late summer tune comiong from Austria is gaining more attention. Klangkarussell is a Salzburg based duo. Its track Sonnentanz was released a year ago. It found some first lovers in spring this year and reached broader popularity during the summer. Now a single is full released on CD which gives the track a last boost climbing into the Top 20 in its sixth chart week. In Austria and Switzerland the track also can reach Top 20 status. It is the first Top 20 hit comiong from Austria since two years.



German dance music much more plays the easy and direct way. The Michael Mind Project Feat. Dante Thomas does not experiment a lot. Nothing Lasts Forever sounds like all the last offers of the project. The audience still can deal it–the new single starts at number 40. It is the 12th single so far for Michael Mind–none of them reached ever the Top 10.

The first white/northern soul act from Germany is Leslie Clio. The singer lives in Hamburg and right now released her debut Told You So. The song starts at number 41 but it might have the power of spending some more weeks inside the list.




Silbermond has announced a new single. Immediately the hard core of fans is buying the track in question Ja as an album cut which makes it entering the charts at number 70. Compared to the last single of Silbermond it is quite doubtful seeing the new one rising much further after the release of the single in late October.

Back with new material after a seven years break Joachim Witt has released the single Gloria. A dark song about our complicated life.




Number 1 on the DVD charts is French movie The Intouchables. The main title Una Mattina reaches the song charts though not in its original version played by Ludovico Einaudi. Instead a version played by Swedish Jonas Kvarnström is listed at number 77.

Weak German tracks

An almost static Top 5 except No.5 which is occupied now by the steadily rising Hello by Martin Solveig + Dragonette. The track reaches its peak so far in the 20th chart week. Peaking inside the really top of the charts after 20 weeks or more is a feat not gained very often. The last two years saw ittwice happens. In last November Leona Lewis shot with her Run straight to No.2 after a performance of the track by a contestant in a casting show. It was the 35th chart week. Last track peaking in its origin chart run inside the top 5 that late was Gossip’s Heavy Cross which gained No.2 a year before in November 2009.

8 weeks inside the list – finally shooting to Top 10 status – that’s Flo Rida who can jump up 16 places right to No. 8 after his performance at Stefan Raab’s Wok WM aired on 12th March. It is the third time the US American rapper can invade the German Top 10. In his home country he had hit the top spot twice, in the UK three times and in Ireland already four times. Producing DJ Frank E hits the top 10 for a second time. Predecessor Airplanes performed by B.o.B featuring Hayley Williams rose to No.8 also five months ago. His most recent production Tonight (I’m Loving You) on which he is credited properly alongside Enrique Iglesias holds firm at No.12 waiting for its rise to the Top 10. Seems we’re just facing a new super producer …

Hard times for German productions. The highest German track sits at position 15 in the face of Lena and her Taken by a Stranger (falling 8 – 15 ... oops).

Best new German track and probably soon the most successfull German one enters the list at No.20 by Die Atzen mit NENA celebrating Strobo Pop. (I talked about the track in the midweek’s chart flash). The track narrowly outsells tumbling Milk&Sugar vs. Vaya Con Dios’ Hey (Nah Neh Nah) which probably disappears out of the list.

Bad times for German offerings does not mean there aint no … Not at all. Right now some releases of German artists are in shops. Let’s have a look:

CLUESO has made his way becoming a solid artist selling albums in respectable amounts, having a few medium hits played often in radio programmes and staying acceptable and upright for his fans. His sixth album An und für sich (Actually / In and of itself) is scheduled for 25th March. Following the classic release plan the first single is available two weeks ahead. Zu schnell vorbei (Over to fast) is a soft ballad talking bout precious moments and the search for the ability enjoying them. The single is the successor of Gewinner (Winner) which spent a whole 32 weeks in the charts. Listening to the track I guess it could become a similar slow burner. No.38 in the first week could lead much higher.




Do you know SpongeBob? Probably you’re not the main target group of that comic character but you might recognized the popularity the character has between children. Nine TV seasons plus ten movies were produced since 1999. It is aired almost all over the world, computer games exist and a whole merchandise industry is working around the character. Well – time to have a CD with hits as well. In 2009 there was a CD released including the original score of the serial. I can’t remember this had a huge impact. Now sonymusic decided to release a CD full with cover version of well known pop hits for the German speaking area especially. The album named BOB Musik – Das Gelbe Album (The Yellow Album) enters the album list straight at position 17. That’s not all. Lecker Lecker (Yummy Yummy) – a cover of Shakira’s hit Waka Waka (This Time For Africa) – charted as an digital album cut in the singles’ list also. No. 43 on downloads only. Is that caused by kids only?



Bad timing for DJ Ötzi. His company Polydor decided releasing the new single Lieb ich dich right after the big run of Après Ski and Discofox hits. I really would love to know why. It is the second single off his album Du und ich. It is completely the style of all its predecessors. It should have a huge support for becoming a hit. Why do they release it after the carneval season? What was the secret plan behind that schedule?

As always Lieb ich dich (Love you) is a song about the never ending love. It’s a frank confession as one would say in emotional situations. Maybe at Oktoberfest after 3 beers. Or while dancing in stupid costumes around a truck rolling slowly through the streets plus hammering discofox beat against the crowd. Well – a few people like the song as well. Maybe they are just in love. Lieb ich dich enters the chart at a very low No.79. – And please, don’t call me a cynic.






Finally a short look at recent European Connections within the chart:

Dutch symphonic rock band Within Temptation offers a new album. The Unforgiving is the first new material since four years. Leading single Faster was available as CD two weeks earlier. The track enters the chart right at No.48. It is the first time in four years that the band could reach the upper half of the German list.The last track doing so was leading single of predeceding albumWhat Have You Done which rose up to position 32.

11-10: Bruno Mars - Taio Cruz again - and some Chris Brown

Bruno Mars holds still the #1 spot in Germany with grenade. That’s the news of this week. He now occupies that position for a fourth week in a row and matches the feat The Black Eyed Peas did in January this year. It is almost a given thing that he will top the list next week too and gain the honour of being the most successfull track of 2011 so far. Why I’m so sure? Well – the release schedule for the recent week is not that strong. Chris Brown is the candidate with most prospects of having the best physical release start. His latest offering Yeah 3x enters the list by donwloads only at #8 as the highest new entry this week. I really doubt that the track more or less adressed to a younger fan crowd would have the power of overtaking the most mainstream hit of the moment (and here I mean mainstream as a very positive thing: almost everybody in Germany is attracted by the romantic and powerful ballad of Mr. Mars). Chris Brown so far is having a small comeback launching a third top 10 hit after a two year’s break.

Of course nobody should never say that something is given for sure … at least not concerning the chart. Or did you really believe that Taio Cruz featuring Kylie will rise much further in their 11th week? I told you the story last Friday – besides all the Lena hysteria and the almost failing Depeche mode flash mob the Taio/Kylie story was the most exciting going on last chart week. And now? – Finally they climb higher and higher reaching now #3. Higher is now for both the longest staying top 10 track within the German charts. Taio Cruz „only“ spent 11 weeks with Dynamite last September/October – Kylie did so with her last #1 hit Can’t Get You Out Of My head in 2001. It is by the way Kylie’s 50th week inside the German top 10. She now accompanies artists like Timbaland or Beyoncé. Both did in very shorter time … so Kylie Minogue benefits from her endurance in music business. She now has top 3 hits in three different decades. What is probably more exceptional: she did not have any top 10 hit in the 90s.

The best CD release last week was done by The Black Eyed Peas. Just Can’t Get Enough is the second single from their recent album The Beginning. It’s not that catchy and straight dance oriented as its predecessor The Time (Dirty Bit) was. It is viceversa a little more demanding … not that easy to consume. Does anybody wonder why the track starts at #9? Anyway it is the 12th top 10 track for the Peas.

11-08: La Gaga is not (yet) no.1

Was anybody really believin’ that Lady Gaga could crash right into the no.1 spot? Well – the start of her digital release was quite impressive. If one had a look at the iTunes world charts overview on Monday last week one would have seen only one track at the top: Born This Way. Kind of amazing. And boring at the same time. – La Gaga is selling her new track like hot cakes –or as we would say in German like hot semmels (rolls) – but she misses the real giant impact one could expect. In the UK she is still at no.3 for the second week.Here in Germany she shoots up to no.2 – on download sales only I have to add. And that’s indeed spectacular. We do not see online only singles that often as high in the chart as other national charts do. The German system is based on the amount of money a track generated over a week. Meaning: a CD single for appr. 3,99 EUR counts three times more than a mp3 sale for 0,99 EUR. – So we could say Lady Gaga is selling for sure the double of Bruno Mars whos grenade is still at the top – for him the physical sales count heavily.

Lady Gaga misses no.1 – this week. With the video still not released and the CD release scheduled for 11 March we will see La Gaga at the top for sure in the next for weeks. It is Lady Gagas eighth track entering the German charts. All of them went top 10 – only her first single Just Dance and later LoveGame missing top 3. She stands now in a row with Mark Medlock who had 8 consecutive hits charting inside top 5 – but last year he missed with his single Maria Maria even the top 20. The other recent act having 8 consecutive top hits (all inside top5) and still waiting for the ninth one is German Tokio Hotel. To reach the top of this unofficial ranking Lady Gaga needs 10 more top 10 hits in a row – then she will beat all time stars The Beatles.

Do you want some more statistical gossip about Born This Way? Well here is: the track is the so far highest new entry of 2011. Wow!

The new Lady Gaga could become Natalia Kills. The American artist has featured herself with a mini serial of webisodes calling Love Kills. Her first single Mirrors is first released in middle Europe. At least Germany has catched fire – the track starts as the best new CD release of the week at no.10. I guess the US and the UK will follow soon.