27th of Feb 15: Best British Female Since Adele

It is the second week at number 1 for Ellie Goulding and her Love Me Like You Do.
The last British female having a two weeks run at the Top was Adele with her breakthrough Rolling In The Deep in February 2011.


ApeCrime gets its biggest hit to date by charting with Alles was ich hab at number 12. It is the fourth chart hit of the trio.
Cologne BRINGS also celebrate a career peak by getting their Polka Polka Polka up to number 19. It is their 15th chart single in a 24 years long chart presence. Since 2004 the band enters the charts yearly in carneval season.

After almost 20 years of abstinence from the single's list Annie Lennox returns with her contribution to the Fifty Shades Of Grey score. It is a fascinating take on the classic I Put A Spell On You first recorded in 1956 by Screamin' Jay Hawkins.
The song already charted three times in Germany. The best performing version is the one by Bryan Ferry peaking at number 53 in 1993.

With the release of his new no.1 album CCN III German Bushido also gets 12 tracks in the list. The highest comes in at no 43. 12 tracks in one single week – that's impressive of course but still far away from the result of Kollegah who launched 18 tracks in one week in May 2014. Also in other statistics Bushido fails of becoming a record setter. With 34 chart entries within this current decade he still ranges behind David Guetta who already collected 36 entries. The all time survey sees the rapper as the best German act with 56 different chart entries. This result is no.3 behind Madonna (61 entries) and Peter Alexander (81 entries).
Well–one survey sees Bushido taking the crown. He is now the artist with most consecutive chart entries missing the top 10. Since 2010 there were 30 tracks appearing in the list but failing of becoming real hits.

Bushido is one of the reasons why there are 38 German productions inside the list–31 of them are in German.

Statistical stuff
22 new entries – best result for 2015 so far and best figure since May 23rd 2014
no new entry – happened last also May 23rd 2014

24th of January 2014: Lazy Week

It is still holidays time in Germany–according to the music business going on. Only five new singles and six re-entries find the way to the list. It is so far the least turnover of the list of the whole month. So the top end looks calm also: The Top 5 is the same as we had last week.

Still Germany is Happy with Pharrell Williams occupying the top position of the singles’ charts. So the artists had all his Nr.1 tracks standing there for at least two weeks, which makes him the most enduring Nr.1 artist in this millenium right behind queen Rihanna.


One week before its release as a full CD single and two weeks before the album release Kids (2 Finger an Kopf) by MARTERIA shows some power. The song first appearing inside the charts one months ago at number 7 returns into the Top 10 at number 9 this week.

In its sixth chart week also the new single from BASTILLE Of The Night catches finally fire. The mashup cover version rises 26–13 giving the band a third Top 20 hit in a row. The official release of the CD single is scheduled for February 4th.

Further on the way up Revolverheld's Ich lass für dich das Licht an stops at number 14 this week. The song looks like it will at least match the so far most successful single of the band Helden 2008 which peaked at number 2 about six years ago.

One of the most influencing hit maker still is youtube. And a still increasing group of artists is the one of comedy couples or trios which also recording songs the so called Generation Youtube. After their first appearance back in September ApeCrime storms the list as the highest new entry this current week with Swing dein Ding. The song lands at number 17 – so far most of that kind of songs disappeared after two weeks latest. Only Y-Titty managed having longer standing hits. The mainstream breakthrough for that generation still did not happen.

By charting at number 20 in its first week Shakira gets her first Top 20 hit since four years with Can't Remember To Forget You. Accompanying Rihanna of course is a star of a very different kind. Her last Top 10 hit still sits pretty at number 11 in the face of The Monster. The new single is her 33rd chart entry in 10 years.


Talking 'bout sleepy music business at the beginning of this post also means: There are well known tracks and artists invading the charts. One of the more significant is the return of 90s star Dr. Alban. A remix of his Europe-wide number 1 hit It's My Life is back in a 2014 remix by The Bodybangers at number 32. 16 years after the singing dentist had its last chart appearance in Germany he is back to the Top 40.

And another band celebrates its chart comeback. First time seen here in 2005 medieval project Schandmaul launches a second chart hit with Euch zum Geleit at number 85. It's a funeral song which brings the band back to mainstream commercial live.