May 29th 15: Euro...what?

What a week! What a race! Friday and Saturday Felix Jaehn Feat. Jasmine Thompson led the survey all alone. On Sunday clearly Måns Zelmerlöw had his Eurovision supported sales peak followed by a very strong album supported Sarah Connor who was reported as number 1 on Midweek charts. Finally the old no.1 had some more steam at all and Ain't Nobody (Loves Me Better) holds firm for a fourth week. Which makes again the story of the week not going on at the very Top. But on the runners up position. Wie schön du bist by Sarah Connor takes a six places leap to #2 and gives the singer her highest appearance since her last no.1 hit From Zero To Hero which dates back 10 years already. Definitely she now is back in business as her album Muttersprache immediately flies to no.1 too where she landed a decade ago for the one and only time.

Newly at number 3 and of course a story as well Swedish Eurovision winner Måns Zelmerlöw comes in with his winning song Heroes. It is the fourth consecutive year that the winning song of the show can enter the Top5 a feat only seen between 1964 and 1967. So the contest really is as popular as hardly before.
Måns Zelmerlöw meanwhile also is the best performing Swedish act since AVICII topped the list with Hey Brother in November 2013. One might find strong similarities between the songs–well, Swedish dance pop sounds like this and obviously still rules at least whole Europe.

Eurovisions No.4 is Germany's second: Belgian Loic Nottet lands at number 21 with Rythm Inside which is the second highest charting Belgian Eurovision entry. Only Tom Dice (sixth in 2010) had the chance of grabbing number 20 in Germany. As a fourth place Rhythm Inside gots the highest chart entry since 1965. Back than Udo Jürgens climbed to #9 with his no.4 song Sag' ihr ich lass sie grüßen.

German entry Black Smoke by Ann Sophie re-enters at #26 increasing her result after her nomination slightly. It is the worst result for a Eurovision entry since 2003 when Lou completely missed the charts. On the other hand Lou did much better on the contest by landing at number 11. Ann Sophie did not get any single point in Vienna and joins Austrian The Makemakes at the very latest rank which is the lowest place a German entry ever achieved (although there were years when the German entry didn't get any point).

All in all this Eurovision is as popular as hardly before. For the first time in history the first nine songs voted in the final make it in the charts also.


Impact number 3 came by second episode of this year's Sing meinen Song show. Participants had to choose a favorite song originally recorded by Andreas Bourani which boosts the songs of the singer again. Newly inside the list shoots the title track of his 2014 album Hey which was performed by Yvonne Catterfeld on the show. The original lands at #30.


Spending a 81st consecutive week on the survey Atemlos durch die Nacht by Helene Fischer now is the fifth longest running chart song without any break. There are another 15 weeks to go for eclipsing the record set by gossip in 2011 with Heavy Cross. Viewing all chart weeks Atemlos durch die Nacht collected so far 85 weeks what is a proper rank 13 on the all time list.

4th of April 2014: ECHO and first DSDS effects

Week number four at the German top for MR PROBZ and his Waves. Now Bailando by Loona in late summer 1998 is the last Dutch production that was sitting at number 1 that long for last.

More or less the Top 10 looks very static. More movement might be seen at number 14. Scheduled for CD release on April 18th Budapest by George Ezra climbs to real hit status. He signed a few weeks ago a contract with Sony Music–now the broad marketing machine works and brings him to more publicity in all media. That’s how the business still works.

A very similar sound and atmosphere lands at number 19 in the face of James Blunt. With Heart To Heart released on CD as well the track jumps 14 places. Seems that the fans of the singer are a little conservative in the way they consume music. Underlining that the track got a sales boost on Thursday night (March 27th). Then the ECHO award ceremony took place and one of the highlights was the duet by James Blunt and Helene Fischer who sang Heart To Heart.

More ECHO effect on the list:
Decorated with an award Swedish producer and DJ AVICII also shows new strength in the list. Wake Me Up! goes 59–42, Hey Brother 44-41 and his current hit Addicted To You climbs one place to number 7 again.

Also Shakira staged on the show to promote the release of her new self titled album. It starts at number 5 on the album’s list. Additionally her song Dare (La La La) enters the song charts at number 45. The song was chosen to be the official soccer WM song 2014. Of course her appearance in the new Danone commercial campaign also boosts her media presence.

After his performance on the ECHO show also veteran Peter Maffay sees his new single Gelobtes Land fly to number 48. It is his 49th chart entry at all and the highest entry since his charity project Children Of The World in 2007 which reached number 30. The singer started his chart career exactly 44 years ago. On April 1st 1970 his single Du entered the list for the very first time. In June the song was number 1.

Other TV events propel hits up the charts too. Well known DSDS (Deutschland sucht den Superstar) still has the power and influence to force music sales. Such it is the fact on following act: She was one of the Top female voices in 2012. Coming from nowhere Emeli Sandé had have five hits back in that year. In 2013 it was a little more dumbed around her. The well known songs clang on a little but new material didn’t catch really fire. So exactly one year ago also Clown had a very short chart appearance only sneaking in the list for a single week at number 93. This week the song returns with power thanks to the new season of DSDS. It was Vanessa Valera Rojas who performed the song and got her ticket for the live shows. The original re-enters the list at number 36 on sales.

It is a surprise that TV serial Tatort can launch a second hit within four months. In January it was Nick Cave who reached number 77 after his song Push The Sky Away was used in the movie. This week it is Ben Howard. The song Depth Over Distance was used in Der Fall Reinhardt a little confusing story with a highly decorated cast. Ben Becker and Susanne Wolff played the main characters. The song goes number 55.


Upcoming dancefloor tracks:
There are several tracks for the floor around with growing interest in it. First of all there is the next big thing called My Love by Route 94 Feat. Jess Glynne which still is digitally available only. The track jumps 53–20 in its second chart week which gives an impression of what might happen to the track in two weeks time when the full CD release is in shelves. It is the second Top 20 hit for singer Jess Glynne within six weeks.
Already a week before its official release the new remix (the official festival mix) of Show Me Love by the Michael Mind Project enters the list. In 2008 the first version of the cover reached number 38–now it starts chart life at number 62. The original recording by Robin S. made it to number 11 in 1993. Still a long way to go for the remake. – The take on the signal theme by Kid Ink still sneaks through the end of the list. This week it collects its 28th chart week at number 90.
On the way up Gorgon City Ft. Mnek arrives inside the Top 75. Ready For Your Love is number 70 in its third chart week.
Also W&W enter the list a week ahead of the official release of Bigfoot. Last week they already reached the Austrian charts. Now number 74 is the first result for the Dutch duo in Germany. It is the second list they can enter worldwide.
With new remixes available finally Kids by Style Of Eye Ft. Soso finds a bigger audience. The track enters the list at number 76. The man behind Style of Eye has some chart experience as the writer of Icona Pop's I Love It which invaded the charts last year and stopped at nr.3.



The highest new entry comes in at number 35 which is the second lowest result of the year 2014. Only on January the 10th the highest new entry was weaker due to the lack of real new releases. This week it is Australian rock band 5 Seconds of Summer that see it single She Looks So Perfect stall close to the middle of the charts. Probably it aint the high time for rock issues right now. Or is it more a kind of tiredness for boy bands?



After Gäa became a hit for Oonagh on its own the proper release as CD single follows and throws the song back to the list. It enters number 67 which marks a new peak for that song.

Released midweek Loyal by Chris Brown Lil Wayne Tyga start half power at number 81. The reduced r’n’b production might have some more fire in it but will it give Chris Brown the hit he so urgently need? His last Top 10 appearance is three years ago. Even the Top 20 saw him last two years ago. His last single as main artist stalled at number 48 last summer. Ehm–there is something work to do for the star.

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.

26-12: Soccer Dance

Die Toten Hosen right now repeat the result of their so far greatest hit Zehn kleine Jägermeister as current hit single Tage wie diese stays for a fourth week right at the Top of Germany’s singles charts. Used by public TV ARD as the main anthem for the EURO2012 the track is heavily supported by media use. So does number 2 which comes right now from Linkin Park. Burn It Down is used by ZDF for the same reason and now is the highest ranking track of Linkin Park of all times. They reached three times number 4 so far. In 2004, in 2007 and in 2009–now the history of the band is re-written.

The current list is covering the time span 15th to 21st of June. In this time the hopes for a German championship seemed realistic. Finale wir kommen (Final we’re coming) by KAY ONE Featuring Shindy tells about that dream. It climbs 54–29. Last Thursday these hopes were smashed by the team from Italy. Probably the KAY ONE song will tumble down in two weeks time dramatically.

Rising also is the Ukrainian band Los Colorados. Its take on I Like To Move It is the second official ZDF-track for EURO2012 promotion. It now reaches the upper half of the list at number 44.


The best performing new songs are alle from the dancefloor. Highest new entry inside the German list comes from Swiss Patrick Miller. So far he is known as the voice of the rap part on recordings by Mike Candys. So far he collected two Top 20 hits within the past 9 months. Now he starts his own solo single Dancing in London. It is a dance infected tune also but falls short of the two predecessors.



The man who made Patrick Miller popular can’t make it that big. His newest offeringSunshine (Fly So High) is even outsold by predecessor 2012. It lands at number 64 so far.



The highest new entry coming from a German act is Feeling So Blue by the Michael Mind Project. It is build around the Eiffel 65 hit from 1999. Landing at number 38 in its first chart week it is the first time since four years that the Michael Mind Project can reach the upper half of the charts again. Singer Dante Thomas seems after a long long break really back in the business. It is already his second chart appearance in 2012.




What else? – Amy Macdonald’s album Life In A Beautiful Day shot to number 1 last week. This issue she has to move to number 2. Instead her single Slow It Down rises again and lands at number 39–which is a new peak for the song after seven weeks in the list.

Steadily rising is Belgian Triggerfinger’s unplugged version of I Follow Rivers. This week the song can stop at number 40. The original by Lykke Li also finds some more fans and rises 10–8 this current week, which also marks a new peak for the song.

Philipp Poisel had a big success at the beginning of this year when his song Eiserner Steg became very popular after being performed on a casting show. Now a further song from his last album gains attention. It is the last track on the album Bis nach Toulouse and it’s called Ich will nur (I Only Want To).It is a very reduced love ballad. As I found out the song isn’t released or scheduled for a proper single release. Instead of that there is a new album announced for August which will be probably partly live. Maybe it is the pre-flurry that let people purchase Ich will nur as a live version on their mp3 players. Number 43 is an impressive start.



Rising also is Reckoning Song / One Day the remix of Asaf Avidans song by Wankelmut. It is new inside the upper half at number 49.

Two years ago Menowin Fröhlich seemed to be one of the big stars of the future. Than he failed in winning the superstar casting contest only becoming the runner up. Last year he released his first single with more or less success. But the interest in the almost superstar fades away dramatically. Now his first album is announced. And almost nobody cares. The single that should tease the album lands at a low number 60. It is called Round ‘N’ Round.

I am actually wondering how often one can release the same sounding song. Marquess already does it with ¡Bienvenido! for the ninth time. Well –the success of the releases so far isdecreasing too. Number 61 for the summer single 2012.



And also Schlager old star Jürgen Drews comes with a new single. Für einen Tag (For One Day) is the newest offering landing at number 62.


Jürgen Drews -- Für einen Tag - MyVideo


Again on TV Die ultimative Chartshow. Although the survey on the most successfull synthie pop hits was aired for the 15th time one live act of the show can manage it to launch its hit again. It’s Faithless that sees its Insomnia again landing at number 79. It is the 55th chart week for the song so far and the 12th time that it re-enters the list.


And finally the song noted for the most times inside the German sales charts Sky And Sand by Paul & Fritz Kalkbrenner this issue leaves the list. Last week it was noted at number 96 in its 115th chart week–now it is really out. Now the song with most chart weeks is Rolling In The Deep by Adele which sits at number 94 in its 77th week.

23-12: Eurovision Fever

Boom! There she comes. Swedish Loreen won the Eurovision Song Contest on 26th May and afterwards storms the charts all over Europe. Also Germany is infected by the eurodance production. Euphoria immediately storms to number 1 on the singles charts. It is the first non German winning song at the top of the sales charts since 1974. Back then it was also the Swedish entry that charmed the Europe wide audience and caused the very first success for ABBA. Euphoria is only the third Eurovision winning song not coming from Germany that can reach the top of the singles list. Only Sandy Shaw in 1967 managed that feat with her Puppet On A string. Of course the two wins of German entries reached the top in Germany as well. It was in 1982 Nicole and her Ein bisschen Frieden (A Little Peace) and two years ago Lena with Satellite.

The number one statistic concerning Euphoria is interesting in another way too. Loreen is the first woman to top the charts since Lana del Rey in December last year. And she is the first Swedish act doing so since Eric Prydz who entered the top in November 2004 with Call On Me – a dancefloor hit too. By the way Euphoria is the 88th song that can enter the German charts straightly at number 1.



Well–all that tells one fact: the Eurovision Song Contest is back as a big mainstream event in Germany. To underline that statement we should risk a look further down the survey: Seven of the 26 Eurovision finalists can launch a chart hit in Germany. Never before that many songs of the contest made it into the list.

Of course German participant Roman Lob benefits from the event aired on TV. Standing Still jumps 39–11 after his performance in Baku. Best entry not winning and not coming from Germany is surprisingly Ivi (eevie) Adamou and her song Lala Love. Her chart success is quite strange considering the fact that the German audience gave no point to her on the competition itself. Seems that people who vote are completely different to the people who buy songs. By the way the song charts in Austria and Switzerland as well–same picture here: no points within the voting on Eurovision but strong sales. Ivi Adamou is–as far as I could find out–the first Cypriot singer who can reach the German charts.

Runner up song Party For Everybody by the Бурановские Бабушки / Buranovskiye Babushki can enter the list easily. It starts chart life at number 44 as the third best non German participant–in the Eurovision voting the song got seven points meaning it landed at rank 4. It is the first time since 2007 that the Eurovision second can reach the sales charts. 5 years ago it was Ukrainian Verka Serduchka with Dancing Lasha Tumbai. There are some similarities between these two songs. With number 44 Party For Everybody is the highest second place since 1977 when Lynsey de Paul & Mike Moran reached number 4 with their song Rock Bottom (and became the secret winner of that year’s contest).

Further down one can find the Eurovision number 23 from Denmark. Soluna Samay got five points from the German voters. Her song Should’ve Known Better lands at number 51 as the fourth best sold Eurovision song. And of course also Irish JEDWARD can sell enough units for charting in Germany. On the votes the fan crowd was not strong enough (or was already done into bed)–the twins only made number 19. Eleftheria Eleftheriou from Greece at least got one single point from the German audience, lands at number 17 in Baku and sees her Aphrodisiac enter the sales charts at number 77. And finally Romanian Mandinga ending up 12th in Baku is sneaking into the charts at the very end with Zaleilah.

The big TV presence around the Eurovision show supports even bands that performed live before and right after the transmission. MIA. is the one that benefits the most seeing its Fallschirm (Parachute) jump 89–66 after the performance at the Reeperbahn live party.



Besides the big European TV event also other shows can again crowd up the charts with new material. But it is more the second row that can get attention. So let's call this week the week of the runner up singers. daniele negroni–the second of Deutschland sucht den Superstar–presents his debut album and a second single. Crazy is a surprisingly sparkling pop tune landing at number 15. So he's one of the very few runner ups who can really launch a second hit. Of course he had a big support by staging with his new song at the final show of DSDS Kids on 25th of May. Maybe he will become the real superstar of the season. The winning song of the DSDS season Don’t Think About Me this week is more sold in Daniele’s version than in the one of the winner Luca Hänni.



Also the runner up of X-Factor (do really somebody remember the show?) comes with an own single. Raffaela (formerly staging as Raffaela Wais) offers an electro infected pop track called Going Crazy. Also this production is surprisingly infecting. Having now the second song inside the German sales chart also Raffaela seems to be commercially more successsful than the winner David Pfeffer.




Back to Europe
In the week of Eurovision more European sound is new in the shelves–especially from Belgium. A new DJ and producer talent starts its way to international fame in the face of Laurent Wery who remixed a track for Swiftkid & DEV. That one brings him worldwide at the dancefloors and in the charts. Hey Hey Hey (Drop Another Bottle) is about party life. But in a much more simple way than most of similar dance productions. It is about pure fun, people look like people on the video and the sound is far away from over produced. I would call it even kind of oldschool. A big part of the crowd loves that. It starts chart life at number 27.



Last week Swedish singer Lykke Li launched their very first chart hit I Follow Rivers. The success was kind of a surprise. Right now the first cover version charts inside the Top 100. It is an unplugged version by Belgian rock band Triggerfinger. In its home country the band already achieved number 1. Now the band starts to take Germany as well. Number 58 is a good start I think.





The last story for today about a very specific German story. Everywhere in the world British/Irish boygroup One Direction tops the lists. In Germany? Nothing. The album Up All Night was available since February. Nobody cared. Now the label released a deluxe version especially for the German market which combines the CD with a DVD. Suddenly there is an interest. The album enters the album list at number 16 and lifts the single What Makes You Beautiful to a new peak. Number 65 is of course a very low peak. Probably the song suffers that lack of interest cause it is not available on youtube in Germany.

13-12: Switzerland vs. Eurodance

Nine weeks at the Top of Germany’s official singles charts. That’s what Brazilian Michel Teló is collecting so far with his anthem Nooossaa! Ai Se Eu Te Pego!. Nine weeks at the top–such a feat was last seen in October and November 2010 when Israel “IZ” Kamakawiwo’ole occupied the top slot for 10 consecutive weeks with his version on Over The Rainbow. An impressive hit at that time, still loved and often played, still ranging in the survey from time to time–last seen the week before at number 83. Anyway the singer is a one hit wonder in statistical terms. No other song recorded by him reached the singles list. Prospects are similar for Michel Teló. Having a huge hit often means to an artist that she/he is connected with that one song forever and never can offer something else that finds new friends. Good news are: the singer approaches the all time record for an act coming from South America. Shakira only is two more weeks ahead with her Nr.1 hit Whenever Wherever.

At number 3 a progress within the last 9 months comes to a new hiatus. Mike Candys Ft. Evelyn & Patrick Miller are the highest entering act at all and the next Swiss production landing in the German Top 10. 2012 ‘If The World Would End’ is the first one since DJ Antoine brought Welcome To St. Tropez to number 3 in August last year. Since than we had a couple of dance productions made in Switzerland invading the German list. Right now we have three Swiss acts inside the German Top 20–me personally don’t know when we had a situation like that the last time.



Further down the survey the DJ who started that little Swiss invasion a year ago comes in with a new track. This time DJ Antoine had chosen a track offered by Austrian fellow Rene Rodrigezz. Shake 3x also features the vocals of Austrian MC Yankoo who sounds like an European Pitbull. In Austria the track already was a hit in last September. In Germany it is the eighth track featuring a Swiss artist that ranks simultanously in the survey.




TV show of the week 16th to 22nd of March was Schlag den Raab (Beat the Raab) on Saturday 17th. Stefan Raab of course is a big player in TV and music business. He discovered and supported Swiss Stefanie Heinzmann in 2008–still she belongs to the inner circle of the Raab clan. At the show two weeks ago she performed her recent single Diggin’ In The Dirt which makes the sales increasing. The track lands at number 12. Benefitting much more of the appearance on TV Swedish CALIGOLA sees its single Forgive Forget jumping 16 places to number 16 after its performance in the show.

Seeing Swedish House Mafia entering the German list also, music coming from Sweden also making an increasing impact to the German market. Right now one can count four tracks of Swedish acts hanging around–five if one count the Steve Angello production of Taio Cruz’ Troublemaker. That track exactly shows the difference between the Swiss and the Swedish presence. Swedish acts are much more glabally involved. So the new track of the Swedish House Mafia is the soundtrack of the recent Absolut Vodka campaign called Greyhound. The video is an artificial trip into the future. The single lands at number 53.





Let’s have a look at German productions. Still leading the pack is Deichkind with Leider geil ranking at number 9 and Bück dich hoch slightly rising to number 11.

Best new offering coming from Germany is presented by surprising newcomer 2012 Glasperlenspiel (Glass Bead Game). The band continues with a second single Ich bin ich (I Am Me). It is a bubbly pop song reflecting about what is seen of a person by others and what is hide. So the song might tell a lot about modern relationships and love affairs. It starts chart life at 32.



A few places behind rock veteran Udo Lindenberg stops with his third unplugged single. It is 1989 song Reeperbahn in a reworked version as duet with Hamburg Jan Delay. They both performed as a duo twice before.



Further down the list UNHEILIG enters the survey with the title track of new album Lichter der Stadt (Lights Of The City). The album starts its chart life this week right at number one–the title track sneaks in the singles’ list at number 67. The song so far is available only as an album cut. The full CD single is released on 30th of March. Listening to the song one has to admit that UNHEILIG take new pathes. The sound is much more pop oriented. Never before I’ve heard the band that bright and joyfull.




European Dance Stuff seems a topic as four of all new enries fit to that genre.

Before David Guetta became the famous French export DJ it was Bob Sinclar who represented commercially successful club music coming from France. Seven years after his number 1 hit Love Generation the DJ and producer still releases material that can attract at least a bunch of clubbers. It is now a collaboration with Pitbull singer DragonFly and well known Fatman Scoop thatenters the list at number 45. Rock The Boat is kind of an oldschool sound. It completely abstains from rave oriented hook lines and trusts on the refrain and Pitbulls rap part. Of course a main attraction is the beat borrowed from Sweet Dreams by the Eurythmics. Just try out the MashUp by Mike Candys for knowing what I’m talking about.




Pitbull this week also enters the list as a featured artist alongside british singer REDD. He now had already seven tracks in the charts this year which matches the result of Flo Rida so far. Having six tracks in the survey in this recent week Pitbull is the first act in 2012 doing so. Last year David Guetta was the one hanging around in that quantity for 14 weeks, Lena and Amy Winehouse at least managed it for a single week. In long time terms Pitbull is hard on the heels of David Guetta according to how many chart hits he could’ve launched. Having 14 different entries he falls only four tracks short in this decade so far.

German dance cover project Groove Coverage actually works on the 90ies revival. Think About The Way was a hit for rapper Ice MC in 1994. It was kind of a comeback after his first success and a three years pause. All in all it was his second biggest seller. Groove Coverage wants to announce the new album Riot On The Dancefloor with this offering. But number 53 is not the big impact. Although the cover is probably one of their most felicitous it is the second lowest chart placing for a track in the whole chart life of the project.


The new version and the original from 1994


DSDS impacts
Some sites report that viewing figures of recent season are disastrous. According to the impact the show makes on the charts one can attest a fading influence. This week big favourite and everybody’s darling Luca Hänni is the one again who attracted most. His performed song Use Somebody re-enters the list at number 66. It is already the 39th week for the Kings of Leon track. Propelled by the demand in Use Somebody also Sex On Fire can gain some more attention and climb to number 94 again in its 76th chart week.

Second favourite of the show on 17th of March was Daniele Negroni. He performed Oh Jonny by Jan Delay which appears afterwards at number 87 in the singles list.



The very last new entry in the list lands at number 92. It is hiphop made in Austria. Dame raps on what’s about gaming on Pave Low. Although it uses all the clichees of German ghetto hiphop it sounds different to most of rap productions coming from German speaking territory. Probably it makes a difference if one tells stories about the real virtual life than dreaming ‘bout being a hard and tough street kid.

04-12: It's Après Ski party time

In Britain the year 2012 starts with an uncommon mass of high quality products inside the charts. In Germany it is much more about selling well known hits and their remixes – it is Après Ski time. Cheesy dance productions benefit the most of this collective party mood this recent week. It makes DJ Antoine feat. The Beat Shakers rising 21–17 with their Ma Chérie which is a mixture of Mr. Saxobeat and Welcome To St. Tropez. For a second time the Swiss DJ can reach the German Top 20 – giving him slowly the status he has in his home country. The Beat Shakers who deliver voice (and hook line) mark a historical moment in pop business: they are the first Serbian act reaching the Top 20 in Germany.



Compared to DJ Antoine’s predecessor Welcome To St. Tropez (remixing Timati feat. Kalenna) the recent single follows a similar pattern. It takes a slow rise – now it collects 15 chart weeks. Welcome To St. Tropez ended up at number 3. Well, that’s a challenge. – It is still a question whether just entering track I’m On You can follow that pattern too. So far the remix of the Timati, P. Diddy & Dirty Money track lands at number 85 as DJ Antoine’s fifth chart hit in Germany.

Also rising again is the other big Swiss DJ of the moment. Collaboration team Mike Candys & Evelyn Ft. Patrick Miller was just honoured with Gold for 150.000 sold units of their dance hit One Night In Ibiza. The list sees the track taking a 54–39 leap.

It’s not only about the completely poor Après Ski sound–there are some regular dance productions benefitting from the lust for shaking too. First of all Kelly Rowland feat. The WAV.s make a huge jump to number 31 in their seventh chart week. Maybe this RedOne production finally catches fire. Also The DiscoBoys take their chance releasing a cover of Around The World as their next proper single. The original recording by project ATC was a number 1 hit in 2000 heavily melking the formula of cheesy and completely naive (or should I say childish?) eurodance pop. The new version drives the tune into a pseudo glamorous hedonistic disco track. The video hardly tries to be cool–unfortunately that’s the big difference to the original: it never supposed to be a good track and never was. People who seriously party to Around The World can only look embarassing–including semi tough rappers.



By the way: you can listen to the original Russian version from 1996 here.

Another dance track already released back in December is reanimated these days. The Swedish House Mafia vs. Knife Party reappears at number 63 with their Antidote. Still it is the track of the trio performing the weakest. – Also David Guetta heavily profits this week. His track Turn Me Back from the Nothing But The Beat album re-enters the list at number 77. There are some new remixes announced for the end of the month–the track featuring Nicki Minaj will hang around the list for sure next weeks.


The second big hit maker of the week is the casting show The Voice Of Germany once again. Besides a lot of typically short re-appearances of well known hits one act really profits from the airing. It is the coach team of The BossHoss. Their recent album Liberty Of Action still ranks inside the album Top 10 while the single Don’t Gimme That rises continously. This actual week it reaches the Top 20 giving the band its highest rank ever on the singles list. Certainly the track will rise to its peak next week when sales after Live Show #4 are take into account. In that show The BossHoss staged live with their hit.

Besides this longtime effect the show also causes directly the highest new entries in the German single’s list. Seeing the rates tumbling down for the third live show on January 13th the impact ain’t that massive compared to the week before. The highest new entry of the week Up by James Morrison featuring Jessie J was presented in the show by James Morrison and coach Xavier Naidoo. The single lands at number 19 in its first week on sale. It is James Morrison’s second single from the Awakening album and turns out to be the worst charting single since he stormed to number 1 with Broken Strings in late January 2009. To tell you a positive story–predecessor I Won’t Let You Go is propelled by the performance back up the charts and lands proper at number 64.

The best selling contestant for now is Katja Friedenberg. At the show she was kicked out by her coach Xavier – in reality she was the favourite of a lot of people. Number 41 for her take on Flugzeuge im Bauch (Airplanes In My Stomach) is much better than the performance of her Turning Tables interpreted a week earlier. The original of Flugzeuge im Bauch was a hit for Herbert Grönemeyer in 1985. It reached number 44. It became much more famous when it was covered by German Oli P. who brought the new recording to number 1 for seven weeks in 1998. The success in Austria and Switzerland was similar.

Comparing the original and the new version one will easily find the recent one surprisingly pathetic and chanson like. The one by Herbert Grönemeyer had much more connection to the real life and real emotions. Maybe that lack of authentic feelings is the reason why she had the leave the show.



Mic Donet is the second contestant who can launch a second chart hit–and he is one of the really big favourites of the show. On January 13th he performed the Killer / Papa Was A Rolling Stone medley first combined on a record in 1993 by George Michael while performing the Five Live concert remembering and celebrating the just died Freddie Mercury. The medley was a huge hit in Great Britain where it was released as a double A-side single with Somebody To Love. It never reached the list in Germany. Both parts of the medley were popular in Germany before. The original version of Killer was a hit twice. First it reached number 2 in 1990 credited to British dance producer Adamski only. Singer on that release was Seal who released an own version credited to him alone a year later. Once Killer was again a minor hit in Germany. It was in 1999 when German DJ ATB released it in a heavy trance version reaching number 31 in Germany.

The Temptations made the track Papa Was A Rollin’ Stone famous in Germany. Their version reached number 11 in 1972. In 1990 the version of Was Not Was reached number 14.

This is the Mic Donet version on TVoG



TvoG looses audience–one big reason are the starts of 2012 season of Deutschland sucht den Superstar (German version on Idols) and of the casting for the Eurovision Song Contest. The first show of Unser Star für Baku (Our Star For Baku) featured a contestant singing After Tonight a song written and recorded by US/Canadian Justin Nozuka. It was the only single hit for Nozuka in Germany reaching number 93 in 2009. In Switzerland and France the song had a much better chart performance. Now the track is back in the list–number 51 so far is the best position for the star.

The version presented in the show



Strange things going on at the low end of the list. An 9 years old song re-appears in the face of Lose Yourself by EMINEM. An instrumental version is used as the title theme of German TV serial Lenßen & Partner–a semi documentary about a lawyer and his cases. The serial started somewhen in 2003. Three years ago it was closed down. The old seasons of course are broadcasted in heavy rotation in the morning. A few days ago the channel SAT.1 announced a new season starting in March 2012. Probably these news caused a run on the DVDs of the past season and propelled the EMINEM track into the charts again. That’s my theory–if anyone knows a better reason, please let me know.

Flash 11-14: No news at all

Nothing so boring like a non changing top of the chart. Bruno Mars sits still at the top spot with his grenade. It is the sixth week having that track the most sold one in Germany. With Lady Gaga still occupying No.2 we have a fifth week with grenade and Born This Way holding firm at 1 & 2. Seeing Sunrise Avenue and their hollywood hills climbing back to No.3 the trio is complete like two and three weeks ago when all the tracks were the most sold in Germany already – actually in a different order.

Not only the very top appears almost static. Even further down the list the big change does not take place.
Best new track comes with the new release of Snoop Dogg. His Sweat remixed by French DJ David Guetta lands on digital sales at No.19. The rapper last heard in a guest role on Katy Perry’s California Gurls is back as a solo/main artist in the German Top 20 after a three years break. His last single Sensual Seduction rose to No.15. The French DJ accompanying him brings a sixth track in the charts of this year. He continues his series of Top 20 hits which now takes almost two years – only interrupted by the No39-track Louder Than Words charting back in August last year .

The track Sweat itself is built around the hook line of Don’t You Want Me – a No.2 dance track for British producer Francis Wright known as Felix. Once again the good old 90s Eurodance sound is the base for a recent chart hit of an US star. Take it for sure the track will jump next week the list when the complete CD release sales take into account.
Bizarrely the track is released as a single in Europe only. The US sees the T-Pain collaboration Boom rising as the first take from the upcoming album Doggumentary.


The original hookline from 1992 done by Felix

The best CD start comes by Take That which sees their new single Kidz entering the list at 20. It is the first time ever that a release has bigger success in Germany than in their home country the UK.