Oct 28th 16

Week no. five for Human by Rag'n'Bone Man. At #2 rising two places David Guetta stops with his version of Would I Lie To You. The succeeder of #1 hit This One's For You now comes really close to continue the success of the French DJ.

Calvin Harris rises one place with My Way launching his sixth top 5 hit. My Way now matches the result of predecessor This Is What You Came For (duetting with Rihanna) in May this year.

Best new entry inside the top 20 is Tim Bendzko who gets his single Keine Maschine up to #14. It is his highest appearance since May 2013 when Am seidenen Faden reached #11.
At #17 the new KUnGS single enters the top 20. Don't You Know features Jamie N Commons as singer and rises six places in its sixth week.
With these two songs the amount of productions involving Europeans rises to 16–it is the highest result since November 2015.

After the release of the first video take out to promote his MTV unplugged album Andreas Gabalier's Hulapalu takes a 37 places leap to #24. Actually this can be taken as the highest new entry although the song already spent 44 weeks inside the list peaking at #13 in February this year. The new demand is propelled also by accompanying stars on the unplugged version. They are the 257ers from Essen. The unplugged album is scheduled for release in late November.

The official highest new entry lands at #28. It is the new single by Clean Bandit Rockabye. For a second time the band can get this honour but in January 2015 Real Love entered #2 directly. Featuring artists are Sean Paul and Anne-Marie.

Oct 14th 16:

Rag'n'Bone Man spends a third week at the very top with his Human. He is now the best performing British solo male singer since Passenger's who hit the top with http://popschredder.blogspot.de/2013/03/passenger-let-her-go.htmlLet Her Go for five weeks in March/April 2013.

First time since January the number of productions inside the top 20 involving European acts reaches 15. The highest result in 2015 was 18.

Sept 30th 16: Rag'n'Bone Man Goes No.1

In its 8th chart week Human by Rag'n'Bone Man goes #1. The singer is the 9th act in 2016 that can enter #1 with its first chart entry at all. In 2015 only eight acts did so. It is also the fifth consecutive #1 song involving European acts. And it is the first British production since early January this current year–which is indeed a long absence from the top.

53 years after its first release The Sound Of Silence becomes a top 5 hit in Germany. The version of USAmerican band Disturbed rises two places to #4 this chart issue. In the USA, Japan, Australia and Austria the original recording from the 60s already went Top 5, even topping the list in the USA.

SIA already had a #1 hit this year with Cheap Thrills in April. Five months later succeeder The Greatest enters the top 10. Featured artist on this recording is Kendrick Lamar who reaches a personal career peak by landing at #7.

The highest new entry lands at #13 in the likes of The Weeknd Ft. Daft Punk. Starboy is their first collaboration and the first chart appearance for the French electronic duo since its #1 hit Get Lucky back in 2013.


There are only three songs new inside the list and two songs re-entering. It is already the second time in 2016 that there are only three new entries (but we do had already two weeks with only two new entries) and the fifth tine having five songs inside the list that were not the week before.

May 20th 16: Justin The Original Is Back

It was a given thing, wasn't it? Even without his performance on the Eurovision final JT as he calls himself right now was one of the biggest aspirants for the #1 spot. And so Can't Stop This Feeling does. Climbing from as low as #7 it is the third #1 for Justin Timberlake under his own name and the fourth if you count his hidden appearance on The Balck Eyed Peas #1 hit Where Is The Love too. Almost exactly eight years ago he had his latest take to the top duetting with Madonna for 4 Minutes.
Justin Timberlake now belongs to the artists still recording with most #1 as there are Rihanna, CRO, Adele and David Guetta with similar figures. Of course Justin is the one who performs for longest time in show business starting in the mid 90s as member of boy group *N SYNC.

As there is a new #1 we see the German superstar tumbling. Prince Damien stops at #5–it is worse than the 1–4 tumble of past #1 superstar Aneta Sablik in 2014 and the biggest drop since Die Ärzte historically fell 1–21 in September past year.
Prince Damien's drop to #5 also marks the deepest rank for best selling German production since more than a year. Back in February 2015 tobee. served with Jetzt ist der Teufel los as the best German at #7.

Without having English Kyla appearing on DRAKE's One Dance at #2 it would be a black week for European artists. The first European as a lead artist shows up at #4 in the face of KUnGS–it is the lowest performance since three years.

New inside the Top 10 finally DNCE is. Cake By The Ocean already spent two weeks at #11 sliding to #12 the past week–and now can grab some more attention to step up to #7 in its 10th chart week. Worth mentioning the song is more successful in Europe as in Joe Jonas' home country. The British charts already reported a #4 peak.


And now I watch the result of the biggest music show on TV at all. The Eurovision Song Contest took place in Stockholm with having its final show on Saturday 14th 2016. Aired in Australia (as a participant), China, Korea and for the very first time also in the USA it truly writes TV history. Except in Germany. Although 9.33 millions watched the show–the best result since 2011–the sales afterwards are kind of frustrating. Voted by German audience as third behind the songs from Russia and Poland Swedish Frans performs best on sale with his If I Were Sorry landing at #11. It is the best performance for a Eurovision song not awarded as top 3 since 2011 when Blue peaked at #7 with its I Can. On the show Frans became fifth.
The runners up of the contest Sound Of Silence by Dami Im starting for Australia can enter the sales list at #57. Compared to 2015 it is weaker although having the second place inside the survey at all is a fact not often happening.
And also the sixth place J'ai cherché by Amir participating for France sneaks in at #80.
Neither the winner 1944 by Jamala from the Ukraine nor the German voting winner You Are The Only One by Sergey Lazarev from Russia nor the voting second Color Of Your Life by Michal Szpak from Poland can reach the official sales list. This result shows that there are very different communitiey in German society and popular culture right now. On one hand a strong (probably migrational) community watching TV and voting for its favorite, on the other hand a complete different audience buying music. Stars on TV ain't no longer stars of the music business at all.

By the way: The German entry by Jamie-Lee Ghost reaching the very last place on the show can leap again 55places up to #23 which also leaves her very weak. On sale she performs better than last year's participant Ann Sophie–the ranking at the show was even lower.


Let's have a look at #31. There the official song for the UEFA championship starts. This One's For You is a collaboration between David Guetta & Zara Larsson–I guess this combination will become very popular the next weeks. It is David Guetta's 46th chart entry in Germany.

Also worth watching:
Too Good by Drake Feat. Rihanna taking a 46 places leap to #53 in its second chart week
Heatwave by Robin Schulz Feat. Akon jumping 26 places to #59 in its second week
and Golden by Brandon Beal Feat. Lukas Graham rising 30 places to #60 also in its second week.

April 29th 16: In memoriam Prince

It is a second week at the top for SIA Feat. Sean Paul and their Cheap Thrills. It makes SIA the most successfull Australian act since Gotye topped the German list for five weeks in January 2012 with his Somebody That I Used To Know. Sean Paul beats an even longer mark. He is now the first Jamaican artist spending at least two weeks at the German top since 40 years. In November/December 1974 it was Carl Douglas who spent seven weeks at #1 with his Kung Fu Fighting. In between Shaggy and OMI only had one week peaks at the very top.

Talking 'bout nationality of artists #2 sets new marks as well. It is One Dance by Kanadian DRAKE featuring Nigerian Wizkid and British Kyla that rises further four places and serves as a big candidate for #1 next week. It is the biggest hit for DRAKE anyway and the best performance for an artist coming from Nigera since summer 1992 when Dr. Alban hit the top with It's My Life. Of course latter one had his center of life already in Sweden–so one could count that song as a European as well and WizKid the first Nigerian artist hitting the runners up position in Germany ever.


Highest new entry comes of course due to the sudden death of Prince. Celebrated as one of the most genius artists of the 80s (and later) his mainstream success on the singles market ain't that impressive. 35 chart hits (including six as The Symbol), the highest peaking at #4 and a total of 348 chart weeks (including 67 as The Symbol) in a little more than 30 years–well, it is a feat although still far and away from the likes of Michael Jackson or Madonna. Anyway Prince is one of icons of 80s pop music. Exactly 10 years after his last chart appearance his signature song Purple Rain re-enters the list at #13–in November 1984 it peaked at #5.
His biggest hit Kiss comes in at #29 again–in 1986 it achieved #4 spending 17 weeks inside the list and was covered two years later by Tom Jones adding further 18 weeks peaking at #16.
The first song of Prince ever inside the German list was when doves cry entering in August 1984 at #54–it rose up to #18 after a few weeks. Now it is back at #49.
The eldest Prince song re-entering this week is 1999. Originally released in 1982 it became a #2 hit in Britain two years later and first entered the German charts in (sic!) January 1999. This week it lands at #75 which is the highest place it ever achieved.


One fact has to be told here yet: With only 61 songs appearing European artists this is the lowest presence since October 31st 2014. It stands in total contrast to the high presence of past summer. How fast things change!

April 8th 16: Mark Forster Launches A New Hit

Week no.9 on top for Alan Walker and his Faded. The song is on the way of becoming a real huge superhit as it approaches the result of Aadele's Hello which had an 11 weeks run at the top at the end of past year. As a DJ/producer Alan Walker already is the most successful one since AVICII who spent 10 weeks at #1 with Wake Me Up! in late summer 2013.

A tiny move but a meanful one takes place at #3. SIA Feat. Sean Paul gains one place with Cheap Thrills. It is already the most successful single with SIA as lead artist–now it also eclipses her highest chart performance at all. In September 2012 she appeared at #3 for the very first time as the singer on David Guetta's She Wolf. Sean Paul of course has a #2 hit under his belt already with She Doesn't Mind released in very early 2012.

There is one song new inside the top 10. It is Work From Home by Fifth Harmony Feat. Ty Dolla $ign. The song already hit #2 in the UK–now it really grows in Germany as well. It is the second chart hit for the five ladies. Worth It stopped at #16 almost a year ago.

Finally we do have a highest new entry worth its name. It is this Wir sind gross the new single by Mark Forster. The song lands directly at #13 and it is his fifth top 20 hit–the #1 hit as part of EFF not included. Only twice this year new entries started higher: On February th 5th it was ZAYN with his solo debut Pillow Talkand thre weeks before it were DJ Ötzi and Nik P. who launched their Geboren um dich zu lieben at #11.

A place below Meghan Trainor sets her new hit single Nø. It now overtakes predecessor Marvin Gaye accompanied by Charlie Puth. It is Meghan Trainor's fourth top20 hit within one and a half year.

At #16 the Chainsmokers can launch their very first top20 single in their career. Two years ago they seemed to be kind of a one hit wonder with #Selfie spending 22 weeks inside the survey. In 2016 they have two simultaneous hits with Don't Let Me Down (feat. Daya) jumping 14 places to #16 and Roses (Feat. Rozes) sitting pretty at #27.

Interesting statistics besides: With only nine tracks featuring a European artist inside the top 20 this is the lowest result sinc June 2013.
As there are three songs new inside the top 20 the picture looks quite usual. In fact that three songs disguises a bit the furthermore unchanging survey. All in all there are only five new songs arriving–it's the fourth time in 2016 that such a feat happens. And even if we watch th top 50: only three songs entered the upper half newly. A fact hardly seen in chart history.

All this doesnt mean, there are no movers at all. Viceversa there are some. Here they are:
Jason Derulo with Get Ugly going 55-38
Irish Walking On Cars with Speeding Cars 56–42
DJ Snake Feat. Bipolar Sunshine with Middle 62–52
Max Giesinger with 80 Millionen as the best gainer going 88–53 in its second chart week
Izzy Bizzu with White Tiger 65–54
Ali As Feat. Namika with Lass sie tanzen 86–65 in its second chart run–still six places to go to match the result of its first appearance
Julian Perretta with Miracles going 82–66 in its second week.

March 18th 16: Frozen Top 5

As the early spring usually ain't showing much musical turbulence it is no surprise having also in 2016 a calm March. It is this the third consecutive week with a very static top. This current week the complete Top 5 is tied meaning Alan Walker spends a sixth week at #1 with Faded. He is now alongside synthetic pop project Aqua the Norwegian act spending most time at #1.

The one and only new song inside the top 10 comes in at #6. It is the new single of SIA from her album This Is Acting. Cheap Thrills is a collaboration with Jamaican Sean Paul. It is the fifth top 10 hit for the Australian singer and songwriter–only her second as lead artist and better than her first solo hit Chandellier from summer 2014 that stopped at #10. Sean Paul already has nine top 10 hits under his belt–last on in summer 2013.

As Stimme by EFF leaves the top 10 there are only four tracks involving Europeans inside. It is the lowest result since May 2013.

A few places lower Coldplay can enter the top 20 with Hymn For The Weekend. Once again a Coldplay song with an longer taking rise.

The highest new entry lands at #30–some places higher than the week before. Ariana Grande launches with Dangerous Woman a seventh chart hit and the third missing the top 20.

At #44 a summer hit re-enters after getting used on Let's Dance a week ago. FEDER Ft. Lyse had their Goodbye rising to #8 and spent 30 weeks inside the charts. Now both sneak in for a further week.


On the lower end of the list at #64 a European country takes its first steps on the mainstream pop market. Era Istrefi comes from Albania/Kosova and launches her very first chart hit with Bon Bon. The song is as international as any other production coming from the big pop nations and probably this first appeaerance can leave some marks on the European pop map.

Febr 19th 16:

A second week at the top for Norwegian DJ Alan Walker with Faded. Also the #2 stands still with Jonas Blue's version of Fast Car.

The highest new arrival into the top 10 comes from US American twentyøne piløts. Their Stressed Outs jumps 23–6 in its fifth chart week.
Also new inside the top 10 is Elle King. After eight weeks inside the list bouncing around she finally can made it 14–10 with her Ex's & Oh's.
By the arrival of these two US Amercian productions the presence of Europeans inside the Top 10 drops to a low level of five songs–as low as at beginning of September 2013. Of course that doesn't mean European song production has a baisse at all. Inside the top 20 still 12 songs come from Europe–it is some songs short of the 18 productions high of summer 2015 but still a proper result.


Finally the Rihanna-Drake collabarotion Work gets some steam and rises 22–12. It is the highest position the Canadian rapper ever achieved eclipsing the success of his other collaboration with Rihanna What's My Name in February 2011.

On the way up also Mike Posner is. The SeeB remix of his I Took A Pill In Ibiza goes 59–42.
26 places up and a firste appearance inside the upper half–that's the result for Jamie Lawson. The Zwette remix of his Wasn't Expecting That stops at 48. And a jump of 35 places alligatoah takes with Du bist schön. It is the 12 chart week for the song and also the first appearance in the upper half right at #50 which comes due to the release of a song video. alligatoah already has two top50 hist under his belt.

The highest new entry is an old song re-entering after its use for a movie score. It is X Gon' Give It To Ya by rapper DMX which infects people newly in Deadpool the next X-Men side sequel. The song enters at a very low #77. In 2003 the song peaked at #23. For DMX it is a return after a nine years long absence from the charts.
The highest really new song comes in at #83. It is Es rappelt im Karton by Belgian Swiss Pixie Paris. Certainly the song will get much higher the next days as it is used (again) in a wonderful commercial parody for ice cream. So far it is the lowest best new entry since January 2012 and #5 on the all time negative list.

Feb 5th 16: Zayn Arrives - Rihanna Fails - Carnival & SSIO Invades

2016 counts six chart issues–three of them Stimme by EFF were the most sold single. Meaning this is the best performing #1 of the current year so far.
More spectacular it is this the 40th consecutive week with a European at the top of the list. That is a feat not seen since 25 years.
A further statistical story from the top is the static Top 4 which is the first time since November past year.

At #5 the highest new entry comes in. It is former OneDirection member Zayn Malik with his first solo single. Pillowtalk directly shoots into the top 5–a feat the boy group never managed to do. Indeed their only #10 entry with Drag Me Down came after the split with ZAYN.

New inside the top 10 also is Jonas Blue Feat. Dakota and their take on Fast Car. The remake lands at #7 in its third chart week. One week more inside the list and now landing inside the top 10 Alan Walker lands his Faded at #8.
These new arrivals kick out long selling German productions like Robin Schulz and Glasperlenspiel which brings a situation last seen in early March past year with only one German production inside the top 10. Most time of 2015 we had four, five or even six and seven German productions there.

One of the stories of the week is a story about a fail. Rihanna's new album Anti clearly misses the taste of the masses. #7 in the UK and #12 in Germany in its first week is far and away from what could be expected. Single Work (featuring Drake) also clearly misses the top with stopping at #23. Is that the result of her very ambitious campaign for the album?

Youtube-Star Lamiya launched her first single Glow. It starts chart life at #26.

Carnival season launches its hits since a few weeks. The week before the ultimate party the amount increases as there are:
Warum hast du nicht nein gesagt by Roland Kaiser & Maite Kelly re-enterin #56
Jeck Yeah! by BRINGS new at #59
Leev Marie by Paveier new at #75–after an eight years long abstinence the band is back with a second chart entry
Kölsche Jungs by BRINGS re-entering #80
Polka, Polka, Polka by BRINGS re-entering #95

Leader of the album list is SSIO with 0,9. He also is the first living artist in 2016 who can launch simultaneous new entries on the song survey. Leading the bunch of six is Ich fibicke jeden at #61.

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.

Oct 9th 15: Still No Change

Another week missing hot new releases while repeating the stories of last weeks time. SIDO Feat. Andreas Bourani find their Astronaut occupying the nr.1 slot for a fifth week. It is the first song in German for three years that manages that feat. In 2012 it was Tage wie diese by Die Toten Hosen that collected five #1 weeks in two runs.

Right now it is the 10th consecutive week with a German production at the top which increases the total number of weeks in 2015 to 22–meaning half of so far past 2015 had a #1 coming from Germany.


A lack of really new releases does not mean there ain't no changes at all. At #8 Sigala arrives inside the top10 with his former #1 hit from Britain Easy Love. It brings King of Pop Michael Jackson back to top10 area after more or less five years which is his 21st appearance there (or his 22nd if you count his part on the USA for Africa project in 1984 too).

Second new song inside the top 10 is a track too. It is Felix Jaehn's third chart entry Book Of Love and his first own composition. The voice of the song comes from Russian Polina (Goudieva). By landing at #10 she is only the third Russian act that achieves the top 10 in Germany after t.A.T.u. and Timati. The latter one had his big time in summer 2011.

As we talk continously about European music inside the chart this week we watch an issue with the lowest presence of Europeans inside the top 20. "Only" 14 tracks with European artists are listed–as you all know two years ago there were weeks with only five European tracks...


No new songs mean old hits still selling well. So we watch Atemlos durch die Nacht spending a 100th consecutive week inside the list. The song by Helene Fischer sits pretty at #72 rising three places.

The first new entry comes in at #77. It is upcoming single by Sarah Connor Bedingungslos. It is the week with lowest rank for best new track in 2015 at all and compared to all lists ever made it belongs to the ten weakest issues.

Further down a single starts late as it becomes more and more a modern classic by several cover versions. Speaking 'bout Hotline Bling originally recorded by Drake. It enters the list at #92 after Disclosure & Sam Smith, Eryka Baduh and Charlie Puth released their takes on youtube, soundcloud and the likes.
Talking 'bout Canadian acts just this current week there are nine inside the list. That's a very strong presence not seen in Germany before.

July 10th 15: Summer Slowliness

As CRO's MTV unplugged album shots straight to #1 on the album list single Bye Bye holds firm at the singles top as well. The album also propels some older songs back to the list as there are Traum at #74 and Einmal um die Welt at #89.

Two years ago exactly this current week CRO reached #1 for the very first time. In 2014 it is the 10th consecutive week having the top occupied by a German act. A year ago we had a very similar picture with Andreas Bourani, CRO and Robin Schulz standing at #1 between beginning of May and end July. Of course there was a tiny interruption by Polish Aneta Sablik who shot to #1 for a single week in May as the winner of DSDS. Well at least her hit The One had a German producer.

We are approaching summer holidays time. The first six ranks on the survey are non movers. And also down to number 18 there are only slight moves. One of them is AVICII who launches his sixth Top10 hit with Waiting For Love. The track goes 11–9 in this current week.
With Jason Derulo sliding down to #11 the Top10 completely comes from European acts. Of course #7 Lean On by DJ Snake feat. Mø had some support by an USAmerican named Diplo.
Watching the Top20 there are 18 tracks involving European artists. It is the 6th week in 2015 that we can say that–in 2014 we only had one single week counting that amount. So it is a real European music year.

The highest new entry lands at #18 in the face of Swiss DJ Antoine who features Akon on his new single Holiday. It is the highest chart entry for both since over two years. DJ Antoine in spring 2013 had his Bella Vita inside the Top20, Akon peaked alongside David Guetta & Ne-Yo with Play Hard at #17 in same spring.

At #19 Ed Sheeran reaches the Top 20 with Photograph. It is his 7th Top20 hit so far.

With the final show of current Sing meinen Song season Hey sung by Yvonne Catterfeld jumps back up the charts and lands at #30. A month ago her version started chart life at #17. The new demand comes due to her duet with original singer Andreas Bourani.
Also other songs performed on the past season can benefit from the final: Wenn sie diesen Tango hört in the version of WIRTZ goes 40–33.

A week before the release of the album Hurra die Welt geht unter hip hop project K.I.Z releases the title track which immediately lands at #30. Certainly we'll see the album starting very close to the top in next week's time. The single tracks probably also will benefit from the release.


Long Time Chart Records
Once again I can report a new step taken by Helene Fischer who now sees her Atemlos durch die Nacht still ranking on the survey. It is exactly #62 coming from #59 this current week which gives her a 87th consecutive week in the list. This means the song now is the third longest chart runner of all times ranking a few weeks short of Geboren um zu leben by UNHEILIG (94 weeks) and Heavy Cross by gossip (96 weeks).
According to all weeks spent on the survey (the song had a four weeks run just before it rose to ultimate fame) Atemlos durch die Nacht now enters the Top10 of longest running chart hits having 91 chart weeks on his account.

20th of March 15: Best British Female Solo Since 50 Years

Ellie Goulding and nothing else. That's what counts in German pop business. Love Me Like You Do stands still at number 1 a fifth consecutive week. In general such a feat ain't that unusual. As a British act Ellie Goulding writes chart history. The last British number 1 for five weeks came from Passenger in March/April 2013. Let Her Go was the song in question. To find a British female solo artist who occupied the German charts we have to go back as far as to the 60's. From mid-May to mid-July 1967 it was Sandie Shaw with Puppet On A String that held eight weeks firm at the top. One have to add: It was the time when the list was compiled only every fortnight. So Ellie Goulding is according to weeks at number 1 the most successful British female since almost 50 years. What a feat!

Of course there were some incidents over these decades that came really close to the actual fact. In May 2001 it was British all female band Atomic Kitten that blocked the number 1 slot for six weeks with it international breakthrough Whole Again.
In December 1996 Sarah Brightman started her astonishing 13 weeks run at number on with Time To Say Goodbye. Of course she was duetting with Italian Andreas Bocelli on that recording.
And in September and October 1990 Suzanne Vega appeared at number 1 for seven weeks with Tom's Diner. Her success came due to a remix of dance project DNA–so this wasn't a real solo project neither.


New inside the Top10
Belgian DJ Lost Frequencies launches the next deep house hit. Are You With Me goes 15–5 and is now the most successfull Belgian production since MILOW's You And Me in April 2011 that peaked at number 3.
Highest new entry comes in at number 9 and it is Hoodie Allen Feat. Ed Sheeran with All About It. For the US-American rapper it is the debut hit. Ed Sheeran already has 11 Top10 hits under his belt since late 2011–an impressive chart career.

This current issue of the charts provides a Top10 completely recorded with European attendance. We had this situation last in May past year. Although 10 months ago European productions were a bit more successful featuring the first 14 ranks with European help. This week it is "only" the Top 12 that is recorded this way.

Exactly at number 12 the winner of the German preselection for the Eurovision Song Contest Andreas Kümmert lands. Although Heart Of Stone was and is far and away the most loved song of the show it won't be staged in Vienna in May as the singer gave off his ticket to the runner's up Ann Sophie who sees her entry Black Smoke enter at number 29. So a second year the winner of the wild card chosen in club concerts around Germany will participate for Germany on the contest. Last year's Elaiza landed on the 18th place.

The abandonment of Andreas Kümmert was treated as a scandal by German press. It is far and away the first time a winning title can't participate. In 1999 Corinna May had to stand back after her title Hör' den Kindern einfach zu was detected a rip-off.

10th of Oct 2014: Meghan Trainor goes Number 1

Yes, there is a new number 1–again. With USAmerican Meghan Trainor and her All About That Bass it is the first complete non-European song since end of March that can make it to the top in Germany. The last Non-European doing so was Mr. Pharrell Williams with his hit of the year Happy. Nonetheless Meghan Trainor already is the fourth USAmerican act in 2014 on the top of Germany's single charts. With Pitbull Feat. Kesha and Sam Martin there were two further acts successful here too.

Meghan Trainor also ends the five months long period of straight number one songs. Her All About The Bass tops the list in its seventh chart week. It is a slow rise only beaten up by Rather Be offered by Clean Bandit feat. Jess Glynne


There is one completely new song inside the Top10 coming from Australian Sheppard. After Geronimo was released on CD the track goes up 10 places landing at number 5. It is the highest Australian act since last years number 1 run of Changes by Pnau which came to chart honour due to the deep house remix by Faul & Wad Ad.
All in all there are nine tracks inside the survey under attendance of an Australian act. That's pretty cool for that country.

Bouncing back five places Blame by Calvin Harris feat. John Newman spends a second week inside the Top 10. A boost might follow in next weeks time when full CD release sales count in the survey.
With Komm lass uns gehen by Revolverheld dropping three places to number 7 the Top 5 misses a German production–the first time since October 2013. Probably it ends now one of the most successful times for German productions since years.

On The Way Up
The Imagine Dragons still know where they're coming from. In occasion of the League of Legends World Championship the band released Warriors which goes this week 84–58. Their first hit in Europe Radioactive became popular after its use in a commercial for The Assassin's Creed III.
After twice sneaking in at number 97 ANIMALS by MAROON 5 now catches a little more fire and re-enters at number 64.

3rd of October 14: Another straight No.1 - the 100th

After seven weeks we do have a new number 1. And it is again a straight one like the six predecessors before. We now celebrate the 100th new entry at number 1 in Germany and the honour goes to The Avener a French producer and DJ with his take on Fade Out Lines. Additionally The Avener is the fourth act this year that starts its chart career directly at the top.

Almost not worth mentioning The Avener is the third French act that reaches the Top in 2014 which eclipses the result of 2013 when French acts set a new record after 26 years. According to the number 1 statistic French acts are as successful as USAmericans. Only acts coming from Germany right now perform better.

Another story besides? Well–since late March all number 1s were European productions. It is this the 29th consecutive week. Sounds like a record too but is no. Starting in late September 1994 there were 10 European acts that spent a whole 40 consecutive weeks at the Top of the German charts. So we have another 11 weeks to go.

22nd of August 2014: A static Top 10

Number 1
Nr.1 is still Lovers On The Run by David Guetta feat. Sam Martin (plus additional production by AVICII)
It is the second week for the song, the third for main artist David Guetta and the 12th for not mentioned artist AVICII (all these weeks within little more than a year)

Top 10 action
Actually there is almost no action at all inside the Top 10. The top 7 holds still.
Wicked Wonderland by Martin Tungevaag rises a single place to number 8 which marks a new peak for that song and Summer by Calvin Harris returns 11–10 due to the second week tumble of Maroon 5's new single MAPS.

Two big gainers this week land inside the Top 20:
Rude by Canadian MAGIC! jumps 16 places to number 12 which gives us two acts from the North American country inside the Top 20 (the other one is KIESZA). A feat last seen in June 2012.


And Chandelier by SIA even jumps 19 places to number 20. It is the first time she reaches the Top 20 as an artist since her appearance on David Guetta's She Wolf which went to number 3 in September 2012.


Highest new entry comes from Ariana Grande Featuring ZEDD.
Break Free is Ariana's second chart hit in Germany after Problems (feat. Iggy Azalea) peaked at number 19 last week. German ZEDD already has three other chart hits under his belt. Number 27 with Break Free is the second best performing right behind Stay The Night which peaked at number 15 this spring.
All in all there are only seven new tracks inside the survey plus two re-entering songs. It is the third time in 2014 that we can witness such a low turnover of songs. Well, there were years when not long ago when it was almost usual that only seven or even six songs left the list for new or re-entering tracks.



Biggest Gainers
The biggest one is CRO and his announced next single Bad Chick which jumps full 25 places to number 41 in its third chart week.



Postcards by James Blunt reaches number 50 in its 4th chart week. The track jumps 15 places.



Norway – the upcoming EuroPop Country
By Anders Nilsen with Salsa Tequila charting there are three Norwegian productions simultaneously invading the German list. The most popular at this time is the above mentioned, very similarly sounding Wicked Wonderland. The third one is Am I Wrong current number 1 hit in Great Britain by Nico & Vinz.
Of course there were a lot of internationally successful pop acts coming from Norway including a-ha/Morten Harket, Madcon, Maria Mena and Eurovision winner Alexander Rybak. Even EuroDisco coming from Norway was highly successful with Barbie Girl by Aqua topping the lists worldwide in 1997. The presence of more than two Norwegian acts at once is a feat hardly found in chart history.
This picture fits well with the result European productions reach these weeks. The current issue counts 82 productions coming from Europe or with participation of European acts. Although European productions are very present within the last months and even years this result is quite unique. It shows on the other hand the low rate of pure US-American productions: Less than a quarter. Ten years ago the picture was completely different–so maybe the life (and cultural tastes) on both continents differ more and more at the moment.

30th of May: Calm After The Storm

The new no.1 is the old one. CRO manages it to hold firm for a second week with his single Traum. It is the first time that the German pop-rapper can stand longer than a single week at number 1. Seems he now is arrived as a completely mainstream star which is a feat German acts miss often. The last number 1 produced by a German that a had a longer run at the top was DJ Wankelmut with his take on Asaf Avidan's Reckoning Song / One Day back in late summer 2012.
The real German no.1 holding some weeks at the top were a few weeks before with Die Toten Hosen having their Tage wie diese five times as the most sold single.

At number 3 Calvin Harris' single Summer gets a new peak. After it was released as a physical CD last week the track steadily rises now bringing the artist into the Top 3 after two and a half year again.


Also Bakermat arrives at a new peak with One Day (Vandaag). The track jumps 16–4 in its 10th chart week and now makes the DJ the most successful Dutch artist after country band The Common Linnets last week and Mr. Probz the weeks before.


As we had the situation already last week also this current issue of the charts the Top 10 is completely crowded with European production which is much more a little sensation as the Eurovision invasion completely fades away.
The highest non-European hit is Riptide by Australian Vance Joy sitting at number 13 this week.


The best sold album comes this week from British band Coldplay. Ghost Stories starts chart life directly at number 1 and is the fifth no.1 album for the band. It also gives the single A Sky Full Of Stars an extra 21–11 leap.

Releases fully on CD Kiesza bounces back into the Top20 with Hideaway. Number 16 matches exactly the result from two weeks ago when the track appeared for the first time.


A few weeks before the FIFA World Cup starts in Brazil the official anthem gets more attention. We Are One (Ole Ola) by Pitbull Feat. Jennifer Lopez & Cláudia Leitte goes 38–18. It is so far the highest position the track reached but one ain't to be a visionary to predict the song will rise much further.


A month before its release on CD Wiggle by Jason Derulo Featuring Snoop Dogg enters the list as the highest new song. Landing at number 22 it is the highest entry for Jason Derulo since he topped the charts with Talk Dirty in September last year. Snoop Dogg even longer missed the Top 20–he was last watched here in January 2012.

A week before their album is released the American Authors are on tour through Germany. Their concerts support the sale of the single Best day Of My Life which returns to the Top 50 at number 35.
Also on the way up the latest single by Enrique Iglesias is. Bailando goes 71–44 giving the Spanish singer his first Top50 hit since three years. In fact Bailando is the most successful Spanish production since August 2012.

10 years ago she was the most successful German star. With four number 1 hits Sarah Connor still is the best performing female act of Germany of all times matching the result of Modern Talking. The last three and a half year she was completely absent from the business. Then the TV show Sing meinen Song was aired where she was one out of seven stars who covered each others songs. Now the CD accompanying the show is released and lands at number 2 on the album's list. Sarah Connor's take on Zuckerpuppen originally recorded by Andreas Gaballier can also enter the singles list at number 63. Her version performs better than the original although it is quiet certain that this success comes due to the crazyness about the Austrian star. His signature song I sing a Liad für di meanwhile spends a 74th week inside the list and with this enters the Top20 of the most charted songs of all times.
A similar story can be told bout Gregor Meyle. The singer had a short chart career five years ago after he became runner's up in a casting. Two medium hits were the result. Now he is back with a cover of the Guano Apes song Sunday Lover. His version lands at number 83.


After the record setting invasion of new entries last week 22 of them leave the list this week again. So there are 7 new tracks and 17 already known chart hits entering the list again which still is an impressive performance not seen that often within the last four years. Of course in 2008/09 the German chart had a very active phase in which more than 25 songs leaving the list for new or returning hits were kind of usual.

19-12: Spring Turnover At The Top

The big pre-summer turnover starts as we have 11 new entries including six of them inside the Top 20. So there are strong new releases around. Lets start:

No surprise at the top. DSDS winner Luca Hänni storms to number 1 right after he was elected as the new superstar. As always the ever beefing portal oljo reported a big fail of the single. The true is that the single and the winner is entering the top easily. Only once in history a winner of DSDS failed to reaching number 1. It was 2004 champion Elli Erl having that honour.



Don’t Think About Me is the first single since Flo Rida’s Good Feeling in late November that can enter the list straight at the top position. The last artist starting his solo debut at number one was Marlon Roudette back in September. Of course he had a number 1 hit with the band Mattafix before – so the debut right at the top is arguable. The last really new star with an instant number 1 hit was of course superstar predecessor Pietro Lombardi in May 2011.

As most of the chart facts of Luca Hänni are kind of awaited he really can set a benchmark as a singer coming from Switzerland. For finding the last number 1 of an Swiss we have to go back to the year 1996 when DJ and producer Robert Miles brought his Children for seven weeks to number 1. It was the ultimate spring hit back then. The same year he released two other hits but then his popularity decreased dramatically. Although still releasing material he is now only known to a hard core of dream house fans.

A further feat is reached with Luca Hänni storming to number 1. With DJ Antoine sitting at number 8 still we have two Swiss acts simultanously invading the German Top 10. I don’t know, when we had that situation before and it seems to me quite like a novum (at least in the younger history).


Also number two of the DSDS casting daniele negroni sees his version of Don’t Think About Me charting at the upper end of the list. The reason why it only lands at number 4 is a very well regulated. First of all the recording by Daniele is available only as download track. Second there is no video available–neither the one of his performance on the show. I would say the label (plus master Bohlen himself) was very nervous about seeing the “looser” selling more units than the winner. It would be kind of a desaster having crowned the wrong one. Seeing the song daniele had performed as season’s best (Forgive Forget in original by CALIGOLA) rising into the Top 10 again the very strong interest in the runner’s off star is heavily underlined. As comparison: Luca Hänni's season’s best The A Team only can make it up 12 places to number 48.


Icelandic band Of Monsters And Men are newcomer to the Top 10 this week too. The song Little Talks rises five places to number 7 after the album My Head Is An Animal was released and debuts at number 4 on the album list. Of Monsters And men is the first Icelandic act in the Top 10 after Emilíana Torrini occupied the Top in July and Augsut 2009.

And another record is set this week. 9 of 10 singles of the Top 10 are recorded by European acts. One of that with “help” from US/Cuban star Pitbull. Only Drive By at number 6 coming from train is a complete non-European production. Impressive!


More German productions enter the list further down. The most active project at the moment is Berlin based culcha candela. Right now it offers a next single called Von allein (By Itself). It is a soca styled dance track dealing with the multicultural atmosphere of events like the football EM. Using some noisy club sounds the song is slightly more dancefloor oriented than other hits of the band. It starts at number 20.



MC Boris Lauterbach of Fettes Brot starts a solo career under the project name Der König tanzt (The King Dances). The first song published back in March was Alles dreht sich (Everything Turns Around). It is a dancefloor infected pop song describing the weird reality of now. The song itself was not able to enter the charts until the full album of King Boris was released. Now that one starts its chart life at number 17 on the album list and simultanously the single takes a leap up to number 62. So finally the song becomes popular.



Back with a new single and an album is Stanfour. The band released its last single in 2010. Learning To Breathe is the current single and it sounds quite similar to the hits the boys had two years ago. Maybe the sound is a tiny more orchestral. So far it seems the success of past days can’t be repeated.



And finally Helene Fischer works on her career as a single hit seller. After her performance at the Cologne Schlagernacht where 10.000 fans celebrated the conservative German sound her last hit Die Hölle morgen früh (The Hell Tomorrow Morning) returns to the list at number 91. The track is still available digitally only. On 18th of May the release of a CD single is scheduled. So expect the queen of Schlager back in the list much higher soon.

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.

Jupiter Jones climbs into Top 10

Let’s start with an absolutely amazing news: Jupiter Jones – the new German super band – enters the Top 10 in Germany. Their single Still finally hit number 10 after a 14-week-rise. It is one of that beautiful stories bout slowly but steadily growing hits. It started all in March this year when Still finally hit the shops as a CD single. The track was available before as an acoustic version on downloads only. Performances on TV at more or less serious shows not targeted on a teenager audience made them popular amongst twens and thirtyners. Their start within the charts at number 32 was already a tough first look into the commercial mainstream. Much more surprising was the longer lasting interest in the CD single and finally much more radio stations than the few alternate oriented began to play Still. Right now the song is the most played German one ranking at number 13 at the Nielsen Airplay Chart.

Number 10 in the official media control list means Still is the second best sold German track this week. Some copies more sold Pietro Lombardi’s song Call My Name. Seeing the latter one heavily tumbling down the list it is very likely having Jupiter Jones back as the commercially most succesfull German act of the week. The band already gained that honour in Mid-May when German tracks were kind of underrepresented in the charts. – In some ways Still remains on the success of Halt dich an mir fest by Revolverheld feat. Marta Jandová that had a strong chart run end of last year and still sneaking around the lower Top50.



Third best German track is San Francisco the new single offered by cascada. I just dropped a few words on this release on thursday.

Second best German CD start goes to rapper Bushido. He is far and away the most productive German hiphop star of the past few years. Wärst du immer noch hier? (Would You Still Be Here?) is the second single released from his recent album Jenseits von Gut und Böse (Beyond Good And Evil) and it is his seventh single within two years. In the 10 years of his career he was able to launch 29 tracks into the German charts so far.

There ain’t much about to tell about the new song. One could love the lyrics of Bushido or hate them – nothing in between. The new track is for sure one of the least controversial. It is a questioning about how luxury might influence emotions and love. Very philosophically it could lead to an analysis of the dependency between wealthiness and personal luck or the possibility of happiness. Of course Bushido himself does not step that far. He just asks some questions. As we all know the world of Bushido and his attitude against women the track is much more a further elegy bout only skin-deep women.




European tracks
Having Romanian Alexandra Stan and German Jupiter Jones entering the Top 10 we now count 8 of 10 top tracks with at least one European artist involved. Much more amazing the fact that of this 8 tracks only two count for British artists. Taking the 20 most sold tracks in account we still have 14 of them officially (co-)credited to European artists including five coming directly from Germany.
All that meaning: there is a strong connection to European music right now in Germany. American stars are pushed by the industry strongly and they are very present at airplay and adverts – though European acts might proof their relevance and a good sense of what’s going on in European peoples life.