Hot Spot 06-14-13

Well–it’s done. Robin Thicke feat. T.I. + Pharrell climbs at Nr.1 after their highly infecting Blurred Lines is out on CD too. That was the last push to overturn Get Lucky which sits pretty at number 2 this week. With Blurred Lines occupying the top spot newly we have a kind of a premiere in chart history. Pharrell Williams is the first artist (since the charts are issued weekly) who has two back to back number 1 hits. So far we only had Max Martin as a composer in autumn 2008 and Dieter Bohlen as a producer in June 1986 who handed out the chart crown to themselves. A performing artist who did so until now could be found only once in chart history: In October 1963 Gitte (duetting with Rex Gildo) topped the charts with Vom Stadtpark die Laternen and so dethroned herself.

Further statistics: Blurred Lines climbs to number 1 in its 8th chart week. It is as slowly as spring number 1 Let Her Go by Passenger. Last time a track took more time to peak at the Top was back in April 2012 when Olly Murs Feat Rizzle Kicks needed 10 weeks for their Heart Skips A Beat getting crowned.

The highest new entry comes from Prince Kay One Feat. The Product G&B. By entering at number 4 V.I.P. gives the German rapper a new peak position in his career and makes the USAmerican duo come back after 13 years of chart abstinence.

The newly released Xavier Naidoo Album Bei meiner Seele enters the album list at the top and propells tht title song to Top 10 status again. So we finally do have three songs again inside the Top 10 that are produced with German acts. In past autumn we had the last invasion of very successfull commercial songs coming from Germany. Best result was a Top 10 with 5 hits from Germany. Meanwhile the euphoria for national productions had a short time break–will it turn back for a new season with strong German releases?

PSY profits a second week from his performance at the final of Germanys Next Top Model. Gentleman jumps 25–12 eclipsing its peak from 7 weeks before. Gangnam Style gets a boost again landing at number 47.
Also Bruno Mars can watch a big effect of his performance at the show. Treasure goes 91–25 almost eclipsing the result of predecessor When I Was Your Man but still is two weeks ahead of its official release as a single cut.


Beyond TV made hits there is a soundtrack visible with two tracks in the upper half of the list. The Great Gatsby can send A Little Party Never Killed Nobody (All We Got) by Fergie • Q Tip • GoonRock and Young And Beautiful by Lana del Rey into the list. Both still rising in its third chart week.

Back in the list Carlprit is on the way launching his first solo hit. Fiesta now stands at number 53. A little renaissance for I Follow Rivers brings Lykke Li back to some success too. Number 57 in its 53rd chart week is very impressive.

Kid Ink is completely new to the German market. From his freshly released album Almost Home the track Money And The Power is especially beloved and enters the singles charts at number 70.

Hot Spot 04-26-13

A slight change at the German top. After Just Give Me A Reason is out on CD the track climbs the last little step reaching number 1 for the first time. It replaces Let Her Go after five weeks which slides to number 2. Just Give Me A Reason is the third number 1 hit for P!NK. It follows the Lady Marmalade anthem from 2001 and the single So What that throned at the top for three weeks in 2008. Statistical trivia at the side: P!NK already is the second artist achieving a third number 1 hit in 2013. Back in January it was Britney Spears doing so by throwing Scream & Shout onto the top. As you remember also that song was a duet.

Current duetting partner Nate Ruess stands for the very first time in his career at number 1.

There are three new entries inside the Top 10:

will.i.am Ft. Justin Bieber rise 4 places into the Top 10 with #ThatPower. Next week also physical CD release will have an effect on the list. So be prepared watching the track rising some places higher. So far will.i.am launches his third Top 10 hit in a row and Mr. Justin Bieber reaches a new peak position at all at number 7.

Also the Imagine Dragons still climb higher and higher. Radioactive holds at number 9 in its 11th chart week. And at number 10 the Vodafon song Save And Sound by Capital Cities stops.

This all gives us nine US productions inside the German Top 10. Oops–something seems completely strange right now in German music business.

Highest German production still is Bilder im Kopf by Sido which slides three places to number 17. Last time the best sold German production ranked as low was in May two years ago, when slowly starting Still by Jupiter Jones reached only number 19.


weekly DSDS effects
Show number five was aired on April 13th. One of the winners is the song performed by Lisa Wohlgemuth: Lights originally recorded by Ellie Goulding returns to Top 20 status after the show. Also I Need Your Love profits of the show and enters the Top 20 at number 20.

DJane HouseKat should thank the show as well. Her second chart hit All The Time just crept at number 52 in February. After it was performed on DSDS by Tim David Weller & Susan Albers it rebounds back to list and lands at a new peak: number 44.


GNTM soundtrack
Finally Spectrum (Say My Name) by Florence + the Machine catches fire. After it was used on Germany’s Next Top Model and released on the compilation of the show as well it motors up the list as a single track too. This current week it lands at a new peak at number 32.

In Contrast Sam And The Womp! are completely new to the German list. Their track Bom Bom was a number 1 hit in Britain past September. Here the proper release of the single is scheduled for May 3rd–two weeks before it can enter the charts as a download track. Watching the forums about the show one should recognize that this track is one of the most wanted of the show at all. Similarities to Jungle Drum–which made Emiliana Torrini a star four years ago–ain’t probably a coincidence.

Further down the list Lindsey Stirling re-enters with Crystallize and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs once again sneak in with Heads Will Roll–a four years old track that became a hit thanks to the model casting on TV.

And also The voice Kids generates demand for some songs again. This time Va Va Voom by Nicki Minaj is the lucky one that re-enters the highest at number 41. Juryman Tim Bendzko also profits from the presence on TV. His Wenn Worte meine Sprache wären re-enters the list and ends a seven months long abstinence from the charts.

Almost at the end of the list also Katy Perry dips in for a single week after her Firework was performed by a young talent on the show.


New albums
Michael Bublé celebrates his new album To Be Loved at number 2 in the album list–the single It’s A Beautiful Day also takes a big jump from 90 to 28. It is the highest place a song of Michael Bublé ever reached.

The title track of Prinz Pi’s album Kompass ohne Norden reaches the list while the full album shots to number 1.


Scheduled for a release in June Blurred Lines enters the list already now. It gives Robin Thicke a second chart entry after 10 years.

Hit making GNTM

It is LMFAO again that gains the crown of the German singles chart this recent week. For a second week the Party Rock Anthem generated most money. Closest competitor was Romanian Alexandra Stan who now is the most successful Romanian chart act since the days of Haiducii narrowly missing number 1 in 2004.

But the stories of the week are related to a TV show:

Highest climber of the week and a new entry into the Top 10 is The Edge Of Glory by Lady Gaga that finally becomes a real hit after the Lady had a TV performance at the final of Germanys Next Top Modell. Before that appearance the track sneaked around the middle field of the list never climbing higher than position 28 – meaning the chart fortunes of Lady Gaga are closely connected to medias in general and mainstream TV in particular. It is Lady Gagas 9th Top 10 hit in Germany – only two singles of her failed to climb that high. One of them was predecessor Judas that only gained number 23 a month ago.

As well Keri Hilson’s Single Pretty Girl Rock is powered by the GNTM final. After her performance at the show she can achieve the highest new entry of the week. Again the German music industry acts completely contrary to the rest of the world. The single was released already 6 months ago. It became a minor hit in the US but missed the British Top 40. Only New Zealand saw the single rising up to number 11 (see statistics here). Having a fourth Top 20 hit in Germany this country seems the place where Keri Hilson enjoys the best popularity.

Who loves German music?

Germany’s music lovers are lazy or tired of buying always the same sound. Or lazy of buying new CDs at all. Why do you spend money for music? Cause you are crazy about it, you want to listen to it again and again, you want to own it. Mostly you need no longer then a few days and you are looking for some new stuff. That’s how the music market all over the world works. It doesn’t work so well right now in Germany. We do have an almost static Top 15 this week. The newest song inside the Top 15 is number 2 – Sweat by Snoop Dogg vs David Guetta which is in the list for four weeks. A complete month without any attracting new release.

Highest new climber to the upper regions sits at 16 with Aloe Blacc jumping 17 places and finally pushing his Loving You Is Killing Me to Top 20 status. In its fourth chart week the track shows as a real successor of huge hit I Need A Dollar that climbed up to number 4 last autumn. The new track appears at some compilations such as BRAVO Black Hits 24 or the soundtrack of Germanys Next Top Model. Due to that TV show the track finally attracts some more people than it could as a pure CD single. By the way – CD market in Germany seems more and more under pressure. The Aloe Blacc single is not available everywhere. Even the biggest online seller amazon only lists the digital download version. That is a reason too why the track does not show up higher in the list. The rule of chart compiling media control of counting the amount of money spent on musci sales turns into a clear detriment for online singles. Probably this policy will be skipped very soon.

Almost the same story to tell about German production. We had to welcome in the last few weeks a lot of new German music – but the most successful track is still Strobo Pop by Die Atzen mit Nena which goes no higher than number 18 this week.
Number 2 of the German only list is occupied by Jupiter Jones and their first single hit Still. The band had some TV appearances – all outside the classic music industry shows. Finally they also appearedin the soap opera Hand aufs Herz (To be honest / Hand on your heart) which reaches a more younger audience. That constant presence made the single Still kind of a slow burner. In its seventh chart week the track reaches the Top 20 – right at number 20.


The TV performance at INA’s night – unplugged

Back as one of the three most popular (most sold) German tracks is Berlin City Girl by Berlin culcha candela. The track slides one place down in the official chart to number 32.It is already the14th chart week.

Talking bout German music we should have a look to the album charts. Highest new entry there are The Baseballs. Their second album Strings’n’stripes enters the list at number 6. Sounds good isn’t it? But let’s have a look outside Germany. In Austria the album starts at number 3, in Switzerland even at number 1. Topping the story their debut album Strike hit the list in the UK at number 4 – Germany only saw it at number 6. You probably know what I am going to tell you: German music is not that popular in Germany as it is outside. No wonder the single of The Baseballs Hello only enters the list at 100. In Austria it already climbed to number 41, Switzerland reports number 68. The original by Martin Solveig + Dragonette reigns in Germany still at number 11.

New entry at number 18 of the album chart are Frida Gold. Their debut single Zeig mir wie du tanzt (Show Me How You Dance) was highly promoted in November last year. Now the album Juwel (Jewel) follows and can gain number 18. Simoultaneously the second single Wovon sollen wir träumen (Of What We Should Dream Of) is climbing back the singles list to number 48.

Back in the charts after a one year break is the most successful act of the past two decades Scooter. Friends Turbo is the 45th chart entry for the trio. As they were a closed phenomenon always existing completely besides all trends and hypes they finally start to self-reference. Friends Turbo is nothing less than a cover of their number 3 hit Friends released in 1995. The honour of bringing Scooter back to life (although they never were dead in between) goes to a Dutch movie which just now came to German theatres: New Kids Turbo. The movie broke end of last year the Dutch record of people watching it at the very first weekend. In Germany the movie shot to number 1 at the first week too. So – be aware Friends Turbo jumping up the list in two weeks also. Meanwhile Scooter does have an 18th consecutive year at least one chart hit per year.


„Friends Turbo” and the Original of 1995