Showing posts with label Romanian Pop. Show all posts
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The First Summer List

It is summer time and it is time for Alexandra Stan. Her Mr. Saxobeat now tops the official media control sales charts. Doing so it stands in a row with a lot of other lists: the iTunes Charts saw the track at the top already weeks ago, in the Euro top 100 and the international DJ charts the track appears at number 1, Austria and Switzerland report number 1 also. So Mr. Saxobeat is definitely the European summer hit.

It took the lady eight weeks to enter the top spot. Although it is one of the longer ways to number one it is in 2011 the second fastest rise to number 1 by a new act. The chart run so far looks like the classical way of growing massive summer smashes. First Mr. Saxobeat appeared at number 27 followed by 33 – 20 – 14 – 4 – 2 – 3. Gaining number 1 makes Alexandra Stan the very first Romanian act at the German top. If you count Romanian born musicians as well, than she now joins the club with Peter Maffay and Michael Cretu (Enigma) – but I guess the honour of being the one and only Romanian born act who still lives and works in Romania belongs to her.

The two most active artists this year so far found themselves in the list with new singles. Rihanna launches with California King Bed a seventh track – entering the list as the best sold new single and giving her a fourth Top 10 hit in 2011. David Guetta already has his eighth charting track this year with Little Bad Girl. The song is entering the list at 12 as a download only track. The proper single is scheduled for 22nd July – so probably than the track will become Top 10 soon.

Best new German act is DSDS contestant Sebastian Wurth. In the show he left as the fifth – now he has released a first single Hard To Love You. Happy guitarsurf sound in the maner of James Blunt or Amy Macdonald. It is a singalong hit with potential but as some very fast market watcher report the song is tumbling down in sales right now. Seems that only a core fan crowd of the TV show noticed the single. Really bad luck for the artist who had much more talent than the winner.






chart flash 11-24: LMFAO and an omnipresent Pitbull

Finally the Europe wide hit Party Rockl Anthem also enters the number 1 in Germany. US American electro duo LMFAO already had the top spot in Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France,Ireland, Switzerland and in the UK (see statistics at acharts.us) – the world charts see them rising to number 3. It took the project six week to get on top – that’s not really unusual. The last track taking more than a month for climbing to Germany’s best sold single was The Time (Dirty Bit) by The Black Eyed Peas that set Germany under fire at the very beginning of the recent year.

It is the very first number 1 hit for LMFAO in German speaking area. They first appear exactly one year ago alongside David Guetta, Chris Willis & Fergie whit the track Gettin’ Over You that spent 27 weeks in the German list climbing up to number 15. In Austria it went to number 4 – the UK saw them shooting to number 1 for the very first time. In 2011 the so far hiatus of their career seems achieved. Follow up single Champagne Showers right now arrived in the UK list – all I can say the mood for another electro smash summer hit by LMFAO seems very likely.


Another steadily rising strong electro hit arrives at number 2 with Give Me Everything – the track presented by all star collaboration Pitbull feat. NE-Yo, Afrojack & Nayer. It is the 7th week for the track in the German list. Will it rise a place further next week?
Pitbull also occupies number 3 alongside JLO. On The Floor spends its 13th week inside the Top 10 and we can name it for sure as one of the big hits of this year.

Pitbull once again: He also appears newly in the chart at Shakira’s latest single Rabiosa where he is featured. Number 26 for the seventh track charting in 2011 with at least a guest appearance of the Cuban-American rap star.


Rising to number 4 Alexandra Stan with Mr. Saxobeat equals the result of fellow countryman Edward Maya from last year. For the first time in German pop history two years in a row see at least one Top 10 hit coming from an Romanian artist. Maybe we have to watch that country as a deliverer of summer dance pop for the next time.


Highest new entry this week is San Francisco the new single of cascada released as a teaser for follow up album Original Me. It is the well known mixture of dance pop – a new tone is the very clear voice of Natalie Horler sothat one really can follow the lyrics. (which is not necessary anyway – bubbly dance pop dream with a reference to the good old times of 1969 ... did we had eurodance music then?)




One last story for today. Recent superstar Pietro Lombardi now tumbles down in the official sales charts also. Call My Name stops at number 7 coming from the top – it is the deepest fall from number 1 since Tokio Hotel touched down to number 7 with Übers Ende der Welt in February 2007. The album chart lists Pietro Lombardi still at number 1 – so all fans of casting pop might be calmed down. The world still turns the right way.