The Black Eyed Peas are spending a third week at the German top spot. That’s what chart compiling company media control announces on tuesday. The market was still calm in sales week 7th to 13th January. No big releases meaning no chart movement. Finally we witness the usual start of the year freezing. As I told several times music markets in a variety of countries are much faster. The United Kingdom got a sensational new no.1 this week … Well, Germans are kind of conservative and sedate. If we’d look at the first charts of every year we’d recognize a lot of long running no.1’s in this very first weeks. Except the change 2009/2010. A year ago we had three strong hits fascinating the crowd: Aura Dione with I Will Love You Monday (365), Keri Hilson with I Like and Lady Gaga’s latest no.1 Bad Romance. In 2011 everything is different. The Black Eyed Peas ruling the scene so far. Next week I bet the picture will completely change.
I did not say the whole truth. There were some new releases in the first full week of 2011. Ke$ha tried to continue her succesfull chart carreer with We R Who We R a release taken from her EP Cannibal which never entered the charts despite it is available since end of November. Originally the release date was set mid of December but for some unknown reasons the full release appeared only in 2011. German internet music site laut.de criticized Cannibal as it was planned for accompa nying the Animal-Deluxe-Release. Instead of being bonus material the music company made it a standalone release. In the US it worked somehow (no. 15 in the Billboard list). In Europe the big marketing plan failed. Indeed We R Who We R sounds like the 100th version of TiK ToK – cool party kids don’t need this. That’s why the „new“ single only enters the German list at no.23 – the lowest rank for a Ke$ha solo release. I don’t want to prophesy bad things but it seems Ke$ha is right now on a straight road to American outback clubs.
Links
- chart commentary on British charts by James Masterton
in German
- media control-Pressemitteilung
- Besprechung "Cannibal" auf laut.de
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First No.1 in 2011: The Black Eyed Peas
We have a new year and we do have a new no.1. Long awaited finally The Black Eyed Peas enter the top spot with their take on the Dirty Dancing-theme The Time. In 1987 the song was a romantic duet between Bill Medley & Jennifer Warnes denying the hot synthesized sound of this year – most sold single that year was Desireless with Voyage Voyage followed by Madonna’s La Isla Bonita. Well – at least the the topic was much en vogue: Holidays on romantic tropic islands with nice people and of course a hot love affair …
In 2010/11 the picture changed definitely. The time of my life could be in every night club somewhere on this planet – maybe in your home town. All you need is a hot club and a bunch of people „rocking to the sound“. No wonder Fergie confesses „I am born to get wild“. Wow – this is the right slogan for 2011. Carpe diem – enjoy every of your days! It is a straight consequence to make such an anthem sounding like the mainstream electro sound of today. Despite David Guetta is not the producer of the track in question but doubtless he could. The man behind The Time (Dirty Bit) is DJ Ammo aka Damien Leroy working as a DJ in Los Angeles. His meeting with The Black Eyed Peas is his first mainstream release and it could be the start for a longer and commercially successful producer carreer.
The Black Eyed Peas finally return to the German no.1 after a full years break. To be more concrete the break was a 13 month one as thePeas spend a single week with Meet Me Halfway at the topat the beginning of December 2009. The Time (Dirty Bit) is the 4th no.1 hit for the Peas and they are only the 14th act to do so in Germany. Last one reaching her 4th no.1 was Shakira last summer, the last group/band collecting a fourth top hit was German act Tokio Hotel in February 2007. To grab the no.1 spot for more than fo ur times is a hard thing at the German market. Only four acts managed doing that. The most recent one was Sarah Connor who entered in March/April 2005 the no.1 for a fifth time in her carreer.
Albeit The Black Eyed Peas have charted for the first time in Germany almost exactly 10 years ago their hiatus now spans more or less seven years. Besides Shakira and Eminem they are one act which really ruled the German market in the first decade of the recent century. With The Time (Dirty Bit) they finally go ahaed doing similarly to the next one. I talk about this a few years later …
media control's press release from 4th January 2011
In 2010/11 the picture changed definitely. The time of my life could be in every night club somewhere on this planet – maybe in your home town. All you need is a hot club and a bunch of people „rocking to the sound“. No wonder Fergie confesses „I am born to get wild“. Wow – this is the right slogan for 2011. Carpe diem – enjoy every of your days! It is a straight consequence to make such an anthem sounding like the mainstream electro sound of today. Despite David Guetta is not the producer of the track in question but doubtless he could. The man behind The Time (Dirty Bit) is DJ Ammo aka Damien Leroy working as a DJ in Los Angeles. His meeting with The Black Eyed Peas is his first mainstream release and it could be the start for a longer and commercially successful producer carreer.
The Black Eyed Peas finally return to the German no.1 after a full years break. To be more concrete the break was a 13 month one as thePeas spend a single week with Meet Me Halfway at the topat the beginning of December 2009. The Time (Dirty Bit) is the 4th no.1 hit for the Peas and they are only the 14th act to do so in Germany. Last one reaching her 4th no.1 was Shakira last summer, the last group/band collecting a fourth top hit was German act Tokio Hotel in February 2007. To grab the no.1 spot for more than fo ur times is a hard thing at the German market. Only four acts managed doing that. The most recent one was Sarah Connor who entered in March/April 2005 the no.1 for a fifth time in her carreer.
Albeit The Black Eyed Peas have charted for the first time in Germany almost exactly 10 years ago their hiatus now spans more or less seven years. Besides Shakira and Eminem they are one act which really ruled the German market in the first decade of the recent century. With The Time (Dirty Bit) they finally go ahaed doing similarly to the next one. I talk about this a few years later …
media control's press release from 4th January 2011
More soccer related sound
Well three weeks before the world championship people in Germany are going crazy for football hymns. The one promoted by a global beverage company enters nr.1 position with K'NAAN and Wavin' Flag. Other songs crowding up the list right now too.
At the second place of the internal football list Shakira Featuring Freshlyground appears with Waka Waka (This Time For Africa). A typical Shakira-recording comobined with a little more ethno sound from southafrican group. Waka Waka is set to be the official anthem of the FIFA event. Seems that this championship will getting a completely multicultural spirit. Waka Waka was released on May 7th as an download track in Germany but it took a whole week until the track really found his buyers. Now enters no.13 in the official media control charts by downloads only. A further climb is estimated next week when fully released CD sellings will count to the list as well.
Number 3 of the list is the anthem of Bavarian football club Bayern München. On May 15th the club won for the 15th time the German Bundesliga. Of course all the fans were celebrating and purchasing the definitive song for the club Stern des Südens. Surprisingly the track jumps now more than 12 years after its first release to its new peak position at nr. 42. Its former peak was nr. 67 reached in 1998. Does that really mean the demand for football anthems is now bigger?
Facing the other big anthem for a football club you might answer: Yes. For You recorded by The Disco Boys feat. Manfred Mann's Earth Band is officially used as the entry song for Borussia Dortmund since last season 2008/09. With every high of the team and at the end of the national round the song returns to the charts. Meanwhile For You has collected 93 chart weeks under its belt – it's the second longest runner within the german charts of all time only beaten by DJ Ötzi. With the close of this season the track will disappear for sure. But for sure the next one will lift the track up again. Promised.
Not really a soccer anthem - but almost – Scooter delivered with Stuck On Replay the official anthem of the IIHF world championship which took place in Germany in May. The week ending on 14th May saw the relegating round taking place and a raising excitement. So Scooter's mass compatible track gains some new fans again. First the track charted on 26th of March at position 34 sliding slowly down to nr. 86 the following weeks. Since three weeks the track is climbing now entering the Top 50 again. It's the highest place since end of April and expect some more as playoff round and final are still not in account at the recent list. Seems that Stuck On Replay is on the way to something what did not happened to Scooter for three years – a track charting more than 11 weeks.
At the lower end of the list one can find some more football related songs waiting for the big event to come and than … rising up to proper heigths. So expect to see soon at higher levels Oliver Pocher with 2010 Wir gehen nur zurück um Anlauf zu nehm' (We just step back to startup again; recently nr. 60) and the again climbing new take of Sportfreunde Stiller on its former number 1 hit '54, '74, '90, 2010 (the original title was '54, '74, '90, 2006) now at nr. 78.
At the second place of the internal football list Shakira Featuring Freshlyground appears with Waka Waka (This Time For Africa). A typical Shakira-recording comobined with a little more ethno sound from southafrican group. Waka Waka is set to be the official anthem of the FIFA event. Seems that this championship will getting a completely multicultural spirit. Waka Waka was released on May 7th as an download track in Germany but it took a whole week until the track really found his buyers. Now enters no.13 in the official media control charts by downloads only. A further climb is estimated next week when fully released CD sellings will count to the list as well.
Number 3 of the list is the anthem of Bavarian football club Bayern München. On May 15th the club won for the 15th time the German Bundesliga. Of course all the fans were celebrating and purchasing the definitive song for the club Stern des Südens. Surprisingly the track jumps now more than 12 years after its first release to its new peak position at nr. 42. Its former peak was nr. 67 reached in 1998. Does that really mean the demand for football anthems is now bigger?
Facing the other big anthem for a football club you might answer: Yes. For You recorded by The Disco Boys feat. Manfred Mann's Earth Band is officially used as the entry song for Borussia Dortmund since last season 2008/09. With every high of the team and at the end of the national round the song returns to the charts. Meanwhile For You has collected 93 chart weeks under its belt – it's the second longest runner within the german charts of all time only beaten by DJ Ötzi. With the close of this season the track will disappear for sure. But for sure the next one will lift the track up again. Promised.
Not really a soccer anthem - but almost – Scooter delivered with Stuck On Replay the official anthem of the IIHF world championship which took place in Germany in May. The week ending on 14th May saw the relegating round taking place and a raising excitement. So Scooter's mass compatible track gains some new fans again. First the track charted on 26th of March at position 34 sliding slowly down to nr. 86 the following weeks. Since three weeks the track is climbing now entering the Top 50 again. It's the highest place since end of April and expect some more as playoff round and final are still not in account at the recent list. Seems that Stuck On Replay is on the way to something what did not happened to Scooter for three years – a track charting more than 11 weeks.
At the lower end of the list one can find some more football related songs waiting for the big event to come and than … rising up to proper heigths. So expect to see soon at higher levels Oliver Pocher with 2010 Wir gehen nur zurück um Anlauf zu nehm' (We just step back to startup again; recently nr. 60) and the again climbing new take of Sportfreunde Stiller on its former number 1 hit '54, '74, '90, 2010 (the original title was '54, '74, '90, 2006) now at nr. 78.
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