German chart comments - Issue date - 5.11.2010

Iz may be standing for a fifth week atop the German singles chart, but this week's countdown sees a lot of action in its first 20 positions. First of all, it's Leona Lewis who makes big news as her two-year old hit "Run" jumps to #3 from #27. You may remember that the song broke in the top ten five weeks ago after it was sung by a contestant at the country's Das Supertalent show. After peaking then at #9 it fell quickly outside the top 20. However, as "Run" was once again performed at the show, and maybe because of the whole exposure the single has nowadays, it manages to stop its downward trend and not only return in the top 20 but to reach the top 3 for the first time ever. Better late than never...
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Next up, the highest new entry belongs to Mr. James Blunt. "Stay The Night" is the pilot single of Blunt's newest album "Some Kind Of Trouble", and by entering at #4 becomes his third top 10 single in Germany next to "You're Beautiful" and "1973" which both reached #2. Most interesting is however the continuing interest of Germany in the singer having in mind that "Stay The Night" flopped at #37 in his native UK... This reminds me of Melanie C, who even had a number one song in Germany which never entered the UK countdown...
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The next new entry comes from Gnarls Barkley member Cee Lo Green, whose controversial "F*ck You" has already been a massive hit across Europe and now enters the German Top 100 at #11. Gnarls Barkley's classic "Crazy" peaked at #3 in Germany in 2006. 
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2010 definitely turns to be the year of the comebacks of the great electro-pop bands of the 80s. First it was OMD who released an amazing new album earlier this year, now it's time for Alphaville to return to the charts and not in their lower reaches but in the top 20. The honour goes to "I Die For You Today", the pilot single of the group's newest album "Catching Rays on Giant", which is the first song of Alphaville to chart in Germany since 1994 and the first to reach the top 20 since 1986!!! The German band is of course most famous with classics such as "Big in Japan" (#1), "Sounds Like a Melody" (#3) and "Forever Young" (#4).
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This week also sees German star Xavier Naidoo bringing two songs in the chart, first of them is the live version of "Bitte hör nicht auf zu träumen" at #32 and second - "Wild vor Wut" his collaboration with Naturally 7 which makes an unremarkable debut at #85 and comes from the soundtrack of German animated movie "Animals United".
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Further down the countdown UK boy band The Wanted enters at #44 with "All Time Low". It was much written in UK for the pros and cons of the group, with the song already reaching #1 there. In Germany however, despite the big support on VIVA, the single, at least for now, fails to make a big impact.
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The VIVA back-up is for now not helping US superstar Taylor Swift either as her latest single "Mine", the pilot song of Swift's third album, enters at #59. The song also flopped in UK, which raises the inevitable question whether the country singer can actually become a star in Europe...
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And videos for the remaining new entries:
#52 - Mando Diao - Down In The Past (MTV Unplugged)
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#61 - Matthias Reim - Du Bist Mein Glück
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#98 - Pet Shop Boys - Together
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