German chart comments - Issue date - 7.01.2011

There is no single new entry in the German top 100 this week and things are not going to become much better in the weeks to come. This, however, does not mean that we haven't got a big news at the top, where Germans finally placed a NEW number one in 13 weeks. And by new I mean, a song actually released in 2010 and not years earlier. The honour goes to Black Eyed Peas' global smash "The Time (Dirty Bit)", which becomes the fourth number one of the group in Germany, next to "Where Is the Love?"; "Shut Up" and "Meet Me Halfway".
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Despite that IZ gives up the throne, his version of "Over The Rainbow" has managed in the last few days of 2010 to overcome Shakira's "Waka Waka" and Lena's "Satellite" and become the biggest selling single in Germany for the last year. A feat supported by the fact that Media Control (the company which calculates the chart) finally decided to make year-end charts based on the entire calendar year. In previous years, the charts were released in early December, with the Christmas sales included in the next year's countdowns.
Here you can find the Top 100 Singles and Albums charts of 2010.
Singles
Albums