събота, 12 март 2011 г.

German chart comments - Issue date - 11.03.2011

(Chris Brown - the RiRi days are over and we can't get enough of BEP)

Though Lady Gaga tried two weeks ago to replace him at the top, Bruno Mars' reign over the German chart continues this week. And for the time being it seems that no-one is gonna remove "Grenade" from the number one soon. Adele moves up one to #2, while Taio Cruz' collaboration with Kylie Minogue (far better than the Travie McCoy version) enters the top three for the first time this week. 

Further down the chart Lady Gaga's "Born This Way" wins back a position and moves up to #5, while Sunrise Avenue's "Hollywood Hills" continues its ascend and this week enters the top 10 at #6. 

The highest new entry comes in at #8 belonging to Chris Brown. The notorious star has been in the top 10 only once with his debut single "Run It" (peak #5) from 2005. Of course "Yeah 3X" marks a new era for him and not surprising the single, with its good (European) dance flavour, shoots in straight at #8. Surprisingly, the single has not managed yet to enter the US top ten...Last Chris Brown was in the German top 100 with "Forever" which reached #20.

A position behind Rihanna's best friend enters the latest single (and actually the second one from their latest album) of Black Eyed Peas. "The Time" already has been massive in Germany, while its follow-up "Just Can't Get Enough" duly becomes the tenth single of Fergie and co. which enters the top 10 in Germany. It is also an another example of the rising and still irritating trend to release singles well ahead of their videos, which is bad...
  
The latest news for Roxette is far from bad though. The Swedish legends finally return to the top 10 in Germany as "She's Got Nothing On (But The Radio)" moves two to #10. It is the first single of Roxette to reach a position as high as this after "How Do You Do!" was number two 19 years ago...

The next new entry sees the comeback of Avril Lavigne in the charts. After "What The Hell" more or less flopped around the world, it was never to be expected it would do bigger things in Germany. Still by entering at #21, it is by two positions more successful than the latest single of Britney Spears, which this week goes down to #29 from #23. Avril has three top 10 hits in Germany on her account.

A curious new entry at #25 where schlager singers Ute Freudenberg and Christian Lais bring their Berlin hymn "Auf Den Dächern Von Berlin". However, don't let the schlager title stop you to check it out - it is a good pop song. 

Yet another curious new entry can be found at #31. "Snowflakes" is the debut single of US synthie pop group White Apple Tree, for which the English version of Wikipedia has never heard of. And of course, the song has no video but it features in the soundtrack of German blockbuster "Kokowääh" which most of you know was responsible for the success of Hurts' "Stay" (this week at #4).

And the remaining new entries with videos:
45 Rockstroh - Wolke 7 
59 Eliza Doolittle - Pack Up - yes, the fact it was huge in UK last year did not help in Germany.
63 Wir Sind Helden - Alles Auf Anfang - a surprisingly catchy song
72 The Black Pony - Scars And Bruises 
81 Bläck Fööss - Mir Han E Hätz Für Kölle - blame the carnivals
92 Räuber - Wunderbar (Der Hochzeitswalzer) - see above 

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