понеделник, 30 декември 2013 г.

German Chart Comments - Issue Date 27.12

After a brief stay at #1 for just a week, "Changes" of Faul & Wad Ad & Pnau (I challenge you to remember the artists in two years) drops this time to #2, leaving the way for Pitbull to have his first number single in the country as a lead artist. The superstar  provided in the past vocals to Jennifer Lopez' number one smash "On The Floor" but "Timber" becomes his first proper chart topper in Germany. Kudos also to Kesha, whose participation on the song means that the singer has her second number one in the country after 2009's "Tik Tok".
Video - Faul & Wad 
Video - Pitbull  

The top three is rounded up by "Lieder" of Adel Tawil, while the highest new entry comes on behalf of this year's winner of The Voice of Germany. Andreas Kuemmert is the man who unsurprisingly ranked first in the casting show, with "Simple Man" being his winner song. And the single arrives this week fresh at #4. The show had produced two winners before Andreas - Ivy Quainoo, whose career started promisingly before no one noticed that she had a new album out several months ago, and Nick Howard, who I think no one remembers any more.
Video - Andreas 
 
Inside the top 50 The Voice of Germany is also responsible for #12 where runner-up Chris Schummert has his "The Singer" entering the chart, while Judith Van Hel, which ranked third, is new at #20 with "Fucking Beautiful". The two come from team Samu of Sunrise Avenue fame. 
Chris - Live 
Judith - Live 

Coinciding with the success of The Hobbit 2 in cinemas, Ed Sheeran's "I See Fire", which is featured in the movie's soundtrack, soars this week to #9 from #53. The song thus reaches the same peak as Sheeran's only hit in Germany - "The A Team". However, the latter enjoyed a relative longevity in the chart, which "I See Fire" would probably not see. 
Video 

By the looks of it, though reaching a new peak at #22, "Unconditional" is going to be one of the minor hits of Katy Perry. This week sees also the return of "Dark Horse" in the chart at #32. The song, which appeared briefly before the release of Perry's latest album, will be now officially promoted as a third single taken out of it. 
Video - Katy Perry 
Audio - Dark Horse 
 
After "Can’t Believe It" reached #4 earlier this year, Flo Rida starts slowly with his follow-up offering called "How I Feel". The song enters this week at #24 to be Rida's 12th top 30 single as a lead artist.
Video 

Pharrell Williams is definitely among the stars of the year as he provided vocals to two of 2013 biggest tracks "Get Lucky" of Daft Punk and "Blurred Lines" of Robin Thicke. Now, it is time for the man to rekindle his own solo career, which results in "Happy" entering at #30. Easily the song becomes his biggest solo outing in the country, beating the #37 of 2005's "Can I Have It Like That".
Video 

As his protege in The Voice of Germany won the show, Max Herre is also enjoying a minor chart success with the MTV Unplugged version of "A-N-N-A (Immer Wenn Es Regnet)" rising to #43 from #51.
Audio
 
And last, we have a new single of Frei.Wild entering as it is the tradition lately in the lower part of the top 50. "Stille Nacht" is thus at #45.
Video 

And the other new entries this week:

57. Debbie Schippers - Skin And Bones
Live 
77. Peer Richter - Himmel
83. A Great Big World ft. Christina Aguillera - Say Something
Video 
92. Max Herre ft. Joy Denalane - Mit Dir
95. Rudimental ft. Emeli Sande - Free
Video 
100. Chris Schummert - Hey Brother
Live 

The Album Chart

In another slow week in the album chart Robbie Williams' "Swings Both Ways" is still at #1, cementing its status as one of the biggest releases this year. "Farbenspiel" of Helene Fischer is still at #2, while Max Herre brings his first MTV Unplugged at #3. The ex-Freundeskreis singer has scored two number one solo albums so far.

неделя, 22 декември 2013 г.

German Chart Comments - Issue Date 20.12

Following the somewhat unexpected success of Klingande and "Jubel", another French project, this time called Faul & Wad Ad (vs. Pnau) makes it to the top of the German charts with the similarly sounding "Changes". The song rises four to replace the aforementioned "Jubel" after spending seven non-consecutive weeks as #1. 

Video - Faul & Wad 
 
At #2, up from #3, Pitbull and Kesha advance one to a new peak with "Timber", while Avicii's "Hey Brother" returns to the top three, an increase from #4.
Video - Pitbull 
Video - Avicii 
 
The highest new entry belongs to local rapper Marteria, who a year ago had a number one smash with "Lila Wolken". "Kids (2 Finger an den Kopf)" debuts at #7 and becomes the second single of Marteria to enter the German top ten. He was last in the top 100 with "Big Bang", which reached #40 several months ago.

At #16, up from #24, Tim Bendzko has his fourth top 20 single with "Unter die Haut", which is taken from a new version of his second album. The song is a collaboration with Cassandra Steen, who has been absent from the countdown since "Tanz" reached #28 in 2011.
 
Imagine Dragons, one of the main discoveries of 2013, are on their way to have a fourth hit single in Germany as "Demons" shoots itself to #32 from #58. The group's previous records - "It's Time", "Radioactive" and "On Top of the World" reached #20, #4 and #13, respectively.

Afrojack is also on the way to have a proper hit with "The Spark", which this week moves up one to #36.
 
And the other new entries this week:
 
51. Max Herre - A-N-N-A (Immer wenn es regnet) (Unplugged)
53. Ed Sheeran - I See Fire 
55. Marteria - Bengalische Tiger 
58. U2 - Ordinary Love 
61. Justin Bieber feat. Chance The Rapper - Confident 
65. will.i.am feat. Miley Cyrus, Wiz Khalifa & French Montana - Feeling Myself
66. Emily Intsiful - Walzer für niemand 
Live 
82. Showtek feat. We Are Loud & Sonny Wilson - Booyah 
86. Bastille - Of The Night 
94. Sophie Hunger - Walzer für niemand 
 
The Album Chart 
 
Following the Christmas rush and due the fact that every important new release is already in the stores, nothing interesting happens in the album chart where Robbie Williams returns to the summit with "Swings Both Ways".

понеделник, 16 декември 2013 г.

German Chart Comments - Issue Date 13.12

It's a seventh week for Klingande and "Jubel" on the summit of the German singles chart. Next at two, up from #3, Adel Tawil's "Lieder" returns once again to its peak position, while Pitbull and Kesha are yelling "Timber" at #3, up from #4. The latter is the second top three single of Pitbull as a lead singer in Germany, next to "Give Me Everything".

Video - Klingande 

Lyric Video - Adel Tawil 
Video - Pitbull 

In its third week on the countdown, Faul & Wad Ad Vs Pnau rise five to #5 with "Changes", while at #13 Helene Fischer has her best performing single ever with "Atemlos durch die Nacht". By rising from #31, the second single from Helene's multi-selling album "Farbenspiel" improves considerably on the #20 peak of previous one "Fehlerfrei".
Video - Faul & Wad 
Audio - Helene Fischer 

In the steps of Martin Garrix' "Animals", Canadian electronic music duo Dvbbs and US DJ Borgeous are rising high in the German chart as "Tsunami" moves from #26 to #18.

Video 

The highest new entry belongs to Sean Paul and "Turn It Up", as the second single from Paul's "Full Frequency" album enters at #21. It is, however, far from the #3 peak of pilot single "The Other Side Of Love".

Video 

At #23, up from #27, Katy Perry is advancing rather slowly towards the top 20 with "Unconditionally". Up one in its second week to #24 is also "Unter die Haut" of Tim Bendzko and Cassandra Steen.

Video - Katy Perry 
Video - Tim Bendzko 

Further down the list, with the approaching of Christmas, the usual bunch of holiday hits is finding its way towards the upper reaches of the countdown. Once again Wham!'s "Last Christmas" leads, as the song soars this week to #32 from #70. Melanie Thornton's "Wonderful Dream (Holidays Are Coming)" is up to #38 from #80, while Mariah Carey's "All I Want For Christmas Is You" is at #50, an increase from #88.

Video - Wham! 
Video - Melanie
Video - Mariah 

Coinciding with the debut of his latest album at #1, some Sido album tracks have also invaded the singles chart. First of them is "Arbeit", a collaboration with Helge Schneider, which is at #33.

Live
 

And finally at #37, Afrojack's "The Spark" advances seven places to a new peak position. 
Video

And the other new entries this week:


51. Sido - Liebe
53. Andreas Kümmert - If You Don't Know Me By Now 

Live
56. Sido feat. Genetikk & Marsimoto - Maskerade 

Video
67. Justin Bieber - Change Me

Audio
99. Sido - Fühl dich frei


The Album Chart

Bad news this week for Britney Spears, whose latest album "Britney Jean" flops disastrously at #20 in the German LP chart and easily becomes the first album of the (former) superstar to miss the top 10. At #1 Sido has his second number one album with "30-11-80", while the latest from Nightwish appears at #6. It's called "Showtime, Storytime". Also new inside the top ten is Scorpions' "MTV Unplugged" at #9.

понеделник, 9 декември 2013 г.

German Chart Comments - Issue Date 6.12

No comments this week but the videos are back.
 
1. (last week #1) Klingande - Jubel
Video
2. (last week #5) Milky Chance - Stolen Dance

Video
3. (last week #2) Adel Tawil - Lieder 

Lyric Video 

The new entries: 
 
24. One Direction - Strong
Audio
25. Tim Bendzko feat. Cassandra Steen - Unter die Haut 

Video 
48. Beatrice Egli - Verrückt nach dir 
Video 
54. One Direction - You & I 
Audio 
64. Deorro - Yee
Video 
66. One Direction - Don't Forget Where You Belong
Audio 
69. Justin Bieber - Roller Coaster
Audio 
81. Tracy Chapman - Fast Car 
Audio 
86. Imagine Dragons - Demons 
Video 
91. One Direction - Midnight Memories 
Audio 
96. Prince Kay One feat. Kns Tha Enigneer - Belstaff 
Live 
100. Casper - Jambalaya 
Video