(There'll be no videos for the time being)
This week sees one of the most unexpected number ones this year as James
Blunt's comeback single tops easily the German charts. The great
"Bonfire Heart" comes as a pilot single of Blunt's "Moon Landing" LP and
beats the #2 peaks of "You're Beautiful" and "1973". So, though many
have considered him to be a one-hit wonder, the former soldier has once again
proved that he is far from that. "Bonfire Heart", written with the help
of One Republic's frontman and in the vein of the current indie-folk
hype, arrives in the German charts two years after "I’ll Be Your Man"
reached #40. It also becomes Blunt's fourth top ten single in Germany.
Thus,
after spending three long weeks as #1, Jason Derulo's "Talk Dirty"
slips to two, while the third position is once again held by "Dear
Darlin'" and Olly Murs.
At #5 Klingande's "Jubel" moves up a slot to
claim a new peak, while at #10 Avicii's "Hey Brother" shows that no one
cares whether a song is officially released or not as the album track
shoots itself from #22 and becomes the third song of the Swedish star to
enter the top ten. Hopefully, the amazing tune will get a video at some
point.
"Kuss Kuss Kuss", the previous single of local hip
hop trio Fettes Brot, somewhat underperformed by reaching #35 earlier
this year. Now the boys are back with a better song and a better
placement as "Echo", which by the looks of it, will be the second single
from Fettes Brot new album, enters at #12. It's the seventh single of
Fettes Brot to reach the top 20, where they were last with "Bettina,
zieh dir bitte etwas an" (peak #3) in 2008.
At #13 Finnish band
Sunrise Avenue show once again their chart strength in Germany as their
new single "Lifesaver" enters the chart to turn into the boys' third top
20 single, next to the #3 hits "Fairytale Gone Bad" and "
Hollywood Hills". Last Sunrise Avenue were in the chart with "I Don’t Dance", which peaked at #33 in 2011.
A
position behind, Miley Cyrus' "Wrecking Ball" is slowly cementing its
status as her biggest hit to date, as the song moves up two to #14. At
#16 we have another curious single storming the countdown. "Stolen
Dance", the debut single of Kassel-born Clemens Rehbein, or as he is
known in the list Milky Chance, was released in August but now finds its
strength and flies from #64.
At #26 Bastille's "Things We Lost In The Fire" is starting to slow down
its upward movement by advancing by just one position from #27.
At
#32 we can found "Heartbreaker", the first single from Justin Bieber's
plans to flood the market with a new song every week (to what effect
this will influence the German charts, only time will tell). The song
arrives after the #53 peak of "All Around the World". And yes, he still
is lacking a top ten single.
At #36, up from #45, "Work Bitch", the
latest offering of Britney Spears manages to equal the peak position of
the star's least performing single in Germany ("If U Seek Amy"). The glory days now seem long gone.
After
"Berzerk" (this week at #17) reached #10 a couple of weeks ago, Eminem
brings even fresher material to the charts as "Survival" debuts this
week at #38.
At #39 New Zealand's sensation Lorde is finally enjoying
a top 50 presence as her US topper "Royals" moves up from #57. Several
weeks ago Lorde entered the chart with "Tennis Court", which stumbled at
#83.
Also on the rise is Drake's (best hit so far) "Hold On Were
Going Home", which advances from #60 to #41, to become Drake's first
ever single as a lead artist to enter the German top 50. Shamefully
never getting the promotion he deserves, the US star has had only one
song as a lead artist in the German charts so far - "Find Your Love",
with a one-week stay at #65.
Further down the list, Voxxclub's catchy
"Rock mi" moves two to #44, while the even catchier and phenomenal/awful
(delete as appropriate) "The Fox" of Ylvis is finally inside the top 50
as it rises from #61 to #45.
Coinciding with the release of her new
album, Helene Fischer's "Atemlos Durch Die Nacht" makes it inside the
top 50 at #46 as a cherry-pick track.
At #48 though more or less
Passenger is going to have a tough time not to be considered a one-hit
wonder, he follows his #1 hit "Let Her Go" with "Holes", which climbs
four.
And finally, this week sees the return of one Cher with new
material. The legendary star has been absent from the chart since "Alive
Again" peaked at #27 in 2001 and now is back with "I Hope You Find It"
entering at #49 (fellow track "Woman’s World" is at #66). Cher's biggest hit in Germany is of course 1998's number one "Believe".
And the other new entries this week:
62. Marco Angelini - Wunder Gibt Es Immer Wieder
66. Cher - Woman's World
86. Pearl Jam - Sirens
90. Pitbull ft. Ke$ha - Timber
96. Sportfreunde Stiller - New York Rio Rosenheim
The Album Chart
Coming
with mega-sales, of which even Andrea Berg can be envy, Helene Fischer
crowns the album chart with her latest album "Farbenspiel", which
follows the 2011 #1 LP "Für einen Tag".
The schlager dominance continues with Andrea Berg at #2 as her
"Atlantis" rises one, while Casper's "Hinterland" is down two to three.
"Planet Der Lieder", the latest album of volksmusik veterans
Kastelruther Spatzen comes new at #4, matching the peak of their best
performing album so far "Und Singen ist Gold" from 2006. A new version
of "Fire It Up" sees the return of Joe Cocker's latest album at #5,
while Cher's "Closer To The Truth" debuts at #6. Cher's LP manages to
reach the peak of her 1991 "Love Hurts" but is still far from the #1 "Believe". Also new inside the top ten is the latest from Korn. "The
Paradigm Shift" enters at #7 - a considerable improvement from the #28
peak of their previous studio album. Interestingly, despite being home
of her biggest singles to date, "Bangerz", the new album of Miley Cyrus,
fails to reach the #4 peak of her previous one by entering at #9.
Jason Derulo spends a third week on top of Germany's singles chart with
his "Talk Dirty", with Katy Perry moving once again to #2 with "Roar"
(up from #4) and Olly Murs' "Dear Darlin" slipping one to three.
Video - Jason Derulo
Video - Olly Murs
Video - Katy Perry
At
#4 "Animals", the dance anthem of Martin Garrix, advances a position
from #5, while Klingande's excellent "Jubel" enters the top ten in its
third week on the list by soaring six to #6. Also new in the top ten is
"Hero" by Family Of The Year, which moves up four to #7 after a steady
climb over the last few weeks.
Video - Martin Garrix
Video - Klingande
Video - Family of the Year
Thanks to the new vocal version
Klangkarussell's "Sonnentanz" has once again entered the top ten and is
this week at #10, up from #14.
Video
Alligatoah's "Willst Du" also
continues its successful climb and after leaving the top 20 for a week
makes it back at #14, an increase from #22.
Video - Alligatoah
Though "You Make Me"
(this week at #49) is still Avicii's current single, album track and great
tune "Hey Brother" is gaining more and more attention and is doing
quite better as it is up six to #22.
Audio - Avicii
The highest new entry for the
week can be found at #23 coming from local band Jupiter Jones. The guys
are most famous with "Still", which hit #10 back in 2011.
"Rennen+Stolpern", which heralds the release of their third album, is
the fourth single of Jupiter Jones to make it inside the top 100 and
also the second most successful one.
Video
It is strange how no one paid
attention when Bosse released "So Oder So" several weeks ago as the song
spend a week at the low end of the chart. Now, however, after winning
the local Bundesvision contest (it is like Eurovision but for the
different German states), the amazing song shoots itself from #96 to
#25. It thus beats the #27 peak of Bosse's previous single "Schönste
Zeit".
Video
Further down the top 50, Bastille's "Things We Lost In The Fire" is slowly advancing towards the top 20 as it moves four to #27.
Video
In
its second week in the chart Max Herre's "Fremde" climbs from #53 to
#32, becoming the fourth solo top 50 single of the ex-Freundeskreis
singer. At #37, after a weak debut at #89 last week, "Der Letzte Blick",
Xavier Naidoo's follow-up to #2 hit "Bei meiner Seele", makes a big
jump as a result of the song participation in this year's Bundesvision
contest.
Remix - Max Herre
Video - Xavier Naidoo
Also thanks to his Bundesvision appearance Johannes
Oerding has his first ever top 50 single with "Nichts Geht Mehr". The
song is up to #43 from #64.
Video
And finally, the official release of DJ
Antoine Vs Mad Mark's "House Party" sees the song re-entering the
countdown at #44. It's the third single taken from DJ Antoine's "Sky Is The Limit" album, which has produced two #15-hits so far.
Video
And the other new entries this week:
55. Keule - Ja Genau
Video
58. Rio ft. U-Jean - Komodo (Hard Nights)
Video
63. Mc Fitti - Fitti Mit Bart
Video
65. Dizzee Rascal ft. Will.I.Am - Something Really Bad
Video
70. Dcvdns - Eigentlich Wollte Nate Dogg Die Hook Singen
Audio
81. Within Temptation ft. Tarja - Paradise (What About Us)
Video
83. De Fofftig Penns - Loeppt
Video
89. Luna Simao - Es Geht Bis Zu Den Wolken
Video
The Album Chart
In the album chart local rapper Casper follows his first major album "XOXO" with another number one record as the excellent "Hinterland" debuts straight at the top. At #2 enters German medieval metal band In Extremo and their "
Kunstraub". The band's previous two LPs reached the #1 slot. Last week number one album, "Atlantis" by Andrea Berg is down to #3, while the second part of Justin Timberlake's 2013 comeback "The 20 / 20 Experience-2 Of 2" is new at #4. Birdy's sophomore album "Fire Within" arrives at #5, improving on the 16 peak of "Birdy". Also new, at #7, is "Fortress" of US rock band Alter Bridge, which becomes the guys' first ever top ten album in Germany.
Hate it or love it, it's a second week for Jason Derulo's "Talk Dirty"
at the top of the German singles chart. He is followed by Olly Murs'
"Dear Darlin", which recoups two positions and sits comfortably at #2.
Thus the song now needs only a little push to become Olly's second
number one, next to "My Heart Skips A Beat". It at least matches the #2
peak of "Troublemaker". The top three is rounded by Avicii's "Wake Me
Up", which is down one from #2.
Video - Jason Derulo
Video - Avicii
Video - Olly Murs
Further down the top ten,
"Papaoutai" of Stromae advances this week to #6, proving that Germany
unlike UK welcomes foreign and non-English music on its shores.
Video - Stromae
Showing
once again what a chart force they are, Linkin Park bring "A Light That
Never Comes", their collaboration with Steve Aoki, this week to #8 from
#27 where they entered seven days ago. It's the sixth top ten single of
the US rockers in Germany.
Lyric Video - Linkin Park
A couple of weeks ago I expected
Eminem's comeback single "Berzerk" to be his next top ten single, but as
the song slipped to #28 last week, I thought I was definitely wrong.
Still, boosted perhaps by physical sales (do they matter any more?)
"Berzerk" moves up eighteen and can be found at #10. The song does
becomes Eminem's 13th top ten single - a feat which only a handful of
male artists can be proud of.
Video
At #11 Family Of The Year's "Hero"
continues its rise, up from #19, while French project Klingande and
"Jubel" is also on the right path, as it moves in its second week from
#30 to #12.
Video - Family of the Year
Video - Klingande
The schlager music can be the definitive ruler of the
album charts at the moment, but as I've written before, there have been
only a few singles matching this success (and curiously most of them
come from male musicians). The things are, however, starting to slowly
change as this week we see "Fehlerfrei" of schlager princess Helene
Fischer entering at #20. It heralds the release of Fischer's new album
(which will most certainly hit the #1 slot soon) and becomes the first
ever top 20 single of the star. Her best performing song so far chart-wise
has been "Ich will immer wieder … dieses Fieber spürn", which peaked at
#30.
Audio
Five positions behind Helene, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
register their third top thirty single with "Same Love", which climbs
seven to #25.
Video - Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
After entering the top 50 last week, Bastille continue their climb with
"Things We Lost In The Fire", which somewhat surprisingly shoots itself
to #31 from #50.
Video
Britney Spears' latest "Work Bitch" is also on the
rise, as the song moves up four positions to #37 in its second week in
the countdown. Now with a released video, it may even go higher.
Video
We
also have a re-entry of Cologne-based band Voxxclub with "Rock mi" at
#45, while Passenger is following his global smash hit "Let Her Go" with
"Holes" at #50. The song is up from #57.
Video - Voxxclub
Video - Passenger
And the other new entries this week:
53. Max Herre ft. Sophie Hunger - Fremde
Video
57. Miss Li - Plastic Faces
Video
71. Justin Timberlake - Tko
Audio
77. Gentleman - Heart Of Rub-A-Dub
Video
81. Maxim - Rueckspiegel
Video
88. Lorde - Royals
Video
89. Xavier Naidoo - Der Letzte Blick
Video
91. Jason Derulo ft. Pitbull - Fire
Audio
97. Naughty Boy - Lifted
Video
The Album Chart
After
giving up the throne in the albums chart to Die Aerzte (they are now
down to #5), schlager queen Andrea Berg expectedly returns to #1 with "Atlantis". "Mechanical Bull", the
latest album of Kings Of Leon debuts at #2, missing the #1 peak of their
previous LP. Sting's "The Last Ship" is new at #3 becoming a yet
another top ten album of the veteran star. Dream Theater's self-titled
LP arrives new at #4. Two years ago the rock band peaked at #3 with "A Dramatic Turn of Events". Katie
Melua's sixth studio album misses the top three unlike her four
previous recordings. "Ketevan" can still be found at #6, two places
above the soundtrack to "Metallica: Through The Never". "Immer In
Bewegung", the fourth album of local band Revolverheld, comes in at
#9 and for now becomes their worst performing one in terms of peak
positions.
The ten-week reign of Avicii on the top has finally come to an end with
the arrival of the latest single of Jason Derulo. "Talk Dirty", which so
heavily features the extremely popular in Bulgaria pop-folk rhythms
(the genre's called chalga) that I can't stand it, flies directly at #1.
This is Derulo's first number one in Germany, while the superior
"Breathing", which actually samples authentic Bulgarian folklore,
reached #5. The singer's previous single, and the first taken from his
latest album, "The Other Side" peaked at #35.
Video
Thus "Wake Me Up" of
Avicii slips one to two, followed by Katy Perry's "Roar", which failed
to take the crown and is this week down to #3.
Video - Avicii
Video - Katy Perry
"Animals" of Martin
Garrix is this week up three to #5, while Woodkid's amazing "Run Boy
Run" shoots itself from #26 to #11 in its second week on the top 100,
proving the power of Vodafone commercials for yet another time.
Video - Martin Garrix
Video - Woodkid
The
third single of Imagine Dragons in Germany also becomes their third top
20 hit as "On Top Of The World" advances to #13 from #22, beating the
#20 peak of "It's Time". "Radioactive" reached #4 several months ago.
Audio - Imagine Dragons
Last week Miley Cyrus' "We
Can't Stop" reached #16 to become her most successful song in Germany,
a feat which is this week matched by her next single as "Wrecking Ball" moves up from #25 to #16.
Video - Wrecking Ball
Also
new to the top 20 is "Hero" of Family Of The Year, up from #24 to #19
and already a candidate for the most surprising hit of the year, as well
as Alligatoah's "Willst du", which makes its indecent proposal for
drugs abuse at #20, up from #23.
Video - Alligatoah
Video - Family of the Year
The highest new entry comes from the
man of the moment as Avicii's "Hey Brother" enters as an album cut at
#24. Three positions behind the Swedish DJ, we find the return of Linkin
Park with "A Light That Never Comes" - a collaboration with Steve Aoki,
which marks the forthcoming release of Linkin Park's second album with
remixes called "Recharged". "Castle of Glass", the previous single of
the rock band in Germany, peaked at #10.
Audio - Avicii
Lyric Video - Linkin Park
Also new in the top 100 and in the vein of Klangkarussel's "Sonnentanz" comes Klingande and the similarly great "Jubel" at #30.
Video
German band The Bosshoss followed their #8 hit "Don’t Gimme That" in 2011 with two minor singles in the lower end of the chart but now the boys are back with fresh material and "Do It" makes a more respectable new entry at #31. It is the third top 40 single of The Bosshoss.
Video
A position behind The Bosshoss, Macklemore and Ryan Lewis move up six with "Same Love", while the comeback single of Britney Spears arrives at #41. "Work Bitch" is the pilot single of Britney's eight studio album and if it does not advance any further for now becomes her least performing charting single in Germany (Smurfs' extravaganza "Ooh La La" not included).
Video - Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
Audio - Britney Spears
Though they still have a long way to walk before removing the one-hit wonder stigma ("Pompeii peaked at #6), UK band Bastille are on the right path as follow-up single "Things We Lost In The Fire" shoots 21 positions up and is at #50.
Video
And the other new entries this week:
54. Madcon - The Signal
Video
56. Eko Fresh - Quotentuerke
Video
71. Avicii - Addicted to You
Audio
80. MoTrip ft. Elmo - Guten Morgen NSA
Video
81. In Extremo - Feuertaufe
Video
82. Bonnie McKee - American Girl
Video
89. Ylvis - The Fox
Video
97. Christina Stuermer - Ich hoer auf mein Herz
Audio
100. Kid Ink ft. Chris Brown - Show Me
Audio
The Album Chart
Since 2003 Die Ärzte have topped the album chart with every new release and now even the massive sales of Andrea Berg could not prevent that as their live offering - "Die Nacht der
Dämonen" enters directly at #1, becoming the fifth consecutive album of the band to do so, and the eight in their career. Thus "Atlantis" of Andrea Berg slips to two, while Schiller's "Opus" is down to seven, amid a completely new top ten. At #3 we have Placebo's "Loud Like Love", at #4 BAP's founder Niedecken with "Zosamme Alt", Avicii's "True" is at #5, while rapper SSIO's "BB.U.M.SS.N" enters at #6. Further down the latest offering of rapper Fler "Maskulin Mixtape Vol. 3" is new at #8, Jack Johnson's "From Here To Now To You" is at #9, British deathmetal band Carcass' "Surgical Steel" is at #10 and Elton John's "The Diving Board" comes in at #11.
Avicii's "Wake Me Up" is still unmovable from Germany's number one slot
as it stays there for the tenth consecutive time. Though many have
expected "Roar" of Katy Perry to be this week's winner, the song sticks
to the runner-up position. Up two to #3 is "Dear Darlin" of Olly Murs.
Though it's a great song, its performance is somewhat surprising as it
is the third single taken from Olly's current album, while previous one
"Army of Two" flopped massively at the low end of the chart.
Video - Avicii
Video - Katy Perry
Video - Olly Murs
John
Newman's "Love Me Again" rises also two and is this week at #6, while
new in the top ten is "Animals" by Martin Garrix, which advances eleven
positions and sits comfortably at #8.
Video - John Newman
Video - Martin Garrix
Following the #4 peak of "Im
Ascheregen" from August this year, local rapper Casper releases the
second single from his soon to be launched new album. Thus, "Hinterland"
comes this week at #11, becoming the highest new entry in the top 100
and also the third song of Casper to enter the top 20.
Video
Earlier this
year UK singer Birdy had a huge hit in Germany with "People Help the
People", which despite not being much successful in her native country
reached #3. Now, she is ready with new material and the magnificent
"Wings" enters fresh at #15. There're still no signs that the song would
make any chart news in the UK though.
Video
She is currently all over the
gossip columns with her erratic behaviour but that doesn't stop Miley
Cyrus to finally bring her global hit "We Can't Stop" in the top 20. So after some
wait, the song has caught the attention of the record-buying public and
shoots this week to #16 from #39. It beats the #17 peak of Miley's best
performing single in Germany so far - "7 Things" from 2008. At #25 we
can also find Miley Cyrus' next single - the notorious "Wrecking Ball",
which after heading in the wrong direction last week, climbs this time
around to #25 from #72. It is her fifth top 30 single in Germany.
Video - We Can't Stop
Video - Wrecking Ball
The
influx of YouTube stars bringing songs to the chart continues for yet
another week as local Internet presenters Gronkh & Sarazar, also
known as Die Superhomies, bring "Elektrotitte (5000 Volt)" directly at
#17.
Video
Two positions behind, Coldplay arrive with "Atlas", the main
song from the forthcoming Hunger Games movie sequel. The song comes after
"Princess of China" reached #41 and is the fifth top 20 single of the British band.
Lyric Video
At
positions #22 to #24 we have three songs definitely on the rise - "On
Top Of The World" of Imagine Dragons, up one to #22, Alligatoah's
"Willst Du", up seven to #23, and Family Of The Year's "Hero", also up
seven to #24.
Audio - Imagine Dragons
Video - Alligatoah
Video - Family of the Year
By entering at #26 "Run Boy Run" becomes the first
proper hit of French musician Woodkid, who has been more famous as a
music videos director so far. "I Love You" has also entered the German
chart but has reached only #61.
Video
And finally, Ivy Quainoo, the winner
of the first edition of Germany's The Voice, is ready with her second
album and "Wildfires (Light It Up)", the pilot single, this week enters
at #44, a far cry from the #2 peak of debut single "Do You Like What You
See".
Audio
And the other new entries this week:
52. Andrea Berg - Das Gefuehl
Live
63. Chvrches - The Mother We Share
Video
67. DJ Bobo & Mike Candys - Take Control
Video
70. Alligatoah - Trauerfeier Lied
Video
71. Bastille - Things We Lost In The Fire
Video
80. Passenger - Holes
Video
84. Andrea Berg - Atlantis Lebt
Live
90. Glasperlenspiel - Grenzenlos
Live
The Album Chart
Nothing can stop schlager queen Andrea Berg to have her seventh number one album this week as "Atlantis" storms the album chart with massive sales and cementing the genre dominance in this countdown. Thus Schiller's "Opus" has to slip a position to #2, while Arctic Monkeys' praised "AM" debuts at #3, falling short of the #2 peak of "Favourite Worst Nightmare". At #4 2raumwohnung have their sixth consecutive top album in the shape of "Achtung Fertig", while the latest live DVD of Madonna with her "MDNA" tour appears at #5. Also new in the top ten is Rise Against's "Long Forgotten Songs - B-Sides & Covers" at #7, Kontra K's "12 Runden" at #8 and Goldfrapp's "Tales of Us" at #9.
As Avicii's "Wake Me Up" spends a ninth week on top, it's "Roar" of Katy
Perry the hit which will most probably replace it at the top as the
song climbs one to #2. Thus, Naughty Boy has to slip a position to #3
with "La La La".
Video - Avicii
Video - Naughty Boy
Video - Katy Perry
Also on the rise, and already her biggest single in
the country is "Burn" by Ellie Goulding, which moves two to #4. Olly
Murs follows close as his "Dear Darlin'" is up five, sitting comfortably
at #5. Two places below the UK star, Stromae's "Papaoutai" continues to surprise
as it goes up two to #7.
Video - Ellie Goulding
Video - Olly Murs
Video - Stromae
The highest new entry marks the return
of German band Revolverheld after a three-year pause and solo projects.
"Das kann uns keiner nehmen" enters at #10 on a wave of strong radio
support and becomes the third top ten single of the Hamburg-founded
group next to football anthem "Helden 2008" (peak #2) and their previous
chart entry "Halt dich an mir fest" (peak #8).
Video
On the rise in
its second week in the chart is also Eminem's "Berzerk", up three to
#12, and now with a released video the song maybe will turn into
Eminem's next top ten single.*
Video
Following the release of a new
vocal version, the sales of "Sonnentanz", Klangkarussell's already top five single in Germany, were boosted to bring the song back in the top
20, up to #16 from #54 in its 56th week on the countdown.
Video
The top 20 is this week entered also by
European hit "Animals" of Martin Garrix, which has already stormed the
charts in France, the Netherlands and Switzerland and now soars to #17
from #31.
Video - Martin Garrix
At #23 Imagine Dragons' third single "On Top Of The
World" advances six positions and is soon to be seen in the top 20. Also
climbing is "Willst Du", which can be found at #30, up five,
representing the first single of Alligatoah inside the top 30. At #31 US
band Family Of The Year moves up five in its second week in the chart
with "Hero" as the radio-friendly song is gaining in airplay.
Audio - Imagine Dragons
Video - Alligatoah
Video - Family of the Year
He
may be number one for ages but that doesn't stop now superstar Avicii to
release new material, which results "You Make Up" in entering the Germany's
Top 100 at #34. It is the sixth single of the Swedish DJ to enter the
top 50.
Video
Also new, and coinciding with the current hype for comedy
acts on YouTube is "Ich Trau Mich Nicht" of ApeCrime, which comes in at
#35. It is the first single of the trio in the countdown.
Video
Further
down the chart, Robin Thicke's follow-up to "Blurred Lines" is
advancing as "Give It 2 U" rises five to #36, while in the second week
on the list Macklemore & Ryan Lewis' gay marriage support anthem
"Same Love" enters the top 50 at #38, up from #55. It is the third
single of the two US stars in the top 40. More curiously though "And We
Danced", which has been a top 20 presence in the online shops for months
now, is still not allowed to chart in the official countdown. Go
figure...
Video - Robin Thicke
Video - Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
Local rapper Marteria has followed his chart topper "Lila
Wolken" with charity single "Blue Uganda", which stalled outside the top
50, while now he is back with proper new material as "Big Bang" enters the
chart at #40.
Video
A single thought also on Pink's "True Love", which though not a true hit, at least makes a new peak at #43, up from #50.
Video
And
finally, Hurts are back in the chart with the third single of their
second album as "Somebody To Die For" appears at #46, improvement
compared with the #52 peak of "Blind". B-side of the current single is
actually "Ohne dich", a cover of a song of local band "Selig", which
this week comes fresh at #88.
Video
And the other new entries this week:
57. Schiller With Albrecht Mayer - Swan Lake
Audio
81. Laleh - Some Die Young
Video
83. Lorde - Tennis Court
Video
85. Calvin Harris Feat. Ayah Marar - Thinking About You
Video
88. Hurts - Ohne Dich
Audio
98. Claire - The Next Ones To Come
Audio
99. Weekend - Schatz, Du Arschloch!
Video
The Album Chart
Ten
new entries come directly among the first eleven places in Germany's
album chart this week with only Santiano's "Mit Den Gezeiten" remaining
there from the previous chart. The parade is led by the latest album of
Schiller, called "Opus", which easily becomes the fourth album of the
electro musician to reach #1. Thees Uhlmann's appropriately named "#2"
is at #2, followed by (take a deep breath) rapper Weekend's "Am
Wochenende Rapper" at #3, rock band Frei.Wild's "Gegen Alles, Gegen
Nichts" at #4, Nine Inch Nails' "Hesitation Marks" at #5, Tarja's
"Colours In The Dark" at #6, folk rock group Schandmaul's "So Weit, So
Gut" at #7, Kreator's "Dying Alive" at #9, Babyshambles' "Sequel To The
Prequel" at #10 and Patrice's "The Rising Of The Son" at #11.
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Avicii's "Wake Me Up" clocks up an eight week on top of the German singles countdown, with Naughty Boy's "La La La" at #2 for a fourth time in a row. The all static top three this week is rounded by "Roar" of Katy Perry.
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The combination Flo Rida and Pitbull was always destined to be big in Germany and therefore it's not strange that the two global stars have entered new at #4 with "Can't Believe It". The single, taken from the forthcoming "Perfect 10" album, is thus the eight track of Flo Rida as a lead artist to come into the German top 10 and arrives after the #24 peak of "Let It Roll".
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Who would have thought that cult band Placebo would have their biggest hit chartwise in 2013 but the trio proves that it still has enough power left to finally crack the top 20 with "Too Many Friends". The song can be found at #14, beating by far the #32 peak of their best performing single so far "For What It’s Worth". Actually, the latter was taken from Placebo's previous album released in 2009, which just means that the band has slowly and unnoticed been gaining in attention over the years. In Germany, at least.
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This week's chart also marks the return of Eminem, whose "Berzerk" comes in new at #15. The single, which heralds the release of part 2 of his "The Marshall Mathers LP", appears in the top 100 after "Lighters", which I actually don't remember at all, reached #26 in 2011. It's the seventeenth top 20 single of the superstar in the country.
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Towards the end of 2012 Swedish pop duo Icona Pop emerged as if from nowhere and brought "I Love It" to #3 in the German charts. Eventually, the song became a global phenomenal, being high on the charts in USA and UK, and now the girls are back with the follow-up. And as a positive surprise "Girlfriend" makes a rather respectable debut at #17.
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Further down the top 50 we have on the rise with new peak positions Imagine Dragons' "On Top Of The World", up to #29 from #30, Martin Garrix' "Animals", up to #31 from #41 and Alligatoah's "Willst Du" at #35, up from #43.
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The last new entry in the top 50 comes from US indie pop band Family Of The Year and their "Hero" at #36, which is the first ever song of the newcomers to enter the German singles chart.
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And the other new entries this week:
55. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis - Same Love
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57. Miley Cyrus - Wrecking Ball
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83. Drake - Hold On Were Going Home
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91. Capital Cities - Kangaroo Court
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The Album Chart
German rappers continue to top the album chart in their first week of sales, with the latest countdown being no exception. Thus Eko Fresh has his first ever number one LP with "Eksodus". Before falling quickly down the list over the next weeks, the album beats easily the #2 peak of Eko Fresh's last year release "Ek to the Roots". Also new at #2 is the new edition of Bob Dylan's Bootleg Series - "Another Self Portrait (1969-1971) - The Bootleg Series Vol. 10". Comedy online sensation Y-Titty bring their debut album "Stricksocken Swagger" straight at #3. Also new this week are the latest offerings of Franz Ferdinand "Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action" at #4 and of Avenged Sevenfold "Hail To The King" at #5. Packed with new songs, "Halcyon", the latest album of Ellie Goulding, makes a reappearance at #8.
