петък, 26 декември 2014 г.

German Chart Comments - Issue Date 26.12

After returning to the top spot last week, "Dangerous" of David Guetta and Sam Martin stays there for a fourth non-consecutive time. Its sales were boosted by the appearance of Guetta on the finale of The Voice of Germany two weeks ago. As a whole, this week's countdown is influenced by the show as at #2, up from #23, Germans have finally found out about "Take Me To Church" of Hozier despite the song being around for ages. As Hozier sang it during the finale together with winner Charley Ann Schmutzler, the song easily improves on the #20 peak achieved before. Speaking of the winner and her finale song "Blue Heart", it rises from #29 to #3. Still don't expect anyone to remember Charley Ann in two months. 
Video - David Guetta    
Video - Hozier 
Video - Charley Ann  

Ed Sheeran scores his third top ten hit in Germany also thanks to The Voice of Germany where he performed "Thinking Out Loud", which now rises six to #6.
Video  - Ed Sheeran  

German rock band Frei.wild has had chart appearances since 2010 but they have never charted higher than #19, an injustice now undone as their newest single "Wir brechen eure Seelen" debuts straight at #9.
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"Au Revoir" of Mark Forster is definitely one of the hits of the year in Germany and it's great to see the singer's next single also performing well as "Flash mich" rises 16 to #14.
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The next new entries belong to two relative newcomers on the German music scene. At #18 Joel Brandenstein has managed to bring his debut single "Diese Liebe" inside the top 20 after a successful Internet campaign started by himself. At #20 Nico Suave, helped by one Xavier Naidoo, scores his first ever hit, after two minor chart entries at the lower end of the Top 100, with "Danke".
Video - Joel Brandenstein 
Video - Nico Suave 

At #22 Taylor Swift's "Blank Space" moves up from #38, while soaring from #95 to #34 is the version of "Hallelujah" of the aforementioned Xavier Naidoo. It was performed at the Christmas show of local music competition "Sing meinen Song". 
Video - Taylor Swift  

"Uptown Funk", the collaboration of Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars, is slowly conquering the world as in Germany it goes up two to #43. At the same time Avicii's follow-up to top-ten hit "The Days" called "The Nights" enters the top 50 at #47, an increase from #59.
Video - Mark Ronson
Video - Avicii 

The other new entries:

65. Imagine Dragons - I Bet My Life
Video 
75. Ellie Goulding - Your Song 
Video 
84. Heino - Schwarz Blueht Der Enzian
Video 
93. Sandra Nasic - Last Christmas 
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95. Billy Boyd - The Last Goodbye
Video 

The Album Chart  

In the album chart, as expected Unheilig's farewell album "Gipfelstürmer" becomes the band's third consecutive studio recording to top the countdown as it goes straight at #1. "Nichts ist für die Ewigkeit", the Live album of Böhse Onkelz sees the veteran rockers returning to the chart at #2, while AC/DC's multi-selling LP "Rock Or Bust" is down one to #3.

сряда, 17 декември 2014 г.

German Chart Comments - Issue Date 12.12

Though the English version of the 2014 take of  "Do They Know It's Christmas" leaves the top ten by plunging nine to #12, the German one (which at least tries to be different) sticks to number one for a second week in a row. Up five to #2 is the Jennifer Lawrence-sung track "The Hanging Tree" from the soundtrack of Mockingjay: Part One - a spectacular and rather unexpected success. The top three is completed by David Guetta and his racing anthem "Dangerous".
Video - Band Aid 30 (German)
Audio - Jennifer Lawrence
Video - David Guetta  

AronChupa's "I'm an Albatraoz" advances one to #7, while the highest new entry belongs to Jessie J and her "Masterpiece" at #10. The song is the second single taken from Jessie's "Sweet Talker" album and arrives after "Bang Bang" peaked at #13 recently. Jessie sang "Masterpiece" together with contestants from the Voice Of Germany at the end of November, which can explain why the song has become the singer's second top ten single in the country, next to "Price Tag" (peak #3).
Video - AronChupa
Video - Jessie J 

"Diamonds" of Josef Salvat moves up seven to #11, while "Thinking Out Loud" of Ed Sheeran rises eleven to #13 and turns into the singer's fifth top 20 single in Germany. It even manages to improve on the #17 peak of previous release "Don't".
Josef Salvat - Live 
Video  - Ed Sheeran 

Up four to #16 is "Habits (Stay High)" of Tove Love, while Calvin Harris and Ellie Goulding manage to reverse the downward trend of their last collaboration "Outside" as the song rises eleven to #22. 
Video - Tove Lo  
Video - Outside   

Further down the top 50, George Ezra moves up to #27 from #42 with "Blame It On Me".
Video 

As every year, the influx of Christmas hits come holiday time is led by Wham!'s evergreen "Last Christmas", which shoots itself to #31 from #72, while Mariah Carey's "All I Want For Christmas Is You" is close behind, at #36, up from #79.
Video - Wham! 
Video - Mariah Carey 

"Au Revior" is one of the definite hits of 2014 and Mark Forster is now ready with the follow-up "Flash mich", which enters the top 50 by moving up 21 to #34.
Video 

It's up two to #38 for Lorde's "Yellow Flicker Beat" in its second week on the chart. "Blank Space", the second single taken out of Taylor Swift's "1989" album, is gaining momentum as the song advance 20 to #40 being the sixth single of the star in the chart. First offering "Shake It Off" peaked at #5 and is still sticking around. 
Video - Lorde
Video - Taylor Swift 

There is also a new peak for Sam Smith's "I'm Not The Only On", which rises four to #44. 
Video - Sam Smith 

At #48 we can find a new entry of local rapper Haftbefehl with his fourth single in the countdown "Ich Rolle Mit Meim Besten".
Video 

The other new entries: 

95. Watermät - Bullit
Video 
97. Avicii - The Nights
Video 
100. Beyoncé - 7/11 
Video 

The Album Chart  

In the album chart AC/DC score their fourth number one studio album in Germany with "Rock Or Bust", while also new in the top ten is Haftbefehl with his fourth album and the second to reach #4 in a row - "Russisch Roulette".

неделя, 7 декември 2014 г.

German Chart Comments - Issue Date 5.12

Following a several-week hiatus the comments are back with an extremely interesting countdown this week. After David Guetta spent two weeks as number one with "Dangerous", as expected the biggest arrival of the week belongs to Band Aid 30. However, for a change this time we have a German version of the famous song, sung by a bunch of the hottest stars of German music currently. It is thus only the second version of " Do They Know It's Christmas" to reach number one in Germany, next to the original back in 1984. The 1989 version flopped at #74, while the 2004 one peaked at #7. Curiously the so-called local TV Allstars project brought a version of the hit to #3 in 2003, while last week the official line-up of Band Aid 30 debuted at #2 with the current English version of the single. The latter is this week down to #3.
Video - Band Aid 30 (English)
Video - Band Aid 30 (German)
Video - David Guetta

It's extremely rare to see an actor appearing in the charts, let alone in the upper reaches, with a song performed during a movie, but the impact of Jennifer Lawrence singing "The Hanging Tree" in the latest Hunger Games installment was so huge that thanks also to the effect of Internet where now everything can be downloaded, the soundtrack item (written by famous film composer James Newton Howard) debuts at #7. We should not be surprised as after all the song was a stand-up moment of an overall unspectacular film. 

Audio

The domination of Swedish artist Aron Michael Ekberg, or AronChupa, over the German chart continues as dance anthem "I'm An Albatraoz" grows two to #8. The vocals are actually provided by Aron's sister.

Video 
 
Further down the top 20, "Wrapped Up", the first single of Olly Murs' newest album, moves up one to #12 in its third week on the chart. It's the fourth top 20 single of the UK star. 

Video 

Thanks to a great winter track, excellent performance by lead vocalist Samu and last but definitely not least because of the singer's star status in Germany (due to his coach duties in The Voice Of Germany), Sunrise Avenue had their fourth top 20 single in the country with "Nothing Is Over" arriving at #16. It is the second new song taken from Sunrise Avenue's "Best Of" collection, while first one "You Can Never Be Ready" finds inner strength this week and shoots itself to a brand new peak position at #30, up from #57. 
Nothing is Over - Live
Video - Sunrise Avenue 

The quest of Josef Salvat to conquer the global charts continues as his take on "Diamonds" rises from #42 to enter the top 20 at #18. Also new inside the first 20 after a long climb is "Habits (Stay High)", the break-up anthem of Tove Love, which moves up four to #20.
Josef Salvat - Live 
Video - Tove Lo  

Up one, and slowly turning into another hit of Ed Sheeran in Germany, is his third "X" single "Thinking Out Loud". It is at #24.
Video 

Nothing stands on the way of David Guetta as the release of his new album "Listen" has triggered the interest in several of the non-single tracks in it. The biggest of them is "Hey Mama", a team-up with Nicki Minaj and Afrojack, which enters new at #28.
Audio

Although we can expect a quick downfall, Farin Urlaub and his Racing Team bring another top 40 singe with "AWG" debuting at #32. It is the second single from the "Faszination Weltraum" album, with first one "Herz? Verloren" reaching #12, and also the tenth "solo" top 40 single of Urlaub.
Video

The arrival of Jennifer Lawrence's "Hanging Tree" hasn't prevented the official "Hunger Games" track of Lorde to enter the countdown as it can be found at #40. "Yellow Flicker Beat" is thus the third top 40 single of the New Zealand singer.
Video 

The success of AC/DC in their singles era continues as the second official release from the band's new album enters at #49. "Rock or Bust" comes after "Play Ball" reached #39.
Video 

The other new entries: 


58. Sasha - Good Days
Video 
75. David Guetta ft. Emeli Sandé - What I Did For Love
78. Adel Tawil - Kartenhaus
Video 
81. Mark Ronson ft. Bruno Mars - Uptown Funk!
Video
85. David Guetta ft. John Legend - Listen
93. David Guetta ft. The Script - Goodbye Friend
94. David Guetta & Showtek ft. Elliphant & Ms. Dynamite - No Money No Love

96. David Guetta ft. Jaymes Young & Birdy - I'll Keep Loving You

The Album Chart 

When it comes to the biggest stars in Germany's albums market, no one can claim the dominant position of one Herbert Groenemeyer as his string of number one albums continues unharmed since his release of "4630 Bochum" in 1984. "Dauernd Jetzt" is the tenth consecutive studio album of the German star to reach the summit and comes three years after "Schiffsverkehr". Only three studio albums of David Guetta have entered the German chart, with the latest "Listen" entering at #3. His previous one "Nothing but the Beat" peaked at #1.