Week 269 – April 23rd, 2016

Last week it had already indicated. There is a new #1 after three weeks with “Make me like you” (#2) by Gwen Stefani at the top. German band Luxuslärm climbed up three spots with support by German singer Max Mutzke. Their song “Bis es weh tut” (#1, “Until it hurts”) is for both their first #1 on my chart. Until today “Atemlos” (“Breathless”) by Luxuslärm had been their biggest hit on my chart reaching the Top 10 late in 2011 (peak #6). “Bis es weh tut” is a beautiful song about the end of a relatioship and deserves to be #1. All of last week’s Top 3 dropped one spot to make this big climb possible. So you find “When we were young” by Adele at #3 and dance song “Cheap thrills” by Sia feat. Sean Paul at #4. The top half of the Top 10 is closed by Leslie Clio’s “Changes” (#5).

“Changes” is new to the Top 5 so former #1 “Hands to myself” (#6) by Selena Gomez had to leave this part of my chart with a drop of one spot. Also dropping down one spot is “Make my love go” (#7) by Jay Sean feat. Sean Paul. This song is on my chart on its way out of the Top 10 while this song is starting to get some airplay all over Europe. Behind this dance song you can find the highest charting country single. It is “Mayday” (#8) by new country star Cam who had two debuts in this week’s edition. Cam is followed by the only new artist in this week’s Top 10. Peter Bjorn & John are giving their comeback in the Top 10 with “What you talking about” (#9) after topping my chart with “Second chance” back in 2011. The Top 10 is rounded out with Italian star Emma and her latest single “Io di te non ho paura” (#10, “I’m not afraid of you”).

Against The Current are a regular guest on my chart, but they had no Top 50 hit until this week. Over the last week’s they released several promotional songs from their debut album “In our bones”. Unfortunately the first three promotional songs didn’t reach my chart, but the fourth one did. “Forget me now” (#37) isn’t really a typical song for Against The Current, but I like the sound and the refrain is catchy. All in all they managed to outperform all their other singles in the first week with “Forget me now”. This song got a solid debut and should reach my Top 20 at least.

Beside “Forget me now” there are three debuts within the Top 50. One is from Germany, one from New Zealand and one from the USA. Let’s start with the one from our dear neighbours Germany. Cassandra Steen is maybe also known outside Germany. She had some hits in the past with the band Glashaus as “When es Liebe ist” (“If it is love”) back in 2001 or “Haltet die Welt an” (“Stop the world”) back in 2005 or as a solo artist with “Darum leben wir” (“This is why we live”) or her biggest one “Stadt” (“Town”) both from 2009. Since this time it was a little bit quiet around her although she had two charting hits for me over the past year’s since I re-started charting. For “Ich laufe” (#48, “I run”) she teamed up with the German New Age band Fahrenhaidt and singer Vincent Malin who was recently featured on the track “Wenn du schläfst” (“If you sleep”). “Ich laufe” is a beautiful and meaningful song. It is absolutely possible that this song will do well on my chart.

The one from New Zealand is by Broods. If you are following my chart then you’ll know that they got two #1's with “Four walls” (back in 2015) and “Everytime” (back in 2014). So far it is an intersting relationship between me and the songs by Broods. Either their songs reach #1 or I didn’t chart them. So it is up to you to guess how far “Free” (#49) will go in the future, but from my actual point of view I don’t see this song as a #1 song. However, who could predict the future? And the last but no least debut with the Top 50 is an album cut from “Untamed” by Cam. “Hungover on heartache” (#50) is now the 2nd Top 50 hit in this edition.

Other debuts are “Sofia” (#63) by Àlvaro Soler, “Call it love” (#65) by Paige Monroe, “Anchor” (#67) by Deep Creek Road, “Better” (#79) by Haley Reinhart, “Burning house” (#86) by Cam, “Runaway” (#87) by Aurora, “People” (#88) by Youth Club, “Beaches” (#89) by Gone In The Sun, “Natural disaster (Win & Woo Remix)” by Molly Moore, “In meiner Seele” (#93, “In my soul”) by Alex Diehl, “What I like” (#94) by Tenterhook, “Pyro” (#95) by Pia Toscano, “Lips” (#96) by The Hearts.

TW	LW	WI	Peak	Title	Artist	Album
1	4	7	1 (1)	Bis es weh tut	Luxuslärm feat. Max Mutzke	Fallen und fliegen		(|)
2	1	10	1 (3)	Make me like you	Gwen Stefani	This is what the truth feels like		(|)
3	2	10	1 (2)	When we were young	Adele	25		(|)
4	3	8	3	Cheap thrills	Sia feat. Sean Paul	This is acting		(|)
5	7	6	5	Changes	Leslie Clio	Eureka		(|)
6	5	17	1 (1)	Hands to myself	Selena Gomez	Revival		(|)
7	6	10	5	Make my love go	Jay Sean feat. Sean Paul	All American		(|)
8	10	12	8	Mayday	Cam	Untamed		(|)
9	13	3	9	What you talking about?	Peter, Bjorn & John	Breakin' point		(|)
10	9	8	9	Io di te non ho paura	Emma	Adesso		(|)
11	8	18	1 (4)	New bohemia	Transviolet	Transviolet EP		(|)
12	11	21	1 (5)	Damage done	Leslie Clio	Eureka		(|)
13	16	8	13	Renegade runaway	Carrie Underwood	Storyteller		(|)
14	12	12	5	Wild things	Alessia Cara	Know-It-All		(|)
15	14	10	14	I didn't mean it	Aurea	TBA		(|)
16	18	26	1 (6)	Hello	Adele	25		(|)
17	15	12	9	Keeping your head up	Birdy	Beautiful lies		(|)
18	23	11	18	Solange Liebe in mir wohnt	Luxuslärm	Fallen und fliegen		(|)
19	24	7	19	Dancing on glass	St. Lucia	Matter		(|)
20	25	6	20	Wicked	Tyler Shaw	Yesterday		(|)
21	17	15	17	Touch	Pia Mia	TBA		(|)
22	19	12	19	Relapse	Shawn Hook	Analog love		(|)
23	30	2	23	Seite an Seite	Christina Stürmer	Seite an Seite		(|)
24	20	11	10	Invincible	Joe Moore	A thousand lifetimes		(|)
25	21	14	8	Dirty girl	Anouk	Queen for a day		(|)
26	22	18	2	Last goodbye	Anouk	Paradise and back again		(|)
27	29	4	27	Someone to take your place	Tara Thompson	TBA		(|)
28	31	7	28	Red, white and you	Steven Tyler	TBA		(|)
29	32	8	29	This love	Taylor Swift	1989		(|)
30	26	12	21	Tear in my heart	Twenty One Pilots	Blurryface		(|)
31	27	16	5	No need for dreaming	MisterWives	Our own house		(|)
32	28	23	1 (2)	Nichts	Tagtraeumer	Alles OK		(|)
33	37	3	33	Bullet	Chelsea Lankes	Chelsea Lankes EP		(|)
34	44	3	34	Church bells	Carrie Underwood	Storyteller		(|)
35	58	4	35	Let your tears fall	Kelly Clarkson	Piece by piece		(|)
36	39	8	36	Under the influence	Elle King	Love stuff		(|)
37	(---)	1	37	Forget me now	Against The Current	In our bones		(|)
38	33	12	23	Hold my home	Cold War Kids	Hold my home		(|)
39	34	12	28	Nights & weekends	Cold War Kids	Hold my home		(|)
40	42	6	40	Mind reader	Dustin Lynch	Where it's at		(|)
41	43	5	41	Fortune cookie (Gostan Remix)	Emma Bale feat. Milow	TBA		(|)
42	46	2	42	Helden	Flowrag	TBA		(|)
43	35	16	11	Coffins	MisterWives	Our own house		(|)
44	36	10	31	Real love	Florrie	TBA		(|)
45	45	7	45	Kinder der 90er	Kuult	Mit Worten		(|)
46	55	2	46	Best fake smile	James Bay	Chaos and the calm		(|)
47	47	6	47	Make things better	Leslie Clio	Eureka		(|)
48	(---)	1	48	Ich lauf	Fahrenhaidt feat. Cassandra Steen & Vincent Malin	TBA		(|)
49	(---)	1	49	Free	Broods	TBA		(|)
50	(---)	1	50	Hangover on heartache	Cam	Untamed		(|)
51	51	6	51	Ordinary life	Wild Wild Horses	Ordinary life EP		(|)
52	48	9	48	Second time around	Madeline Juno	The unknown		(|)
53	49	9	49	Melancholie heartbeat	Madeline Juno	The unknown		(|)
54	50	9	50	Ego you	Madeline Juno	The unknown		(|)
55	56	3	55	Missin' you	The Summer Set	Stories for Monday		(|)
56	59	3	56	Without you	Parachute	Wide awake		(|)
57	70	5	57	Irgendwann	Tagtraeumer	Alles OK		(|)
58	38	20	3	Monster lead me home	Sara Hartman	TBA		(|)
59	60	2	59	You & me	The Hunna	TBA		(|)
60	71	5	60	Selbe Menschen selber Rotwein	Tagtraeumer	Alles OK		(|)
61	61	3	61	Castaway	King Deco	TBA		(|)
62	40	13	28	Got it wrong	The Wild Feathers	The Wild Feathers		(|)
63	(---)	1	63	Sofia	Álvaro Soler	TBA		(|)
64	82	4	64	Over and over	Goo Goo Dolls	Boxes		(|)
65	(---)	1	65	Call it love	Paige Monroe	TBA		(|)
66	41	11	29	Perfect tense	Fallulah	Perfect tense		(|)
67	(---)	1	67	Anchor	Deep Creek Road	TBA		(|)
68	69	6	68	80 Millionen	Max Giesinger	Der Junge, der rennt		(|)
69	52	18	10	Looking for love	Anouk	Paradise and back again		(|)
70	53	14	15	Some of us	Anouk	Paradise and back again		(|)
71	54	13	23	Be together	Major Lazer feat. Wild Belle	Peace is the mission		(|)
72	75	4	72	I had a dream	Kelly Clarkson	Piece by piece		(|)
73	62	14	19	It all slows down	Aubrey Peeples	Soundtrack: The music of Nashville Season 2 Volume 2		(|)
74	83	3	74	Chaser	Carrie Underwood	Storyteller		(|)
75	64	7	64	Love is blind	Låpsley	Long way home		(|)
76	76	5	76	Chemistry	Wildflowers	On the inside		(|)
77	85	2	77	Thousand miles	Tove Lo	Queen of the clouds		(|)
78	68	7	68	Only	tyDi & Olivia Somerlyn	TBA		(|)
79	(---)	1	79	Better	Haley Reinhart	Better		(|)
80	72	6	72	Somebody to love  me	Tyron	TBA		(|)
81	81	5	81	Alive	Ben Phipps feat. Ashe	TBA		(|)
82	73	6	73	When you need somebody	Boston Building feat. Lux Lisbon	Friends EP		(|)
83	88	3	83	A wonderful life	Brian Fallon	Painkillers		(|)
84	84	2	84	Like 'em young	Tove Lo	Queen of the clouds		(|)
85	89	3	85	Wir sind groß	Mark Forster	Tape		(|)
86	(---)	1	86	Burning house	Cam	Untamed		(|)
87	(---)	1	87	Runaway	Aurora	All my demons greeting me as a friend		(|)
88	(---)	1	88	People	Youth Club	Brothers EP		(|)
89	(---)	1	89	Beaches	Gone In The Sun			(|)
90	(---)	1	90	Natural disaster (Win & Woo Remix)	Molly Moore			(|)
91	79	57	1 (7)	My heart ain't that broken	Leslie Clio	Eureka		(|)
92	95	2	92	Where we belong	Hugel & Jasmine Thompson	TBA		(|)
93	(---)	1	93	In meiner Seele	Alex Diehl	Bretter meiner Welt		(|)
94	(---)	1	94	What I like	Tenterhook			(|)
95	(---)	1	95	Pyro	Pia Toscano	TBA		(|)
96	(---)	1	96	Lips	The Hearts			(|)
97	90	3	90	Dein Herz ist eine Geisterstadt	Annemarie Eilfeld	TBA		(|)
98	97	2	97	Small town girl	Troy Kremp	Against the grain		(|)
99	98	2	98	Schwoaz weiß	Gnackwatschn	Gnackwatschn		(|)
100	100	2	100	Sit here and cry	Aubrie Sellers	New city blues		(|)

				Dropout:
	LW	WI	Peak	Title	Artist	Album
	57	8	42	Stitches	Shawn Mendes	Handwritten		(|)
	63	22	2	New romantics	Taylor Swift	1989		(|)
	65	10	41	Herzklopfn	Poxrucker Sisters	Drah di!		(|)
	66	11	42	Love is	Inas X	TBA		(|)
	67	14	22	Pictures	Madi Diaz	Phantom		(|)
	74	7	65	How you get the girl	Taylor Swift	1989		(|)
	77	11	34	Hymn for the weekend	Coldplay feat. Beyoncé	A head full of dreams		(|)
	78	8	62	Cool me down	Margaret	TBA		(|)
	80	6	80	Bist du glücklich?	Sondaschule	Schön kaputt		(|)
	86	13	24	Breathe	Anouk	Paradise and back again		(|)
	87	13	25	Wish he could see it all	Anouk	Paradise and back again		(|)
	91	3	82	Me and Johnny Cash	Rainey Qualley	Turn down the lights		(|)
	92	5	85	Willing to die	Gin Wigmore feat. Suffa & Logic	Blood to bone		(|)
	93	3	86	Calm before the storm	Sarah Ross	Calm before the storm		(|)
	94	2	94	My church	Maren Morris	Hero		(|)
	96	2	96	Some kind of magic	LVTHER feat. MYZICA	TBA		(|)
	99	2	99	Monster	Fräulein Mai	TBA		(|)

2016 #1's

1. Tagtraeumer – Nichts (eng. "Nothing", 2 weeks, 1 in 2015)
2. Leslie Clio – Damage done (5 weeks)
3. Transviolet – New bohemia (4 weeks)
4. Selena Gomez – Hands to myself (1 week)
5. Adele – When we were young (2 weeks)
6. Gwen Stefani – Make me like you (3 weeks)
7. Luxuslärm feat. Max Mutzke – Bis es weh tut (eng. "Until it hurts", 1 week)