Year-End review 2019 (6 - 4)

 6 – 4

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6		#22 #20 #10 #63 #22 #20 #26 #2 #1 #4	/ Kygo & Whitney Houston – Higher love Points: 2326.8 Peak: #1 (7) Weeks: 21 (still charting) Album: Golden hour Airplay: #43 Chart Debut: August 3, 2019 First week at #1: August 31, 2019 Writer(s): Will Jennings, Steve Winwood Producer(s): Narada Michael Walden, Kygo Sometimes you know with the very first listen that a song will be hit. "Higher love" spent seven weeks at the top and I’m sure you guess that this song immediately did well for me. I’ve to point out that I first thought that this one is nothing interesting. It lasted nearly one and a half months before I gave this song another chance and the rest is history. The cover of cover (Whitney Houston’s version originally had been released back in 1990) spent more weeks at the top than any other song in 2019 and in total only four songs spent more weeks at the top. Normally this should lead to a clear year-end #1, but the short chart run prevented this song to do better.
5		#61 #83 #65	Fletcher – Undrunk Points: 2363.6 Peak: #1 (4) Weeks: 30 Album: You ruined New York City for me EP Airplay: #7 Chart Debut March 30, 2019 First week at #1: May 18, 2019 Writer(s): James Ho, Jeremy Dussolliet, Tim Sommers, Amy Allen, Cari Fletcher Producer(s): Malay Relatively unknown singer Fletcher did very well with her 1st chart appearance. Four weeks at the top and 12 weeks in the Top 10 is a landmark which other newcomers normally don’t surpass. This song is interesting, nice sung and very catchy. Although she did very well with "Undrunk" I’m not sure if she is able to repeat this success. Indicators are not good because of the fact that she is releasing singles since 2015 and just in 2019 she entered the chart and although she released some more songs in 2019 she failed to enter the chart. So I think that she’ll be a one-hit-wonder, but hopefully not.
4		#71 #46 #38 #10	Jeanette Biedermann – Deine Geschichten Points: 2461.1 Peak: #1 (4) Weeks: 29 weeks Album: DNA Airplay: #8 Chart Debut June 1, 2019 First week at #1: June 22, 2019 Writer(s): Jeanette Biedermann, Jörg Weisselberg, Daniel Flamm Producer(s): Jules Kalmbacher, Daniel Flamm, Jens Schneider The highest ranked German pop song in this list is "Deine Geschichten" ("Your stories") by Jeanette Biedermann. In this song she is dealing with the death of her father and so this is a very emotional song. It is a typical song out of the German Pop genre, but I really like this song and the song writing. Surely this song was not success, but everything that counts is that I love this one.