User:11plus/Top 100 Single-Charts
The Top 100 Single-Charts are the official single charts of Germany. Its current form has been compiled by GfK since 2013 on behalf of the Bundesverband Musikindustrie (BVMI).
Other song charts
[edit]| Title (Translation) |
Positions | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Deutschsprachige Single Charts (German language single charts |
15 | Only list songs recorded in the German language. |
| Deutsche Dancecharts (German dance charts |
20 | Only list EDM songs. |
| Single-Trend-Charts | 20 | The first twenty songs that weren't able to enter the top 100. |
| Top 100 Download Single-Charts | 100 | Download Charts |
| Deutsche Midweekcharts (German midweek charts |
100 | Download Charts |
| Deutsche Most-Wanted-Charts (German mostwanted charts |
100 | Most popular songs from the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s and 2000s, seperated by decade, issued monthly |
History
[edit]The first attempt to tabulate the most popular songs in West Germany was made by the magazine Der Automatenmarkt. The publication began to track jukebox data in late 1953 and listed "Es hängt ein Pferdehalfter an der Wand" as the most played song of December 1953 in the January 1954 issue. In April 1954, the magazine published its first full chart with twenty positions. Der Automatenmarkt continued to publish its chart on a monthly with around thirty positions.
In July 1959, the newly established magazine, Musikmarkt issued its own single chart, which also included sales and airplay data. Freddy Quinn's "Die Gitarre und das Meer" was the first number-one on the Musikmarkt Hit-Parade. GfK only considers the Musikmarkt charts as its predecessor.