Annual hit parade (GDR)

The annual hit parade is a summary of four rated programs for rock and pop music in the GDR . It was only created after German reunification and covers the years 1975 to 1990.

The underlying programs for the annual hit parade were:

• Beatkiste (first broadcast in 1970 as Frank's discotheque , voice of the GDR , last broadcast on March 29, 1990)
• Tip-Parade (start of broadcasting 1971 on Radio DDR I )
• DT Metronome (began broadcasting January 1972 on Berliner Rundfunk , was taken over by youth radio DT 64 in 1986 )
• Tip-Disko (start of broadcasting 1976, voice of the GDR )

Artist with the most number one hits of the year in the GDR since 1975

The following artists most frequently achieved first place in the annual charts of the GDR (the number of respective number one hits in brackets):

• Puhdys (6)
• Rock House (3)
• Veronika Fischer , Karat , Lift , Berluc , Perl , Stern Meißen and City (1 each)

literature

• Götz Hintze: Rock Lexicon of the GDR . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-89602-303-9 .