List of the number one hits in the German single charts

The list of the most successful German-speaking singles in the German hit parade lists the German-speaking singles that have reached the highest place of all German-language titles in the German single charts since December 1, 1953 in the respective week .

Database

Until May 1959, the number one hits in the Federal Republic of Germany were based on the boxing parade of the machine market (determined monthly). From June 1959 to January 1965 the number one hits are taken from the music market hit parade (determined monthly). From February 1965 to December 1970 the FRG charts were determined by the music market every six months. Since 1971, the single week sales figures have been used as a benchmark. The music market determined these figures until 1977, Media Control GmbH & Co KG from 1977 and GfK Entertainment since 2013 . There are also books and lists that have been keeping weekly charts since 1956. These are lists interpolated from the monthly charts . There are no official lists of the sales figures for records in the GDR .

Note: In previous years it was sometimes common to group different versions of a song by different performers.

Notes on interpreting the statistics listed

The evaluations of the German single charts presented here only describe the most successful German-speaking singles. This is not the same as an official number one or top 10 success. Nor can any sales figures or further commercial successes be derived from this. Most of the lyrics (over 50%) must be written in German. Instrumental pieces are completely excluded from the list.

The data up to 2015 consisted of a separate analysis in which the most successful German-language single was filtered out of the official German single charts. Since 2015, GfK Entertainment has published the official “Top 15 German-speaking Singles”, in which Gfk uses the same principle to filter out the 15 most successful singles of each chart week from the single charts.

List of number one albums by year

Artist with the most number one singles

This list contains all artists, in descending order of their number one hits, who were able to place at the top of the German-speaking single Top 15 with at least five singles , as well as a detailed chronological listing of all singles by artists with at least ten number one successes Sequence. If the number of titles is the same, the artists are listed alphabetically.

• 26: Capital Bra
• 13: Samra
• 11: Rammstein
• 10: Peter Alexander , Roy Black and Xavier Naidoo
• 09: The doctors , Bonez MC and Herbert Grönemeyer
• 08: Apache 207 , RAF Camora and Die Toten Hosen
• 07: Howard Carpendale , Falco , Loredana , Freddy Quinn and Sido
• 06: Cro , Heintje , Ich + Ich , Peter Maffay , Rosenstolz , Tic Tac Toe / Sara @ Tic Tac Two and Caterina Valente
• 05: Culcha Candela , Mark Forster , Gzuz , Michael Holm , Mero , Nena , Nena (band) , Stefan Raab , Adel Tawil , Tokio Hotel , Ufo361 , Frank Zander / Fred Sonnenschein

Capital Bra / Joker Bra

Capital Bra (2018)

year	title	Length of stay	Remarks
2018	5 songs in one night	2 weeks
	Neymar	3 weeks	feat. Ufo361
	One night stand	2 weeks
	Berlin lives	1 week
	For all of you	1 week	Bushido feat. Samra & Capital Bra
	Melodies	3 weeks	feat. Juju
	Inshallah	1 week	Bushido feat. Capital Bra
	Roli glitter glitter	1 week	feat. Luciano & Eno
	Benzema	3 weeks
2019	Princess	2 weeks
	DNA	1 week	KC Rebell feat. Summer Cem & Capital Bra
	We are ticking	1 week	with Samra
	Cherry Lady	1 week
	Rolex	1 week	feat. KC Rebell & Summer Cem
	Purple again	2 weeks	with Samra
	Royal Rumble	1 week	with Kalazh44 & Samra feat. Nimo & Luciano
	Tilidine	2 weeks	with Samra
	zombie	1 week	with Samra
	number 1	1 week	with Samra
	110	3 weeks	with Samra feat. LEA
	The bratan stays the same	1 week
2020	infant	2 weeks	as Joker Bra & VIZE
	Berlin	1 week	with Samra
	365 days	1 week	with Samra
	Not deserved	1 week
	Breakfast in Paris	1 week	feat. Cro

Samra

year	title	Length of stay	Remarks
2018	For all of you	1 week	Bushido feat. Samra & Capital Bra
	Cataleya	1 week
2019	We are ticking	1 week	with Capital Bra
	Harami	1 week
	Purple again	2 weeks	with Capital Bra
	Royal Rumble	1 week	with Kalazh44 & Capital Bra feat. Nimo & Luciano
	Tilidine	Weeks	with Capital Bra
	zombie	1 week	with Capital Bra
	number 1	1 week	with Capital Bra
	110	3 weeks	with Capital Bra feat. LEA
2020	Berlin	1 week	with Capital Bra
	Bae Bae	1 week
	365 days	1 week	with Capital Bra

Rammstein

Rammstein (2005)

year	title	Length of stay	Remarks
1997	Angel	7 weeks
	You have	2 weeks
	The model	6 weeks
2001	Sun	5 weeks
2004	My part	1 week
	America	3 weeks
2009	Pussy	4 weeks
2011	my country	1 week
2012	my heart is burning	1 week
2019	Germany	3 weeks
	Foreigners	1 week

Peter Alexander

Peter Alexander (1952)

year	title	Length of stay	Remarks
1958	Bambina	1 month	with the seven ravens
1965	Give me a picture of you	2 months
1967	Modern romances	1 month
	Forbidden dreams	½ month
	The last waltz	3 months
1968	Delilah	1 month
1969	Love affliction	1½ months
1970	Oh lady mary	½ month
1971	Here is a human	9 weeks
1976	The little pub	7 weeks

Roy Black

Roy Black (1989)

year	title	Length of stay	Remarks
1965	You're not alone	2 months
1966	All in white	2 months
	Put your heart in my hands	2 months
1967	Just ask your heart	2½ months
	My love to you	3½ months
1968	Stay with me	½ month
1969	The girl Carina	2½ months
	Your best present	3½ months
1971	All to yourself (you can't have it all)	5 weeks
	It's nice to be in the world	7 weeks	with Anita

Xavier Naidoo

Xavier Naidoo (2011)

year	title	Length of stay	Remarks
1999	she does not see me	6 weeks
2001	Jeanny	1 week	Reamonn feat. Xavier Naidoo
2002	Before you go	7 weeks
2003	I don't know anything (that's as beautiful as you)	6 weeks	with RZA
2005	This way	11 weeks
2006	thank you	6 weeks
2007	What we cannot do alone	2 weeks
2009	Everything can get better	1 week	with Janet Grogan
2012	Do not look back	3 weeks	with Kool Savas as Xavas
2013	By my soul	1 week

"Long-running" after singles

This list contains all singles - in chronological order, descending according to their length of stay - who have been at the top of the German-speaking single Top 15 for at least 13 weeks :

year	title	Interpreter	Length of stay
1978	The Smurfs Song	Vader Abraham	25.00 weeks
1992	Jive Connie	Connie Francis	25.00 weeks
1971	butterfly	Danyel Gerard	23.00 weeks
1955	All of Paris dreams of love	Caterina Valente & Mike Firestone Orchestra	21.86 weeks (5 months)
1956	Homesickness	Freddy Quinn	21.86 weeks (5 months)
1957	Cindy, Oh Cindy	Margot Eskens	21.43 weeks (5 months)
2010	Born to live	Unholy	21.00 weeks
1992	I'm Martin, ne ...?!	Diether Krebs & Gundula	21.00 weeks
1979	So you're	Peter Maffay	20.00 weeks
2007	A star that carries your name)	DJ Ötzi & Nik P.	20.00 weeks
2017	What you call love	Bausa	20.00 weeks
1981	Santa Maria	Roland Kaiser	19.00 weeks
1990	Damn I love you	Matthias Reim	19.00 weeks
1991	Hard as hell	Peat skirt	18.00 weeks
1968	You should not cry	Heintje	17.57 weeks (4 months)
1959	The guitar and the sea	Freddy Quinn	17.43 weeks (4 months)
1969	Heidschi Bumbeidschi	Heintje	17.14 weeks (4 months)
1974	Theo, we're going to Lodz	Vicky Leandros	17.00 weeks
1980	The nipple	Mike Kruger	17.00 weeks
1987	Good morning dear worries	Jürgen von der Lippe	17.00 weeks
1988	Macho, macho	Rainhard Fendrich	17.00 weeks
1992	That one!?!	The fantastic Four	17.00 weeks
2002	Angel	Ben & Gim	17.00 weeks
1974	Tears do not lie	Michael Holm	16.00 weeks
1979	Kreuzberg nights	Leaf shot brothers	16.00 weeks
1999	Airplanes in the stomach	Oli.P	16.00 weeks
2009	city	Cassandra Steen feat. Adel Tawil	16.00 weeks
1969	Your best present	Roy Black	15.28 weeks (3½ months)
1967	My love to you	Roy Black	15.14 weeks
1994	girl	Lucilectric	15.00 weeks
2013	pictures in my head	Sido	15.00 weeks
2014	Breathless through the night	Helene Fischer	15.00 weeks
1976	Rocky	Frank Farian	14.00 weeks
1983	Beyond Eden	Nino de Angelo	14.00 weeks
1985	rock Me Amadeus	Falco	14.00 weeks
1993	All just stolen	The princes	14.00 weeks
1996	Fuck off	Tic Tac Toe	14.00 weeks
2006	The best	Silver moon	14.00 weeks
2011	Just save the world for a moment	Tim bendzko	14.00 weeks
2016	Always laughing	Stereoact feat. Kerstin Ott	14.00 weeks
2016	Choirs	Mark Forster	14.00 weeks
1968	The last waltz	Peter Alexander	13.28 weeks (3 months)
1954	Heideröslein	Friedel Hensch and the Cyprys	13.14 weeks (3 months)
1958	I love you baby	Conny	13.14 weeks (3 months)
1961	A ship will arrive	Caterina Valente / Lale Andersen	13.14 weeks (3 months)
1961	Four white horses, one car (Hüh-a-hoh)	Trio Kolenka	13.14 weeks (3 months)
1964	Lovesickness is not worth it	Siw Malmkvist	13.14 weeks (3 months)
1966	A hundred men and an order	Freddy Quinn	13.14 weeks (3 months)
1956	Arrivederci, Roma	Lys Assia , Sunshine Quartet , The Toledos & Orchestra Béla Sanders	13.00 weeks (3 months)
1960	Marina	Will Brandes	13.00 weeks (3 months)
1962	Little Gonzales	Rex gildo	13.00 weeks (3 months)
1973	Goodbye My Love Goodbye	Demis Roussos	13.00 weeks
1975	Greek wine	Udo Juergens	13.00 weeks
1976	A bed in the cornfield	Jürgen Drews	13.00 weeks
1984	Somehow, somewhere, sometime	Nena (band)	13.00 weeks
1986	Jeanny, Part I.	Falco	13.00 weeks
1988	What shoud that?	Herbert Grönemeyer	13.00 weeks
1993	Sascha ... an upright German	The dead pants	13.00 weeks
2008	It should stay that way	I + me	13.00 weeks
2009	Something remains	Silver moon	13.00 weeks
2012	Days like this	The dead pants	13.00 weeks
2019	Scooter	Apache 207	13.00 weeks

"Long runner" according to artist

Quinn (1971)

Falco (1986)

The following list contains artists - descending in chronological order by weeks - who were able to stay at the top of the chart for at least 20 weeks. Monthly and bi-monthly chart data were also converted into weeks, each day outside of whole weeks is included in the calculation with about 0.14.

• 91.71: Roy Black
• 82.71: Freddy Quinn
• 62.43: Peter Alexander
• 56.71: Caterina Valente
• 56.00: Falco
• 55.57: Heintje
• 45.43: Howard Carpendale
• 45.14: Peter Maffay
• 44.00: Xavier Naidoo and Nena
• 43.00: Herbert Grönemeyer
• 42.00: Sido and Die Toten Hosen
• 41.00: Michael Holm and I + I
• 40.00: Capital Bra
• 37.00: The Doctors and Tic Tac Toe / Sara @ Tic Tac Two
• 35.00: Mark Forster
• 34.00: Rammstein , Matthias Reim and Adel Tawil
• 33.00: silver moon
• 31.00: Unholy
• 30.00: Roland Kaiser
• 29.43: Connie Francis
• 29.00: The Fantastic Four
• 28.00: Vader Abraham
• 27.00: DJ Ötzi , Oli.P and Frank Zander / Fred Sonnenschein
• 26.00: Udo Jürgens and Vicky Leandros
• 25.00: Stefan Raab
• 24.00: Apache 207 , Bonez MC , Cro and Münchener Freiheit
• 23.00: Bernd Clüver and Danyel Gérard ¹
• 22.00: RAF Camora , Diether Krebs and Gundula
• 21.86: Mike Firestone Orchestra ¹
• 21.71: Rex Gildo
• 21.43: Margot Eskens ¹
• 21.00: Andreas Bourani and Nino de Angelo
• 20.43: Gitte Hænning
• 20.00: Bausa ¹ , Culcha Candela , Jürgen Drews , Peggy March , Nik P. ¹ , Rosenstolz and Jürgen von der Lippe

¹ Artists who took first place with only one single.

Artists who replaced themselves at number one

Heintje (1970)

Artists who once replaced themselves in first place

• 1960: Caterina Valente - Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Honolulu Beach Bikini (September 1st; with Silvio Francesco ) → A ship is coming (October 1st)
• 1963: Gitte Hænning - I want a cowboy as a man (September 1st) → From the city park the lanterns (October 1st; with Rex Gildo )
• 1987: Jürgen von der Lippe - Good morning, dear worries (September 28th) → Then the worm is in (October 5th)
• 1988: Herbert Grönemeyer - What's that about? (July 11th) → full moon (July 18th)
• 1990: Matthias Reim - Damn, I love you (September 10th) → I've dreamed of you (September 17th)
• 1992: Diether Krebs & Gundula - I'm Martin, ne ... ?! (December 30, 1991) → Santamarghuaritanobiledimontepulciano - You little fishing village (January 6, 1992)
• 1999: Oli.P - Airplanes in the stomach (January 18) → I Wish (January 25)
• 2011: Tim Bendzko - If words were my language (October 14th) → Just save the world for a short time ¹ (October 21st)
• 2018: Capital Bra - One Night Stand (June 8th) → Berlin is alive (June 15th)
• 2019: Capital Bra - We're ticking (March 22nd; with Samra ) → Cherry Lady (March 29th)
• 2019: Capital Bra & Samra - Royal Rumble (June 21; with Kalazh44 , Nimo & Luciano ) → Tilidin (June 28)
• 2019: RAF Camora - Neptun (July 26; with KC Rebell ) → number (August 2; Ufo361 feat.RAF Camora)
• 2019: Apache 207 - Scooter (October 18th) → Why are you doing this to yourself? (October 25th) → Roller ¹ (November 1st)
• 2020: Samra - Bae Bae (April 17th) → 365 days (April 24th; with Capital Bra)
• 2020: Bonez MC - Roadrunner (May 29th) → In my Benz (June 5th; with AK Ausserkontrolle )

Artists who twice replaced themselves in first place

• 1968: Heintje - Mama (June 15th) → You shouldn't cry (July 1st; October 15th) → Heidschi Bumbeidschi (November 1st)
• 2018: Bonez MC & RAF Camora - Risk (August 31) → 500 HP (September 7; September 14) → Cocaine (September 21; feat. Gzuz )
• 2020: Apache 207 - bluish (July 10th; July 17th; July 24th) → On the way (July 31st) → She calls (August 7th) → Bluish ¹ (August 14th)

¹ Here the previously issued single has ousted its successor.

Artist with most years between first and last number one single

Grönemeyer (2007)

• 30: Herbert Grönemeyer - Men (June 18, 1984) → Tomorrow (November 27, 2014)
• 29: Connie Francis - Barcarole in the Night (July 1, 1963) → Jive Connie (October 4, 1992)
• 26: The Doctors - Too Late (February 27, 1989) → Cry for Love (September 17, 2015)
• 24: Udo Lindenberg - Horizont (April 27, 1987) → Cello (Unplugged) (January 19, 2012; with Clueso )
• 24: Die Toten Hosen - Sascha ... an upright German (February 1, 1993) → Under the clouds (April 20, 2017)
• 22: Rammstein - Engel (June 2, 1997) → Foreigners (June 13, 2019)
• 21: Nena - Wunder gescheh'n (November 27, 1989) → Strobo Pop (May 12, 2011; with the Atzen )

Singles that have long been the second highest ranked German-speaking single, but never the best-ranked German-speaking single

The list shows the singles who were the second highest placed German-speaking single for at least five weeks, but never the best-placed German-speaking single. It begins in 1960.

year	Artist	single	Period
1960	Freddy Quinn	Under strange stars	2 ½months
1961	Ivo Robić	Life only begins at 17	2 ½months
1961	Jan & Kjeld	Hello Mary Lou	2 ½months
1962	Connie Francis	Paradiso (don't hurt me)	2 ½months
1963	Will Brandes	Baby twist	2 ½months
1963	Petula Clark	Casanova Baciami	2 ½months
1963	Blue diamonds	Sukiyaki	2 ½months
1964	Rita Pavone	If I were a boy'	3 ½months
1965	Peter Alexander	Miss wonderful	1½ months
1966	Udo Juergens	17 years old, blond hair	2 ½months
1966	Drafi German	take me like I am	1½ months
1966	Ronny	Dunja you	1½ months
1968	Dorthe	Are you the Count of Luxembourg?	1½ months
1968	Rita Pavone	Arrivederci Hans	2 ½months
1969	Roy Black	I am thinking of you	2 ½months
1969	Adamo	There is a tear in my travels	2 ½months
1971	Chris Roberts	I'm in love with love	8 weeks
1973	Freddy Breck	Bianca	7 weeks
1973	Vicky Leandros	The bouzouki sounded through the summer night	7 weeks
1973	Katja Ebstein	The star of Mykonos	5 weeks
1974	Bruce Low	The card game	6 weeks
1974	Gunter Gabriel	Hey boss, I need more money	8 weeks
1974	Rex gildo	Marie, the last dance is just for you	6 weeks
1974	Gunter & Yvonne Gabriel	Hey Yvonne (why is mom crying?)	5 weeks
1976	Nico Haak	Schmidtchen Schleicher	7 weeks
1978	Udo Jürgens and the German national football team '78	Buenos Dias Argentina	15 weeks
1978	Helga Feddersen & Dieter Hallervorden	You, the tub is full	14 weeks
1979	Genghis Khan	Moscow	14 weeks
1980	Katja Ebstein	Farewell is a bit like dying	6 weeks
1980	Peter Maffay	Because you exist	5 weeks
1981	Genghis Khan	Loreley	6 weeks
1981	Roland Kaiser	Loving You	7 weeks
1982	Spliff	The sheet	5 weeks
1983	Nena	? (Question mark)	10 weeks
1986	Münchener Freiheit	Without you (I won't fall asleep tonight)	11 weeks
1988	Hannes Kroeger	The blonde Hans	8 weeks
1990	first general uncertainty	Ding dong	8 weeks
1991	Rudolf Rock & the Shockers	Herzilein	5 weeks
1991	Achim Reichel	Aloha heja hey	6 weeks
1991	Matthias Reim	I was so looking forward to you	6 weeks
1992	Westernhagen	war	5 weeks
1992	Mario Jordan	What a day	7 weeks
1995	Sister S.	Yeah yeah	5 weeks
1995	Pure	I love you (no matter how that sounds)	8 weeks
1996	Floret	heart to Heart	7 weeks
1996	Wolfgang Petry	The longest single in the world	11 weeks
1997	Spectacular	My little sister	5 weeks
1998	Böhse Onkelz	turpentine	6 weeks
1998	Falco	egoist	10 weeks
2000	Ayman	My star	10 weeks
2001	Niemann	In the East	5 weeks
2002	Xavier Naidoo	Where do you want to go	8 weeks
2003	Xavier Naidoo	take farewell	9 weeks
2004	Silver moon	symphony	5 weeks
2005	Söhne Mannheims	And if a song	5 weeks
2005	Fat bread with Finkenauer	On days like these	5 weeks
2005	Tokio Hotel	Scream	5 weeks
2008	Fat bread with fashion selector	Bettina, please get dressed	5 weeks
2008	Peter Fox	All things new	5 weeks
2009	The etching	It starts from!	10 weeks
2013	Pulcino Pio	The Little Chicks Cheep	6 weeks
2015	But GeiL & Koby Funk feat. Wincent Weiss	Under my skin	11 weeks

particularities

• The Dutch child star Heintje broke from the top position twice in a row in 1968, so he stayed at the top of the charts as an interpreter with the titles Mama , Du shalt not cry and Heidschi Bumbeidschi for nine months without a break .
• The title Patrona Bavariae from the German folk music duo Original Naabtal Duo only needed the highest position 59 in the chart week of April 10, 1989 to be the most successful German-language song in the official single charts.
• In 2015 (after 22 years) the single Schrei nach Liebe from the Doctors was able to place itself in the top 10 again as the most successful German-language single in the German single charts and this time even reached the top position in the charts.

See also

• German single charts
• List of number one hits in Germany
• List of the top 10 singles in Germany
• List of the best-selling singles in Germany

Web links

• Top 15 German-speaking singles on the MTV website
• Charts archive from GfK Entertainment
• Charts-archive from Chartsurfer.de