List of the top 10 albums in Germany

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This article contains various information and statistics from the top 10 of the official German album charts ( GfK Entertainment ) since recording began on July 15, 1962. (All information up to December 31, 2019)

Database and information on the interpretation of the statistics listed

The evaluations of the German album charts presented here only describe artists who stayed in the top 10 of the German album charts particularly often or for a particularly long time. However, no sales figures or further commercial success can be derived from this. Monthly chart editions are included in the data collection with four weeks and half-monthly chart editions with two weeks.

From July 15, 1962 to November 15, 1976 the album charts were determined monthly, from December 15, 1976 to August 31, 1978 every six months. Thereafter, the sales figures for the albums within a week are used as a benchmark. The music market determined these figures until 1977, Media Control GmbH & Co.KG from 1977 and GfK Entertainment since 2013.

Artist with the most top 10 albums

This list contains all artists - in chronological order in descending order of number - who were able to place 15 or more albums in the top 10 of the German album charts, as well as a detailed listing of all albums by artists who placed at least 25 albums in the top 10.

James Last

James Last (1970)
year title Length of stay Remarks
1965 Non Stop Dancing 1965 3 months
1966 Hammond a Gogo Vol. 2 6 months
Non Stop Dancing 2/1966 1 month
1967 Non Stop Dancing 1967 6 months
Non Stop Dancing 2/1967 2 months
1968 Humba-Humba a Go-Go 1 month
Non Stop Dancing 1968 4 months
Rock Around with Me 1 month
Captain James asks for a dance 1 month
Non Stop Dancing 7 3 months
1969 Non Stop Dancing 8 6 months
Ännchen von Tharrau asks to dance 2 1 month
Non Stop Dancing 9 5 months
1970 Golden Non Stop Dancing 10 9 months
Beach party 3 months
Non Stop Dancing 11 7 month
1971 Captain James asks for a dance - episode 2 2 months
Happyning 1 month
Non Stop Dancing 12 6 months
Beach Party 2 2 months
Polka party 8 months
Non Stop Dancing 1972 7 month
1972 Voodoo party 2 months
When Elisabeth ... with 1 month
Non Stop Dancing 2/1972 6 months
Beach Party 3 3 months
Polka Party II 4 months
Russia - between day and night 2 months
Non Stop Dancing 1973 4 months
1973 Sing with me … 5 months
Non Stop Dancing 2/1973 4 months
Captain James on all seas 2 months
1974 Sing with 2 3 months
Non Stop Dancing 1974 1 month
live 1 month
Non Stop Dancing 2/1974 3 months
1975 Non Stop Dancing 20 - anniversary edition 4 months
1976 Sing with 4 2 months
1977 Sing with 5 ½ month
James Last plays Robert Stolz 1½ months +
10 weeks
We go on load 3 months +
4 weeks
1979 And now all 9 weeks
Sweet Dreams 11 weeks
1981 Close your eyes, let yourself be pampered 6 weeks
1982 Take me with you, Captain James, on a journey ... 10 weeks
1984 Super load 3 weeks

The Rolling Stones

The Rolling Stones (2006)
year title Length of stay Remarks
1964 The Rolling Stones 8 months
Around & Around 4 months
1965 The Rolling Stones No. 2 6 months
Bravo Rolling Stones 5 months
Out of our heads 3 months
1966 Aftermath 5 months
Got Live If You Want It 3 months
1967 Between the buttons 5 months
Their Satanic Majesties Request 3 months
Flowers 2 months
1968 Beggars Banquet 2 months
1969 Let it bleed 4 months
1970 Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out! 2 months
1971 Sticky Fingers 4 months +
1 week
1972 Exile on Main Street 2 months +
3 weeks
1973 Goats Head Soup 3 months
1978 Some girls 1½ months +
3 weeks
1980 Emotional Rescue 10 weeks
1981 Tattoo You 4 weeks
1982 Still Life (American Concert 1981) 7 weeks
1983 Undercover 5 weeks
1986 Dirty work 9 weeks
1989 Steel Wheels 6 weeks
1991 Flashpoint 6 weeks
1994 Voodoo lounge 16 weeks
1995 Stripped 4 weeks
1997 Bridges to Babylon 16 weeks
1998 No security 1 week
2002 Forty Licks - Best of 6 weeks
2004 Live licks 1 week
2005 A bigger bang 4 weeks
2007 The Biggest Bang 4 weeks
2008 Shine a light 2 weeks
2012 Grrr! 4 weeks
2013 Sweet Summer Sun - Hyde Park Live 2 weeks
2016 Totally Stripped 1 week
Havana Moon 2 weeks
Blue & Lonesome 9 weeks
2017 From the Vault: Sticky Fingers Live 2015 1 week
On air 1 week
2018 From the Valut: No Security - San José 1999 1 week
2019 Honk 1 week
Bridges to Bremen 1 week

Peter Maffay

Peter Maffay (2011)
year title Length of stay Remarks
1976 And it was summer 2 months
1979 Steppenwolf 31 weeks
Be free 1 - 3 weeks
1980 revenge 33 weeks
1982 I want to live 21 weeks
Live '82 1 week
1983 Tabaluga or the journey to reason 14 weeks
1984 Carom 12 weeks
1985 Sun in the night 14 weeks
1986 Stations 3 weeks
Tabaluga and the luminous silence 11 weeks
1988 Long shadows 12 weeks
1989 No way too far 1 - 3 weeks
1991 38317 5 weeks
1992 Friends + prophets 2 weeks
1993 Tabaluga and Lilli 1 - 3 weeks
1996 96 11 weeks
1998 Encounters 6 weeks
2000 X 4 weeks
2001 30 years ago today 8 weeks
2002 Tabaluga and that gave away happiness 4 weeks
2005 Loud and quiet 7 weeks
2006 Encounters - an alliance for children 1 week
2008 Forever 6 weeks
2010 Tattoos 11 weeks
2011 Tabaluga and the signs of the times 6 weeks
2014 If so 10 weeks
2015 It's never been better - Arenatour 2015 1 week
Tabaluga - Long live friendship! 8 weeks
2017 MTV Unplugged 18 weeks
2019 Now! 5 weeks

The Beatles

The Beatles (1964)
year title Length of stay Remarks
1964 With the Beatles 9 months
Please Please Me 5 months
Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! - A Hard Day's Night 5 months
The Beatles Beat 1 month
1965 Beatles for Sale 8 months
Beatles '65 1 month
Help! 7 month
1966 Rubber Soul 7 month
revolver 5 months
1967 Sgt.Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band 5 months +
2 weeks
1968 Magical Mystery Tour 2 months
The Beatles (White Album) 8 months +
3 weeks
1969 Yellow Submarine 2 months
Abbey Road 7 months +
3 weeks
1970 let it be 3 months
1973 1962-1966 30½ months +
1 week
1967-1970 21 months
1976 Rock 'n' Roll Music 1 month
1977 The Beatles at the Hollywood Bowl ½ month
1979 20 golden hits 5 weeks
1994 Live at the BBC 5 weeks
1995 Anthology I 7 weeks
1996 Anthology II 1 week
Anthology III 1 week
2000 1 18 weeks
2006 Love 8 weeks
2009 The Beatles Stereo Box Set 3 weeks
2013 On Air - Live at the BBC Volume 2 1 week

"Long-running" after album

Paul Hubschmid (1949)

This list includes all albums that have been in the top 10 of the German album charts for at least one year (52 weeks / 12 months):

year title Interpreter Length of stay
1962 My Fair Lady - German Original Version Soundtrack GermanyGermany Karin Huebner & Paul HubschmidSwitzerlandSwitzerland 52 months
Tchaikovsky Concerto No. 1 United StatesUnited States Van Cliburn 14 months
West Side Story world Soundtrack 36 months
Play Bach episodes 1, 2, 3 and 4 FranceFrance Jacques Loussier 17 months
Viennese walks AustriaAustria Peter Alexander 14 months
Homesickness for St. Pauli AustriaAustria Freddy Quinn 12 months
1963 Impromptu stories GermanyGermany Jürgen von Manger 14 months
1964 Songs of the world IsraelIsrael Esther & Abi Ofarim 17 months
1965 New songs in the world IsraelIsrael Esther & Abi Ofarim 14 months
1967 Doctor Zhivago world Soundtrack / Maurice JarreFranceFrance 12 months
1968 Heintje NetherlandsNetherlands Heintje 16 months
The golden voice from Prague Czech RepublicCzech Republic Karel Gott 12 months
1970 Deep purple in rock United KingdomUnited Kingdom Deep Purple 14 months
1971 Wim Thoelke presents: 3 × 9 GermanyGermany Various artists 12 months
1973 1962–1966 (Red Album) United KingdomUnited Kingdom The Beatles 30½ months +
1 week
1967–1970 (Blue Album) United KingdomUnited Kingdom The Beatles 21 months
1983 thriller United StatesUnited States Michael Jackson 55 weeks
1993 Happy Nation SwedenSweden Ace of Base 52 weeks
1994 Over the hump IrelandIreland United StatesUnited States The Kelly Family 53 weeks
2007 from the same Star GermanyGermany I + me 54 weeks
2010 Lot of freedom GermanyGermany Unholy 56 weeks
2011 21st United KingdomUnited Kingdom Adele 76 weeks
2013 play of colors GermanyGermany Helene Fischer 95 weeks
2018 Helene Fischer GermanyGermany Helene Fischer 54 weeks

"Long runner" according to artist

Herbert Grönemeyer (2014)

This list contains all artists, in chronological order in descending order of weeks, who have stayed in the top 10 of the German album charts for over two years (104 weeks). Monthly chart editions are included in the data collection with four weeks and half-monthly chart editions with two weeks.

Artist

Sampler / soundtrack series

1 Artists who reached the top 10 with only one album.

Albums with most years between first and last top 10 listing

Alphaville (2005)

Artists with most years between the first and last top 10 listing

Ronny (1965)

Artists with at least two simultaneous new entries in the top 10

date Interpreter Album # 1 Album # 2
09/30/1991 United StatesUnited States Guns n 'Roses Use Your Illusion I
(# 2) 		Use Your Illusion II
(# 4)
03/12/2010 GermanyGermany Fat bread Fat
(# 4) 		Bread
(# 6)
04/11/2014 ItalyItaly Free wild Live in Frankfurt: Incredible, incomparable, unforgettable
(# 2) 		On the quiet journey
(# 5)
March 22, 2019 GermanyGermany Roland Kaiser All or you
(# 2) 		Alles Kaiser - The best of life
(# 6)
02/21/2020 GermanyGermany Prince Pi / Prince Porn True Legends
(# 3; as Prince Pi) 		By far
(# 6; as Prinz Porno)

particularities

Artist with the most top 10 successes in a chart week

With the exception of two positions, Michael Jackson took all places in the German top 10 on July 17, 2009.

1. King of Pop
2. Number Ones
3. Thriller
4. HIStory - Past, Present and Future Book I.
5. Dangerous
6th bathroom
8. Live in Bucharest: The Dangerous Tour (DVD)
9. The Collection

Most German-language albums in the top 10 in one chart week

In the chart week of June 22, 2015, only German-language albums were placed in the top 10 of the German album charts for the first time. Furthermore, nine of these ten albums came from German musicians, only Christina Stürmer comes from Austria.

  1. KC Rebel - Fata Morgana
  2. Various Artists - Sing my Song - The Exchange Concert Vol. 2
  3. Marsimoto - Ring of the Nebelungen
  4. Sarah Connor - mother tongue
  5. LX & Maxwell - fruit stand
  6. Gregor Meyle - Meylensteine
  7. Santiano - Of love, death and freedom
  8. Ćelo & Abdï - Bonchance
  9. Christina Stürmer - yesterday. Today.
  10. Pur - Hits PUR - 20 years of a band

Most German artists in the top 10 in one chart week

With the exception of Anna Netrebko, Gianandrea Noseda & Orchestra del Teatro Regio di Torino in sixth place, all remaining positions within the top 10 were occupied by German artists. Because Verdi was released by Deutsche Grammophon , all albums within the top 10 were released by German music labels on August 23, 2013 .

  1. Helge Schneider - summer, sun, cactus!
  2. Santiano - With the tide
  3. Mono Inc. - Nevermore
  4. Xavier Naidoo - By my soul
  5. Alligatoah - thrusters
  6. Anna Netrebko , Gianandrea Noseda & Orchestra del Teatro Regio di Torino - Verdi
  7. Santiano - To the end of the world
  8. Helene Fischer - Best of
  9. Cro - Raop
  10. Sportfreunde Stiller - New York, Rio, Rosenheim

In the chart week of June 26, 2015, the first 16 places were exclusively albums with German participation. With the exception of the album Skills in Pills , all albums are German-language albums.

  1. Lindemann - Skills in Pills
  2. Various Artists - Sing my Song - The Exchange Concert Vol. 2
  3. MoTrip - mom
  4. Kay One - JGUDZS - Young enough to give a shit
  5. Sarah Connor - mother tongue
  6. Wirtz - on your marks, get set, go
  7. Santiano - Of love, death and freedom
  8. Gregor Meyle - Meylensteine
  9. KC Rebel - Fata Morgana
  10. Unheilig - summiteer
  11. Sons of Mannheim - Evoluzion - Best of
  12. Andreas Bourani - Hey
  13. Helene Fischer - play of colors
  14. Konstantin Wecker - Without Why
  15. Pur - Hits PUR - 20 years of a band

In the chart week of July 3, 2015, the first twelve places were exclusively albums with German participation. With the exception of the album Skills in Pills , all albums are German-language albums.

  1. The Amigos - Santiago Blue
  2. Various Artists - Sing my Song - The Exchange Concert Vol. 2
  3. Sarah Connor - mother tongue
  4. Santiano - Of love, death and freedom
  5. Lindemann - Skills in Pills
  6. Gregor Meyle - Meylensteine
  7. Sons of Mannheim - Evoluzion - Best of
  8. Wirtz - on your marks, get set, go
  9. KC Rebel - Fata Morgana
  10. MoTrip - mom
  11. Helene Fischer - play of colors
  12. Andreas Bourani - Hey

In the chart week of July 10, 2015, the first 14 places were exclusively albums with German participation. With the exception of the album Skills in Pills , all albums are German-language albums.

  1. Cro - MTV Unplugged: Cro
  2. Various Artists - Sing my Song - The Exchange Concert Vol. 2
  3. Sarah Connor - mother tongue
  4. ASD - Blockbasta
  5. Santiano - Of love, death and freedom
  6. The Amigos - Santiago Blue
  7. Gregor Meyle - Meylensteine
  8. Sons of Mannheim - Evoluzion - Best of
  9. Ruffiction - Peace
  10. Lindemann - Skills in Pills
  11. Wirtz - on your marks, get set, go
  12. Andreas Bourani - Hey
  13. Helene Fischer - play of colors
  14. KC Rebel - Fata Morgana

Most newcomers in the top 10 in a chart week

In the chart edition of September 13, 2013 there were a total of ten newcomers in positions 1–11, only Santiano was able to stay in the top 10 with their album Mit den Gezeiten compared to the previous week, but had to give up two positions.

  1. Schiller - Opus
  2. Thees Uhlmann - # 2
  3. Weekend - On the weekend rappers
  4. Frei.Wild - Against everything, against nothing
  5. Nine Inch Nails - Hesitation Marks
  6. Tarja - Colors in the Dark
  7. Schandmaul - so far - so good
  8. Santiano - With the tide
  9. Kreator - Dying Alive
  10. Babyshambles - Sequel to the Prequel
  11. Patrice - The Rising of the Son

More records

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b GfK Entertainment: Triple record in the official German charts. officialcharts.de, June 19, 2015, accessed on February 12, 2020 .
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