Udo Lindenberg x Apache 207 – Komet

BuzzJack: Forum Index

Music Genres

Pop

Latest Site News

A chart double for Taylor Swift

Hozier gets a second week at number one

Hozier climbs to number one

Udo Lindenberg x Apache 207 – Komet, Record-breaking No.1 in Germany

Display modes

Track this thread - Email this thread - Print this thread - Download this thread - Subscribe to this forum

gooddelta View member profile	23rd July 2023, 12:55 PM Post #1
Hello? Joined: 8 March 2006 Posts: 83,060 User: 116	77-year-old German legend Udo Lindenberg and hugely successful rapper Apache 207 have just chalked up their 18th week at No.1 in Germany, smashing the all-time record of 17 weeks previously held by Despacito and Rivers of Babylon with their collaboration Komet. I only heard this track earlier this month after being intrigued when hearing about its record-breaking run - the song was originally released in January - and I really like it and have played it a lot since. It's like a fusion of radio MOR pop, rock, R&B and hip-hop. Super radio friendly, a big chorus, an air guitar outro, a marketable story of somebody so late in their career getting their first No.1, I can see why it has appeal to both young and old listeners and has done so well. Makes 55-year-old Kylie look like she's in the first flush of youth with her recent top 10 success here. 0nYDnTTJgFI This post has been edited by gooddelta: 23rd July 2023, 12:56 PM


Roba. View member profile	23rd July 2023, 04:21 PM Post #2
Rob aah Joined: 3 July 2007 Posts: 38,323 User: 3,804	Heard this last week. Very impressive historic record that. I wonder how much longer it'll go on for and the song whilst it doesn't blow me away is pleasant enough.


lewistgreen View member profile	23rd July 2023, 04:40 PM Post #3
BuzzJack Legend Pronouns: he/him Joined: 25 July 2013 Posts: 26,056 User: 19,585	Kind of wish it was Friesenjung that had stayed at #1 for this long but this is a nice enough track. Very impressive to have racked up so many weeks


gooddelta View member profile	23rd July 2023, 04:49 PM Post #4
Hello? Joined: 8 March 2006 Posts: 83,060 User: 116	True, Friesenjung is a banger. A similarly odd collaboration! Also while checking the German charts I noticed how pretty much the whole top ten is German language songs, the international stars are barely getting a look in there now. Its broken up by a dance version of Lily Allen’s Not Fair at No.10, which I didn’t expect to hear today!


Silas View member profile	23rd July 2023, 09:41 PM Post #5
Queen of Soon Joined: 24 May 2007 Posts: 74,093 User: 3,474	Apache 207 is such a legend. He could probably sell out a stadium tour in Germany, he’s just at the peak of his popularity. I entered Roller into BJSC and still prefer that to this but this is fun! And yes Rich, it’s so nice to see so many German artists and so much German language in the top of the charts! Now only if they’d embrace German at Eurovision


gooddelta View member profile	23rd July 2023, 09:46 PM Post #6
Hello? Joined: 8 March 2006 Posts: 83,060 User: 116	Roller was a definite tune too. Loved that. Yeah there's a real disconnect. The singles charts are full of modern German rap/hip-hop, R&B, pop and dance. The album charts are stacked with schlager. So at Eurovision we get neither, but instead some English language MOR radio fluff that nobody is listening to. German entries are about as unrepresentative of the country's music industry as the UK's entries usually are and it's a real shame.