Kraut Sweep: August 14, 2012...

Hey guys, thanks again for dropping by..."Kraut Sweep" is here, with the latest singles selling over in Germany this past week, as Swedish singer Lykke Li spends a remarkable fifth week on top with "I Follow Rivers"...

German dance vocal group R.I.O. claim their third top-10 hit as "Summer Jam" featuring U-Jean debuts all the way up at #7 and is this week's highest entry. They had a top-3 hit here last year with "Turn This Club Around"...

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Canadian singer Alanis Morissette gets her second-highest chart hit in Germany (1996's "Ironic" hit #8) with her excellent "Guardian" at #15...

Hard rock group Frei.Wild ("Fair Game") are from the northern Italian province of South Tyrol (which the majority of the population speak German), and they have two songs entering the chart this week. First at #19 is "Feinde Deiner Feinder" ("The Enemy of Your Enemies")...

...while at #79 is their "Tot Und Doch am Leben" ("Dead and Yet Alive")...

Dance act the ItaloBrothers are actually from northwestern Germany, and their latest, "My Life Is A Party", comes at #43..

One rung lower at #44 are the Las Vegas rockers The Killers, whose biggest hit in Germany so far has been 2008's "Human", which peaked at #4. Their latest is "The Runaways"...

British act Florence + The Machine take their UK #1 hit "Spectrum (Say My Name)" to #54 here. They hit #30 last year with "Shake It Out"...

American singer/dancer/diva Jennifer Lopez had her first German #1 last year with "On The Floor",  and she's back with a track from her new greatest hits set, "Goin' In" featuring rapper Flo Rida at #67...

British singer Rebecca Ferguson got her big break as the runner-up to Matt Cardle on the UK's X Factor in 2010, and her second single to make the German charts (after "Nothing's Real But Love") is "Glitter And Gold" at #68..I love her...

Miley Cyrus' biggest hits so far in Germany has been 2008's "7 Things" (#17),  and now a track from her 2009 EP The Time Of Our Lives, "When I Look At You", debuts here at #85...

Another British X Factor second-place finisher, Olly Murs, had a huge single here earlier this year with "Heart Skips A Beat", which stayed two weeks at #1,  and he follows it up at #92 with the infectious "Oh My Goodness"...

Dutch club artist Mischa Daniels and Atlanta-born U-Jean team up for "That Girl" at #95...

MC Fitti rounds up the list of debuts at #99 with "30 Grad" ("30 Degrees"), which I assume is Celsius...

That wraps it up, stay tuned tomorrow for Aussie Sweep, the latest down under...Auf Wiedersehen!