Kraut Sweep: October 9, 2012...

It's time for this week's recap of the new songs making their way on to the weekly music charts in Germany. This week Asaf Avidan takes back the #1 spot for a seventh non-consecutive week with "One Day/Reckoning Song".

The top debut is one of two songs entering the chart by German Lena (Meyer-Landrut), who won the Eurovision Song Contest in 2010 for her home country with the #1 hit "Satellite". Her newest, rocketing in at #2, if "Stardust"...

Lena Meyer-Landrut "Stardust" from Michael Multhoff on Vimeo.



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German one-man electronica act Schiller (real name: Christopher von Deylen) has his biggest hit yet with his 11th top-40 effort "Sonne" ("Sun") featuring Goth-pop band Unheilig at #12. It's one notch higher than the group's 2001 hit "Dream of You"...

German DJ/producer Fritz Kalkbrenner enters at #22 with "Get A Life"...

American singer/songwriter Alicia Keys arrives at #32 with her latest, "Girl On Fire"...

German vocal group Melouria, who came together on the TV singing competition Popstars, pop in at #37 with "How Do You Do 2012"...

Lana Del Rey's "Video Games" topped the charts here last year; her latest, her fourth to make the top-100, comes in at #49, and it's her cover of Bobby Vinton's "Blue Velvet"...

The "B-Side" to Lena's #2 hit "Stardust" is "Time", and that song enters at #52...

German band  Ich Kann Fliegen ("I Can Fly"), from the Lower Saxony area of the country, debut at #74 with a song they came in third at the Bundesvision Song Contest, "Mich kann nur Liebe retten" ("Only Love Can Save Me")..

Ich kann fliegen "Mich kann nur Liebe retten" from Michael Multhoff on Vimeo.

The last entry is by Berlin rapper Fler with his latest, "Nummer 1" ("Number One") which comes in at number 92. He had a top-10 hit in 2005 with "NDW 2005"...

That does it for tonight...thanks for coming by, and check back tomorrow for another Song of the Day, Candletime, 6 of the 60s, and Aussie Sweep.... Auf Weidersehen!