Kraut Sweep: January 1, 2013...

Welcome back to this week's recap of the latest music over in Germany, as Rihanna's "Diamonds" holds on to #1 for a ninth week...

The top entry this week at # 10 is "Scream & Shout" by will.i.am and Britney Spears. It's will's biggest hit as a lead artist apart from his work in the Black Eyed Peas, while Brit has topped the German chart twice, with "..Baby One More Time" in 1998 and "Lucky" in 2000...(NSFW)

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Coming in at #26 is Canadian singer Nelly Furtado, with the third single from her remarkable latest album, The Spirit Indestructible, "Waiting For The Night". Nelly has gone to #1 two times as well, with "All Good Things (Come To An End)" in 2006 and as a featured singer on James Morrison's "Broken Strings" in 2008...

 British X Factor winner Leona Lewis returns at #27 with "Trouble" featuring rapper/Community star Childish Gambino. Leona topped the German chart in 2007 with her worldwide smash "Bleeding Love". The song made the top-10 in Britain last year...

The winner of this country's version of the Got Talent franchise, singer Jean-Michel Aweh, debuts at #28 with his first single "Raus aus dem Nebel" ("Out Of The Fog")...

British superstar Robbie Williams arrives at #31 with "Different". The former/sometimes present Take That member has topped the chart in this country three times, the latest with "Bodies" in 2009...

Chanting in this week at #76 is "Misty Mountains" by Richard Armitage and the cast of The Hobbit, a movie I saw and adored before Christmas...

...and the final debut at #96 is by British hip-hop artist Labrinth with "Express Yourself"...

That does it for tonight...I'll be back tomorrow with another Song of the Day, candletime, and this week's recap of what's going on down in Australia. Glückliches neues Jahr!