Kraut Sweep: August 13, 2013...

Now I'm ready to check out the singles making the grade on the top-100 sales chart in Germany this week, as Avicii holds for a fourth week on top with "Wake Me Up!"...

The top debut on the chart this week at #11 is British singer Ellie Goulding with "Burn". It matches the peak of her biggest hit so far here, "Lights"...

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The song that's currently #1 in neighboring France this week, Belgian singer Stromae's amazing "Papaoutai", arrives on the German chart at #56. It's his second hit here - he topped the chart here (and pretty much everywhere else but the US) with "Alors On Danse" in 2010...

Cuban-American rapper Pitbull returns at #73 with "Outta Nowhere" featuring songwriter Colombian songwriter Danny Mercer...

Las Vegas modern rock band stars Imagine Dragons come in at #81 with "On Top Of The World". Their giant hit "Radioactive" reached #4 in this country...

Irish indie-pop act All The Luck In The World debut at #85 with "Never"...

German rapper MC Fitti is at #87 with "Schöne Mädchen" ("Beautiful Girls")...

A capella group Wise Guys, from the city of Cologne, have had five top-10 albums in Germany, and now they're in at #88 on the singles chart with "Antidepressivum"...


The last entry on the chart at #98 is Milky Chance with "Stolen Dance"...