Kraut Sweep: January 28, 2014...

I'm ready to cross the border to Germany to check out the songs making their official singles chart, as Pharrell spends a second week at #1 with "Happy"...

The top entry up at #17 is from German YouTube comedy team Apecrime with "Swing Dein Ding" ("Swing Your Thing").  It's their highest of their two hits to date...

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Shakira and Rihanna pair up at #20 with "Can't Remember To Forget You". The former has topped the chart in this country four times, the latest with the World Cup theme "Waka Waka (This One's For Africa)" in 2010, while Rihanna has done the same five times, with "Diamonds" from 2012 her most recent...

Nigerian-born singer and DJ Dr. Alban (who is actually a doctor - a dentist to be precise) makes his home in Sweden, and his international hit from 1992, "It's My Life", gets another makeover and "It's My Life 2014" is in at #32. The original went to #1 in this country...

Munich-based medieval-rock group Schandmaul arrives at #85 with "Euch zum Geleit" ("To Conduct You"), my "German Pick of the Week"...

The final entry at #86 is from Grammy darling Lorde from New Zealand with "Team". It follows her breakthrough hit "Royals", which made it to #8 here...

That's it for tonight...I'll be back tomorrow with another Song of the Day, 60s -time is back, and my Aussie Sweep. Auf Weidersehen!