Kraut Sweep: February 4, 2014...

Time to cross the border from France to Germany to check out the songs making the latter country's official singles chart this week, as Pharrell enjoys a third week at #1 with "Happy"...

Rocketing in at the runner-up position is British singer and songwriter Lily Allen with her hilariously fantastic "Hard Out Here". It's her first top tenner in this country...

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Schlager singer Michael Wendler, from the western town of Dinslaken, comes in at #55 with "Unser Zelt Auf Westerland" ("Our Tent In Westerland"). Westerland is the northernmost town in the country and beach town on the North Sea...

Dutch hip-hop artist Mr. Probz arrives at #69 with "Waves"....

Meanwhile, another hip-hop group from Hamburg, Fettes Brot, enter at #80 with "Fuer Immer Immer" ("For Always Forever")...


Wolfgang Petry, from Cologne, debuts at #90 with the schlager song "Einmal Noch" ("Yet Once")...

Veteran pop band Hohner, from Cologne as well, drop in at #97 with "Das Geht Nie Vorbei" ("This Is Never Gone")...


The final entry of the week belongs to Romanian-born musician Peter Maffay with "Halleluja" at #98. The epic power-pop song is my "German Pick of the Week"...