Ryan hears "willst du mit mir drogen nehmen" ("do you want to take drugs with me") and proceeds to say "this sounds so much less toxic than American music - you know, music that kids shouldn't listen to" 😂
Exactly the same. I guess it has to do with the emergence of streaming services somehow. It's quite sad really. The charts don't seem to reflect collective tastes anymore.
As a german at the first half I was like "Oh my god! I love this!! I need these songs again!!!" and the second half with the rap was like " Yeah not interested. Time to get the good old songs." And as you said that you don't really know if it is german I was like "Yeah I don't know that sh!t too"
@@chrizzi_xcx Das ist nicht das Problem hier. Es ist die Musikrichtung die hier einfach nicht so gut ist. Alles hört sich halt sehr unkreativ an weil es alles ähnlich klingt. Da wird abgekupfert anstatt wirklich zu kreieren.
bruder lieber nur schlechte capital bra und raf camora mukke in den charts als wieder so ne era zu haben wo nur fucking monoton weichgewaschener deutschpop populär ist.
I am from Germany and I am just glad to see you being as shocked as I am about the change of music style or trend, to call it so😅 Nice video and kinds regards!
@@pattys.7529es sind ja auch Chart songs und keine Top Radio-Lieder. Ich glaube dieser "wechsel" in den Stilen liegt weitestgehend an der zunehmenden Beliebtheit von Musikstreaming. Ein Song muss nicht mehr jugendfrei und radiogerecht sein um bekannt und beliebt zu werden.
literally my thought. from 2016 I suddenly didn't know a single song anymore as I don't listen to rap and they were not played on the radio or elsewhere
@@Finda5 It was the time when they started to kickstart through UA-cam and with the main audience there being kids and teens you can see where all that... immature content comes from. Before that it was art. After that it was just flexing in bad german. With a few exceptions. It is quite sad since rap has so much potential, yet none of them uses it.
Please keep in mind that those actually were the top 10 songs of that year in Germany IN GERMAN LANGUAGE. The only song of 2010 which was actually in the overall top 10 most sold songs, for example, was Unheilig's "Geboren um zu leben" at no. 4. Ranks 1 to 3 were Israel Kamakawiwo'ole with Over the Rainbow, Shakira with Waka Waka and German singer Lena Meyer-Landrut with her English song Satellite.
Actually there aren't that many artists using masks. Cro (the guy in the panda mask) was just featured several times. 2010-15 he was very popular and for quite some time noone actually knew who he was because of the mask. Sido started out wearing a mask at the beginning of his career as well but stopped using it at some point.
(people knew who he was through out his entire career because it was never a secret, jsut because us 13 years couldnt google correctly back then, doesnt mean "nobody knew")
Don't forget these are the songs that got popular in Germany in ADDITION to the international songs (mainly from USA). So it is no wonder that there is an emphasis on songs where the lyrics are important (like Rap but also "fun songs") Also I'm old geezer and didn't know most of the songs
I don't think you need to be old to dislike it. That stuff is just geared towards teenaged boys who have something to prove but can't so they have to compensate and the people who grow from that place in life by getting older but no more mature. At least that's my view of it. I don't think many people outside of that demographic genuinely like this stuff enough to seek it out.
I'm pretty sure, that isn't the mainstream music, listened by Germans. So the charts in a way don't represent what Germans hear anymore. Maybe it's because they collect the data for it still from CD sales and gangster rapper buy their own CDs to push it or there is another shift. There are still good songs appeared after 2017, but for some reason they don't appear in this charts.
@@Duconi The charts have always been a desaster area and never really reflected what people were listening to because they were never a count of actually sold units but a strange mixture of sold units in shops, preorders and projection. And the situation nowadays with downloads, streaming etc. might be even more contorted.
Well, I don't know how charts are build, but yeah... I don't think that most people in Germany would listen to cheap autotune rap like the stuff after 2016. Pop and Schlager were big in Germany for as long as I live, but at least it was okay to listen to. The newer stuff is just... Not good. But well, maybe every "old" person says stuff like that.
As a German born in 2000 the music of 2010 to 2015 was exactly my time and still the best since the 80s in Germany which were called "Neue Deutsche Welle". Thank you for your reactions to this great time and great music!
It's almost the complete opposite for me (born 2001). Except for Cro and a few other artists, pretty much every song came close to giving me an aneurysm. 2016 and onwards got better and worse at the same time. I really like Rin and Raf Camora for example, Bausa and Apache 207 have some good tracks too but unfortunately we also got fkn Mero and Capital Bra.
@@mojoo611 2001 here and in germany we say "Absturz" after 2015. Apache is catchy but besides that 90% of the songs are hot garbage. Not to mention that german rap quality also took a nosedive in the last 6 years.
As a German it’s so sad how the music changed. From pop/disco music to more and more rap and eventually only rap. I am glad that I have grown up in the right generation with good music, because I can’t imagine growing up with the new music.
I think it's more that with the dawn of streaming a lot of people have turned their back on pop in favor of more niche genres, while rap always had a core audience that it still maintains.
It‘s also interesting how the names of musicians in the top German top ten changed over the years. Some appeared two or three times over one ore two years and then disappeared completely.
That’s normal, usually you can cover a lifespan of 2 years with an album and when you release two good albums in a row you can easily cover 4 years with singles.
@@michaelkorger3273 tbh I wouldn't call any german rapper 'skilled'. For me they all sound more or less the same. Over all the music got worse the last decade. But that's only my opinion. I just don't like these "new" and "modern" type of music. Btw 23 y.o. from Germany
I love how at 6:07 Ryan has a straight face and says “i think it’s less toxic than American music“ and the germans sing “do you wanna take drugs with me” 😂😂
It´s interesting to see or hear, how the music changed. I'm from Germany and in my opinion, the last years sound similar. I have even problems to understand the texts. But it was fun watching you
starting in 2016 german charts declined in quality because it's not the music that people like anymore in there but it's the influencers that lil boys adore... hence why it's full of these highly autotuned ganster rap type of people cuz they seem so cool to them :P
Auch Mädchen haben damals Rap gehört. Alle haben damals einen auf krasse Bad Bitch gemacht und die Typen wollen harte Fuckboys sein. Auf einmal ist jeder soft und schwul 😂😂😂
As a german that felt really nostalgic for me and reminded me of the good old days when german music was good thank you Ryan. Btw that one rock song called "An Tagen wie diesen" you thought were pretty cool... It actually is and you should listen to it fully.
Please also watch the German songs 1980-1989, 1990-1999 and 2000-2009❤ the vids from lucstar are great and the music snippets are as short as here so you have no problem with copyright!:)
@@ManafaeVODI second that! The modern stuff may be great for the younger generation, but the 70s, 80s and, to an extent, the 90s show so much about how music developed from germanized american music into something that's unique.
I'm a 90s teen, I'm all for music in the 90s and 2000 to 2010, but earlier music would be interesting, too. Just the newer stuff I find unappealing :) @@Flamebeard0815
Everything after 2015 I literally dont know lol. Good old days. The music had so much soul and just felt nice idk how to describe. The music today is almost unenjoyable. I dont listen to my (german) music from today at all... Not even the past few years.
for me personally, die ärzte and die toten hosen are by far my favorites from this video, cro, sido and alligatoah are especially worth listening to as well, their lyrics are great and so is the music. however in my opinion (and in a lot of others' i feel) the newer rap stuff like capital bra, samra etc is just really bad, it's just talking about drugs and crime etc in a way that you can't understand a word. it's what most fourteen year olds listen to.
@@gunchar06 he did, but a big difference for me is that he knows other topics than 'i take drugs, haha, i fuck your girlfriend, yo mom fat, i rob stores to buy drugs and cars'
Yes but it is a completely different kind of rap. I personally do not know how to describe it but it is a far more drug and crime and "oh who is the boss" kinda vibe in the new songs of capital Bra etc. And I don't like it. To be honest there is some good rap like maybe from Apache but the rap did change quite a bit. Also I miss the funny and good vibe songs. They are almost non-existent in the top and you need to really look for it yourself. @@gunchar06
Not much people are listening to it actually, it's a well documented fact that the charts are heavily cheated by them because the charts system is quite dumb
Most of the rap stuff in the last 2 years is not represantative of what most germans listen to. Its very much the generation born after 2000 that streams these songs a lot. If you liked the duo from 2019 second place, I suggest you check out Henning Mays (the male singers) cover of Tom´s Diner with AnnenMayKantereit. Its one of the best covers out there existing and from two prominent german artists.
I guess a big factor in this is that it's not the top 10 songs in Germany that year but only the top ten songs with german lyrics. And since a lot of german Pop/Rock/... songs are also sung in english they are completely missing from the list. whereas a lot of rappers from germany will make more songs in german
@5:07 In the song "Lieder" by Adel Tawil, German text passages are constantly sung that relate to other songs in pop history: Text Allusion to 1. Strophe Ich ging wie ein Ägypter, Walk Like an Egyptian - The Bangles hab’ mit Tauben geweint. When Doves Cry - Prince War ein Voodoo-Kind, Voodoo Child (Slight Return) - Jimi Hendrix wie ein rollender Stein. Like a Rolling Stone - Bob Dylan[10] Im Dornenwald sang Maria für mich, Maria durch ein Dornwald ging - German Advent song (16th century) ich starb in deinen Armen… (I Just) Died in Your Arms - Cutting Crew …Bochum ’84. Bochum - Herbert Grönemeyer Ich ließ die Sonne nie untergehen, Don’t Let the Sun Go Down on Me - Elton John in meiner wundervollen Welt. What a Wonderful World - Louis Armstrong 2. Strophe Ich war willkommen im Dschungel Welcome to the Jungle - Guns N’ Roses und fremd im eigenen Land. Fremd im eigenen Land - Advanced Chemistry Mein persönlicher Jesus Personal Jesus - Depeche Mode und im Gehirn total krank. Insane in the Brain - Cypress Hill Und ich frage mich, wann werd ich, werd ich berühmt sein, When Will I Be Famous - Bros so wie Rio, mein König für die Ewigkeit. König von Deutschland - Rio Reiser Ich war am Ende der Straße…angelangt, End of the Road - Boyz II Men war ein Verlierer, Baby! Loser - Beck Doch dann hielt ich ein Cover in der Hand, Killing in the Name - Rage Against the Machine darauf ein Mönch, der in Flammen stand, Killing in the Name - Rage Against the Machine (see the Cover of the record) Kurt Cobain sagte mir, ich soll kommen wie ich bin. Come as You Are - Nirvana Bridge Ich war einer von fünf Jungs, The Boyz (Adel Tawil was am member of the band) „One Minute“ aus, dann war’s vorbei. One Minute - The Boyz Ich sang nur noch für mich, für ’ne unendlich lange Zeit. Dann traf ich auf sie Annette Humpe (Member of Ich + Ich) und sie erinnerte mich. Du erinnerst mich an Liebe - Ich + Ich (Music Project by Anette Humpe and Adel Tawil) Wir waren Welten entfernt Ich + Ich (Music Project by Anette Humpe and Adel Tawil) und doch vom selben Stern. Vom selben Stern - Ich + Ich (Music Project by Anette Humpe and Adel Tawil) Refrain Und ich singe diese Lieder, tanz’ mit Tränen in den Augen. Dancing with Tears in My Eyes - Ultravox Bowie war für’n Tag mein Held, Heroes - David Bowie und EMF kann es nicht glauben. Unbelievable - EMF Und ich steh’ im lila Regen, Purple Rain - Prince ich will ein Feuerstarter sein. Firestarter - The Prodigy Whitney wird mich immer lieben I Will Always Love You - Whitney Houston und Michael lässt mich nicht allein You Are Not Alone - Michael Jackson You actually notice it straight away when you translate the lyrics into English 1st verse I walked like an Egyptian, I cried with doves. Was a voodoochild, like a Rolling Stone. In the thorn forest Mary sang for me, I died in your arms… ...Bochum '84. I never let the sun go down, in my wonderful world. 2nd verse I was welcome in the jungle and strangers in their own land. My personal Jesus and totally sick in the brain. And I wonder when will I, will I be famous, like Rio, my king for eternity. I had reached the end of the street... was a loser, baby! But then I held a cover in my hand, then a monk who was on fire, Kurt Cobain told me to come as I am. bridge I was one of five boys, “One minute” and then it was over. I only sang for myself for an infinitely long time. Then I met her and she reminded me. We were worlds away and yet from the same star. refrain And I sing these songs, dancing with Tears in My Eyes. Bowie was my hero for a day, and EMF can't believe it. And I'm standing in the purple rain, I want to be a firestarter. Whitney will always love me and Michael won't leave me alone
Yeah, the entire song is about all the songs Adel Tawil listened to and liked making him the guy he became today. The lines during the Bridge of the song are about his career, songs he made and/or sang.
The most interesting thing about these "top 10" lists is, that even though some of them got a song or two in the top ten, they often have this one major hit and then sink back to a smaller audience. At the same time, bands like Die Ärzte, Toten Hosen and also Rammstein, bands that have been in the business for decades and are being talked about for decades. Are, household names and almost everyone knows them, barely appear in the top 10s of each year. Let's take one song as example: "Schrei nach Liebe", a song from "Die Ärzte" about racists. That song was written in '93. That song is 30 years old by now. And it is still a a usual at their concerts and a usual playing on the radio. It never went away. It is also not made to be top10 material. Top10 songs are usually seasonal. A lot of "summer-vibe" songs. Songs that everyone listens to for a season because it just fits that year. "Schrei nach Liebe" on the other hand is not seasonal. It had relevance 30 years ago and it still has. Maybe even more. (it actually got upvoted into the top songs of the year the first time the AfD appeared to be open right-wing extremist) But there are other songs, Rammstein songs are usually just too offensive in their design to make the list. "Deutschland" is an interesting one, but Rammstein purposefully hyped that song up before it finally released and then it hit. It hit hard. Thing is, the top10s are full of "one-shots". One major hit and then back to the average audience. And you really would expect to have the popular bands and musicians to have a lot of top-10 hits. But then, we are used to hearing them all the time. And while they are undeniably good at what they do, they are not surprising us with being good. Everyone who knows "Die Ärzte" knows what to expect from them. "M&F", the song from them that was in the top10 lists here, was good but also nothing out of the ordinary for them. Except for being one of the less critical songs. Their usual is to be critical and they are very opposed to the right. They are Punk in ideology and thus openly political. And that's the reason why "Deutschland" from Rammstein is weird in the top10. We usually don't have political songs in those lists. They usually don't make it that far up. And that's not because there's a lack of strong political music.
It's crazy how many songs I recognized from my childhood 😢 When it comes to german songs, my dad is literally screaming "UND AM ENDE DER STRAßE STEHT EIN HAUS AM SEE" 😂
damn now I feel old. I have heard (of) some of the songs here, but I feel they are all from a time when I had already found my relevant music ... Than again "my" german Artists are JBO, Feuerschwanz, Doro, Saltatio Mortis, Versengold, Subway to Sally, Die Apokalyptischen Reiter, ASP etc.
As a German I find it interesting in this video how you can see how the music taste in Germany went from having class to horrendous sexual rap over the years.
The top 10 changed so much because the way we listen to music changed. Back in the day it were CD/vinyl/cassette sales, downloads and also radio air play. So (except for radio) you bought a song or an album once and it counted towards the charts. It didn't matter how often you would actually listen to it. In the mid 2010s, music streaming became more and more popular. Now, didn't have to invest money before listening to a particular song (which lowered the importance of a catching album cover photo but hightened the importance of the beginning of the song - listen to old songs, they have really long intros. Now, the first few seconds have to catch you so you don't skip the song.) But every time you listen, it counts towards the charts. Who adapts to new tech first? Young people. And young people often have time and passion to listen to their favorite music A LOT. and the young people loved rap of the time. That's why there's such a massive shift.
You kinda don't really answer your question. Yes, young people are the drivers of that change, but WHY did they prefer hip hop over the rest? That would have been the interesting fact.
@@ChRW123 that is a different topic. My point was that before the age of streaming, the youth often either just copied their music to listen to it (cassette, burned CDs etc.) and IF they bought it, their purchase just counted once, just like any purchase. Now, one could argue the charts are more accurate because they portrait the times people actually listen, not the purchases. I was a teen in the 2000s, and the peers I knew also loved rap music. But it wasn't in the charts because it was still the era before streaming.
Simple answer: they don't. In this digital age, the German singles charts naturally also include figures from streaming services such as spotify, deezer and co. A large part of the streaming statistics of these wannabe Tupacs is simply the result of fraud. The streaming numbers required for a chart placement can be easily purchased from service providers. This was all uncovered and documented years ago by a team of young journalists.@@ChRW123
Wow i didn't notice how bad the music turned in the end. Mostly auto tune stuff and songs that sound almost the same. The early half was definately better and way more variety.
yeah this brings back memories back when I was in school and sat down at the tv to watch VIVA (wich was and noe is basically MTV since it shut down back in 2018) damn that where some good times
Tbh, i just pissed myself laughing because of unintentional situational humor. You were just seeing Alligatoah "Willst du mit mir Drogen nehmen" (translates to "do you want to take drugs together?") and kept on talking how toxic music in the US became and how its not something kids should listen to... pure comedy gold xD Anyway, I like your content and i hope you keep doing this :)
Im from Germany and when Im correct, a lot of these songs are legendary... Some songs are still playing on radio and discos/clubs. After this video I had to add some new songs to my spotify playlist xD
this was sooo interesting Rosenstolz as 'the German Katy Perry' and 'losing the innocence of the early 2000s' and our music getting bit weird at times were actually such insightful observations - encapsulates German music quite well but also should be noted that streaming has led to music being more representative of younger people these days whereas the early 2010s are more cross-generational radio music
I love how you stopped vibing once the rap songs became so frequent. I don't listen to rap at all but I like Apache 207 a lot and it says something that you immediately wanted to look him up :D Also thank you for bringing back nostalgia, I'm gonna listen to "Millionen Lichter" again rn. Some songs I can recommend, very niche tho, not popular: Von hier an blind - Wir sind Helden Tanz der Moleküle - Mia. (HUGE recommendation, love her) Gute Laune - RAR Blond - Mia Morgen (Another huge recommendation) Now some more obscure ones, I'm not sure you'd like: Kreislauf - Tropical Ltd Schlachtbank - Eisbrecher
In Germany its important to pay attention to the lyrics ( mostly) . most of the lyrics have a double meaning, or they are a very fine german description about the situation in this song, or they find word about relatet to actual or circumstances in the past from our enterprise
You might want to watch the entire song "257ers - Holland" - it is about Germans making fun of Dutch people 🙂 It has aged quite well. The one from your thumbnail picture
Dude this was like growing up again lol. Like oh yeah 2011 11 years old no worries to 2019 19 years old struggling. And it are really some songs that hit so hard and trigger specific memories..insane
Is it crazy that I just began to cry because I realise that I am getting older? I mean I am.nearly an andukt and slowly the time comes where I think: oh man this is realy long ago and I dont want that. I want to stop everything and just enjoy the moment.
Apart from the fact that the music is getting worse and worse because of the autotune and also in terms of content (especially Pseudo Gangsta rap -Which is of course a matter of taste, because I like things like Mötley Crüe and not everyone likes that either ), the funniest thing is that after a song called "Will you do drugs with me", you say that there are so many songs in US music that are not so good for children 😂
6:35 I have the same impression. German music doesn't seem to be as toxic as music from the USA. We have happy, funny, or sad songs. Some have a deeper message, and others don't. But I normally don't have the feeling they're toxic...
Haha, yes, and right before he said it, they played "2 finger" and "willst du mit mir Drogen nehmen?"... worse than "Holland" 😂 But I think it's a cultural thing... as in Germany, we grew up from a more Liberal point of view (drugs and sex). Artists are "allowed" to act freely... In the USA, these themes seem more shocking and attract more attention. Artists aggressively include these themes in their music, I guess... 😅
More toxic than all those rap songs since 2016 is not possible, what are you talking lol they're all homophobic, against women, against jews, against anybody except arabs
@juliaweippert4802 Well, Ryan said "less" toxic, in which I agree. 😅 even the list shows, that there are more love or happy songs than songs about drugs and sex/ big ashes and twitties..
Apart from the already mentioned, the charts also started to majorly change in 2016 because streaming was and is heavily manipulated by paid botfarms. The length of the songs also got shorter and shorter to increase the number of plays per account/ per hour. Many of these songs did not get to their chart organically.
This gave me big BIG nostalgia, but most importantly it had me going "no WAY that song came out in [year]" all the time Correction: That was the case until 2017, after that I hadn't even heard these songs before
Ich bin Spanierin und habe zwischen 2005 und 2014 in Deutschland gelebt, also habe ich meine Jugend komplett in Deutschland verbracht, einem Land, das ich von ganzem Herzen liebe. Viele der Lieder aus den frühen Jahren kenne ich auswendig, aber wenn ich mir dieses Video ansehe, macht es mich sehr traurig, die Entwicklung der deutschen Musik im letzten Jahrzehnt zu sehen. Trotzdem hat Deutschland immer noch wunderbare Künstler und Lieder, auch wenn sie nicht die Anerkennung bekommen, die sie verdienen.
6.51 Helene Fischer is huge in Germany. She was ranked 7th one year on Forbes richest list. Her market is only Germany, Austria. As an Australian I love her She is amazing. Check her out singing Hand In Hand live in Frankfurt. It will blow your mind. This woman is brilliant. Go down that rabbit hole. You will have a lot of fun exploring her music.
I don't like German rap that much, so I got stuck somewhere in 2015 😂2:08 "Tim Bendzko - Wenn Worte meine Sprache wären" (if words were my language) is my absolute favorite German song and always will be ... really folks even if you don't understand German search for the lyrics and put them into a translator, it's so freaking beautiful ☺If I ever get married, this will be my song for the opening dance.
Man german music went downhill after 2017 😅 Would love to see your reaction to your favorites from this video in a longer version with a transpation to English so you understand the lyrics. 😊
6:35 Ryan, I am fully with you. We are getting older (I'm getting 44 tomorrow) and I for my self can't listen to most of the newer music which came out the last 5 - 10 years. Either the music becomes more and more superficial or more aggressive. And it doesn't matter whether the music comes from the USA, Germany or somewhere else. But that's just my opinion.
Alles Gute zum Geburtstag! And I feel the same. Charts are not my kind of music but I always liked at least a few of the songs, because there were just well made (lyrics and music). I am two years younger than you, Chris.
I myself am 19 i absolutely despise the chart music after 2016. I myself would not willingly listen to that stuff. Asi-Rap is not for me. It just sounds terrible. Can't we go back to music from the early 2010s?
Yeah, for me it stopped with the early 2010s. There was the occasional earworm, but the mainstream music nowadays is just plain bad and/or boring. Still listening to 70's to 90's stuff plus independent artists. Music needs to be something that can be cherished as a form of art and harmony, not just some beats, badboys vibes and autotune.
The guy you looked up with the sunglasses was Apache actually. He is one of the few German artists and especially rapper I listen to. (Also met him once as he lived in my town)
Benzema is a french soccer player - as Neymar is a brazilian one , sung by the same rapper the year before. How ever, the first half war kinda good. The second was more worse than good. And of course, it remembers a lot on the US. The States pop culture has a mayor influence on german culture.
2013-2015 was such a vibe istg like most of those songs feel like they were popular while I was in like elementary school (I think it's what it's called? like from ages 6-10) even tho some came out when I was 4- these defenetely were still really fucking popular like 4-5 years later tho so that's why ig
The few that do repeat are among the legendary groups/artists like Toten Hosen, Die Ärzte, Ramstein, Seeed and Sido. Some newer are Cro and Sportfreunde Stiller. 2017 and after has a lot of trap or whatever it is called with a lot of 'Eintagsfliegen' (one-hit-wonders)
And I always thought it was just subjective to me, that the mainstream music here in germany got really bad since 2016 and somehow felt happier before, but looks like the "amping autotune all the way up while mumbling uninspiring stuff about making money and taking drugs with the lowest voice possible and packing 50 voice filters on top" stuff really got popular then... I dont know, I guess I'm just getting old but its just not for me, I cant listen to that without feeling like I'm losing IQ. I mean, rappers like Sido, Bushido, Kollega etc always existed and do still exist but they at least have some lyrical finesse to them?
Deutschrap has been a genre as the 90s but at least in the past we seemed to have some good artist in the charts. Fettes Brot, Fanta4, Abolute Beginner, Sabrina Setlur (to throw a woman into the mix). Even Rappers like Sido, Bushido or Kool Savage who went more into the edgy/gangster side had some intelligent stuff every now and then, even for a person who isn´t into Rap like myself.
Place 1 from 2012 is An Tagen wie diesen from „Die Toten Hosen“ they make great Musik the genre is punk, sometimes critical about the politics in Germany and about things that don’t work great in the world in general
All of these songs were completely in German. They sometimes sound funny because they are sung in a German dialect or slang that is influenced by Arabic, Turkish, and Eastern European languages. The words are German, but they are sung as if they were from a song in those languages. I'm not a big fan of this style in general, but there are some really great songs that come out of it. And those are the ones that are on this list.
The title of that video was actually a little bit misleading. Those actually were the top 10 songs of that year in Germany IN GERMAN LANGUAGE. The only song of 2010 which was actually in the overall top 10 most sold songs was Unheilig's "Geboren um zu leben" at no. 4. Ranks 1 to 3 were Israel Kamakawiwo'ole with Over the Rainbow, Shakira with Waka Waka and German singer Lena Meyer-Landrut with her English song Satellite.
So crazy, I´m from germany, listen to radio every morning - but knowing not a single from those rap songs who are representing the years 2016 to 2019 here xD Like your reaction ^_^
I would appreciate it if you would take a look at the titles with the lyrics. Some of them are very deep. With some you need the context to recognize this. (Loss of friends, etc.) But the melody sometimes doesn't reflect that. That can be confusing. "Geboren um zu leben" by Unheilig, for example, can be seen as a hymn to life, or as a swan song for a friend.
It's always interesting for me how different are the charts from Germany and Switzerland. I live in the German-speaking part from Switzerland but I have never heard many of this songs in this video until now.
@@paha4209 We have also many songs from Germany, but also many own songs from Switzerland. And of course from somewhere else in the world. I was more surprised why I don't know 99% of this songs, because Germany and Switzerland are in many things very similar.
Wir hatten bis vor kurzem über Satellit immer die Sender von RTL etc aus Österreich. Also mit der Werbung und nicht die deutschen. in Österreich ist Werbung so viel witziger 😂 @@chnoxis
@@chnoxisNa ja ich glaube der Video Titel ist bisschen missverständlich. Würde es wirklich um die Charts gehen, was in dem jeweiligen Jahr am beliebtesten war, dann wird das in Ö, D, CH ziemlich ähnlich sein. In dem Video was er angeschaut hat ging es ja um die "erfolgreichsten" oder "besten" deutschsprachigen Songs/Künstler in dem jeweiligen Jahr. Da hast dann natürlich bspw Beatrice Egli und Andreas Gabalier auch dabei, weils halt im deutschsprachigen Raum überall erfolgreich sind, aber diejenigen, die es nicht über die Staatsgrenze schaffen nicht und genauso wenig die internationalen Hits hast da auch nicht drin. Also lange Rede kurzer Sinn, prozentuell wirds denke ich in allen 3 Ländern einen ähnlich großen Markt für Schlager, Pop, Deutsch Rap, volkstümliche Musik, etc pp geben. 🤷♂️
@@somebdy46Lump23 Ja so wird es wohl sein. Trotzdem verwundert es mich. Eigentlich würde man ja annehmen, dass wenn man ein Bravo-Hits-Album hört, dass man das meiste davon kennt, dass die schweizerischen (Mundart)bands eher nur ein Zusatz sind. Trotzdem hört man da viele Titel auf den CDs, die es in der Schweiz nie in ein Radiosender wie SRF 3 oder ähnliches schafften. Zumindest war es in den 90er-Jahren noch so. Ich hörte schon lange keine dieser CDs mehr.
This video made me realize why I have stopped listening to the radio since around 2017/2018 😂 I still like some of the songs from that whole "trap/autotune" trend but overall I fell like everything pretty much sounds the same and you can tell really well by this video 🙈
I miss that time so much man. These songs give me so much nostalgia. I was a kid in the 10's, running around in brazil and german tricots after the WM 2014, playing football and building secret hideouts. We didn't have phones, just school and playtime. These were honestly the best times and the music was amazing...
For me the late 00s with peter fox were missing and I missed Annenmaykantereit and K.I.Z (the last may be controversial), in my opinion german pop is a little bit boring, (Böhmermann made a TV-Show on that topical) and on the other hand the relatively unpolitical rap where the rappers want to show how great they are but dont actually adress a meaning in the song is in my eyes weird, even when their songs might listen nice, some also have too much auto tune. I also missed the song holz by 257ers and the newest changes, where the new artists mix their songs with older artists like friesenjung (Otto Waalkes with Ski Aggu) and Komet (Apache 207 and Udo Lindenberg).
when it#s german song time i have to mention Wise Guys. whats better than german humor, german humor in song form as acapella. Deutsche Bahn or Stolz are great, so i can't say how much of that is actually understanding what they say and how much is that it's just good music
Apache 207 currently has a very successful song in the charts (might just have dropped out, I'm too lazy to check). It's a collaboration with Udo Lindenberg, a German singer who's been around since what feels like forever. He's quite a special type, too. Here's the current song: ua-cam.com/video/0nYDnTTJgFI/v-deo.html And here's a clip from an MTV unplugged with Udo Lindenberg. ua-cam.com/video/NxquuedkKaM/v-deo.html
Sido has been on top for a long time he made German rap big pretty much. There were others involved too but he was the main guy. I saw him live the first time all the way back in 2004 and he's still making good music today.
Ryan hears "willst du mit mir drogen nehmen" ("do you want to take drugs with me") and proceeds to say "this sounds so much less toxic than American music - you know, music that kids shouldn't listen to" 😂
Well I definitely did jam to this during my school years hahah
That was exactly my thought. Laughed so hard XD
Auweia! 😂🤣😂
Haha I had the same thought. Ryan had a good timing for saying that without knowing that the timing was perfect, LOL
to be fair its an anti drig song if u listen closely to the lyrics.
2010-2015 i knew every song. 2016 started to loose me and from 2017 most Songs i didnt knew and would never listen to. 😂
Same. After seeing these songs from 2016-2019 for the first time here I'm really glad Spotify exists, so I have been spared
same... only artist after 2016 i listen to is apache207.. he has an incredible voice 🙂
Exactly the same. I guess it has to do with the emergence of streaming services somehow. It's quite sad really. The charts don't seem to reflect collective tastes anymore.
I totally agree
Yes... To much german "rap music"
As a german at the first half I was like "Oh my god! I love this!! I need these songs again!!!" and the second half with the rap was like " Yeah not interested. Time to get the good old songs." And as you said that you don't really know if it is german I was like "Yeah I don't know that sh!t too"
Kenn die Songs der 2. Hälfte zum Großteil nicht mal. :D
@@plantifulalexandra ich auch nicht 🤣
@@chrizzi_xcx Das ist nicht das Problem hier. Es ist die Musikrichtung die hier einfach nicht so gut ist. Alles hört sich halt sehr unkreativ an weil es alles ähnlich klingt. Da wird abgekupfert anstatt wirklich zu kreieren.
bruder lieber nur schlechte capital bra und raf camora mukke in den charts als wieder so ne era zu haben wo nur fucking monoton weichgewaschener deutschpop populär ist.
@@plantifulalexandraich auch nicht ... und da war es dann gut das die nur so kurz waren weil schlecht ohne Ende
I am from Germany and I am just glad to see you being as shocked as I am about the change of music style or trend, to call it so😅
Nice video and kinds regards!
Ich auch und du hast so recht
2018 war ja ein schrecklicher zusammenschnitt hab noch nie eines der Lieder gehört im Radio
@@pattys.7529es sind ja auch Chart songs und keine Top Radio-Lieder. Ich glaube dieser "wechsel" in den Stilen liegt weitestgehend an der zunehmenden Beliebtheit von Musikstreaming. Ein Song muss nicht mehr jugendfrei und radiogerecht sein um bekannt und beliebt zu werden.
Ich fands von anfang an relativ schlimm😅
Ich auch war damas in der Kinderplege ausbildung als meine mitschüler in der Freistunde "Bongzimmer" angemacht haben 😨
I love how his face expression just changes after 2016 😂
Relatable 😂
😂😂 haha
mine too and im from germany...from 2016 i dont know most of the songs :D
Its so beautiful and tragic at the same time. Great tunes all around and then 2016 comes around the corner and almost everything goes down the drain😂
I was shocked.
Everything sounds just terrible.
literally my thought. from 2016 I suddenly didn't know a single song anymore as I don't listen to rap and they were not played on the radio or elsewhere
You can See how Mass Immigration destroys it.
@@Finda5 It was the time when they started to kickstart through UA-cam and with the main audience there being kids and teens you can see where all that... immature content comes from.
Before that it was art. After that it was just flexing in bad german. With a few exceptions. It is quite sad since rap has so much potential, yet none of them uses it.
Hm komisch was nur 2015 war was das vielleicht stark beeinflusst hat
Please keep in mind that those actually were the top 10 songs of that year in Germany IN GERMAN LANGUAGE. The only song of 2010 which was actually in the overall top 10 most sold songs, for example, was Unheilig's "Geboren um zu leben" at no. 4. Ranks 1 to 3 were
Israel Kamakawiwo'ole with Over the Rainbow, Shakira with Waka Waka and German singer Lena Meyer-Landrut with her English song Satellite.
But that list wouldn’t be interesting.
Yeah I really was wondering, can't remember so many songs in German language in our charts.
IN GERMAN LANGUAGE also includes artists from Austria
Actually there aren't that many artists using masks. Cro (the guy in the panda mask) was just featured several times. 2010-15 he was very popular and for quite some time noone actually knew who he was because of the mask. Sido started out wearing a mask at the beginning of his career as well but stopped using it at some point.
Cro is still hugely popular, just not as mainstream as back then.
Cro was actually my neighbor, but still he lost the focus in his music, since then German music became pretty lame
@@grzegorzch5035you saying that German music is lame tells me you have never heard of Electric Callboy.
(people knew who he was through out his entire career because it was never a secret, jsut because us 13 years couldnt google correctly back then, doesnt mean "nobody knew")
@@SmileyXY That "Cro" leaving is a reason why German music is supposed to suck nowadays also says alot lol
Fun fact: "Auf uns" was played when we won the world championship :) Thats part of why it was so successful
Mit „auf uns“ das Internat aufgeweckt, am Tag, an dem wir die letzten Prüfungen abgelegt haben 😅
It was played throughout the entire world championship, the fact that we also won was only the cherry on top.
auf uns was literally my jam during elementary school 😂 we even made a choreography for it 😂😂😂😂
@Jamk-i5k We rode dressage to it, it was awesome 😂
"Lieblingsmensch" has adorable lyrics. So heartwarming
the lyrics is really beautyful, but many people cant catch up with it
Yeah, but this song was waaay to overplayed
Pop music in general is just commercial shit.
@@grzegorzch5035It's not about being able to catch up, the song just gets annoying very quickly
Don't forget these are the songs that got popular in Germany in ADDITION to the international songs (mainly from USA). So it is no wonder that there is an emphasis on songs where the lyrics are important (like Rap but also "fun songs")
Also I'm old geezer and didn't know most of the songs
Same here, most of them I had never heard. But I have to say some sounded nice. That rap stuff is not for me though.
I kinda dropped out at 2018 🫠
Dropped out at like 2017 besides some.
The good artists didn't get that much hype anymore and some quit entirely. Rap is just lame to me.
@@_CptRev_ me a little earlier. Maybe 2016
It seems im total old. Because i absolutely Don t like 99% of the Rap stuff since 2017.
I miss the good old times😢
Then I'm old too. Music since 2017 sucks
I don't think you need to be old to dislike it. That stuff is just geared towards teenaged boys who have something to prove but can't so they have to compensate and the people who grow from that place in life by getting older but no more mature. At least that's my view of it. I don't think many people outside of that demographic genuinely like this stuff enough to seek it out.
I'm pretty sure, that isn't the mainstream music, listened by Germans. So the charts in a way don't represent what Germans hear anymore. Maybe it's because they collect the data for it still from CD sales and gangster rapper buy their own CDs to push it or there is another shift. There are still good songs appeared after 2017, but for some reason they don't appear in this charts.
@@Duconi
The charts have always been a desaster area and never really reflected what people were listening to because they were never a count of actually sold units but a strange mixture of sold units in shops, preorders and projection. And the situation nowadays with downloads, streaming etc. might be even more contorted.
Well, I don't know how charts are build, but yeah... I don't think that most people in Germany would listen to cheap autotune rap like the stuff after 2016.
Pop and Schlager were big in Germany for as long as I live, but at least it was okay to listen to. The newer stuff is just... Not good. But well, maybe every "old" person says stuff like that.
As a German born in 2000 the music of 2010 to 2015 was exactly my time and still the best since the 80s in Germany which were called "Neue Deutsche Welle". Thank you for your reactions to this great time and great music!
It's almost the complete opposite for me (born 2001). Except for Cro and a few other artists, pretty much every song came close to giving me an aneurysm. 2016 and onwards got better and worse at the same time. I really like Rin and Raf Camora for example, Bausa and Apache 207 have some good tracks too but unfortunately we also got fkn Mero and Capital Bra.
So geht es mir auch
@@mojoo611 2001 here and in germany we say "Absturz" after 2015. Apache is catchy but besides that 90% of the songs are hot garbage. Not to mention that german rap quality also took a nosedive in the last 6 years.
Du hast so recht
Well let's hope "neue neue deutsche welle" is able to stay and able to really get started. So far I'm enjoying it quiet a lot :)
Bis die Rapper kamen, war ich voll dabei. But cool video and thanks for the trip back to my youth guy😊
Ooof, seeing Unheilig and "the Duke" (der Graf) on screen again hit with a different level of both nostalgia and sadness.
another proof 2016 was the year before the downfall
nailed!!! 😪
You could say the same about 2000, 1989, tbc….
After 2016 the number of expensive Lamborghinis appearing in video clips increased significantly!🤣
@@schaerfentiefe1967 dont forget the iced out watches and purple Sprite xD
@@schaerfentiefe1967 as well as the usage of poor autotune "singing"
As a German it’s so sad how the music changed. From pop/disco music to more and more rap and eventually only rap. I am glad that I have grown up in the right generation with good music, because I can’t imagine growing up with the new music.
Same. Jetzt gibt es nur noch "asi" rap oder techno.
And it's not even good rap
I think it's more that with the dawn of streaming a lot of people have turned their back on pop in favor of more niche genres, while rap always had a core audience that it still maintains.
Zuviel Autotune. Klingt total unnatürlich
@@Angelika5378Du musst einfach nur richtig suchen
It‘s also interesting how the names of musicians in the top German top ten changed over the years. Some appeared two or three times over one ore two years and then disappeared completely.
That’s normal, usually you can cover a lifespan of 2 years with an album and when you release two good albums in a row you can easily cover 4 years with singles.
And now the "skilled workers" take over the top ten. I love it!
I gotta say apache 207 has to be my favorite German artist right now. It's crazy how he manages to stand out from the rest but it is really great
@@michaelkorger3273 tbh I wouldn't call any german rapper 'skilled'. For me they all sound more or less the same. Over all the music got worse the last decade. But that's only my opinion. I just don't like these "new" and "modern" type of music. Btw 23 y.o. from Germany
@@jonasnosbusch7312 I agree with you, the new type of music just sucks. And I'm just 29 and also live in Germany
I love how at 6:07 Ryan has a straight face and says “i think it’s less toxic than American music“ and the germans sing “do you wanna take drugs with me” 😂😂
It´s interesting to see or hear, how the music changed. I'm from Germany and in my opinion, the last years sound similar. I have even problems to understand the texts. But it was fun watching you
starting in 2016 german charts declined in quality because it's not the music that people like anymore in there but it's the influencers that lil boys adore... hence why it's full of these highly autotuned ganster rap type of people cuz they seem so cool to them :P
Auch Mädchen haben damals Rap gehört. Alle haben damals einen auf krasse Bad Bitch gemacht und die Typen wollen harte Fuckboys sein. Auf einmal ist jeder soft und schwul 😂😂😂
True and I hate Rap so after 2017 I never heard of any Songs except Leiser von Lea.
Also they bought their place in the charts. It's also due to the internet and streaming and so on, but I don't really know how.
Was bist du denn für einer😂
@@justussiebert5905
Jemand mit einem guten Geschmack und einem hohen IQ
As a german that felt really nostalgic for me and reminded me of the good old days when german music was good thank you Ryan. Btw that one rock song called "An Tagen wie diesen" you thought were pretty cool... It actually is and you should listen to it fully.
Ich denke das ist eine der Hymnen für Deutschland
Ich bekomme auch ben Nostalgie kick und ich bin erst 2012 geboren 😅
Please also watch the German songs 1980-1989, 1990-1999 and 2000-2009❤ the vids from lucstar are great and the music snippets are as short as here so you have no problem with copyright!:)
This ... I am too old to like this modern pop music xD
@@ManafaeVODI second that! The modern stuff may be great for the younger generation, but the 70s, 80s and, to an extent, the 90s show so much about how music developed from germanized american music into something that's unique.
I'm a 90s teen, I'm all for music in the 90s and 2000 to 2010, but earlier music would be interesting, too. Just the newer stuff I find unappealing :) @@Flamebeard0815
Oh yes, so much better than the music from the late 2010s… even young people nowadays listen to older songs cuz currently music is shit
I am 22, and I find it awful.@@ManafaeVOD
I am from germany and watching this video was like a small timetravel for me 🤣
Everything after 2015 I literally dont know lol. Good old days. The music had so much soul and just felt nice idk how to describe. The music today is almost unenjoyable. I dont listen to my (german) music from today at all... Not even the past few years.
for me personally, die ärzte and die toten hosen are by far my favorites from this video, cro, sido and alligatoah are especially worth listening to as well, their lyrics are great and so is the music. however in my opinion (and in a lot of others' i feel) the newer rap stuff like capital bra, samra etc is just really bad, it's just talking about drugs and crime etc in a way that you can't understand a word. it's what most fourteen year olds listen to.
To be fair, Sido(/Aggro Berlin) kinda has also started with the kind of rap most fourteen years old listened to in the early 2000s.
@@gunchar06 he did, but a big difference for me is that he knows other topics than 'i take drugs, haha, i fuck your girlfriend, yo mom fat, i rob stores to buy drugs and cars'
Yes but it is a completely different kind of rap. I personally do not know how to describe it but it is a far more drug and crime and "oh who is the boss" kinda vibe in the new songs of capital Bra etc. And I don't like it. To be honest there is some good rap like maybe from Apache but the rap did change quite a bit. Also I miss the funny and good vibe songs. They are almost non-existent in the top and you need to really look for it yourself. @@gunchar06
Not much people are listening to it actually, it's a well documented fact that the charts are heavily cheated by them because the charts system is quite dumb
Nooo. Bitte nicht die Toten Hosen 😅 Ärzte ja😂
I know almost all of these songs and i never realized how sudden the music shifted from this nice poppy sound to the kind of gangster rap.
Most of the rap stuff in the last 2 years is not represantative of what most germans listen to. Its very much the generation born after 2000 that streams these songs a lot.
If you liked the duo from 2019 second place, I suggest you check out Henning Mays (the male singers) cover of Tom´s Diner with AnnenMayKantereit. Its one of the best covers out there existing and from two prominent german artists.
I second this, that duo is amazing!
It's x Giant Rooks aswell, insane combo.
I third this!!
I guess a big factor in this is that it's not the top 10 songs in Germany that year but only the top ten songs with german lyrics. And since a lot of german Pop/Rock/... songs are also sung in english they are completely missing from the list. whereas a lot of rappers from germany will make more songs in german
damn it went downhill after 2017 ^^
Its such a throwback when you live in Germany and heard these Songs years ago on repeat.
I become nostagic, when I hear those Songs. I know the lyrics of nearly every song.
@5:07
In the song "Lieder" by Adel Tawil, German text passages are constantly sung that relate to other songs in pop history:
Text Allusion to
1. Strophe
Ich ging wie ein Ägypter, Walk Like an Egyptian - The Bangles
hab’ mit Tauben geweint. When Doves Cry - Prince
War ein Voodoo-Kind, Voodoo Child (Slight Return) - Jimi Hendrix
wie ein rollender Stein. Like a Rolling Stone - Bob Dylan[10]
Im Dornenwald sang Maria für mich, Maria durch ein Dornwald ging - German Advent song (16th century)
ich starb in deinen Armen… (I Just) Died in Your Arms - Cutting Crew
…Bochum ’84. Bochum - Herbert Grönemeyer
Ich ließ die Sonne nie untergehen, Don’t Let the Sun Go Down on Me - Elton John
in meiner wundervollen Welt. What a Wonderful World - Louis Armstrong
2. Strophe
Ich war willkommen im Dschungel Welcome to the Jungle - Guns N’ Roses
und fremd im eigenen Land. Fremd im eigenen Land - Advanced Chemistry
Mein persönlicher Jesus Personal Jesus - Depeche Mode
und im Gehirn total krank. Insane in the Brain - Cypress Hill
Und ich frage mich, wann werd ich, werd ich berühmt sein, When Will I Be Famous - Bros
so wie Rio, mein König für die Ewigkeit. König von Deutschland - Rio Reiser
Ich war am Ende der Straße…angelangt, End of the Road - Boyz II Men
war ein Verlierer, Baby! Loser - Beck
Doch dann hielt ich ein Cover in der Hand, Killing in the Name - Rage Against the Machine
darauf ein Mönch, der in Flammen stand, Killing in the Name - Rage Against the Machine (see the Cover of the record)
Kurt Cobain sagte mir, ich soll kommen wie ich bin. Come as You Are - Nirvana
Bridge
Ich war einer von fünf Jungs, The Boyz (Adel Tawil was am member of the band)
„One Minute“ aus, dann war’s vorbei. One Minute - The Boyz
Ich sang nur noch für mich,
für ’ne unendlich lange Zeit.
Dann traf ich auf sie Annette Humpe (Member of Ich + Ich)
und sie erinnerte mich. Du erinnerst mich an Liebe - Ich + Ich (Music Project by Anette Humpe and Adel Tawil)
Wir waren Welten entfernt Ich + Ich (Music Project by Anette Humpe and Adel Tawil)
und doch vom selben Stern. Vom selben Stern - Ich + Ich (Music Project by Anette Humpe and Adel Tawil)
Refrain
Und ich singe diese Lieder,
tanz’ mit Tränen in den Augen. Dancing with Tears in My Eyes - Ultravox
Bowie war für’n Tag mein Held, Heroes - David Bowie
und EMF kann es nicht glauben. Unbelievable - EMF
Und ich steh’ im lila Regen, Purple Rain - Prince
ich will ein Feuerstarter sein. Firestarter - The Prodigy
Whitney wird mich immer lieben I Will Always Love You - Whitney Houston
und Michael lässt mich nicht allein You Are Not Alone - Michael Jackson
You actually notice it straight away when you translate the lyrics into English
1st verse
I walked like an Egyptian,
I cried with doves.
Was a voodoochild,
like a Rolling Stone.
In the thorn forest Mary sang for me,
I died in your arms…
...Bochum '84.
I never let the sun go down,
in my wonderful world.
2nd verse
I was welcome in the jungle
and strangers in their own land.
My personal Jesus
and totally sick in the brain.
And I wonder when will I, will I be famous,
like Rio, my king for eternity.
I had reached the end of the street...
was a loser, baby!
But then I held a cover in my hand,
then a monk who was on fire,
Kurt Cobain told me to come as I am.
bridge
I was one of five boys,
“One minute” and then it was over.
I only sang for myself
for an infinitely long time.
Then I met her
and she reminded me.
We were worlds away
and yet from the same star.
refrain
And I sing these songs,
dancing with Tears in My Eyes.
Bowie was my hero for a day,
and EMF can't believe it.
And I'm standing in the purple rain,
I want to be a firestarter.
Whitney will always love me
and Michael won't leave me alone
Yeah, the entire song is about all the songs Adel Tawil listened to and liked making him the guy he became today.
The lines during the Bridge of the song are about his career, songs he made and/or sang.
The most interesting thing about these "top 10" lists is, that even though some of them got a song or two in the top ten, they often have this one major hit and then sink back to a smaller audience.
At the same time, bands like Die Ärzte, Toten Hosen and also Rammstein, bands that have been in the business for decades and are being talked about for decades. Are, household names and almost everyone knows them, barely appear in the top 10s of each year.
Let's take one song as example: "Schrei nach Liebe", a song from "Die Ärzte" about racists. That song was written in '93. That song is 30 years old by now. And it is still a a usual at their concerts and a usual playing on the radio.
It never went away. It is also not made to be top10 material. Top10 songs are usually seasonal. A lot of "summer-vibe" songs. Songs that everyone listens to for a season because it just fits that year.
"Schrei nach Liebe" on the other hand is not seasonal. It had relevance 30 years ago and it still has. Maybe even more. (it actually got upvoted into the top songs of the year the first time the AfD appeared to be open right-wing extremist)
But there are other songs, Rammstein songs are usually just too offensive in their design to make the list. "Deutschland" is an interesting one, but Rammstein purposefully hyped that song up before it finally released and then it hit. It hit hard.
Thing is, the top10s are full of "one-shots". One major hit and then back to the average audience. And you really would expect to have the popular bands and musicians to have a lot of top-10 hits. But then, we are used to hearing them all the time. And while they are undeniably good at what they do, they are not surprising us with being good.
Everyone who knows "Die Ärzte" knows what to expect from them. "M&F", the song from them that was in the top10 lists here, was good but also nothing out of the ordinary for them. Except for being one of the less critical songs. Their usual is to be critical and they are very opposed to the right. They are Punk in ideology and thus openly political.
And that's the reason why "Deutschland" from Rammstein is weird in the top10. We usually don't have political songs in those lists. They usually don't make it that far up. And that's not because there's a lack of strong political music.
Absolutly
It's crazy how many songs I recognized from my childhood 😢
When it comes to german songs, my dad is literally screaming "UND AM ENDE DER STRAßE STEHT EIN HAUS AM SEE" 😂
damn now I feel old. I have heard (of) some of the songs here, but I feel they are all from a time when I had already found my relevant music ... Than again "my" german Artists are JBO, Feuerschwanz, Doro, Saltatio Mortis, Versengold, Subway to Sally, Die Apokalyptischen Reiter, ASP etc.
I did not need that "Ohrwurm" 😅
@@Rincy42Lol i didn’t know there was anyone else like me. Fucking Hell. Also Same my guy.
@@Souru_TV WE are not alone 😉
*STRAẞE
Wir haben große ß also warum nicht nutzen? 😂
ẞ > ß
"Still", "Nur noch kurz die Welt retten", "EInmal um die Welt", "au revoir", "Ein Hoch auf uns", "Die Chöre" --- love them!
As a German I find it interesting in this video how you can see how the music taste in Germany went from having class to horrendous sexual rap over the years.
Musik ist doch besser geworden
@@CanAslan-o4vScheiße nein!😂
@@FluffyJackie Ansichtssache es gibt ja immernoch Musik wie früher sie ist nur nicht mehr so beliebt
@@CanAslan-o4v I know, Ich meine ja auch eher die Musik in den Charts.
@@CanAslan-o4v die Musik ist nur Scheiße
The top 10 changed so much because the way we listen to music changed.
Back in the day it were CD/vinyl/cassette sales, downloads and also radio air play. So (except for radio) you bought a song or an album once and it counted towards the charts. It didn't matter how often you would actually listen to it.
In the mid 2010s, music streaming became more and more popular. Now, didn't have to invest money before listening to a particular song (which lowered the importance of a catching album cover photo but hightened the importance of the beginning of the song - listen to old songs, they have really long intros. Now, the first few seconds have to catch you so you don't skip the song.) But every time you listen, it counts towards the charts. Who adapts to new tech first? Young people. And young people often have time and passion to listen to their favorite music A LOT. and the young people loved rap of the time.
That's why there's such a massive shift.
You kinda don't really answer your question. Yes, young people are the drivers of that change, but WHY did they prefer hip hop over the rest?
That would have been the interesting fact.
@@ChRW123 that is a different topic.
My point was that before the age of streaming, the youth often either just copied their music to listen to it (cassette, burned CDs etc.) and IF they bought it, their purchase just counted once, just like any purchase.
Now, one could argue the charts are more accurate because they portrait the times people actually listen, not the purchases.
I was a teen in the 2000s, and the peers I knew also loved rap music. But it wasn't in the charts because it was still the era before streaming.
Simple answer: they don't. In this digital age, the German singles charts naturally also include figures from streaming services such as spotify, deezer and co. A large part of the streaming statistics of these wannabe Tupacs is simply the result of fraud. The streaming numbers required for a chart placement can be easily purchased from service providers. This was all uncovered and documented years ago by a team of young journalists.@@ChRW123
7:32 I think you haven't realized that almost all of those singers wearing masks were just one: Cro. :D
Wow i didn't notice how bad the music turned in the end. Mostly auto tune stuff and songs that sound almost the same. The early half was definately better and way more variety.
Yeah I agree. Even though I should be the targeted group. As a child at this time, I hare the fake voices and one sided textes
yeah this brings back memories back when I was in school and sat down at the tv to watch VIVA (wich was and noe is basically MTV since it shut down back in 2018) damn that where some good times
I'm from Germany, 17 years old and knew 47 of these songs
Tbh, i just pissed myself laughing because of unintentional situational humor.
You were just seeing Alligatoah "Willst du mit mir Drogen nehmen" (translates to "do you want to take drugs together?") and kept on talking how toxic music in the US became and how its not something kids should listen to... pure comedy gold xD
Anyway,
I like your content and i hope you keep doing this :)
Same here 😂
Im from Germany and when Im correct, a lot of these songs are legendary... Some songs are still playing on radio and discos/clubs. After this video I had to add some new songs to my spotify playlist xD
Please react to more German music!
Please dont
this was sooo interesting
Rosenstolz as 'the German Katy Perry' and 'losing the innocence of the early 2000s' and our music getting bit weird at times were actually such insightful observations - encapsulates German music quite well
but also should be noted that streaming has led to music being more representative of younger people these days whereas the early 2010s are more cross-generational radio music
I love how you stopped vibing once the rap songs became so frequent.
I don't listen to rap at all but I like Apache 207 a lot and it says something that you immediately wanted to look him up :D
Also thank you for bringing back nostalgia, I'm gonna listen to "Millionen Lichter" again rn.
Some songs I can recommend, very niche tho, not popular:
Von hier an blind - Wir sind Helden
Tanz der Moleküle - Mia. (HUGE recommendation, love her)
Gute Laune - RAR
Blond - Mia Morgen (Another huge recommendation)
Now some more obscure ones, I'm not sure you'd like:
Kreislauf - Tropical Ltd
Schlachtbank - Eisbrecher
The way everybody was shocked in unison when 2016 started playing, and everything just went downhill... 😱
In Germany its important to pay attention to the lyrics ( mostly) . most of the lyrics have a double meaning, or they are a very fine german description about the situation in this song, or they find word about relatet to actual or circumstances in the past from our enterprise
What the heck?
You might want to watch the entire song "257ers - Holland" - it is about Germans making fun of Dutch people 🙂 It has aged quite well. The one from your thumbnail picture
it is a love letter to the netherlands - the song was also really successful in the netherlands
You also might want to check out Deutschland (Roastveen), which is Dutch making fun of Germans in revenge (or they started it idk)
Yes please!
So you Germans also say Holland when referring to the Dutch?
@@powertechnical Offically it's Niederlande, but everybody understands Hollland as a synonym even though it's just a part of the Netherlands
Unfortunately these awesome songs are much too short to appreciate them. I know why this is needed, but it hurts a little bit.
Dude this was like growing up again lol. Like oh yeah 2011 11 years old no worries to 2019 19 years old struggling. And it are really some songs that hit so hard and trigger specific memories..insane
Is it crazy that I just began to cry because I realise that I am getting older? I mean I am.nearly an andukt and slowly the time comes where I think: oh man this is realy long ago and I dont want that. I want to stop everything and just enjoy the moment.
5:49 Andreas Gabalier is actually from Austria and calls himself the „Volks Rock’n’Roller“ (Folk Rock’n’Roller)
"Er, Volk, Reich" ?
Sehr peinlich, der Mensch! Österreich distanziert sich von ihm!
Apart from the fact that the music is getting worse and worse because of the autotune and also in terms of content (especially Pseudo Gangsta rap -Which is of course a matter of taste, because I like things like Mötley Crüe and not everyone likes that either ), the funniest thing is that after a song called "Will you do drugs with me", you say that there are so many songs in US music that are not so good for children 😂
6:35 I have the same impression. German music doesn't seem to be as toxic as music from the USA.
We have happy, funny, or sad songs. Some have a deeper message, and others don't. But I normally don't have the feeling they're toxic...
In general it is true - but the moment he said it was funny - right after a few songs about drugs.
Haha, yes, and right before he said it, they played "2 finger" and "willst du mit mir Drogen nehmen?"... worse than "Holland" 😂
But I think it's a cultural thing... as in Germany, we grew up from a more Liberal point of view (drugs and sex). Artists are "allowed" to act freely... In the USA, these themes seem more shocking and attract more attention. Artists aggressively include these themes in their music, I guess... 😅
More toxic than all those rap songs since 2016 is not possible, what are you talking lol
they're all homophobic, against women, against jews, against anybody except arabs
I mean one Song literally is called -do you want to Take drugs with me -
@juliaweippert4802 Well, Ryan said "less" toxic, in which I agree. 😅 even the list shows, that there are more love or happy songs than songs about drugs and sex/ big ashes and twitties..
It’s correct. The EARLY 2010´s was way less toxic then now. I love this part of our German popmusic but only until 2015, then it’s going down for me
Big trend vibes! 🌟 From 2016 onwards, you can really hear how music evolved. 2010's tunes vs 2020's - such a hearable change! 🎵🔊
ive watched many of ur videos now and i really hope u will visit us in germany one day ;) im sure u will enjoy the beers, food and stuff very much
13:39 Do us all a favor and react to any of the compilations of Henning May's voice. That guy has a voice that is beyond terrestrial
Seconded
Apart from the already mentioned, the charts also started to majorly change in 2016 because streaming was and is heavily manipulated by paid botfarms. The length of the songs also got shorter and shorter to increase the number of plays per account/ per hour. Many of these songs did not get to their chart organically.
Thank you for this video
I am german and this video just took me back to a better time
Found this video and it was so funny to watch as an german. Thx for this!!
He said: "..less toxic than american songs nowadays." after "Willst du mit mir Drogen nehmen?" 😅
Aber so toxic is der Song doch gar nicht ^^
10:12 No, not Mexico, the original: Spain ;-)
This gave me big BIG nostalgia, but most importantly it had me going "no WAY that song came out in [year]" all the time
Correction: That was the case until 2017, after that I hadn't even heard these songs before
Ich bin Spanierin und habe zwischen 2005 und 2014 in Deutschland gelebt, also habe ich meine Jugend komplett in Deutschland verbracht, einem Land, das ich von ganzem Herzen liebe. Viele der Lieder aus den frühen Jahren kenne ich auswendig, aber wenn ich mir dieses Video ansehe, macht es mich sehr traurig, die Entwicklung der deutschen Musik im letzten Jahrzehnt zu sehen. Trotzdem hat Deutschland immer noch wunderbare Künstler und Lieder, auch wenn sie nicht die Anerkennung bekommen, die sie verdienen.
6.51 Helene Fischer is huge in Germany. She was ranked 7th one year on Forbes richest list. Her market is only Germany, Austria. As an Australian I love her She is amazing. Check her out singing Hand In Hand live in Frankfurt. It will blow your mind. This woman is brilliant. Go down that rabbit hole. You will have a lot of fun exploring her music.
It's such a shame how the music has changed. Greetings from Germany
The trend went to more „hip hop/rap“ and everyone uses autotune. At the end they all sound the same.
I don't like German rap that much, so I got stuck somewhere in 2015 😂2:08 "Tim Bendzko - Wenn Worte meine Sprache wären" (if words were my language) is my absolute favorite German song and always will be ... really folks even if you don't understand German search for the lyrics and put them into a translator, it's so freaking beautiful ☺If I ever get married, this will be my song for the opening dance.
“Hip hop wie ich es kenne starb in neuen Millennium”
Same for me. After 2015 -2016 I got completely lost. Didn't know a single song anymore.
This shift from 2015 to 2016 ist stunning. Even as a german I don't know most of the songs from 2016 onwards
Wonderful. Many of them I had completely forgotten. Thanks for the reminder.❤❤❤DANKESCHÖN🍺🍺
Man german music went downhill after 2017 😅 Would love to see your reaction to your favorites from this video in a longer version with a transpation to English so you understand the lyrics. 😊
6:35 Ryan, I am fully with you. We are getting older (I'm getting 44 tomorrow) and I for my self can't listen to most of the newer music which came out the last 5 - 10 years. Either the music becomes more and more superficial or more aggressive. And it doesn't matter whether the music comes from the USA, Germany or somewhere else. But that's just my opinion.
Isso.
Alles Gute zum Geburtstag!
And I feel the same. Charts are not my kind of music but I always liked at least a few of the songs, because there were just well made (lyrics and music). I am two years younger than you, Chris.
I myself am 19 i absolutely despise the chart music after 2016. I myself would not willingly listen to that stuff. Asi-Rap is not for me. It just sounds terrible. Can't we go back to music from the early 2010s?
Yeah, for me it stopped with the early 2010s. There was the occasional earworm, but the mainstream music nowadays is just plain bad and/or boring. Still listening to 70's to 90's stuff plus independent artists. Music needs to be something that can be cherished as a form of art and harmony, not just some beats, badboys vibes and autotune.
The guy you looked up with the sunglasses was Apache actually. He is one of the few German artists and especially rapper I listen to. (Also met him once as he lived in my town)
Benzema is a french soccer player - as Neymar is a brazilian one , sung by the same rapper the year before. How ever, the first half war kinda good. The second was more worse than good. And of course, it remembers a lot on the US. The States pop culture has a mayor influence on german culture.
2013-2015 was such a vibe istg like most of those songs feel like they were popular while I was in like elementary school (I think it's what it's called? like from ages 6-10) even tho some came out when I was 4- these defenetely were still really fucking popular like 4-5 years later tho so that's why ig
The few that do repeat are among the legendary groups/artists like Toten Hosen, Die Ärzte, Ramstein, Seeed and Sido. Some newer are Cro and Sportfreunde Stiller.
2017 and after has a lot of trap or whatever it is called with a lot of 'Eintagsfliegen' (one-hit-wonders)
they often don't show the best part of the song because they only show it shortly, and they're already a bit older, there's uncountably many
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And I always thought it was just subjective to me, that the mainstream music here in germany got really bad since 2016 and somehow felt happier before, but looks like the "amping autotune all the way up while mumbling uninspiring stuff about making money and taking drugs with the lowest voice possible and packing 50 voice filters on top" stuff really got popular then...
I dont know, I guess I'm just getting old but its just not for me, I cant listen to that without feeling like I'm losing IQ.
I mean, rappers like Sido, Bushido, Kollega etc always existed and do still exist but they at least have some lyrical finesse to them?
Deutschrap has been a genre as the 90s but at least in the past we seemed to have some good artist in the charts. Fettes Brot, Fanta4, Abolute Beginner, Sabrina Setlur (to throw a woman into the mix). Even Rappers like Sido, Bushido or Kool Savage who went more into the edgy/gangster side had some intelligent stuff every now and then, even for a person who isn´t into Rap like myself.
Place 1 from 2012 is An Tagen wie diesen from „Die Toten Hosen“ they make great Musik the genre is punk, sometimes critical about the politics in Germany and about things that don’t work great in the world in general
„Apache 207, let me look him up… thats not him….“ im not sure if the guy on the bike is him but after that clip the one in the front is apache 207:)
All of these songs were completely in German. They sometimes sound funny because they are sung in a German dialect or slang that is influenced by Arabic, Turkish, and Eastern European languages. The words are German, but they are sung as if they were from a song in those languages. I'm not a big fan of this style in general, but there are some really great songs that come out of it. And those are the ones that are on this list.
The title of that video was actually a little bit misleading. Those actually were the top 10 songs of that year in Germany IN GERMAN LANGUAGE. The only song of 2010 which was actually in the overall top 10 most sold songs was Unheilig's "Geboren um zu leben" at no. 4. Ranks 1 to 3 were
Israel Kamakawiwo'ole with Over the Rainbow, Shakira with Waka Waka and German singer Lena Meyer-Landrut with her English song Satellite.
So crazy, I´m from germany, listen to radio every morning - but knowing not a single from those rap songs who are representing the years 2016 to 2019 here xD Like your reaction ^_^
I would appreciate it if you would take a look at the titles with the lyrics. Some of them are very deep. With some you need the context to recognize this. (Loss of friends, etc.) But the melody sometimes doesn't reflect that. That can be confusing. "Geboren um zu leben" by Unheilig, for example, can be seen as a hymn to life, or as a swan song for a friend.
Lea is such agorgeous singer!
Astronaut is also a great song that fits all time but it feel like it fits nowadays more then it did back then
got nostalgia right of the start
As a german i neverr realized our music was that good
At least till 2016 most of the music was enjoyable
@@Souru_TVyep, from then on it just went downwards
You gotta react to some of the full songs. Would love to see that :)
I'm having so much nostalgia right now 🥲 thank you ❤
I like how he exactly found the year when there was a huge immigrant influx to germany.
It's always interesting for me how different are the charts from Germany and Switzerland. I live in the German-speaking part from Switzerland but I have never heard many of this songs in this video until now.
Really? What´s charting in Switzerland?
@@paha4209 We have also many songs from Germany, but also many own songs from Switzerland. And of course from somewhere else in the world. I was more surprised why I don't know 99% of this songs, because Germany and Switzerland are in many things very similar.
Wir hatten bis vor kurzem über Satellit immer die Sender von RTL etc aus Österreich. Also mit der Werbung und nicht die deutschen. in Österreich ist Werbung so viel witziger 😂 @@chnoxis
@@chnoxisNa ja ich glaube der Video Titel ist bisschen missverständlich. Würde es wirklich um die Charts gehen, was in dem jeweiligen Jahr am beliebtesten war, dann wird das in Ö, D, CH ziemlich ähnlich sein.
In dem Video was er angeschaut hat ging es ja um die "erfolgreichsten" oder "besten" deutschsprachigen Songs/Künstler in dem jeweiligen Jahr. Da hast dann natürlich bspw Beatrice Egli und Andreas Gabalier auch dabei, weils halt im deutschsprachigen Raum überall erfolgreich sind, aber diejenigen, die es nicht über die Staatsgrenze schaffen nicht und genauso wenig die internationalen Hits hast da auch nicht drin.
Also lange Rede kurzer Sinn, prozentuell wirds denke ich in allen 3 Ländern einen ähnlich großen Markt für Schlager, Pop, Deutsch Rap, volkstümliche Musik, etc pp geben. 🤷♂️
@@somebdy46Lump23 Ja so wird es wohl sein. Trotzdem verwundert es mich. Eigentlich würde man ja annehmen, dass wenn man ein Bravo-Hits-Album hört, dass man das meiste davon kennt, dass die schweizerischen (Mundart)bands eher nur ein Zusatz sind. Trotzdem hört man da viele Titel auf den CDs, die es in der Schweiz nie in ein Radiosender wie SRF 3 oder ähnliches schafften. Zumindest war es in den 90er-Jahren noch so. Ich hörte schon lange keine dieser CDs mehr.
This video made me realize why I have stopped listening to the radio since around 2017/2018 😂 I still like some of the songs from that whole "trap/autotune" trend but overall I fell like everything pretty much sounds the same and you can tell really well by this video 🙈
Try something better like old ATB songs. You won't regret it. ; -)
It's crazy how downhill the charts went since 2016 - since then the charts are heavily manipulated and cheated by those shisha rappers
It was apache 207! Little fun fact he has perform a Song on a Post Malone Concert in Germany, because they Play beer Pong behind the stage
I miss that time so much man. These songs give me so much nostalgia. I was a kid in the 10's, running around in brazil and german tricots after the WM 2014, playing football and building secret hideouts. We didn't have phones, just school and playtime. These were honestly the best times and the music was amazing...
Fr, Ich vermisse diese Zeit so 🥹
For me the late 00s with peter fox were missing and I missed Annenmaykantereit and K.I.Z (the last may be controversial), in my opinion german pop is a little bit boring, (Böhmermann made a TV-Show on that topical) and on the other hand the relatively unpolitical rap where the rappers want to show how great they are but dont actually adress a meaning in the song is in my eyes weird, even when their songs might listen nice, some also have too much auto tune. I also missed the song holz by 257ers and the newest changes, where the new artists mix their songs with older artists like friesenjung (Otto Waalkes with Ski Aggu) and Komet (Apache 207 and Udo Lindenberg).
Why is K.I.Z controversial?
@@Kez_y Because some people dont understand their music.
when it#s german song time i have to mention Wise Guys. whats better than german humor, german humor in song form as acapella. Deutsche Bahn or Stolz are great, so i can't say how much of that is actually understanding what they say and how much is that it's just good music
Apache 207 currently has a very successful song in the charts (might just have dropped out, I'm too lazy to check). It's a collaboration with Udo Lindenberg, a German singer who's been around since what feels like forever. He's quite a special type, too.
Here's the current song: ua-cam.com/video/0nYDnTTJgFI/v-deo.html
And here's a clip from an MTV unplugged with Udo Lindenberg. ua-cam.com/video/NxquuedkKaM/v-deo.html
Sido has been on top for a long time he made German rap big pretty much. There were others involved too but he was the main guy. I saw him live the first time all the way back in 2004 and he's still making good music today.
Beatrice Egli is a swiss singer, not German. But she won a German Casting-Show. I'm not into Schlager but "Mein Herz" is a realy good song.