German Singles Charts 1982 (All songs) 

Vielfalt ja, nur die neue Deutsche Welle ist nicht am Platz und macht den ganzen Chart kaputt und billig. Schön, dass bereits 1983 ausgestorben war.

Sicherlich. Vielen Dank,Francis,sehr interessant! 👍

Least they were still hit s and not flops!

thing is: up until mtv and private radios changed it, german (and.a lot of european) charts were very much a mirror of what national tv and radio gave you - and that was what your parents could stomach. anything even remotely rock oriented had a tough standing, hence a track like eye of the tiger was actually too heavy for mainstream germany at the time. this explains also why a lot of rock oriented us chart acts from that period (eddie money, pat benatar, the cars) couldn't land a hit in the german charts of 81 or 82. quite astonishing given today's landscape.

@@defendersofthefaith1984 Interesting, before MTV washed european brains, but germany had so many great pop artist in the 80's.

It does for me,too. We must have heard a few German hits when we (me,my mother and my sister) saw in 1982 staying as guests of my aunt,uncle and two cousins in a village in Germany over Christmas and New Year in the school/college holidays. I was 17. They had a lovely big house with a large,long living room,the size of two decently proportioned rooms stuck together,that had a large balcony looking straight onto the river Rhein. It was accessed via a pair of sliding glass doors,and a panel of floor-to-ceiling glass on either side. We could watch the boats and small ships,leisure ones and cargo ones,passing up and down the river from there,and in the summer weather we could relax on there with music playing. They had two big dogs,a shaggy black Newfoundland called Amour and an Irish Wolfhound called Tanya who occasionally liked to jump straight onto your lap when you were sitting in one of the armchairs - oof! The dogs even had their own small room,with dog baskets and soft,comfortable "beds" to sit/lie on,and their own area in the garden,too. They also had two cats with viciously sharp claws called Ginny and Tango and a goldish,whose name was Bart(h?)ol (not Wanda),who lived in what might have been an old baby/child's bath in the cellar (it always had some light,whether natural or artificial,and heating if needed) for some reason. There was a sauna and shower down there,as well as 60-feet deep well down there as well which they discovered bricked up in a hitherto hidden extra room. The cats had their own access from outside into the cellar,from which they could pad their way up a couple of feline-sized walkways to a cat flap into the house. There was a thick snowfall from early December (like in the UK) that winter,and thick snow on the ground for most of our stay over. Around the end of our stay before returning to Engalnd,much of the snow thawed and the cellar was entirely flooded right to the top,so that the water was lapping at the top of the stairs behind the door into the house! Barthol was evacuated into the house. That area around the Rhein has always been notorious for floods,and there are Hochwassermarken (high water marks) on many of the buildings around there,as there are in Cologne. When we went into Bonn,or especially Colgne,on the train I used to spend some time at the record shops or record department in department stores when I had the chance,so I got to see the German chart and what was in it and bought a few singles,tapes and albums. I was more into my rock and New Wave but my cousins loved going to discos and their disco music. We wore our non-baggy blue jeans most of the time. Most of us,including two of my aunts,had a good shake of our asses on the disco floor to everything from disco hits to things like Fade to Grey by Visage. There was a rough grass field,with an electricity pylon and a couple of horses in it,between us and the immediate neighbours,a couple who had a teenage son or two,as well as a big black Great Dane-like Deutsche Dogge called Delo. Amour was so jealous of Delo and protective of Tanya that they had to keep him out in the hall when the neighbours were over one evening because he would become too difficult to handle,and found that he'd chewed one of his plastic food/water bowls into several pieces in frustration,poor chap. The neighbours invited us all over for a big Christmas dinner,with a friend or two of the sons also there. The father of the family had an audio tape system connected to their stereo,with a miscellany of many dozen,more like one or two hundred plus it seemed,songs recorded on it - rock,New Wave,disco - pretty much all popular mid-/late 70s or early 80s music,and the selection was a pretty good one. This wasn't your ordinary cassette system but much wider,high quality tape - I cannot remember if it was a reel-to-reel like my Dad had but it was clearly a far bigger,more expensive state-of-the-art system. He put that on as the soundtrack to our festive dinner and the disco that followed. The toilet had a traffic light wired to it,almost like an actual one you'd see on the road,that would turn red if the loo was occupied and green if it was vacant. Foolhardily,I mixed a highly inadvisable amount of different drinks at that Christmas dinner. That caught up with me later,after the partying was over,and boy did I feel rough the next day.

Along with all the British and US records,I used to hear Der Komissar on the radio a lot then,though sometimes it was the cover version by After the Fire. Eurovision winner Ein Bisschen Frieden was a number 1 over here in the UK,albeit with translated lyrics and Da Da Da got to number 2 a little later the same summer. Oh Julie,Ebony and Ivory,Eye of the Tiger and Do You Really Want to Hurt Me? (in that order) were all number 1s here,while Just an Illusion and Abracadabra reached number 2 - as did Words,but not until April 1983!

DAF were gaining a lot of acclaim and interest in the UK,and some airplay on night-time radio,by 1982. X-Mal Deutschland were being played by John Peel on his show by about then.

You're welcome. Falco is on 3:15

Thanks for your comment ! My source : www.offiziellecharts.de/

@@francispelletier3647 Ah, ok...that makes sense. But to get all entries of one year, you have to go through all 52 weeks individually? 😳

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@@ToyTiger666 Exactly!

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