GERMAN ALBUM CHARTS 1962-2012 | statistics and weekly Top 10

[LeppDaddy]

Do you have a list of the artists who spent the most weeks on the German album chart in general (not only top 10) ?

No sorry, I don't have. All I know is that James Last holds the record for most albums and weeks on the German Album Charts - by far!
You may find an answer at the chartsurfer.de website.

However, I don't know if he used the combined or the "normal" album chart for his calculations.

Well, it doesn't matter if he used the regular artist or the combined chart. Only the chart positions differ, not the number of weeks an artist/album spent on the chart.
But MJ Dangerous may come up with a different number of chart weeks for an album/artist since I strictly filled gaps with a "frozen chart week" (to have an album chart for every week of the past 50 years).
Hope that helps

[Benny]

Thanks for your answer LeppDaddy!

Well, it doesn't matter if he used the regular artist or the combined chart. Only the chart positions differ, not the number of weeks an artist/album spent on the chart.

Why that? If an album is for example at number 90 on the regular artist chart and there are eleven compilations that are selling more in that week then this album would be at number 101 on the combined chart. So in that week the album would be on the regular album top 100 but not on the combined album top 100.
So some albums should have a higher number of weeks on the regular artist album chart than on the combined album chart...

[ChartFreaky]

The topic of the month!
Thank you so much for this great work.

[Indi]

Thanks for your answer LeppDaddy!

Well, it doesn't matter if he used the regular artist or the combined chart. Only the chart positions differ, not the number of weeks an artist/album spent on the chart.

Why that? If an album is for example at number 90 on the regular artist chart and there are eleven compilations that are selling more in that week then this album would be at number 101 on the combined chart. So in that week the album would be on the regular album top 100 but not on the combined album top 100.
So some albums should have a higher number of weeks on the regular artist album chart than on the combined album chart...

U are right! I have the combined charts too. But I only have the data on excel. In a database I have them in 2013

[Indi]

Do you have a list of the artists who spent the most weeks on the German album chart in general (not only top 10) ?

MJ Dangerous compiled such a list a few years ago and these were the top 10 artists (until the end of September 2009):

1) James Last 2093 weeks
2) Beatles 1300 weeks
3) Abba 1030 weeks
4) Queen 992 weeks
5) Peter Alexander 964 weeks
6) Peter Maffay 955 weeks
7) Rolling Stones 928 weeks
8) Pink Floyd 920 weeks
9) Udo Jürgens 900 weeks
10) Herbert Grönemeyer 781 weeks

However, I don't know if he used the combined or the "normal" album chart for his calculations.

It's so great that we now have an archive of the weekly top 10s from all those years

For Herbert Grönemeyer I have count 812 weeks but there aren't the missing charts from the first or last week in it.

[Benny]

For Herbert Grönemeyer I have count 812 weeks but there aren't the missing charts from the first or last week in it.

It's quite difficult to find the information. For Grönemeyer, musicline.de offers an album chart summary but only from 1992 onwards. His Wikipedia discography shows the total weeks of his albums but as we all know Wiki isn't always correct (for "Bochum" they show a total of only 33 weeks, but when you click on it and read the article about the album it says 79 weeks in the text).