The world's fourth largest music market with sales of over €1.6 billion ($1.9 billion) last year is celebrating the 40th anniversary of the official German charts, which launched on Aug. 29, 1977. By ...

The official German Top 100 singles and album charts are now being published one week earlier than before under the title "Official German Charts." By Wolfgang Spahr The official German Top 100 ...

Due to modest streaming gains and an almost 6% year-over-year (YoY) physical slip, the German market experienced a recorded music sales slowdown during 2025. Those and other details come from BVMI’s ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. German music producer Jack White, is pictured in his apartment in Berlin-Charlottenburg with numerous golden records hanging on ...

Last year, despite the growth of music streaming in the country, German’s music industry remained stagnant – at best. German music association Bundesverband Musikindustrie (BVMI) revealed that the ...

What was it like to be a court composer in 17th-century Europe? Certainly, it was a cushy, prestigious gig compared to most jobs of that time. Music was one of the main ways that rich nobles ...

Eager to liberate themselves from the legacy of World War II and the looming presence of East Germany, young musicians in several West German cities in the late 1960s and ’70s created a new form of ...