2024-08-30 02:06:02
Rapper Shirin David has been at the top of the charts for weeks. Now she has received a special award. But that’s not all of her records.
“Go to the gym, get skinny”: With lines like these, Shirin David sparked discussions about a questionable body cult – and stormed the German charts at the same time. The rapper knows a lot about number one hits – no solo singer has had more songs reach number one than her.
Now there is another trump card: The 29-year-old can claim the summer hit of 2024, as GfK Entertainment, the investigator of the Official German Charts in Baden-Baden, announced. According to the report, the song “Bauch Beine Po” has been leading the singles charts for four weeks.
After “Mädchen auf dem Pferd” (Luca-Dante Spadafora, Niklas Dee, Octavian) and “Layla” (DJ Robin & Schürze), it is already the third German-language summer hit in a row.
For Shirin David, the summer hit success is not everything: According to GfK Entertainment, the 29-year-old has achieved the first German-language summer hit by a female act with the track “Bauch Beine Po”, which was released at the end of July. The song landed straight at the top of the charts and gave Shirin David her seventh number one hit – and that means another record, because according to GfK, no other female solo act has achieved that before her.
But the rapper is not only at the top of the charts in Germany: In Austria (Austria Top 40) “Bauch Beine Po” also landed at the top; it also reached third place in Switzerland (Official Swiss Hit Parade). In total, the song has been streamed over 30 million times in all three countries.
It’s no wonder that the track is so successful, because according to GfK, the “most important criteria that make a real summer hit” are contained in “Bauch Beine Po”, such as “a text that you can easily sing along to, a catchy melody that spreads good cheer, and a rhythm that invites you to dance”.
The viral effect also plays a big role when a summer song is to become a summer hit, as was further reported. According to the report, countless fans, as well as acts such as the band Culcha Candela, imitated the song’s choreography on TikTok and thus helped the title to become even more well-known, it was further reported. Not to forget: the discussion about the message of the song. Negative headlines and criticism increase attention – DJ Robin & Schürze were also able to sing a song about this in 2022 with “Layla”.