Drake Takes Germany While the Pope Warns Against AI and Gaga Splits in Two

Drake holds the top position with *Habibti*, a 2026 release pulling 18,000 listeners. Linkin Park follows at number two with *From Zero*, proof that certain bands never quite leave the rotation. Rihanna contributes a Smurfs soundtrack cut at three. This is where we are.

The chart skews heavily American. Posthumous Michael Jackson, Tame Impala, The Weeknd, Justin Bieber. Lady Gaga appears twice—both the studio *MAYHEM* and its live counterpart occupy slots eight and nine. A strange doubling. Germany apparently wants the same album performed in two contexts.

Drake claims another spot at ten with *For All the Dogs* from 2023. Three years old, still present. Kendrick Lamar sits at twelve with *GNX*. Taylor Swift's *The Life of a Showgirl* barely cracks the top fifteen. PinkPantheress and Billie Eilish make expected appearances.

Radiohead's *KID A MNESIA* at seventeen stands out. A 2021 reissue of material two decades older, nestled between David Guetta and Travis Scott. That kind of displacement signals something about Germany's listening patterns—either nostalgia for experimental guitar-based music or simply good taste accidentally surfacing.

What's missing: German artists. Local language releases. Anything remotely continental. Even as Pope Leo warns of "new digital slaveries" in his latest encyclical, Germany streams English-language pop without pause. The chart could belong to any anglophone market. David Guetta at eighteen is the closest this gets to European dance heritage, and even that feels imported.

Katy Perry's *143* closes the list at twenty. Everything here feels familiar. Nothing disrupts.