“Go to the gym, get skinny” – with these lines, rapper Shirin David has been at the top of the charts for weeks. Now a special title has been added. But that’s not all the records.
When it comes to number one hits, rapper Shirin David knows a lot about it – no solo singer has ever had more songs reach number one than her. But that’s not all, because now the 29-year-old can also 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.
However, apart from the 2024 summer hit, rapper David can still achieve much more success.
One record after another for Shirin David
According to Gfk Entertainment, the 29-year-old 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.
Criteria for the summer hit fulfilled
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 puts you in a good mood and a rhythm that invites you to dance”. But the viral effect also plays a big role in turning a summer song into a summer hit, it was further reported. According to the report, countless fans, as well as acts such as the band Culcha Candela, have imitated the choreography of the song on Tiktok and thus helped the title to become even more well-known, it was further reported.
Source: Stern
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