Germany News News Germany » Music: Jewish music in Germany after the Holocaust
Oxford University Press, 2021, 644 pp. Immediately after World War II, the German rabbi Leo Baeck, who had survived the war in the concentration camp Terezin, declared: “The history of German Jews has ...
News Germany » Music: Inside the Changes in Germany’s Music Charts
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 ...
News Germany » Music: Germany’s Music Charts Turn 40: Facts and Milestones in the 4th Biggest Music Market
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 ...
News Germany » Music: Streaming Now Accounts for 66% of Germany’s Total Recorded Music Revenue
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 ...
News Germany » Music: German Music Market Experiences 2025 Growth Slowdown As Streaming Gains Fail to Offset Another Physical Decline
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 ...
News Germany » Music: The artisan culture rooted in Germany. Bread, flowers, shoes, and music
Yesterday, when I went to a festival, I became interested in the German bread at one of the stalls. That reminded me of a German florist I had seen on TV before.In Germany, there are artisans with ...
News Germany » Music: Jazz in Nazi Germany: The Music That Wouldn’t Die
This article was originally published on Moment Magazine. Music, at its core, is freedom. It cannot be caged by ideology or controlled by propaganda. The Nazis understood that, which is why they tried ...
News Germany » Music: Germany may be birthplace of European music and art
The remains of the world's oldest musical instruments and human figurines suggest that music and artistic depictions of the human form may have first developed in Germany around 40,000 years ago, say ...
News Germany » Music: German Court Declares Techno Is Music, Nightclubs To Receive Ticket VAT Cuts
Germany‘s federal fiscal court BFH has declared that techno is music, and as a result, has announced that the country’s nightclubs will receive a tax cut on its ticket fees. As the world continues its ...