The Rolling Stones are back! Devoted music fans probably already expected that their new album Foreign Tongues would climb to the top of the Official German Charts, determined by GfK Entertainment. However, the iconic rockers also deliver a surprise with the record and set several records at once.

According to a press release, Foreign Tongues is not only the British band's twelfth number-one album. The Stones also achieve the most successful start for an international act in more than a year and a half. They also secure a particularly extraordinary record. The Rolling Stones No. 2 was the band's first album to reach the throne in Germany about 61 years ago. Never before has the time span between two number-one albums been this great.

Frontman Mick Jagger (82), guitarist Ronnie Wood (79) and the other band members can also be pleased that they are the group with the most top 10 placements - currently 218 in total. In addition, no international act has produced more chart albums, namely 86, to date. Only German composer and bandleader James Last (1929-2015) managed to place more albums in the top 100.

The remaining placements

There's also a lot of movement in the album charts besides Foreign Tongues as the highest new entry. A newly recorded version of the record Count Your Blessings (Repented) by Bring Me The Horizon freshly takes the number two spot, Schillah ranks at number three with Jasmin and BTS climb to number four with Arirang. The top five is completed by the soundtrack to the successful series Heated Rivalry.

In the singles charts, Shakira and Burna Boy continue to lead with the official World Cup song Dai Dai. Killy Manjaro by Summer Cem and Billa Joe climbs to number two, the viral hit Gut genug by Kitschkrieg, Blumengarten and Shirin David slips to number three. Self Aware by Temper City remains at number four. Movin' To The Sun by Hugel, Imael Angel and Ultra Naté can rise significantly - from position 19 to number five. Total Eclipse Of The Heart by the recently deceased Bonnie Tyler (1951-2026) re-enters the charts at number 18.