Overview
- GfK Entertainment's year-end list names Taylor Swift's The Life of a Showgirl the No. 1 album, with more than 225,000 sales in Germany and nearly 950 million streams in 2025.
- Oimara's Wackelkontakt amassed over 180 million streams, spent seven weeks at No. 1, and edged ROSÉ & Bruno Mars' APT and Zartmann's Tau mich auf in a tight finish.
- Linkin Park's From Zero placed second and Netflix's KPop Demon Hunters soundtrack third, with Kontra K's Augen träumen Herzen sehen the top German-language album at No. 5.
- The official charts, compiled by GfK for the music industry association, draw on data from about 2,600 retailers and platforms covering roughly 90% of sales.
- A rule introduced in August caps single-chart counts at the eight most successful tracks per album, as pop leads genre placements and women hold 35 spots in the Top 100 albums.