Artist · chart history
Blue System
Band Hamburg Germany Active 1987–1997 German pop group founded by Dieter Bohlen
Blue System formed in 1987 in Hamburg, Germany and was active until 1997. Blue System has 2 chart appearances on 2 radio countdowns from 1 station on RockLists, spanning 1988. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Sorry Little Sarah”, which appears on 2 lists with a best position of #59. The station that charted Blue System most often is Live 105 (San Francisco, CA), with 2 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 1988.
Blue System was what Dieter Bohlen did next. With Modern Talking broken up, he launched the project in Hamburg in 1987 and ran it top to bottom: composer, writer, producer, arranger, mixer and the voice on the verses. For the choruses he leaned on hired hand Rolf Köhler, with Michael Scholz and Detlef Wiedeke on backing vocals and a rotating cast of women's voices, among them Tuti Kanta and Marion Schwaiger.
The debut, Walking on a Rainbow, came out on Hansa Records that same year and carried "Sorry Little Sarah", which, like the later "My Bed Is Too Big", found a modest following around Europe. It's pure Eurodisco engineering, gleaming keyboards and a programmed pulse, pitched somewhere between post-disco and the Eurodance still to come.
On stage, the faces kept changing. Joachim Vogel played rhythm guitar, Frank Otto and Jeanne Dupuy handled drums and Nadja Abd el Farrag sang, and over the years Michel Rollin, Achim Strieben, Dirk Sauer and Wolfgang Fritsch cycled through, with Friedrich Graner, known as Sir Fritz, standing in for Strieben on TV and in videos and staying to the end. Blue System turned out 22 video clips from its catalog along the way.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Blue System on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sorry Little Sarah | 2 | #59 | – | 1988 |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
Every countdown appearance
| Year | # | Song | Countdown |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1988 | 59 | Sorry Little Sarah | Live 105 Top 105.3 Songs of 1988 |
| 1988 | 404 | Sorry Little Sarah | Live 105 Top 500 Songs of All-Time (Memorial Day 1988) |
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