The Media Control charts are record charts compiled by Media Control on behalf of the German record industry. They include the "Single Top 100" and the "Album Top 100" chart. The chart week runs from Friday to Thursday, and the chart compilations are published on Tuesday for the record industry. The entire top 100 singles and top 100 albums are officially released the following Friday by Media Control. The charts are based on sales of physical singles and albums from retail outlets as well as permanent music downloads. Robbie Williams is the only artist who has had three different number albums in a year in Germany—Reality Killed the Video Star hit the top of the charts in January, his greatest hits album In and Out of Consciousness: The Greatest Hits 1990–2010 hit number 1 in October, and Progress, on which he sang as a member of Take That, hit number 1 in December.
| Indicates best-performing single and album of 2010[1] [2] |
| 1 January | "I Will Love You Monday (365)" | [3] | Reality Killed the Video Star | [4] | |||
| 8 January | "I Like" | [5] | The Fame/The Fame Monster | [6] | |||
| 15 January | "Bad Romance" | [7] | [8] | ||||
| 22 January | "I Like" | Keri Hilson | [9] | [10] | |||
| 29 January | "Tik Tok" | [11] | [12] | ||||
| 5 February | [13] | Schall & Wahn | [14] | ||||
| 12 February | [15] | Tattoos | [16] | ||||
| 19 February | [17] | [18] | |||||
| 26 February | [19] | [20] | |||||
| 5 March | [21] | bgcolor=#FFFF99 rowspan="3" | Große Freiheit | [22] | |||
| 12 March | "Alors on danse" | [23] | [24] | ||||
| 19 March | [25] | [26] | |||||
| 26 March | "Satellite" | [27] | A Curious Thing | [28] | |||
| 2 April | [29] | [30] | |||||
| 9 April | [31] | [32] | |||||
| 16 April | [33] | Große Freiheit | Unheilig | [34] | |||
| 23 April | [35] | Diversity | [36] | ||||
| 30 April | "Don't Believe" | [37] | Iron Man 2 (Soundtrack) | [38] | |||
| 7 May | [39] | bgcolor=#FFFF99 rowspan="2" | Große Freiheit | Unheilig | [40] | ||
| 14 May | [41] | [42] | |||||
| 21 May | [43] | My Cassette Player | [44] | ||||
| 28 May | "Wavin' Flag" | [45] | Für dich immer noch Fanta Sie | [46] | |||
| 4 June | [47] | My Cassette Player | Lena | [48] | |||
| 11 June | "Satellite" | Lena | [49] | [50] | |||
| 18 June | "Wavin' Flag" | K'naan | [51] | [52] | |||
| 25 June | "Waka Waka (This Time for Africa)" | [53] | bgcolor=#FFFF99 rowspan="9" | Große Freiheit | Unheilig | [54] | |
| 2 July | [55] | [56] | |||||
| 9 July | [57] | [58] | |||||
| 16 July | [59] | [60] | |||||
| 23 July | [61] | [62] | |||||
| 30 July | [63] | [64] | |||||
| 6 August | "We No Speak Americano" | [65] | [66] | ||||
| 13 August | [67] | [68] | |||||
| 20 August | [69] | [70] | |||||
| 27 August | [71] | The Final Frontier | [72] | ||||
| 3 September | [73] | bgcolor=#FFFF99 rowspan="1" | Große Freiheit | Unheilig | [74] | ||
| 10 September | [75] | Bring mich nach Hause | [76] | ||||
| 17 September | [77] | bgcolor=#FFFF99 rowspan="1" | Große Freiheit | Unheilig | [78] | ||
| 24 September | "Love the Way You Lie" | [79] | A Thousand Suns | [80] | |||
| 1 October | [81] | [82] | |||||
| 8 October | bgcolor=#FFFF99 rowspan="9" | "Somewhere Over the Rainbow/What a Wonderful World" | [83] | Rock Symphonies | [84] | ||
| 15 October | [85] | Hard Knocks | [86] | ||||
| 22 October | [87] | [88] | |||||
| 29 October | [89] | Come Around Sundown | [90] | ||||
| 5 November | [91] | Schwerelos | [92] | ||||
| 12 November | [93] | [94] | |||||
| 19 November | [95] | [96] | |||||
| 26 November | [97] | The Promise | [98] | ||||
| 3 December | [99] | Progress | [100] | ||||
| 10 December | "We Are the People" | [101] | bgcolor=#FFFF99 rowspan="2" | Große Freiheit | Unheilig | [102] | |
| 17 December | bgcolor=#FFFF99 rowspan="3" | "Somewhere Over the Rainbow/What a Wonderful World" | Israel "IZ" Kamakawiwoʻole | [103] | [104] | ||
| 24 December | [105] | Michael | [106] | ||||
| 31 December | [107] | Große Freiheit | Unheilig | [108] | |||