“Wackel contact” or “Bella Napoli”-which song will the Oktoberfest hit 2025 be?
The Oktoberfest 2025 in Munich is in full swing, and the question of this year’s Oktoberfest hit seems to be condensed on two songs: “Wackelkontakt” by Oimara and “Bella Napoli” by Roy Bianco & The Abbrunzati Boys. Both titles are currently often played in the marquee.
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The Italo-Schlager-Band Roy Bianco & Die Abbrunzati Boys from Augsburg and Munich published “Bella Napoli” as early as 2022. The song is about the city of Naples and contains lines like “One thing exactly, my city is in the blue, dreams with me, because my heart beats Azzurro, in Bella, Bella Napoli”.
Oimara, bourgeois Beni Hafner, released “Wackelkontakt” in 2024 from Lake Tegernsee. At the beginning of 2025, the song already reached the top of the official German single-half-year charts from GfK Entertainment via a “lamp from the 70s” and kept in first place for seven weeks. Lines such as “I like to glow, I like to go out, I hit the fuses naus” are very popular with visitors: inside the Oktoberfest.
In an interview with the “Playboy”, Oimara said that it was his “secretly little dream” to land a Oktoberfest hit. He emphasized that most Oktoberfest hits are songs that do not act directly from the Oktoberfest or alcohol.
GEMA list gives an insight into the marquee favourites
Since 2017, GEMA has been releasing lists of the most played songs from the Oktoberfest tents. This means that the Oktoberfest hit can be used by numbers. In 2024, “Brenna Tuats Guad” by Hubert von Goisern made it into first place, followed by classics such as “Sweet Caroline”, “Fürstenfeld” and “Sarà Perché Ti Amo”. Incidentally, the fact that current songs are mixing the playlists is rather unusual at the Oktoberfest. Here you prefer to rely on proven chunkwood.
Kapellmeister and mood analysis
Kapellmeister Mathias Achatz from the Ochsenbateren is watching the competition: “It is slowly emerging where the direction goes,” he told the magazine “Focus”. Alois Altmann, Kapellmeister in the Hofbräu festival tent, also sees both songs as favorites, but limits that there is no clear hit.
It is also surprising that older classics from the 1980s like “Gimme! Gimme!”, “Star Home” or “99 Balloons” are very well received by visitors. English classics such as “Sweet Caroline” and “Don’t Stop Believing” remain undisputed crowd favorites.