"the song debuted at number one on the UK Singles Chart, becoming Bob the Builder's second number-one single there after ""Can We Fix It?"". The song experienced major success in Australia and Ireland. In the former country, the song debuted at number three on the ARIA Singles Chart on 4 November 2001 and reached number two on 18 November, held off the top spot by Alien Ant Farm's cover of ""Smooth Criminal"". After staying at number two for another week, the song began to leave the chart, spending nine more weeks in the top 50. In Ireland, the song first"
"Mambo No. 5 ""Mambo No. 5"" is a mambo and jazz dance song originally recorded and composed by Cuban musician Dámaso Pérez Prado in 1949. The song's popularity was renewed by German artist Lou Bega's sampling of the last 30 seconds of the original, released under the same name on Bega's 1999 debut album ""A Little Bit of Mambo"". Lou Bega's cover was a hit in the United Kingdom and in Australia, where it reached number-one in 1999. It stayed at number-one in Australia for eight weeks, ultimately becoming the best-selling single of 1999. It also topped almost every chart"
"appeared on the Irish Singles Chart at number 13 on 13 September and peaked at number four the following week, staying there for three weeks in total. It remained in the top 50 for the next 10 weeks. At the end of the year, the song came in at numbers 17 and 26 on the UK's and Australia's year-end charts, respectively. Mambo No. 5 ""Mambo No. 5"" is a mambo and jazz dance song originally recorded and composed by Cuban musician Dámaso Pérez Prado in 1949. The song's popularity was renewed by German artist Lou Bega's sampling of the last"
"began recording US releases for RCA Victor. Pérez is the composer of such famous pieces as ""Mambo No. 5"" (later a UK chart-topper for both Lou Bega in 1999 and animated character Bob the Builder in 2001) and ""Mambo No. 8"". At the height of the mambo movement in 1955, Pérez hit the American charts at number one with a cha-cha-chá version of ""Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White"" (composed by French composer Louiguy). This arrangement, featuring trumpeter Billy Regis, held the spot for 10 consecutive weeks, sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc. The song"
"included, was number one in the UK Charts. Mambo! (Helena Paparizou song) ""Mambo!"" was Helena Paparizou's fifth CD single and the first from her international album ""The Game of Love"". There were two versions of the song; a Greek version and an English version. The Greek version was released in November 2005 in Greece and was a major hit going straight to number one for ten weeks including during Christmas. In total, the song charted for 23 weeks, leaving Helena with her most successful CD single to date. The single was released as a CD single and Sony BMG also"
"Hits 51 Hits 51 is a compilation album released in the UK in December 2001. It contains 50 tracks over two CDs, including two number one singles on the UK Singles Chart from Westlife and Bob The Builder. Bob The Builder's Mambo No. 5 appeared on Hits 50 as well in its original version by Lou Bega, and De Nada's Bring it On to My Love would later appear again on Hits 52 Like ""Hits 50"", a lot of the songs were edited to fit 25 tracks on one CD, but this would be the last numbered Hits album to"
"do so. Thus, the subtitle ""50 Tracks - 50 Hits!"" was last used on this album Hits 51 Hits 51 is a compilation album released in the UK in December 2001. It contains 50 tracks over two CDs, including two number one singles on the UK Singles Chart from Westlife and Bob The Builder. Bob The Builder's Mambo No. 5 appeared on Hits 50 as well in its original version by Lou Bega, and De Nada's Bring it On to My Love would later appear again on Hits 52 Like ""Hits 50"", a lot of the songs were edited to"
"In June 2000, ""Babylon"" hit No. 5 in the UK Singles Chart; it remains his biggest UK hit to date. In the United States, the album received a boost from jam-band leader Dave Matthews, who made it the first release by ATO Records, the record company he co-founded. ""Babylon"" was also the first of three US chart entries for Gray to date. The album was No. 1 on the UK Albums Chart, two years and five months after its original release, spending a total of 151 weeks on the chart. Aside from ""Please Forgive Me"", which charted at No. 72"
"demo on his show on BBC Radio 1. The song eventually became an Ibiza favourite after support from prominent D.J.s such as Sasha, Danny Tenaglia and Sander Kleinenberg during the summer season. Released in late 2001 by Ministry of Sound, the single became a commercial success peaking at No. 2 on UK Singles Chart and ""Billboard's"" Hot Dance Club Play Chart, while charting in several countries in Europe. The success of ""Rapture"", Ali said, caused the formation of iiO as the music they were initially working on was quite different from dance music and were asked to come up with"
"fifteen in Australia. The single's B-side ""Santa Baby"" was released to UK radio as a promo single during the Christmas period. Minogue performed ""Please Stay"" on the British music show ""Top of the Pops"". ""Your Disco Needs You"", written by Minogue, Williams and Chambers was released by EMI Germany as a single in January 2001, charting at number thirty-one. The song was also released in Australia as a limited edition single release with only 10,000 copies pressed. This enabled it to chart at number twenty, before dropping to number forty-five and eventually falling out of the chart completely. ""Butterfly"" was"
"September 5 to 26, 1998. The song also stayed at number 1 for several weeks in several other countries. It sold over a million copies in the UK and reached number four on the UK Singles Chart. In 1997, Diane Warren was watching Barbara Walters interview James Brolin and Barbra Streisand. Brolin said he missed Streisand when they were asleep, and Warren wrote down the words ""I don't want to miss a thing"", before there was even a song. ""When I first heard it,"" recalled drummer Joey Kramer, ""it was just a demo with piano and singing. It was difficult"
"and 80th on the all-time UK best-sellers list. The song has sold over one million copies in the United Kingdom according to the Official Charts Company. In September 2001, the song reached number one in Australia, becoming the ninth best-selling single of the year there. It also reached number three in Ireland. A second single by Bob, ""Mambo No. 5"", with the lyrics adapted from Lou Bega's 1999 hit version, also reached number one a year later. An album entitled ""The Album"" followed, which debuted at No. 4 in the UK Albums Chart, and included a cover of Elton John's"
"and then fall down the chart. In May, Robson & Jerome became the first British act to reach number 1 with ""Unchained Melody"", after having sung the song on the ITV programme ""Soldier Soldier"". In May, music featured in an advertising campaign for Guinness reached number 2 – mambo tune ""Guaglione"" by Pérez Prado was a massive hit and the advert featured on an accompanying screensaver. This was also the year which saw Britpop at its most popular. A highly publicised chart battle in August saw Oasis and Blur battling it out for the number 1 position, having both released"
"including Germany, UK, France, and No. 3 in the United States. In France, ""Mambo No. 5"" spent twenty weeks at No.1. It was also used by the British television broadcaster Channel 4 for their coverage of test match cricket between 1999 and 2005. On 19 July 1999, Bega released his debut album ""A little bit of Mambo"", which peaked at No. 3 both in Bega's native country, Germany and also in the U.S. While it charted moderately in the UK, peaking at only No. 50, it reached No. 1 in Austria, Canada, Finland, Hungary, and Switzerland. The second single, ""I"
"that had some success in continental Europe in 2006. In 2007 it reached number one in the UK with lyrics performed in English under the title ""Now You're Gone"". In 2008 the second single ""All I Ever Wanted"" peaked at number two in the UK. September is a Swedish dance-singer whose song ""Cry For You"" reached number five in the UK in 2008. In the 2010s, she released two albums under her true name, Petra Marklund, and relaunched herself as a Swedish-language pop artist rather than a Europop dance artist. Mando Diao is a garage rock band from Borlänge. They"
"but Rizzo and Ireland were unable to clear the sample, so the vocals on the final track were sung by Claire Vaughan from Thurstonland, Huddersfield. ""(Mucho Mambo) Sway"" reached number 2 in the UK in August, kept off the number-one spot by Lou Bega's version of ""Mambo No. 5"", also based on a Prado song. Outside the UK, the song was also a top 10 hit in Ireland, Sweden and Norway, as well as reaching number 15 in Finland and number 28 in Australia. Its most successful performance on the music charts, however, occurred in New Zealand, where the song"
"2005 in British music charts This is a summary of 2005 in music in the United Kingdom, including the official charts. Average sales for a number-one single were 80,437 per week. Prominent music genres included girlgroup pop, with the success of Sugababes and Girls Aloud, as well as Rock, Indie Rock and Soul. Elvis Presley broke the record for the most UK number-one singles. Arctic Monkeys helped a continued resurgence of Indie Rock music, as part of the post-punk revival scene scoring two UK No1 singles in 2005, including I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor. The first number"
"year. Sash! scored a fifth No. 2 hit, making him the act with the most No. 2 hits in the UK without ever having made #1. The most successful track was probably ""Toca's Miracle"" by Fragma. Fusing their own track ""Toca Me"", with Coco's ""I Need A Miracle"", they created one of the few No. 1 singles in the year to spend more than one week at the summit. Many acts who were very successful in 1999 continued successfully through 2000, but their success dropped slightly. ATB who topped the chart the previous year followed up with a Top 5"
"No. 5 in the UK in 1987. In September 2006 a compilation album featuring Mercury's solo work was released in the UK in honour of what would have been his 60th birthday. The album debuted in the UK top 10. In 1981–1983 Mercury recorded several tracks with Michael Jackson, including a demo of ""State of Shock"", ""Victory"", and ""There Must Be More to Life Than This"". None of these collaborations were officially released at the time, although bootleg recordings exist. Jackson went on to record the single ""State of Shock"" with Mick Jagger for the Jacksons' album ""Victory"". Mercury included"
"The person in question is Dutch house producer Nicky Romero, a man who is slightly better acquainted with the current crop of mainstream club poppers, including Calvin Harris, David Guetta and Bingo Players. As such, 'I Could Be the One' is a battle between Balearic-style EDM and squiggly, chart-friendly breakdowns that hit all the right places. The result, predictably, is a peaceful truce. . ""I Could Be the One"" peaked at number three on the Swedish Singles Chart. The single also saw massive success worldwide, particularly in the United Kingdom, where the single entered at number one on the UK"
"2001. ""Wassuup!"", a collage of the Budweiser advertisement catchphrase and the Rick James track ""Super Freak"", used by MC Hammer on ""U Can't Touch This"", was then released under the Da Muttz moniker. Shaft (British electronica band) Shaft are a British electronic music production duo, known for their covers and remixes of ""(Mucho Mambo) Sway"" and ""Mambo Italiano"". The former entered and peaked at number two on the UK Singles Chart in August 1999, then reached number one on New Zealand's Recorded Music NZ chart in December. They followed this with the release of ""Mambo Italiano"" (vocal by Donna Canale),"
"911 (English band) 911 (pronounced ""nine one one"") are an English pop group consisting of Lee Brennan, Jimmy Constable and Simon ""Spike"" Dawbarn. They were formed in 1995 and released their debut single ""Night to Remember"" in May 1996. This was followed by their debut album ""The Journey"" in March 1997, which was certified Gold by the BPI in November 1997. 911 released two more Silver-certified albums, ""Moving On"", which featured the talents of guitarist Nick Cash (real name Keith Lucas) and ""There It Is"", in 1998 and 1999, respectively. ""There It Is"" also produced their only UK number-one single,"
"Silva has achieved some fame as a remixer, creating his own versions of Jennifer Lopez's ""Play"", Lighthouse Family's ""Happy"" and Yoko Ono's ""Walking on Thin Ice"". Rui da Silva Rui da Silva (born 25 April 1968) is a Portuguese producer and DJ, whose single ""Touch Me"" went to number one in the United Kingdom in 2001. At the time, he was the only Portuguese musician to have a hit in Britain, and hence was the first to score a chart-topping hit there. Silva started producing house music in 1992, just as club culture was getting established in Lisbon. Noticing the"
"Disco 2000 (song) ""Disco 2000"" is a hit single by British band Pulp, released in 1995. The song tells the story of a narrator falling for a childhood friend called Deborah, who is more popular than he is and wondering what it would be like to meet again when they are older. Deborah was based on a real life childhood friend of Cocker's, Deborah Bone, who moved away from Sheffield to Letchworth when she was 10. As the lyrics suggest, she did marry and have children. Pulp frontman Jarvis Cocker said ""the only bit that isn't true is the woodchip"
"Rui da Silva Rui da Silva (born 25 April 1968) is a Portuguese producer and DJ, whose single ""Touch Me"" went to number one in the United Kingdom in 2001. At the time, he was the only Portuguese musician to have a hit in Britain, and hence was the first to score a chart-topping hit there. Silva started producing house music in 1992, just as club culture was getting established in Lisbon. Noticing the lack of dance music labels in Portugal, he teamed up with DJ Vibe to form Kaos Records, the first label in Portugal specialized in house and"
"Mambo (Azúcar Moreno album) Mambo is the fifth studio album by Spanish duo Azúcar Moreno, released on CBS-Epic in 1991. The duo's two previous studio albums ""Carne De Melocotón"" and ""Bandido"" had resulted in the release of two remix albums, ""Mix in Spain"" and ""The Sugar Mix Album"". ""Mambo"" was their first studio album on which the influences from contemporary dance music genres like house music, R&B and hip hop were fully integrated in the original production; the track ""Feria"" even saw the sisters making their debut as rappers. The album was also the first not to be entirely recorded"
"Top 5 showing that both the girls were winning this race in which the media had put them, in separate areas across the globe. Other female American artists who scored continuous success in the UK during the year were Mariah Carey, who made No. 10 with ""Thank God I Found You"" which became her 15th and final US No. 1 single until ""We Belong Together"" in 2005, Whitney Houston who topped the album charts with her double CD Greatest Hits collection celebrating 15 years of success including 4 UK #1s, Madonna who hit the top twice, the first with a"
"2006, the band had a UK hit in 2006 with ""Harlem One Stop"" reaching number 1 in the UK Dance charts. Marc JB Marc JB is a British music producer who was part of the production team that had a number one on the UK Dance Chart with ""Thunder in My Heart Again"" by Meck featuring Leo Sayer. He produces in partnership with DJ Lee Dagger and together they have produced and remixed many tracks by other artists, including Kanye West, Britney Spears, Janet Jackson and Yoko Ono. They have many of their remixes cut to the original video on"
"release of his massively successful single ""Livin' La Vida Loca"". Heading up the summer Latino craze in the UK and the US, he hit number one in several countries and topped the charts on both sides of the Atlantic. He became a phenomenon in the US; his début self-titled album even went on to appear in the Top 100 best selling albums of all time in the US. Lou Bega scored success with his only UK single ""Mambo No.5"". Still used in Cricket matches as their title song, it managed to hit #31 on import sales alone and topped the"
"October, Girls Aloud became the first British act (sixth act overall) to enter the UK Top 10 on downloads alone when Something Kinda Ooooh charted at #5 on 22 October. The following week it climbed to #3, but they were beaten to number one by McFly with their sixth number one Star Girl. We also saw #1 albums from The Killers, Robbie Williams, Girls Aloud and Jamiroquai. November saw Dutch DJ and producer Fedde Le Grand manage to get his first UK #1 with Put Your Hands Up For Detroit, while Westlife were still breaking records with their 14 number"
"new material at festivals around the country, including V2000 and Glastonbury. They would end the year promoting ""Buck Rogers"", their first single since November 1999 and then playing a mini-tour at the end of the year to mainly showcase the new material. The release of the single on 8 January 2001 was coupled with a signing session at London's now defunct Tower Records store and then a TV appearance on ""Top of The Pops"" before the single charted. The single charted at number five, becoming the band's first top 10 entry in the singles chart before appearing on Top of"
"a row to peak at number two in the UK. This was followed by their first UK number-one single, ""Keep on Movin'"". ""Don't Wanna Let You Go"" came next and peaked at nine in the UK. In March 2000, Five opened at the BRIT Awards with rock legends Queen, performing an updated version of that Queen's hit, ""We Will Rock You"" which was later released as a single and it became their second UK number one in July 2000. Third album ""Kingsize"" came in August 2001 and contained ""Let's Dance"", which became Five's third UK number-one single. The album later"
"MC Chickaboo MC Chickaboo is an English rapper. In 2002 her collaboration with Timo Maas', ""Shifter"", went to number one on the Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart. MC Chickaboo started out in Birmingham in 1992 with GE Real working the big raves such as Fantasia, Dreamscape and Jungle Fever! Whilst working in the electronic music scene Chickaboo MC’d with producers including DJ Dazee, DJ Craze, Jumpin Jack Frost, DJ Storm, DJ Bailey, Goldie and Afrika Bambaata. Never one to stay settled in her comfort zone, and having the lyrical talent to MC to a spectrum of musical sounds, Chickaboo"