Monday, May 30, 2005
Gah! Ringtone beats ColdPlay to No.1
What is the world coming to. The #1 tune in the UK music charts this week was inspired by a ringtone of a guy imitating the sound of a moped. Add in a music video with a crazy frog in it and, well, it has to be the most annoying, most "can't get it out of your head" song ever recorded.
You can get the annoying Crazy Frog video here
Perhaps more startling is that it pushed ColdPlay's Speed of Sound single in the #2 spot, outselling it 4 to 1. I'm sure ColdPlay are gutted, but its not the first time something like this has happened. Back in 1980 one of the topselling bands of the day Ultravox released their greatest single ever, "Vienna", but were kept out of the #1 spot by a joke song called "Shadap ya face" sung by Joe Dolce. And this was back when people actually *bought* singles.
The UK is a pretty cool place most of the time, but folks there sometimes do nutty things.
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You can get the annoying Crazy Frog video here
Perhaps more startling is that it pushed ColdPlay's Speed of Sound single in the #2 spot, outselling it 4 to 1. I'm sure ColdPlay are gutted, but its not the first time something like this has happened. Back in 1980 one of the topselling bands of the day Ultravox released their greatest single ever, "Vienna", but were kept out of the #1 spot by a joke song called "Shadap ya face" sung by Joe Dolce. And this was back when people actually *bought* singles.
The UK is a pretty cool place most of the time, but folks there sometimes do nutty things.
