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Ylvis’s The Fox debuts in US Top 30

The Fox, the insanely entertaining electro-pop song released last week by Norwegian talkshow duo Ylvis, has jumped onto the US's Billboard Hot 100 chart at number 29.

Published: 12 September 2013 08:08 CEST
Ylvis's The Fox debuts in US Top 30
Bård Ylvisåker as 'The Fox' - Ylvis
According to Billboard Magazine, the song debuted on the chart on Thursday as the third most streamed song, a performance that has only been topped by Baauer's "Harlem Shake", PSY's "Gentleman", and One Direction's "Best Song Ever". 
 
The magazine said that the song had been seen 4.8 million times on Youtube in the US, and 17.8 million times globally. 
 
Vegard and Bård Ylvisåker launched the song last week to market their talk-show "Tonight With Ylvis". 
 
The song's meteoric rise is perhaps not that much of a surprise, however, given who is behind it. 
 
The song was produced by New York-based Norwegian producers Tor Erik Hermansen and Mikkel Storleer Eriksen, who as Stargate have had a succession of Billboard Number One singles, including So Sick by Ne-Yo, Irreplaceable by Beyoncé and Rihanna's Diamonds and Only Girl in the World. 
 
Ylvis previously achieved viral status with "Stonehenge," which got 1.3 million YouTube views in 2011.

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MUSIC

GALLERY: Ten great songs about Norway

How many artists have serenaded Norway in song? Richard Orange scours YouTube and Spotify to find ten great tracks, one of which is little more than an angry stream of obscenities.

Published: 30 June 2014 09:40 CEST
GALLERY: Ten great songs about Norway
Norway popster Maya Vik from the video Oslo Knows. Photo: Screen grab/YouTube
Bruce Springsteen's longtime guitarist Steve Van Zandt, or 'Little Steven', is so captivated by Norway's music scene that he set up a record label just to sign up Norwegian bands.   So far he's signed up four, the most famous being the all-girl punk outfit Cocktail Slippers. 
 
"Who knows why but Scandinavia is the rock ’n’ roll capital of the modern world," he maintains. 
 
This month saw Oslo pop duo Nico & Vinz reach number four on the US charts, the second year in a row a Norwegian act has hit the Billboard top ten.  Last year, Ylvis's YouTube smash The Fox peaked at number six. 
 
But how has Norway gone down among international rock acts. Not always so well, judging by Half Man Half Biscuit's sweary diatribe, Stavanger Töestub (with its confusing Swedish accent), or by Velvet Underground founder John Cale's song about escaping the country, or indeed by Of Montreal's description of sleepless summer nights.
 
Norwegian bands, on the other hand, tend to dismiss Oslo as a small-town backwater.  Somehow, though, it all adds up to some pretty good music. 

LOOK AND LISTEN: Ten Great Songs about Norway. 

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