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Ylvis’s The Fox sticks at number six in US charts

"The Fox", the YouTube hit by Norway's Ylvisåker brothers, has kept the number six slot in the US charts for a second week but failed to climb higher, indicating the extraordinary viral phenomenon may be starting to peak.

Published: 17 October 2013 10:54 CEST
Ylvis's The Fox sticks at number six in US charts
Ylvis performing The Fox on the Jimmy Fallon show - YouTube
The song, which was the US's most streamed song last week, has now slipped to the number two position after being eclipsed by Miley Cyrus's Wrecking Ball. 
 
Only one other Norwegian song has ever made the US top ten, A-ha's Take On Me, which reached number one in 1986. 

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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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