The song slipped from sixth place to 10th place in the latest charts released on Wednesday by the US's Billboard magazine.
On Thursday morning, it was on the point of reaching two million hits total hits on YouTube.
YLVIS
Ylvis’s hopes of US number one dashed
The Fox, the viral YouTube hit from Norway's Ylvisåker brothers, has dropped four places on the US charts, ending its hopes of following A-ha to the second-ever Norwegian US number one.
Published: 7 November 2013 08:39 CET
Ylvis - Ylvis
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
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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