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Can Norway’s Seeb win 2nd week at UK No 1?

Norwegian dance duo SeeB are battling for their second week at Number One in the UK, after their catchy remix of “I took a Pill in Ibiza” became the third Norwegian tune ever to top the UK charts.

Published: 23 March 2016 17:58 CET
Can Norway's Seeb win 2nd week at UK No 1?
Simen Eriksrud (left) and Espen Berg (right) in London with Canadian singer Kiesza. Photo: Seeb/Instagram
In the UK Charts’ midweek update, released on Tuesday, the duo were near neck-and-neck with Sigala, with the British house DJ just 568 sales ahead, giving them a real chance of repeating last Friday's feat. 
 
SeeB, a music production partnership between producers Simen Eriksrud and Espen Berg follow hard on the footsteps of Oslo duo Nico & Vinz, whose single “Am I Wrong?” reached the UK top spot in 2014. 
 
The veteran duo, who only linked up in 2015, have stormed to success by converting a soulful acoustic song questioning the shallowness of EDM culture into a banging club anthem.
 
Before Nico & Vinz, A-ha’s synthpop classic “The Sun Always Shines on TV”, was the only Norwegian song to have ever reached the top of the UK charts, and that was way back in 1986.
 
SeeB are leading what looks like a veritable invasion by Norwegian acts.
 
Alan Walker from Bergen last week hit number 18 in the UK with his song “Faded”, and music producer Kygo, another act from Bergen, is at number 37 with his song “Stay”. 
 
Then there's Ina Wroldsen, at 44 with DJ Calvin Harris’s How Deep is Your Love? which she co-wrote and also sings on. 
 
The Coldplay singles Hymn For The Weekend and Adventure Of A Lifetime, which stand at ninth and 27th place in the UK charts respectively were produced by New York-based Norwegian duo Stargate.
 
It can only be a matter of time before 19-year-old Norwegian songstress Aurora joins them. 
 
Her new album All My Demons Greeting Me as a Friend, has gone straight to the top of the Norwegian album charts, and has been put on the new Radio One playlist. 
 
Eriksrud, 41, has worked as a producer for nearly 20 years, producing Scandinavian pop acts such as Eric Saade, Loreen, and making his own music as part of the funk pop band D'Sound. 
 
 

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IN CHARTS: Who is Italy vaccinating fastest?

Compare what percentage of over-80s, over-70s, nursing home residents, health workers and teachers have been vaccinated in each region of Italy so far.

Published: 8 April 2021 12:13 CEST
Updated: 16 April 2021 15:20 CEST
IN CHARTS: Who is Italy vaccinating fastest?
Waiting to be vaccinated at a centre in Rome. Photo: Andreas Solaro/AFP

According to the latest official figures, Italy has administered more than 13.5 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines and fully immunized some 4 million people.

READ ALSO: Why is Italy’s coronavirus vaccine plan missing its targets?

The largest share of those are people aged 80 and over (more than 3.1 million of whom have had at least one dose), followed by health workers (1.7 million). 

But while that represents more than 90 percent of health workers, it’s less than 70 percent of all the over-80s in Italy.

The priority categories closest to reaching full coverage are health workers and the residents and staff of nursing homes. 

Looking at the figures by region, most parts of Italy have given the large majority of their healthcare workers at least one jab.

In several regions – Abruzzo, Campania, Lazio, Lombardy, Molise, Sardinia, Tuscany and Valle D’Aosta – 100 percent of health workers have already had at least the first dose. 

The picture is similar for staff and residents of nursing homes, who were the second priority group after health workers to start getting vaccinated in Italy.

Almost every region has given at least three-quarters of this category their first jab, while around half of Italy’s 20 regions have already reached 100 percent.

The variation between regions starts to become greater when it comes to the percentage of over-80s that have had their first dose, which ranges from 86 percent in the autonomous province of Trento to around 45 percent in Sicily. 

The differences are even bigger for school staff: just under 40 percent of people working in schools have had a shot in Liguria, while the small region of Molise has already got the first dose to more than 99 percent of its school employees. 

The category with the lowest coverage across all regions is 70-79 year olds, who have only recently become eligible for a jab in most parts of the country. 

Veneto is the furthest ahead so far, having given 37 percent of this age group at least one shot, while slowest is Basilicata at less than 3 percent.

These charts were created using data provided by the Italian government in its weekly vaccination report, last released on April 10th.

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