Yolanda Be Cool vs D Cup Score First UK Number One

25/07/2010

Club anthem specialists Yolanda Be Cool vs D Cup claim their first Official Singles Chart number one with We Speak No Americano climbing from last week’s number two to this week’s top spot, the Official Charts Company confirms today.  The track entered the charts two weeks ago at number five.

Yolanda Be Cool (Sylvester Martinez and Johnson Peterson) and D Cup (producer  Duncan MacLennan) are based in Australia but have made their presence felt on dance floors, club charts and radio across Europe since 2009.  Until now, they have never had a record enter the Official Charts.

There are no new entries in this week’s Official Singles Chart Top 10 – the chart’s highest new entry is DJ Got Us Falling In Love by Usher featuring Pitbull at 20 .

In the Official Albums Chart, it’s an all-rap top two as Eminem’s Recovery holds tight to the number one spot while the UK’s  Professor Green claims the highest new entry with his debut album Alive Til I’m Dead at number two.  Alive Til I’m Dead features the hit singles I Need You Tonight with Ed Drewitt (number three in April this year) and Just Be Good To Green featuring Lily Allen, this week at number seven having entered the chart last week at number six.

There is just one other new entry in this week’s Official Albums Chart Top 10; iconic funk, soul and R&B group Earth Wind and Fire, responsible for classics as Boogie Wonderland and Let’s Groove, return to the top ten for the first time in twenty-four years, with new compilation The Greatest Hits straight in at number nine as the band embark on a UK arena tour. 

Of last week’s Barclaycard Mercury Prize nominees, the highest placed are Mumford & Sons with album Sigh No More currently at number seven.  Sigh No More peaked last week at number six and has spent 28 weeks in the Top 20 since its release last year. The Mercury nominees’ biggest chart movers are XX with album XX jumping to number sixteen from last week’s forty-four while I Am Kloot’s Sky At Night which peaked at number 24 three weeks ago re-enters the Top 75 at number 52 and Laura Marling’s I Speak Because I Can, which peaked at number four in April this year, re-enters the Top 75 at number 63.

Notes to Editors:

1.   Chart information quoted from this release must be credited to The Official Charts Company

2.  The Official Charts Company (OCC) is a joint venture between record labels’ body the BPI and ERA, the Entertainment Retailers Association.   The OCC is responsible for the commissioning, marketing, distribution and management of the UK’s industry standard music and video charts and is endorsed by the BVA (British Video Association).

3. The Official Charts Company compiles its charts from sales information gathered across all key distribution (or entertainment) channels including all major high street retail chains, independent stores, supermarkets, mail order internet retailers and digital music service providers. This market research sample equates to 99% of the total UK Singles market; 98% of the total UK Albums market and 90% of the total UK DVD market.

For further information contact:
Amy Howard, Official Charts Company.
T: 01480 860 530  M. 07768 891 264
E: amy@theofficialcharts.com
W:  www.theofficialcharts.com
The Official Chart Update with Greg James, 3.30pm-4pm, BBC Radio 1
The Chart Show with Reggie Yates, Sunday 4pm-7pm, BBC Radio 1.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/chart/

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