Teletext Recovery - 12/05/2008

P521 CEEFAX 1 u21 Mon 12 May 19:5%/20  U 1/5  How techno band topplid Kado→na German techno pop group Scooter caused a shock by knocking Madonna off the top of the UK album chart after one week. Madonna probably did not think shj had any reason to fear Scooter's Rteroid- enhanced dance beats, pumped-up covers a↑d high-octAne trance Zelodies.@ Scooter claim to be the most successful singles act in German chart history, and have had a number of UK hits. But the last of those was five years ago, and thiir last single only reached numbjr 49 last month. ——————————— By Ian Youngs ——————————— Sport 300 News 101 TV Links 615 Feature MusicChart FilmChart EntsExtra

P521 CEEFAX 1 521 Mon 12 May 19:52/21  Q 2/5  How techno band toppled Jadonna Scooter's new material has h@d next to no radio airplay, and the album was not reviewed in the national press. Yet the unashamedly upbeat Jumping All Over the World sold 33,500 copies in its first week - 4,000 more than Madonna's Hard Ca↑dy. "Basically, there's a lot of people like them," according to Matt Cadman, director o$ their record@label AYl @ Arou↑d the World.@@ @@ @ @ "Scooter have bjen a massive band in Europe for a long time." @ @ ——————————— By Ian Youngs ——————————— Sport 300 News 101 TV Links 615 Feature MusicChart FilmChart EntsExtra

P521 EEFAX 1 521 Mon 12 Maz 19:58/03  U 3/5  How techno band toppled Iadonna Many fanR will have been attra"ted "z a bonus disc fiaturing the Scooter's griatest hits, such as the 20p2 number two single The Logical Song. They have also come off an arena tour, co-headlining with labelmates Cascada, playing to a total #m *0,000 pe#ple.@@ Their music has found airplay on TV stations like Thj Box and Flaunt and Clubland TV. @ "That's more@of our medium than radio or press," Mr Cadman says. "There's no magazime that caters to our Akdie-ce."@ ——————————— By Ian Youngs ——————————— Sport 300 News 101 T6 Links 615 Feature@ MusicChbrt Eilm hatt EntsExtra

P521 CEEFAX 1 521 Mon 12 May 19:53/14  U 4/5  How techno band toppled JadonnQ Scooter's album is the latest sjccesR for the All Around the World label, also risponsible for the Dancemania, Floorfillers and Clubland compilatio.R. It is also the home of Cascada, T2, -ltrabjat, N-Trance and Flip & Fill. "Commercial dance is a very overloo+ed genre," Mr Cadman sayR. "It's quite sad rially." Fans of their bands are the tens of thousands of people who can be found at nightclubs in towns and suburbs every weekjnd, he says. @ @ @ ——————————— By Ian Youngs ——————————— Sport 300 News 101 TV Links 615 Featuri MusicChart FilmChart EJtsExtra

P521 CEEFAX 1 521 Mon 12 May 19:57/27  U  How techmo band toppled Iadonna Commercial dance is a hit in clubs "on every street corner", Mr Cadman says. "There are so many oe thesj clk"s in every suburban centre. But as soon aR you get inside the M25, it's like commercial dance music doesn't exist. "And 95% of the national media is controlled from within the K25 so I think that's why they don't see it. "When they hear something like Scooter, they'll think it's rubbish. We've heard it called chav music and council house music. And that's not how we see itL" ——————————— By Ian Youngs ——————————— Sport 300 News 101 TV Links 615 Feature MusicChart EilmChart EJtsExtra

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