Top ten: 2003

A scant two Scandinavian entries in the Pitchfork top 50 of 2003:

#50: Supersilent - 6
#36: Junior Senior - D-D-Don't Stop the Beat

This week's MTV Up North Nordic video chart:

01. The Rasmus - First Day Of My Life
02. Backyard Babies - Minus Celsius
03. Tim Christensen - Whispering At The Top Of My Lungs
04. Moneybrother - It's Been Hurting All The Way With You Joanna
05. Redrama - Hang It Up
06. Eskobar - Love Strikes
07. Erik Faber - Century
08. Outlandish - Aicha
09. Lisa Miskovsky - Lady Stardust
10. Fattaru feat. Masayah - Ton för ton
11. Paperboys - Hey Man
12. Beats & Styles - Dynamite
13. C21 - One Night In Bangkok
14. Christian Kjellvander - Portugal
15. The Latin Kings - Cashen Dom Tas
16. Negative - The Moment Of Our Love
17. Carpark North - Wild Wonders
18. Slow Train Soul - In The Black Of Night
19. Fintelligens - Vaan Sil On Väliä
20. Hardcore Superstar - Still I´m Glad

Challengers:
01. Eagle Eye Cherry - Don´t Give Up
02. Junior Senior - Shake Your Coconuts
03. Safri Duo feat. Clark Anderson - All The People In The World
04. Briskeby - Halleluja
05. Christine Milton - Superstar
06. Majid - Boys And Girls
07. September - We Can Do It
08. L.O.C. - Undskyld

Go to the MTVE.com site to watch and vote for your favorite.

The Pitchfork top 50 singles chart of 2003 is almost completely devoid of any Scandinavian influence, except for Junior Senior charting at an impressive #5 with "Move Your Feet".

Denmark's The Raveonettes will co-headline the NME music awards along with Har Mar Superstar at the London Astoria on February 8. They are actually the only Scandinavian group to make the mag's top 50 list this year, unless you count Junior Senior making the singles chart. Read the full list here. And don't look to Q either, their list isn't much different.

Check out Junior Senior's tour diary from their recently-completed US tour: http://www.crunchy.dk/asp/default.asp?News_Id=95

In other JS news, the album "D-D-Don't Don't stop the Beat" made it to #11 on Blender Magazine's best-of-the-year list and the single "Move Your Feet" made it even higher, to #6. Not bad!

Get ready to start hearing a lot more Junior Senior because the guys are going Hollywood. Both "Move Your Feet" and "Shake Your Coconuts" are being prominentely featured in the forthcoming live action movie/cartoon Warner Brothers "Looney Tunes: Back in Action". "Shake Your Coconuts" will also be the featured single for all of the film's promotional material. The movie stars WB classic characers Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck alongside 'real' stars like Steve Martin, Brendan Fraser, Jenna Elfman, Timothy Dalton and Heather Locklear. It was directed by Joe Dante ("Gremlins", "Small Soldiers") and opens November 14 in the US and December 12 in Europe. In other news, the band is currently working on a new video for "Shake Your Coconuts" with director Diane Martel, whose previous work includes videos for artists such as LL Cool J, Christina Aguilera, Gangstar, Justin Timberlake and Ol' Dirty Bastard.

This week's MTV Up North Nordic video chart:

01. Outlandish - Aicha
02. Lene Marlin - You Weren´t There
03. Mew - 156
04. The Rasmus - In My Life
05. Bad Cash Quartet - Midnight Prayer
06. Broder Daniel - When We Were Winning
07. Beats & Styles - Dynamite
08. Lene - It´s Your Duty
09. Kamera - Fragile
10. Junior Senior - Rythm Bandits
11. Looptroop - Don´t Hate The Player
12. Paperboys - On The Low
13. Mustasch - Black City
14. Killer - Naughty Boy
15. The Raveonettes - That Great Love Sound
16. Safri Duo - Fallin´ High
17. Da D.o.n.s - She Don´t Know My Game
18. Whyte Seeds - So Alone
19. Fattaru - Bättre
20. Span - Papa

Challengers:
01. Lisa Miskovsky - Lady Stardust
02. Redrama - Hang It Up
03. Turbonegro - Sell Your Body (To The Night)
04. Bosson - You Opened My Eyes
05. User - To Feel

Go to the MTVE.com site to watch and vote for your favorite.

This week's MTV Up North Nordic video chart:

01. Outlandish - Aicha
02. Mew - 156
03. Lene Marlin - You Weren´t There
04. Lene - It´s Your Duty
05. The Rasmus - In My Life
06. Bad Cash Quartet - Midnight Prayer
07. Beats & Styles - Dynamite
08. Carpark North - Transparant And Glasslike
09. Junior Senior - Rythm Bandits
10. Safri Duo - Fallin´ High
11. Killer - Naughty Boy
12. José Gonzalez - Heartbeats
13. Eagle-Eye Cherry - Skull Tattoo
14. Looptroop - Don´t Hate The Player
15. Da D.o.n.s - She Don´t Know My Game
16. The Raveonettes - That Great Love Sound
17. Whyte Seeds - So Alone
18. Paragon - Lev Ditt Liv
19. Da Buzz - Tonight (Is The Night)
20. Fattaru - Bättre

Challengers:
01. Mustasch - Black City
02. Broder Daniel - When We Were Winning
03. Paperboys - On The Low
04. AYA - Other Side
05. Kamera - Fragile

Go to the MTVE.com site to watch and vote for your favorite.

This week's MTV Up North Nordic video chart:

01. Outlandish - Aicha
02. Lene Marlin - You Weren´t There
03. The Rasmus - In My Life
04. Mew - 156
05. Bad Cash Quartet - Midnight Prayer
06. Junior Senior - Rythm Bandits
07. Carpark North - Transparant And Glasslike
08. Lene - It´s Your Duty
09. Beats & Styles - Dynamite
10. José Gonzalez - Heartbeats
11. Killer - Naughty Boy
12. Looptroop - Don´t Hate The Player
13. The Raveonettes - That Great Love Sound
14. Fattaru - Bättre
15. Eagle-Eye Cherry - Skull Tattoo
16. Da D.o.n.s - She Don´t Know My Game
17. Bertine Zetlitz - Twisted Little Star
18. Da Buzz - Tonight (Is The Night)
19. The Lost Patrol feat. Lisa Miskovsky - Alright
20. Nu - Any Other Girl

Challengers:
01. Safri Duo - Fallin´ High
02. Paragon - Lev Ditt Liv
03. Dub Sweden - Ice In My Fire
04. Whyte Seeds - So Alone
05. Racing Ape - Daddy's

Go to the MTVE.com site to watch and vote for your favorite.

Nominees for the Best Nordic Act at the MTV Europe awards: The Cardigans, Kashmir, Junior Senior, Outlandish and The Rasmus.

New headlining US tourdates for Junior Senior:

11/10 - Creepy Crawl, St. Louis, MO
11/11 - The Bottleneck, Lawrence, KS
11/12 - Larimer Lounge, Denver, CO
11/14 - The Big Fish, Tempe, AZ
11/15 - Brick By Brick, San Diego, CA
11/17 - Troubadour, Los Angeles, CA
11/19 - Bimbo's 365 Club, San Francisco, CA
11/21 - Crocodile Café, Seattle, WA

This week's MTV Up North Nordic video chart:

01. The Rasmus - In My Life
02. Outlandish - Aicha
03. Carpark North - Transparant And Glasslike
04. Killer - Naughty Boy
05. Mew - 156
06. Lene - It´s Your Duty
07. The Raveonettes - That Great Love Sound
08. Bad Cash Quartet - Midnight Prayer
09. Junior Senior - Rythm Bandits
10. Beats & Styles - Dynamite
11. Darude - Next To You
12. Da Buzz - Tonight (Is The Night)
13. The Lost Patrol feat. Lisa Miskovsky - Alright
14. Span - Found
15. Eagle-Eye Cherry - Skull Tattoo
16. Fattaru - Bättre
17. The Unisex - Take Me Higher
18. Bertine Zetlitz - Twisted Little Star
19. Looptroop - Don´t Hate The Player
20. Kurt Nilsen - She´s So High

Challengers:
01. Da D.o.n.s - She Don´t Know My Game
02. First Floor Power - Happy Endings
03. José Gonzalez - Heartbeats
04. Laze - Steppin´ Out
05. Lene Marlin - You Weren´t There

Go to the MTVE.com site to watch and vote for your favorite.

This week's MTV Up North Nordic video chart:

01. Outlandish - Aicha
02. The Rasmus - In My Life
03. Junior Senior - Rythm Bandits
04. Carpark North - Transparant And Glasslike
05. Mew - 156
06. Killer - Naughty Boy
07. The Raveonettes - That Great Love Sound
08. Bertine Zetlitz - Twisted Little Star
09. Lene - It´s Your Duty
10. Beats & Styles - Dynamite
11. The Lost Patrol feat. Lisa Miskovsky - Alright
12. Nu - Any Other Girl
13. Darude - Next To You
14. Span - Found
15. Kurt Nilsen - She´s So High
16. Fattaru - Bättre
17. The Unisex - Take Me Higher
18. Paperboys - What U Need
19. Looptroop - Don´t Hate The Player
20. José Gonzales - Crosses

Challengers:
01. Eagle-Eye Cherry - Skull Tattoo
02. Zaki - Tonal
03. Racetrack Babies - It´s Ok
04. Da Buzz - Tonight (Is The Night)
05. Bad Cash Quartet - Midnight Prayer
06. Don Diego - Fagnani (Min Far)

Go to the MTVE.com site to watch and vote for your favorite. There's info about an Outlandish DVD contest at the top of the page, too.

Danish "donkeypunk" band Powersolo report that they have recently signed with Crunchy Frog (Junior Senior, The Raveonettes) and are hard at work on their new album, tentatively due out in February next year. They say the sound will be "a mix of punkrock, pop, country and western, rockabilly and... God knows what else."