Official Charts Flashback 2002: Las Ketchup - The Ketchup Song (Asereje)
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officialcharts.comThree ladies, one catchy tune, global fame. Quite how Las Ketchup's The Ketchup Song (Asereje) became as successful as it did is a bit of a mystery, but who are we to judge?
The song - which hit Number 1 in the UK this week in 2002 - was an unstoppable force across Europe that summer. When Brits returned from sunning themselves abroad, they clearly weren't ready for the party to end; The Ketchup Song landed straight in at Number 1 with first week sales of 105,781.
By its third week it had sold a quarter of a million copies. It wasn't simply a case of the longstanding British tradition of embracing a novelty single either - The Ketchup Song hit Number 1 in a staggering 24 countries.
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