Fatboy Slim Gives Nissan Something X-TRA
Published: 23rd July 2004
Nissan Xtrail
The track has already been played a number of times on Radio 1, the most widely recognised radio station in the UK, with Jo Whiley and Zane Lowe blasting out the record to their combined audience of 1½ million people. And as if that isn’t enough, Dave Pearce has recently made the single his ‘Record of the Week’. His show draws in 373,000 people every day, all ‘turning it up loud’, as the show goes live at 6:00pm, every Monday to Thursday. Other radio stations, such as Capital and XFM have wanted a piece of the action, so have also been giving the track airplay, in addition to MTV Base playing the video nearly 50 times to their 5.6 million viewers.
Adding to the single’s success is the man himself, Fatboy Slim, who appeared as a surprise guest DJ at Glastonbury Festival, playing the record to 150,000 muddy music lovers. Equally as high profile, was DJ Jon Carter’s performance. He got the party started with Follow me, Follow me at the Lovebox Festival on Clapham Common, getting 100,000 people raving to the penetrative tune. Currently the single has shipped over 3,000 copies to date, so an entry into the top 40 is expected this weekend.
The record is available in store, as well as to order from various websites including HMV, Amazon and the record company’s own website (www.mrbongo.com), which has a link directly to the X-TRAIL site.
The X-TRAIL’s popularity has been reflected in Nissan being awarded ‘Best Recreational 4x4’ by Auto Express magazine for the third year running.
