US Band Gets #1 in UK Charts

While back home, the heavily disco-influenced band is not such a household name in the United Kingdom, the first single from their second album 'I Don't Feel Like Dancin'' is number one for three consecutive weeks.

But the biggest surprise for the Scissor Sisters came when, after the track made it at the top of the chart, their second album did the same. In only a matter of days, 'Ta-Dah', made Justin Timberlake's 'FutureSex/LoveSounds' fall two positions, after only one week at number one in the album chart. His 'SexyBack' single suffered the same fate, going from second to the third position.

The second position in the single album went to The Killers, with their 'When You Were Young' track. The rest of the chart is as full of US artists as are its first top positions: Canadian Nelly Furtado and Timbaland are holding tight to the number four spot, with 'Promiscuos', while Fergie from the Black Eyed Peas, with her first solo single, 'London Bridge', fell two places and landed at number five.

This is not the first time that the Scissor Sisters know what 'fame' really means, as their first album ('Scissor Sisters', 2004) also made it big in the UK, selling almost 2.5 million copies until now. In a recent interview, the band members seemed to have found the explanation for the fact that they are successful in Britain and not so in their own country.

'American music fans are just as musically open-minded as their British counterparts, but the powers that be in the US may not be as open-minded, which, to a degree, will hold us back', Jake Shears, the frontman, told 'Billboard' Magazine.