2001 in British music charts album was not released in the UK. 2001 was a moderately successful year for film and television music, providing some memorable hit singles and albums. The Tweenies and Bob The Builder both released singles, the former of which was a Christmas release making No. 9 and the latter having his 2nd No. 1 single with a re-make of the No. 1 from 1999 by Lou Bega, "Mambo No. 5". This 2nd No. 1 made Bob the first non-human who "sung" on his recordings to hit the top more than once. Two very successful movies, "Moulin Rouge!" and "Bridget Jones's Diary",
Mambo No. 5 Mambo No. 5 "Mambo No. 5" is a mambo and jazz dance song originally recorded and composed by Cuban musician Dámaso Pérez Prado in 1949. The song's popularity was renewed by German artist Lou Bega's sampling of the last 30 seconds of the original, released under the same name on Bega's 1999 debut album "A Little Bit of Mambo". Lou Bega's cover was a hit in the United Kingdom and in Australia, where it reached number-one in 1999. It stayed at number-one in Australia for eight weeks, ultimately becoming the best-selling single of 1999. It also topped almost every chart