Twenty 4 Seven

Twenty 4 Seven
Current logo with Stay-C and Li Ann
General information
origin	Netherlands
Genre (s)	Eurodance , hip house
founding	1989
Website	http://www.twenty4sevenmusic.nl/
Current occupation
producer	Ruud van Rijen
singing	Stacey Seedorf (Stay-C)
singing	Li Ann
former members
singing	MC Fixxxit (1989)
singing	Tony Dawson-Harrison , Giovanni Falco (Hanks) (1989-1991)
singing	Nancy Coolen (1989-1996)
singing	Stella (1996-1997)
singing	Elle (2007)

Twenty 4 Seven is a Dutch dance floor duo that enjoyed success with a few titles in the early 1990s. The line-up of the band changed several times and currently consists of the rapper Stay-C and the singer Li-Ann. The producer is Ruud Van Rijen. The group's concept of combining a male rapper for the verse and a female voice for the choruses has been copied many times.

biography

The first single was I Can't Stand It! who, with the line-up of MC Fixx It (rapper for the verses) and Nance Coolen (sang the chorus), made it into the top 30 of the Dutch charts. A second version with Captain Hollywood as a rapper made it into various European charts in 1990, including the top 10 in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and England. That meant the international breakthrough for Twenty 4 Seven.

The second single, Are You Dreaming , also with Captain Hollywood, was only in the top ten in Switzerland, but reached the top 20 in Germany and England as well as top 30 positions in Austria and the Netherlands. The accompanying album Street Moves became a chart success in Switzerland and the United Kingdom. Then Captain Hollywood left the group and founded the Captain Hollywood Project .

In 1992 Twenty 4 Seven were revitalized with the single It Could Have Been You . Stay-C took over the rap parts, Nance Coolen remained the singer. The comeback came with the follow-up single Slave to the Music , which reached top 10 positions in 1993 in Germany and the Netherlands and the top 20 in Switzerland. With the following singles Is It Love (1993), Take Me Away or Leave Them Alone (both 1994) and the album Slave to the Music , Twenty 4 Seven was able to build on this success.

The third album I Wanna Show You and the singles Oh Baby! and Keep On Trying were no longer as popular as their predecessors. Nance Coolen then left the project and became a well-known TV presenter in the Netherlands, who presented the game show Lingo , for example . She also released solo singles such as B. Love Is .

Twenty 4 Seven in Mannheim at sunshine live "The 90s - Live On Stage" (2016)

Singer Stella took Coolen's place on Twenty 4 Seven. With her, however, the group received little attention. Only the single We Are The World was a small hit in the Netherlands. When Stella left the group in 1997, Stay-C continued the project as a soloist for a short time.

In October 2007 the single Like Flames was released with the singer Elle. In 2010 there was a comeback of Twenty 4 Seven for the singer Stay-C returned to the project, which has now been completed by the singer Li Ann.

Members

producer

• Ruud van Rijen (born January 18, 1964 in Baarle-Hertog , Belgium ) - since 1989

rapper

• MC Fixx It ( Cyriel E. Ricardo Overman ) - 1989
• Captain Hollywood ( Tony Dawson-Harrison , born September 8, 1962 in Newark , New Jersey , USA ) - 1990
• Giovanni Falco (HANKS) * February 5, 1969 in Nuremberg Germany
• Stay-C ( Stacey Paton ) - 1992–1999, from 2010

singers

• Nance ( Nancy Anna Francina Coolen , born September 10, 1973 in Asten , Noord-Brabant , Netherlands ) - 1989–1995
• Stella - 1996-1997
• Elle - 2007
• Li-Ann ( Lianne Lucia Van Groen , born March 17, 1985 in Zaandam , Netherlands) - from 2010

Discography

Albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	NL
1990	Street moves	-	-	CH25 (5 weeks) CH	UK69 (2 weeks) UK	-	feat. Captain Hollywood
1993	Slave to the Music	DE15 (21 weeks) DE	AT30 (11 weeks) AT	-	-	NL22nd gold (41 weeks)NL	Chart entry in DE and AT only in 1994 feat. Stay-C and Nance
1994	I wanna show you	DE66 (6 weeks) DE	-	CH31 (3 weeks) CH	-	NL64 (7 weeks) NL	Chart entry in DE and CH only 1995 feat. Stay-C and Nance

More albums

year	title	Remarks
1995	Club Mix Collection	First published: 1995 compilation
2003	Twenty 4 Hours a Day, Seven Days a Week	First published: 1997 compilation
2010	Best of	First publication: 2010 consisting of 15 mp3 files
2011	Slave to the Music Reloaded	First publication: 2011 consisting of 11 mp3 files

Singles

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	NL
1990	I Can't Stand It Street Moves	DE3 (30 weeks) DE	AT2 gold (22 weeks)AT	CH2 (27 weeks) CH	UK7 (10 weeks) UK	NL24 (5 weeks) NL	feat. Captain Hollywood (in DE, AT, CH, UK) feat. MC Fixx It (in NL, released 1989)
	Are You Dreaming? Street moves	DE16 (17 weeks) DE	AT22 (10 weeks) AT	CH4 (13 weeks) CH	UK17 (10 weeks) UK	NL21 (6 weeks) NL	Chart entry in NL only 1991 feat. Captain Hollywood
1993	Slave to the Music Slave To The Music	DE8 (24 weeks) DE	-	CH14 (14 weeks) CH	-	NL5 (15 weeks) NL	feat. Stay-C and Nance
	Is It Love Slave To The Music	DE5 gold (20 weeks)DE	AT9 (11 weeks) AT	CH24 (10 weeks) CH	-	NL7 (13 weeks) NL	feat. Stay-C and Nance
1994	Take Me Away Slave To The Music	DE14 (19 weeks) DE	AT28 (1 week) AT	CH41 (6 weeks) CH	-	NL12 (9 weeks) NL	feat. Stay-C and Nance
	Leave Them Alone Slave To The Music	DE36 (7 weeks) DE	AT23 (9 weeks) AT	-	-	NL13 (8 weeks) NL	feat. Stay-C and Nance
	Oh baby I wanna show you	DE33 (12 weeks) DE	-	CH37 (7 weeks) CH	-	NL20 (5 weeks) NL	feat. Stay-C and Nance
1995	Keep On Tryin ' I Wanna Show You	-	-	-	-	NL31 (4 weeks) NL	feat. Stay-C and Nance
1996	We Are the World Twenty 4 Hours A Day, Seven Days A Week	-	-	-	-	NL33 (3 weeks) NL	feat. Stay-C and Stella

More singles

• 1992: It Could Have Been You
• 1997: Friday Night (feat.Stella and Stay-C)
• 1997: If You Want My Love (feat.Stella and Stay-C)
• 1999: Né Né (feat.Stay-C)
• 2007: Like Flames (feat. Elle)
• 2010: Slave to the Music 2010 (feat.Stay-C and Li-Ann)
• 2011: Slave to the Music Reloaded

Awards for music sales

Golden record  Italy 1994: for the single I Can't Stand It  New Zealand 1994: for the single Slave to the Music  Poland 1994: for the single Slave to the Music  Spain 1994: for the single I Can't Stand It  South Africa 1995: for the album I Wanna Show You

Platinum record  Australia 1994: for the single Slave to the Music  Czech Republic 1994: for the album Slave to the Music 2 × platinum record  South Africa 1995: for the album Slave to the Music

Note: Awards in countries from the chart tables or chart boxes can be found in these.

Country / Region	gold	platinum	Sales	swell
Awards for music sales (country / region, awards, sales, sources)
Australia (ARIA)	-	platinum1	70,000	Individual evidence
Germany (BVMI)	gold1	-	250,000	musikindustrie.de
Italy (FIMI)	gold1	-	100,000	Individual evidence
New Zealand (RMNZ)	gold1	-	7,500	Individual evidence
Netherlands (NVPI)	gold1	-	50,000	nvpi.nl
Austria (IFPI)	gold1	-	25,000	ifpi.at
Poland (ZPAV)	gold1	-	50,000	Individual evidence
Spain (Promusicae)	gold1	-	50,000	mediafire.com
South Africa (RISA)	gold1	2 × platinum2	250,000	Individual evidence
Czech Republic (IFPI)	-	platinum1	50,000	Individual evidence
All in all	8 × gold8th	4 × platinum4th

swell

1. ↑ ^{a b} Chart sources: Singles DE Albums DE AT CH UK Singles NL Albums NL
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Ruud van Rijen - Awards ( Memento from April 6, 2020 in the Internet Archive )
3. ^ Dean Scapolo: The Complete New Zealand Music Charts: 1966 - 2006 . Ed .: Maurienne House. 2007, ISBN 978-1-877443-00-8 (English).
4. ^ Gavin Ryan: Australia's Music Charts 1988-2010 . Moonlight Publishing, Mount Martha, Melbourne, Victoria 2011 (English).
5. ^ Amsterdam Dances to Eurobeat. Billboard, November 12, 1994, accessed April 6, 2020 . 

Web links

Commons : Twenty 4 Seven  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website of the producer RvR
• Twenty 4 Seven at Allmusic (English)
• Twenty 4 Seven at Discogs (English)
• Discography at dutchcharts.nl