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===Get Hasselhoff to Number 1 campaign=== In 2006, fans of David Hasselhoff launched a tongue-in-cheek website "Get Hasselhoff to Number 1"<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gethasselhofftonumber1.com |title=Get Hasselhoff to Number 1 |publisher=Get Hasselhoff to Number 1 |access-date=January 20, 2012}}</ref> in an attempt to get the 1989 hit "Looking for Freedom" to the top of the [[UK singles chart|UK music charts]] through Internet downloads of the single. The campaign attracted attention on British radio and television broadcasts, in the national press<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?in_article_id=14881&in_page_id=2 |title=Fans hassle for new Hoff pop |publisher=Metro.co.uk |date=June 7, 2006 |access-date=May 22, 2011}}</ref> and on the Internet.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rwdmag.com/articles/fullstory.php?&sid=&id=2651|title=Get Hasselhoff to Number 1!!!|website=RWDMag.com|date=June 7, 2006|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060918012207/http://www.rwdmag.com/articles/fullstory.php?&sid=&id=2651 |archive-date=September 18, 2006}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ynwa.tv/forum/lofiversion/index.php?t103886.html |title=Forum |publisher=Ynwa.tv |access-date=May 22, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060715150029/http://www.ynwa.tv/forum/lofiversion/index.php?t103886.html |archive-date=July 15, 2006 }}</ref> Over 40,000 people signed up to receive the "Hoff Alert" e-mail when the time had come to purchase the single. The focus of the campaign shifted to "[[Jump in My Car]]", when that was actually released as a single, and [[BBC Radio 1]] DJ [[Scott Mills]] lent his support.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/scottmills/feature_hoff.shtml|title=BBC β Radio 1 β Scott Mills|publisher=BBC.co.uk|access-date=May 22, 2011}}</ref> On October 3, 2006, "the Hoff Alert" was sent out, and Hasselhoff promptly gained his highest ever UK chart entry (number 3) on October 8, 2006.{{Citation needed|date=July 2015}}
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