Toploader are an English

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

 band from Eastbourne

Eastbourne

Eastbourne is a large town and borough in East Sussex, on the south coast of England between Brighton and Hastings. The town is situated at the eastern end of the chalk South Downs alongside the high cliff at Beachy Head...

 who formed in 1997, with over two million album sales to their name and a string of top 20 hits both home and abroad. Their debut album, Onka's Big Moka

Onka's Big Moka

Onka's Big Moka is an album released in 1999 by the pop rock band Toploader. The album reached #4 on the UK charts, and a song from the album, "Dancing in the Moonlight", a cover of the King Harvest song, was featured in a television commercial for supermarket chain Sainsbury's.The title is a...

, sold over 1 million units and remained in the Top 5 of the UK album chart for over six months. Their cover of King Harvest

King Harvest

King Harvest was a 1970s American rock band, best known for their 1973 hit single, "Dancing in the Moonlight".-Background:Formed by a group of four American expatriates in Paris in 1970, King Harvest was best known for its one US hit single, "Dancing In The Moonlight," which was released in 1972...

's song "Dancing in the Moonlight

Dancing in the Moonlight

"Dancing In The Moonlight" is the title song on the 1973 King Harvest album. The track was released as a single in 1972 and it reached #13 on the Billboard Hot 100. They released other singles but these were never able to match the success of "Dancing in the Moonlight"...

" became a global hit for the band. Their second album, Magic Hotel

Magic Hotel

Magic Hotel is the second album by British band Toploader. It follows the successful 1999 album Onka's Big Moka. The album title is a reference to the hotel in which they stayed in Los Angeles when recording the album.- Track listing :...

, reached number 3 in the UK Albums Chart

UK Albums Chart

The UK Albums Chart is a list of albums ranked by physical and digital sales in the United Kingdom. It is compiled every week by The Official Charts Company and broadcast on a Sunday on BBC Radio 1 , and published in Music Week magazine and on the OCC website .To qualify for the UK albums chart...

.

The band decided to break up in 2003 due to the demise of their record label S2

S2

-In the military:*S-2 , a military intelligence officer* Soviet submarine S-2, a Soviet World War II submarine* Grumman S-2 Tracker, a US Navy aircraft* Finnish torpedo boat S2, which sank in 1925* USS S-2 , a US Navy submarine...

 but, after an extended hiatus, signed a one-album deal with Underdogs Music for their third album, which will be released in 2011. The album title has been confirmed as Only Human, and the first single from the new album, "Never Stop Wondering", was released on 14 March 2011. They are due to release the new album on 6 June 2011, with new single "A Balance to All Things" (featuring a remix from Ash Howes) following on 20 June.

Toploader's live career began playing with the likes of Coldplay

Coldplay

Coldplay are a British alternative rock band formed in 1996 by lead vocalist Chris Martin and lead guitarist Jonny Buckland at University College London. After they formed Pectoralz, Guy Berryman joined the group as a bassist and they changed their name to Starfish. Will Champion joined as a...

 and Muse

Muse (band)

Muse are an English alternative rock band from Teignmouth, Devon, formed in 1994. The band consists of school friends Matthew Bellamy , Christopher Wolstenholme and Dominic Howard...

 in small venues across the UK. They later went on to back the likes of Paul Weller

Paul Weller

Paul Weller is an English singer-songwriter. Starting with the band The Jam , Weller then went on to branch out musically to a more soulful style with The Style Council...

, Robbie Williams

Robbie Williams

Robert Peter "Robbie" Williams is an English singer-songwriter, vocal coach and occasional actor. He is a member of the pop group Take That. Williams rose to fame in the band's first run in the early- to mid-1990s. After many disagreements with the management and certain group members, Williams...

 and Bon Jovi

Bon Jovi

Bon Jovi is an American rock band from Sayreville, New Jersey. Formed in 1983, Bon Jovi consists of lead singer and namesake Jon Bon Jovi , guitarist Richie Sambora, keyboardist David Bryan, drummer Tico Torres, as well as current bassist Hugh McDonald...

, becoming the last British band to play the original Wembley Stadium.

The band line-up is four of the five original members, Joseph Washbourn, Dan Hipgrave

Dan Hipgrave

Dan Hipgrave is a musician, writer and presenter. He is best known as the guitarist of the indie rock band Toploader.-Early life:...

, Rob Green and Matt Knight.

Studio albums

Year	Album details	Peak chart positions	Certifications Music recording sales certification Music recording sales certification is a system of certifying that a music recording has shipped or sold a certain number of copies, where the threshold quantity varies by type and by nation or territory .Almost all countries follow variations of the RIAA certification categories,... (sales thresholds)
		UK UK Albums Chart The UK Albums Chart is a list of albums ranked by physical and digital sales in the United Kingdom. It is compiled every week by The Official Charts Company and broadcast on a Sunday on BBC Radio 1 , and published in Music Week magazine and on the OCC website .To qualify for the UK albums chart...
2000	Onka's Big Moka Onka's Big Moka Onka's Big Moka is an album released in 1999 by the pop rock band Toploader. The album reached #4 on the UK charts, and a song from the album, "Dancing in the Moonlight", a cover of the King Harvest song, was featured in a television commercial for supermarket chain Sainsbury's.The title is a... Released: 22 May 2000 Label: S2 Records S2 Records S2 Records, formerly named Sony Soho Square after its location at London's Soho Square, is a record label subsidiary of Sony Music.Lincoln Elias, currently Managing Director of Virgin Records, was the founder of the label. It is now headed by Muff Winwood, brother of Steve Winwood.S2 features... Formats: CD Compact Disc The Compact Disc is an optical disc used to store digital data. It was originally developed to store and playback sound recordings exclusively, but later expanded to encompass data storage , write-once audio and data storage , rewritable media , Video Compact Discs , Super Video Compact Discs ,... , cassette Compact Cassette The Compact Cassette, often referred to as audio cassette, cassette tape, cassette, or simply tape, is a magnetic tape sound recording format. It was designed originally for dictation, but improvements in fidelity led the Compact Cassette to supplant the Stereo 8-track cartridge and reel-to-reel... , vinyl, digital download Music download A music download is the transferral of music from an Internet-facing computer or website to a user's local computer. This term encompasses both legal downloads and downloads of copyright material without permission or payment...	4	UK British Phonographic Industry The British Phonographic Industry is the British record industry's trade association.-Structure:Its membership comprises hundreds of music companies including all four "major" record companies , associate members such as manufacturers and distributors, and hundreds of independent music companies... : 3× Platinum
2002	Magic Hotel Magic Hotel Magic Hotel is the second album by British band Toploader. It follows the successful 1999 album Onka's Big Moka. The album title is a reference to the hotel in which they stayed in Los Angeles when recording the album.- Track listing :... Released: 19 August 2002 Label: S2 Records Formats: CD, cassette, vinyl, digital download	3
2011	Only Human Released: 6 June 2011 Label: Underdogs Music Formats: CD, digital download	—

Compilation albums

Year	Album details
2006	Dancing in the Moonlight - The Best of Toploader Released: 9 March 2009 Label: Sony CMG Formats: CD, digital download

Singles

Year	Single	Peak chart positions	Album
		UK UK Singles Chart The UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official Charts Company on behalf of the British record-industry. The full chart contains the top selling 200 singles in the United Kingdom based upon combined record sales and download numbers, though some media outlets only list the Top 40 or the Top 75 ...
1999	"Achilles Heel"	64	Onka's Big Moka
	"Let the People Know"	52
2000	"Dancing in the Moonlight Dancing in the Moonlight "Dancing In The Moonlight" is the title song on the 1973 King Harvest album. The track was released as a single in 1972 and it reached #13 on the Billboard Hot 100. They released other singles but these were never able to match the success of "Dancing in the Moonlight"... "	19
	"Achilles Heel" (re-release)	8
	"Just Hold On"	20
	"Dancing in the Moonlight" (re-release)	7
2001	"Only for a While"	19
2002	"Time of My Life"	18	Magic Hotel
	"Some Kind of Wonderful Some Kind of Wonderful Some Kind of Wonderful is a 1987 romance film starring Eric Stoltz, Lea Thompson, and Mary Stuart Masterson. It was one of the many successful teen dramas written by John Hughes in the 1980s, although this one was directed by Howard Deutch. During filming, Deutch met Thompson and two years later... "	76
2011	"Never Stop Wondering"	—	Only Human
	"A Balance to All Things"	—
	"She Said"	—