Thanks to this song, Jordy was listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the youngest singer ever to reach number one on a singles chart. He achieved this feat in France in October 1992 at the tender age of four and a half, beating the previous record held by Elsa Lunghini who’d topped the chart when she was 13 years old. Jordy was also the youngest artist to chart on the Billboard Hot 100, reaching number 58 with the song.
Noise in analog video and television is perceived as a random dot pattern which is superimposed on the picture as a result of electronic noise and radiated electromagnetic noise picked up by the receiver’s antenna—it is the “snow” which is seen with poor analog television reception or on blank VHS tapes. When there is no transmission, which is to say no signal, the noise or “snow” is due mostly to thermal noise from the device itself, stray electromagnetic fields from other household electric devices, and other electromagnetic signals, all of which is interpreted as luminance signal. Most of this noise comes from the first transistor the antenna is attached to. Due to the algorithmic functioning of a digital television set’s electronic circuitry and the inherent quantization of its screen, the “snow” seen on digital TV is less random. UK viewers used to see “snow” on black after sign-off, instead of “bugs” on white, a purely technical artifact due to old 405-line British receivers using positive rather than the negative video modulation used in Canada, the U.S., and (currently) the UK as well.
Most modern Televisions automatically change to a blue screen if static would be present without, with cancels out any background noise also. Clocks which countdown from a period of 5 or 10 minutes are also common, and when reaching zero, the television automatically turns to standby as the blue screen or static is no use. Since one impression of the “snow” is of fast-flickering black bugs on a cool white background, in Sweden, Denmark and Hungary the phenomenon is often called myrornas krig in Swedish, myrekrig in Danish and hangyák háborúja in Hungarian, which translate to “war of the ants” or sometimes hangyafoci which means “ant soccer”, and in Romanian, purici, which translates into “fleas”.