Estelle not 'bothered' by flop single

Rapper Estelle has claimed she wasn't "bothered" when her last single failed to make the UK top 40.

The Kensington-born star - whose Kanye West collaboration 'American Boy' is currently duelling Madonna and Duffy for Sunday's number one spot - charted outside the top 100 with her November single 'Wait A Minute (Just A Touch)'.

However, she insisted the song was never intended to become a hit. "It was put out there so that people knew I was coming back - that was always the plan," she told DS.

"Everyone was like, 'It didn't doing anything in the charts', but then I was like, 'It was never meant to!' It was cool, I wasn't that bothered."

Estelle also claimed not to be fazed by her chart battle with Madonna, saying: "I think people like my song enough and I'm not too worried whether it goes to number one or not.

"If it gets beat, at least it will get beat by someone with a track record. Madonna is Madonna, innit? She was doing her thing when I was five-years-old."

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