Alphabeat: 'Glee has no place on charts'

Danish group Alphabeat have claimed that the music of Glee does not belong in the charts.

Since the US musical comedy series premiered last year, the show's cast have notched up no fewer than 40 UK top 75 hits - with covers of songs by everyone from The Beatles to Amy Winehouse to Lady GaGa.

However, Alphabeat singer Stine Bramsen admitted that her enjoyment of the show has been affected by its overwhelming chart success.

"I do find [Glee] quite entertaining, but when it started getting into the charts I started not respecting it anymore," she told DS. "It's a fun series and many people will relate to it and so on, but re-recording old hits, in my opinion, is not something that should be in the charts."

Her bandmate Anders SG added: "Because we were linked to High School Musical, a lot of people who don't know much about our band probably link us to Glee too, which is probably why I don't like it very much."

However, Alphabeat also revealed that they would not be able to prevent the Glee cast from covering one of their songs - even if they wanted to.

"The thing is, they can just do it. You know, we weren't asked when the finalists did that big thing with 'Fascination' on The X Factor," Anders SG explained.

"It would be fun to see how they'd do it, because it's always really cheesy when people cover that song," added Bramsen. "They'd earn us money by doing it I guess, so they're welcome to try!"

> Click here to read our full interview with Alphabeat