Drop the Pressure

{{Short description|2005 single by Mylo and Miami Sound Machine}}

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{{Infobox song

| name = Drop the Pressure

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| type = single

| artist = Mylo

| album = Destroy Rock & Roll

| released = May 2004

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| length = {{duration|m=4|s=15}}

| label = * Breastfed

| writer = * Myles MacInnes

| producer = MacInnes

| chronology = Mylo

| prev_title = Muscle Car

| prev_year = 2004

| next_title = Valley of the Dolls

| next_year = 2004

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"Drop the Pressure" is a song by the Scottish electronic dance musician Mylo. It appears on Mylo's first and only album Destroy Rock & Roll and was released as a single in the UK on 18 October 2004. The song is constructed from an instrumental and a single vocal line recording by Mylo, who used Reason 2.5 to incorporate a vocoder module.{{cite magazine |last=Kleinfeld |first=Justin |date=March 2006 |title=Mylo |magazine=Remix |page=18 |volume=8 |issue=3 |issn=1532-1347}}

"Drop the Pressure" peaked at number 19 on the UK Singles Chart, yet topped the charts in the UK in both the Independent Singles Chart and Dance Singles Chart.{{Cite web |date=2004-10-30 |title=DROP THE PRESSURE |url=https://www.officialcharts.com/songs/mylo-drop-the-pressure/ |access-date=2024-11-16 |website=Official Charts |language=en}} A mash-up of "Drop the Pressure" and Miami Sound Machine's 1984 song "Dr. Beat" was released in 2005 as "Doctor Pressure".

Charts

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|+ Weekly chart performance for "Drop the Pressure"

!scope="col"|Chart (2004–2005)

!scope="col"|Peak
position

scope="row"{{single chart|Australia|46|artist=Mylo|song=Drop the Pressure|access-date=17 November 2024}}
scope="row"{{single chart|Flanders|27|artist=Mylo|song=Drop the Pressure|access-date=17 November 2024}}
scope="row"{{single chart|France|34|artist=Mylo|song=Drop the Pressure|access-date=17 November 2024}}
scope="row"{{single chart|Germany|43|artist=artist=Mylo|song=Drop the Pressure|access-date=17 November 2024|songid=82351}}
scope="row"{{single chart|Italy|43|artist=Mylo|song=Drop the Pressure|access-date=17 November 2024}}
scope="row"{{single chart|Dutch100|32|artist=Mylo|song=Drop the Pressure|access-date=17 November 2024}}
scope="row"{{single chart|UK|19|artist=Mylo|song=Drop the Pressure|access-date=17 November 2024|artistid=13589|date=20041030}}
scope="row"{{single chart|UKindie|1|artist=Mylo|song=Drop the Pressure|access-date=17 November 2024|artistid=13589|date=20041030}}
scope="row"{{single chart|UKdance|1|artist=Mylo|song=Drop the Pressure|access-date=17 November 2024|artistid=13589|date=20041030}}

References