| Flag | |
| Type: | Album |
| Artist: | Yello |
| Cover: | Yello - Flag CD cover.jpg |
| Border: | yes |
| Released: | 1 November 1988 |
| Recorded: | 1987–1988 |
| Genre: | Synthpop |
| Length: | 49:01 |
| Label: | Mercury (original US release) Fontana (original UK & European release) Vertigo (2005 CD reissue) |
| Producer: | Yello |
| Prev Title: | One Second |
| Prev Year: | 1987 |
| Next Title: | Baby |
| Next Year: | 1991 |
Flag is the sixth studio album by Swiss electronic duo Yello, released in 1988. It features an eight-minute version of "The Race", the edited version of which reached number 7 in the UK Singles Chart in August of that year. "The Race" was used as a trailer for Eurosport, and the opening theme to the US quiz show It's Academic.[1] [2]
An early cut of the album was used as the soundtrack for the film Nuns on the Run and is played during many of the chase scenes.
All tracks written by Dieter Meier and Boris Blank.
(*) Bonus tracks on the 2005 remastered release
| Country | Peak position [3] [4] [5] | |
|---|---|---|
| Switzerland | 3 | |
| Australia[6] | 94 | |
| Austria | 12 | |
| Sweden | 24 | |
| New Zealand | 33 | |
| United Kingdom | 56 | |
| United States | 152 |
Singles – UK Singles Chart / Millward Brown (United Kingdom)
| Date | Single | Chart | Position | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 1988 | "The Race" | The Official UK Singles Chart | 7 | |
| December 1988 | "Tied Up" | The Official UK Singles Chart | 60 | |
| March 1989 | "Of Course I'm Lying" | The Official UK Singles Chart | 23 | |
| July 1989 | "Blazing Saddles" | The Official UK Singles Chart | 47 |
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