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(note that Kvällstoppen was a combined singles and album chart, with singles dominating a large portion of the 1960s. The first album to reach number one was Abbey Road by the Beatles in 1969, and the first Swedish-language album was Cornelis sjunger Taube by Cornelis Vreeswijk that same year)
The list of best-selling Swedish music artists according to the Swedish newspapers. List. Artist Sales ABBA: 150 million [1] Roxette: 75 million [2] Ace of Base:
Swedish popular music, or shortly Swedish pop music, refers to music that has swept the Swedish mainstream at any given point in recent times. After World War II , Swedish pop music was heavily influenced by American jazz , and then by rock-and-roll from the U.S. and the U.K. in the 1950s and 1960s, before developing into dansband music.
Upon its release, Sjung debuted at number one on the Swedish Album Chart for the week of 3 February 2012. [37] This became Laleh's second number one album, following her self-titled debut's peak at the position 44 weeks after entering the list. [38] The album continued its run at number one for two more weeks, before dropping to number two.
Impera debuted at number one in five countries, including in the band's native country Sweden, and charted in the top 40 of multiple charts worldwide. [ 30 ] In the United States, Impera debuted at number two on the Billboard 200 chart, behind Lil Durk 's 7220 , selling 70,000 units in its first week, of which 62,500 were physical album sales .
A follow-up album, Body Talk Pt. 2, was released on 6 September, entering straight at number one on the Swedish chart, [1] and the final album of the trilogy, Body Talk, was released on 22 November 2010 with the first single "Indestructible".
During the 2000s, 200 singles reached the number-one position on the chart. Markoolio was the most successful artist at reaching the top spot, with 10 number-one singles. Las Ketchup 's single " The Ketchup Song (Aserejé) " spent 16 weeks at number one in 2002 and one week in 2003, which was the longest spell at the top of the chart of the decade.
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