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Spotify reveals Danes’ 2014 music tastes

Four domestic artists – led by crooner Rasmus Seebach – were among the ten most popular musicians in Denmark this year according to figures from streaming service Spotify.

Published: 4 December 2014 15:38 CET
Spotify reveals Danes' 2014 music tastes
Rasmus Seebach. Photo: Kim Matthäi Leland/WikiCommons
Streaming music Spotify's 2014 figures have revealed pop singer Rasmus Seebach as the king of Danish music. 
 
But although Danes listened to Seebach more than any other Danish artist in 2014, he couldn’t top English singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran, who was the most popular overall artist in Denmark. That should perhaps come as no surprise. According to Spotify’s figures, the red-haired and red-hot Sheeran was the most popular artist worldwide on the streaming service. Sheeran’s popularity in Denmark even seems to outpace his success elsewhere – the 23-year-old’s ‘I See Fire’ was the most popular song in Denmark despite not making the top ten on Spotify’s global charts. 
 
The 34-year-old Seebach, whose latest album ‘Ingen kan love dig i morgen’ (No one can promise you tomorrow), was released late in 2013, staved off competition from younger pop star Christopher to claim the title as the most popular domestic act. Other homegrown talents in the top ten were pop princess Medina at number five, rapper L.O.C at number seven and rapper-producer TopGunn at number eight. 
 
Here’s a rundown of Danes’ Spotify usage in 2014:
 

Top 10 most popular songs in Denmark:

1. I See Fire  – Ed Sheeran
2. Waves – Mr. Probz – Robin Schulz
3. Happy – Pharrell Williams
4. Happy Home – Hedegaard
5. Rather Be – Clean Bandit (feat. Jess Glynne)
6. Jalousi – Medina
7. All of Me – John Legend
8. Twerk It Like Miley feat Christopher – Brandon Beal
9. Dark Horse – Katy Perry
10. Rude – Magic!

Top 10 most popular artists in Denmark:

1. Ed Sheeran
2. Rasmus Seebach
3. Christopher
4. Eminem
5. Medina
6. Jason Derulo
7. L.O.C
8. TopGunn
9. Calvin Harris
10. David Guetta

Top 10 most popular albums in Denmark:

1. x – Ed Sheeran
2. Told You So – Christopher
3. In The Lonely Hour – Sam Smith
4. G I R L – Pharrel Williams
5. Sakrilegium – L.O.C.
6. The New Classic – Iggy Azalea
7. Ækte Vare – Gilli
8. d.a.u.d.a II – Sivas
9. Don't Kill The Magic – Magic!
10. Forbandede Ungdom – Ukendt Kunstner

If you're reading this from outside of Denmark and have no clue who Rasmus Seebach is, here is his hit song 'Olivia'.

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New songs mark sixth anniversary of French star Johnny Hallyday’s death

Fans of the late Johnny Hallyday, "the French Elvis Presley", will be able to commemorate the sixth anniversary of his death with two songs never released before.

Published: 17 November 2023 09:05 CET
New songs mark sixth anniversary of French star Johnny Hallyday's death

Hallyday, blessed with a powerful husky voice and seemingly boundless energy, died in December 2017, aged 74, of lung cancer after a long music and acting career.

After an estimated 110 million records sold during his lifetime – making him one of the world’s best-selling singers -Hallyday’s success has continued unabated beyond his death.

Almost half of his current listeners on Spotify are under the age of 35, according to the streaming service, and a posthumous greatest hits collection of “France’s favourite rock’n’roller”, whose real name was Jean-Philippe Leo
Smet, sold more than half a million copies.

The two new songs, Un cri (A cry) and Grave-moi le coeur (Engrave my heart), are featured on two albums published by different labels which also contain already-known hits in remastered or symphonic versions.

Un cri was written in 2017 by guitarist and producer Maxim Nucci – better known as Yodelice – who worked with Hallyday during the singer’s final years.

At the time Hallyday had just learned that his cancer had returned, and he “felt the need to make music outside the framework of an album,” Yodelice told reporters this week.

Hallyday recorded a demo version of the song, accompanied only by an acoustic blues guitar, but never brought it to full production.

Sensing the fans’ unbroken love for Hallyday, Yodelice decided to finish the job.

He separated the voice track from the guitar which he felt was too tame, and arranged a rockier, full-band accompaniment.

“It felt like I was playing with my buddy,” he said.

The second song, Grave-moi le coeur, is to be published in December under the artistic responsibility of another of the singer’s close collaborators, the arranger Yvan Cassar.

Hallyday recorded the song – a French version of Elvis’s Love Me Tender – with a view to performing it at a 1996 show in Las Vegas.

But in the end he did not play it live, opting instead for the original English-language version, and did not include it in any album.

“This may sound crazy, but the song was on a rehearsal tape that had never been digitalised,” Cassar told AFP.

The new songs are unlikely to be the last of new Hallyday tunes to delight fans, a source with knowledge of his work said. “There’s still a huge mass of recordings out there spanning his whole career,” the source said.

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