Swedish Songs

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Ballads and kulning dominate the Swedish folk music scene. Sami music is the music of northern Finland, Norway and Sweden. It has songs called joik which are highly spiritual.

Nordik folk dance music is very popular not just in Sweden but in its neighboring countries as well. This music includes styles like polka, polska, mazurka, waltz and schottische. The 60’s saw a roots revival in Sweden when many artists joined Spelmanslag (folk musicians’ clubs) and performed on mainstream radio and TV.

The traditional Swedish folk instruments include the fiddle, nyckelharpa, hurdy-gurdy, sackpipa or Swedish bagpipe, violin, accordion, harmonica and clarinet.

Popular Swedish folk musicians include Lenna Willemark, Folk och Rackare, Hedningarna, Garmarna, Väsen to name a few.

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Since the 70’s and 80’s American pop music became popular in Sweden and began to influence the Swedish pop music. Genres like jazz, hip hop, rock, punk, electronica, disco, and heavy metal to name a few became very popular.
Chip music or bitpop is music made on old lo-fi 8-bit game consoles, like Commodore 64 or Game Boy and Sweden is very popular for this style of music. Popular artists are Random, Coma, Covox, Dubmood, Crazy Q etc.

Swedish choirs are very popular as well and a lot of credit goes to the Swedish language itself which is said to have a singing quality in it. Radio Choir which is owned by Sveriges Radio is one of the world’s top professional classical choirs.
The most popular band from Sweden is ABBA without a doubt. The irony though was that ABBA gained more popularity outside Sweden in the international music arena than it did within Sweden. Even today many of ABBA’s songs are popular amongst just not the old but the young as well.

Other artists who got to taste international success are Roxette, Ace of Base, Carola Häggkvist, Helena Paparizou, Army of Lovers, Neneh, Eagle-Eye Cherry, Robyn, A*Teens, The Cardigans, Europe, Alcazar and Play.

Some popular Swedish pop songs are:

• It must have been love by Roxette
• Dancing queen by ABBA
• Mama mia by ABBA
• All that she wants by Ace of Base

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Stockholm is the heart of the Swedish music industry where 90% of Sweden’s music is produced. Swedish music industry exports amount to SEK 3.3 billion a year. Sweden has dominated the Scandinavian music industry as well.

Classical music was popular in the beginning in Sweden. Popular Swedish classical musicians include Carl Michael Bellman, Wilhelm Stenhammar, Wilhelm Peterson-Berger, Hugo Alfvén, Franz Berwald and Johan Helmich Roman. Jazz was equally populae during the earlier times and famous jazz musicians included Monica Zetterlund, Alice Babs, Putte Wickman, Lars Gullin, Svenson Trio and many others. Operas were also made popular especially by artists like soprano Jenny Lind in the 19th century and tenor Jussi Björling in the 20th century.

Nordik folk dance music which includes traditions like the polka, polska, waltz, and mazurka is very popular in Sweden.

Swedish pop music has become a craze not just within Sweden but internationally as well. Swedish pop artists like ABBA, Ace of Base, Roxette, Meja, The Cardigans to name a few have tasted international success.
Some popular Swedish songs are:

1. It must have been love by Roxette
2. Dancing queen by ABBA
3. Mama mia by ABBA