Living in Danger

"Living In Danger"
Single by Ace of Base
from the album The Sign
Released	US October 18, 1994 UK January 1, 1995
Format	CD single
Recorded	Mid-1993
Genre	Dance, Pop
Length	Single Version 3:10 Album Version 3:39
Label	Mega Records / Arista Records
Writer(s)	Jonas Berggren, Ulf Ekberg
Producer	Tommy Ekman and Per Adebratt
Ace of Base singles chronology
"Don't Turn Around" (1994) "Living in Danger" (1994) "Lucky Love" (1995)

"Living In Danger" is a song taken from the album, Happy Nation (released as The Sign in North America) by the band Ace of Base. It was released as a single and reached #18 on the UK Singles Chart, and it peaked at #20 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the U.S. in 1994. The song also topped the American dance chart in December of that year.

1994 European Music Awards

Ace of Base performed this song on the first ever MTV Europe Music Awards held in Germany in 1994. Ace of Base performed "Living in Danger" in the front of Berlin's Brandenburg Gate. They were also nominated for Best Cover with "Don't Turn Around" this year.

Music Video

A music video was produced to promote the single. The video was directed by Matt Broadley. He also directed the music videos of "All That She Wants", "Happy Nation" and "Don't Turn Around".

The music video of "Living in Danger" opens with the four members of Ace of Base singing at different places on a underground metro station. Then we see 3 people, two men and a woman, rushing into the underground station. We also see a woman sitting in a ticketoffice watching the busy people. She feels that no one really sees her in the officebox. On a train a woman believes that a strange man with sunglasses are following her. That is the same man that arrived on the station earlier. The woman are getting scared and she tries to getaway from this stranger on the train. She runs off the train and then in the hurry she falls behind the ticketoffice. The woman in the officebox helps her and offers her some coffee. That stranger on the train is a former pilot. We now see some old flashbacks from a war somewhere, where he in a plane was attacked and had to escape by a parachute. In this war he also met a priest and on the train he happens to meet this priest again and they start talking. In the end of the video we see Joker and Buddha leaving the metro station together. Linn and Jenny are standing together on the metro.

Track listings

• United Kingdom Maxi CD:

1. Living In Danger (Radio Edit) - 3:10
2. Living In Danger (Old School Mix Short Version) - 3:39
3. Living In Danger (D-House Mix Long Version) - 10:03
4. Living In Danger (New Buddha Version) - 3:35
5. Living In Danger (For The Big Clubs Mix) - 10:15

• United States Maxi CD

1. Living In Danger (Radio Remix) - 3:10
2. Living In Danger (Album Version) - 3:19
3. Living In Danger (Old School Mix) - 4:56
4. Living In Danger (D-House Mix) - 10:08
5. Living In Danger (Principle Mix) - 8:50
6. Living In Danger (Buddha Version) - 3:35

Official Versions/Remixes

• Radio Remix
• Album Version
• D-House Mix Short Version
• D-House Mix Long Version
• For The Big Clubs Mix
• Hurley's Deephouse Dub
• New Buddha Version
• Old School Mix Long Version
• Old School Mix Short Version
• Old School Mix Radio Mix
• Principle Mix
• X-Mix
• X-Mix Radio Edit

Personnel

• Vocals by Linn Berggren, Jenny Berggren and Ulf Ekberg
• Backing Vocals by John Ballard
• Written by Jonas Berggren and Ulf Ekberg
• Produced by Tommy Ekman and Per Adebratt
• Pre-Production by Jonas Berggren and Ulf Ekberg, T.O.E.C.
• Recorded at Tuff Studios, Gothenburg

Charts

Chart	Peak position
Austrian Singles Chart	19
Canadian Hot 100	4
Dutch Singles Chart	27
Chile Top 100 Chart	3
German Singles Chart	23
Irish Singles Chart	12
MTV European Top 20	6
Swiss Singles Chart	26
Swedish Singles Chart	15
UK Airplay Chart	7
UK Singles Chart	18
U.S. Billboard Hot 100	20
U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Club Play	1
U.S. Billboard Top 40 Mainstream	7
U.S. Billboard Rhythmic Top 40	26

Preceded by "Excited" by M People

Billboard Hot Dance Club Play number-one single December 25, 1994 - January 7, 1995

Succeeded by "Melody of Love (Wanna Be Loved)" by Donna Summer