Basshunter
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Jonas Erik Altberg (born December 22, 1984, in Halmstad, Sweden), better known by the pseudonym Basshunter, is a Swedish musician and DJ. Basshunter describes his own music as Eurodance, while others may also interpret it as eurotrance, club, and other electronic music genres.[citation needed] Basshunter is managed by former Warner Music A&R agent Henrik Uhlman, and is represented in the United States by Mayar Zokaei.
He has become famous for his songs "Boten Anna" and "Vi sitter i Ventrilo och spelar DotA", in part owing to their references to geek culture. Altberg has been diagnosed with Tourette syndrome.[1]
Biography
Jonas Erik Altberg was born on 22 December 1984 in Halmstad, Sweden. He lived with his parents and younger brother near Tylösand, a famous Swedish beach. He started to produce music under the stage name "Basshunter" in 1999 with the computer program Fruity Loops, and released his first album, The Bassmachine, through his own home page in 2004. His interest in music became greater as he progressed. After several demo songs spread over the internet, he started to get phone calls from dance clubs that wanted to hire him as a DJ. In April 2006, he signed his first contract with Warner Music, releasing his first single, "Boten Anna". In Scandinavia, the song became a hit instantly and was the first ever Swedish language song to reach number one on the Dutch Top 40 Chart. His major label debut album, LOL <(^^,)> would chart all over Europe and launch him into the forefront of dance music. When Basshunter reached 50,000 friends on MySpace, he celebrated by releasing "Beer in the Bar - Myspace Edit" and chatting via webcam with fans]. In 2007, Altberg released a re-recording of "Boten Anna", titled "Now You're Gone", featuring entirely rewritten lyrics to appeal to a foreign market. The song subsequently charted at number one on the UK Singles Chart.
Throughout 2007, Basshunter has been working on a new album, titled Now You're Gone: The Album, after the leading single, set to be released on 14 July 2008. He has so released a small clip of "Camilla", while the song "I Can Walk On Water, I Can Fly" leaked unintentionally. After a planned release, "Please Don't Go", another single, was cancelled in an email to subscribers of the Hard2Beat newsletter. The single release was instead switched to "All I Ever Wanted", an English re-recording of "Vi sitter i Ventrilo och spelar DotA", in the vein of "Now You're Gone". Within the single newsletter, it was also revealed that the next album was indeed "on its way", along with the single, and that the album would be English reworkings of classic Basshunter songs.
There has been rumors of plagiarism about Vi sitter i Ventrilo och spelar DotA, some people are accusing Basshunter of stealing Daddy DJ melody[2]. It is also rumored that Basshunter received legal clearance to use the original melody but there is not a public statement on the record company's[2] or Basshunter's website[3].
Prior to the release of the album, "All I Ever Wanted" lived up to the success of "Now You're Gone" and charted at number two on the UK Singles Chart.
Discography
Studio albums
| Title | Peak chart positions[3] | ||||||
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| SWE | FIN | DEN | NOR | OST | NLD | UK | |
The Bassmachine
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| LOL <(^^,)> | 5 | 4 | 3 | 19 | 12 | 66 | – |
| Now You're Gone: The Album | |||||||
Singles
| Year | Title | Peak chart positions[4] | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UK | IRL | SWE | NLD | FIN | DEN | NOR | OST | GER | SWZ | FRA | EUR | CAN | ||
| 2006 | "Boten Anna" | – | – | 1 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 9 | 45 | – | 58 | – |
| "Vi sitter i Ventrilo och spelar DotA" | – | 46 | 6 | 9 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 18 | 30 | – | – | – | – | |
| "Hallå där" | – | – | 51 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | |
| "Vifta med händerna" | – | – | 25 | – | 7 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | |
| "Jingle Bells" | – | – | 13 | 31 | – | – | 9 | – | – | – | – | – | – | |
| 2007 | "Now You're Gone" | 1 | 1 | 2 | – | 8 | 14 | 10 | 14 | 18 | 40 | 6 | 6 | 88 |
| 2008 | "All I Ever Wanted" | 2 | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| "Please Don't Go" | – | – | 6 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | |
References
- ^ Joo, Nathalie (2006-06-11). "Hitmakaren Jonas: De ville göra narr av mig". Expressen (in Swedish). Kvällstidningen Expressen. Retrieved 2006-09-27.
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External links
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