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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.
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 (Now: FL Studio), 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, and stayed there for 5 weeks.
Throughout 2007, Basshunter has been working on a new album, titled Now You're Gone: The Album, after the leading single, was released on 14 July 2008. He has also 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.
The third single to be released in the UK will be "Angel in the Night" and not "Please Don't Go", which many fans speculated would be released instead.
Unofficial songs
Basshunter has also made many unofficial, i.e. unreleased songs. Certain notable ones include "Counter Strike the MP3", "Thunder in Paradise" and "MeloTrance". It is unclear about how these songs appeared on the Internet.
Personal life
Altberg has been diagnosed with Tourette syndrome.[1][2]
Discography
Studio albums
| Title | Peak chart positions[3] | |||||||
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| SWE | FIN | DEN | NOR | OST | NLD | UK | IRL | |
The Bassmachine
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– | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| LOL <(^^,)> | 5 | 4 | 3 | 19 | 12 | 66 | – | – |
| Now You're Gone – The Album | 38 | 1 | 2 | |||||
Singles
| Year | Title | Peak chart positions[4] | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UK | UK Dance | IRL | SWE | NLD | FIN | DEN | NOR | OST | GER | SWZ | FRA | EUR | US Dance | CAN | ||
| 2006 | "Boten Anna" | – | – | – | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 9 | 45 | – | 58 | – | – |
| "Vi sitter i Ventrilo och spelar DotA" | – | – | 46 | 6 | 18 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 18 | 30 | – | – | 18 | – | – | |
| "Hallå där" | – | – | – | 51 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | |
| "Vifta med händerna" | – | – | – | 25 | – | 7 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | |
| "Jingle Bells" | – | – | – | 13 | 31 | – | – | 9 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | |
| 2007 | "Now You're Gone" | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | – | 8 | 14 | 10 | 14 | 18 | 40 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 88 |
| 2008 | "All I Ever Wanted" | 2 | 1 | 1 | 58 | – | – | – | – | – | 35 | – | – | 18 | – | – |
| "Please Don't Go" | – | – | – | 6 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | |
| "Angel in the Night" | 22 | – | 15 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 102 | – | – | |
| Top ten hits | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | – | 1 | 1 | 1 | – | |
| Top twenty hits | 2 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 2 | – | 1 | 3 | 1 | – | |
| Charted singles | 3 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 1 | |
Remixes
| Year | Artist | Song | Length | Record Label |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | Verka Serduchka | "Dancing Lasha Tumbai" (Basshunter Remix) | (3:08) | Warner Music (Germany) |
| 2007 | Alex C. feat. Y-ass | "Du Hast Den Schönsten Arsch Der Welt" (Basshunter's Bass My Ass Remix) "Du Hast Den Schönsten Arsch Der Welt" (Basshunter's Bass My Ass Radio Remix) |
(5:24) (3:30) |
Polydor |
| 2007 | Loituma | "Ieva's Polka (Ievan Polkka)" (Basshunter Remix) | (3:35) | Polydor |
References
- ^ Joo, Nathalie (2006-06-11). "Hitmakaren Jonas: De ville göra narr av mig". Expressen (in Swedish). Kvällstidningen Expressen. Retrieved 2006-09-27.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|date=(help)CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link) - ^ Mendoza, Nadia. 'I was bullied for my Tourette's', The Sun July 15, 2008. Retrieved on July 18, 2008.
- ^ Album peak positions:
- ^ Single peak positions:
External links
- Official site (Sweden)
- Official site (France)
- Template:MySpace
- Basshunter & Alina - When You Leave (Numa Numa) Official Video on YouTube
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