Andreas Johnson

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Andreas Johnson (2012)

Jon Erik Andreas Johnson (born March 22, 1970 in Bjärred ) is a Swedish pop and rock singer .

Life

Childhood and youth

Even as a child, Andreas Johnson toured with his parents who made jazz music. Here he already had his first stage experience. As a teenager he moved to a suburb of Stockholm , where he composed and wrote his first songs. Here he founded his first music band Silver Arrow .

The beginning of the career

He got his first record deal with his second band The Planet Waves at EMI Scandinavia . From 1993 to 1995 he went to New York with his band ; there the first album Brutal Awakenings was released . After their return to Sweden, however, the band broke up. In 1997 the first solo album Cottenfish Tales was released . However, Johnson felt that his artistic freedoms were restricted by the label and separated from EMI Scandinavia.

He moved to Germany (Berlin), where he met a girl who had since died and who inspired him to write his second album Liebling . When the record company WEA , he released the single Glorious , in the UK took fourth place in the UK charts and also in Europe successfully ran. In France, the single was released again in 2004, where it stayed in the top 100 for 17 weeks and reached number 16.

In 2002 he released his third album Deadly Happy . The release Shine was the soundtrack to the German comedy 666 - Don't trust anyone you sleep with! .

In 2005 his album Mr. Johnson Your Room Is on Fire came out in Germany . The first single was Sing for me , with which he also competed in the Swedish preliminary decision for the Eurovision Song Contest 2006 . The second release was Show me XXX . In 2007 he again took part in the Swedish preliminary round of the Eurovision Grand Prix, but only achieved second place with his song A little bit of love and thus narrowly missed the final in Helsinki.

In 2008 he appeared again in a duet with Carola Häggkvist in the Swedish preliminary decision for the Eurovision Song Contest with the song One Love . Two years later he took part again as a solo artist with We Can Work It Out in the Swedish ESC preliminary round, where he finished sixth in the final when Anna Bergendahl won.

Discography

Studio albums

year title Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE AT AT CH CH UK UK SE SE
1999 favorite - AT36 (3 weeks)
AT 		- UK46 (2 weeks)
UK 		SE21 (11 weeks)
SE
First published: May 25, 1999
2002 Deadly Happy - - - - SE45 (1 week)
SE
First published: February 11, 2002
2005 Mr. Johnson, your room is on fire - - - - SE5 (13 weeks)
SE
First published: November 2, 2005
2007 The Collector - - - - SE3
gold
gold

(14 weeks)SE
First published: March 7, 2007
compilation
2008 Rediscovered - - - - SE29 (4 weeks)
SE
First published: October 29, 2008
2012 Village idiot - - - - SE17 (5 weeks)
SE
First published: February 29, 2012

more publishments

  • 1997: Cottonfish Tales
  • 2010: Tour Edition

Singles

year Title
album 		Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE AT AT CH CH UK UK SE SE
1999 Glorious
darling 		DE79 (9 weeks)
DE 		- CH40 (16 weeks)
CH 		UK4th
silver
silver

(13 weeks)UK 		SE13
gold
gold

(19 weeks)SE
First published: July 1999
The Games We Play
darling 		- - - UK41 (3 weeks)
UK 		SE56 (1 week)
SE
First published: December 1999
2002 Shine
Deadly Happy 		- - - - SE33 (3 weeks)
SE
First published: January 2002
2005 Show Me Love
Mr. Johnson, Your Room Is On Fire 		- - - - SE20 (8 weeks)
SE
First published: October 2005
2006 Sing for Me
Mr. Johnson, Your Room Is On Fire 		- - - - SE2
gold
gold

(20 weeks)SE
First published: March 2006
2007 A Little Bit of Love
The Collector 		- - - - SE3
gold
gold

(15 weeks)SE
First published: February 2007
2008 Lucky Star - - - - SE13 (6 weeks)
SE
First published: January 2008
(with Häggkvist )
One love - - - - SE11 (8 weeks)
SE
First published: February 2008
(with Häggkvist)
2009 Escape
Tour Edition 		- - - - SE11 (10 weeks)
SE
First published: August 2009
2010 We Can Work It Out
Tour Edition 		- - - - SE9 (7 weeks)
SE
First published: February 2010
2019 Army of Us
 - - - - SE52 (3 weeks)
SE
First published: February 2019

More singles

  • 1997: Cruel
  • 1997: Seven Days
  • 2002: End of the World
  • 2002: Waterfall
  • 2007: Go for the Soul
  • 2010: Solace
  • 2011: One Man Army
  • 2011: Buzzin
  • 2012: Lovelight

swell

  1. ↑ a b Chart sources: DE AT CH UK SE
  2. ↑ Music Sales Awards: UK SE

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personal data
SURNAME Johnson, Andreas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Johnson, Jon Erik Andreas (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish pop and rock singer
DATE OF BIRTH March 22, 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Bjärred