Jill Johnson

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Jill Johnson (2011)

Jill Anna Maria Johnson (born May 24, 1973 in Ängelholm ) is a Swedish singer who mainly makes country music .

life and career

Johnson first appeared on stage at a country gala in Denmark at the age of 13 . A few years later she got a record deal in her homeland, but it did not lead to albums. It was not until she was in her early twenties - after she sang cover versions with a band from Helsingborg - that she got a record deal with EMI . Her first album Sugartree was released there .

Johnson achieved her breakthrough in Sweden in 1998 when she won the Melodifestivalen - the Swedish preliminary decision for the Eurovision Song Contest - and then represented her home country with the title Kärleken är ("Love is") at the ESC in Birmingham . There she took tenth place with this pop ballad. In 2003 she took part again in the Melodifestivalen with the country song Crazy in Love, which ultimately took fourth place. In 2005 she moderated the Melodifestivalen finals in Stockholm .

Johnson then recorded more country songs and traveled several times to Nashville , Tennessee , the US country's home. In 2005 a Christmas CD was released ( The Christmas in You ). At the end of October 2006 she brought out The Woman I've Become . In 2011 she appeared in the opening act for US singer Toby Keith . As part of this, she also appeared for the first time in Germany .

Between 2003 and 2014, 14 CDs in a row reached the top 5 of the Swedish album charts. This makes Johnson one of the most successful artists in the country.

On October 7, 2011 Johnson was the first in Sweden with the CD Flirting with Disaster . This was followed by three more number one successes from 2014: live music from Jill's Veranda Nashville , Songs for Daddy and In Tandem (2015, with Doug Seegers ).

Johnson was married to the musician Håkan Werner from 1999 to 2017 , and has with him the daughters Havanna (born 2004) and Bonnie Lee (born 2010). She lives in Borås .

Discography

Albums

year title Top ranking, total weeks, awardChartsChart placements
(Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)
Remarks
SE SE
1998 När hela världen ser på SE37 (3 weeks)
SE
2000 Daughter of Eve SE59 (1 week)
SE
2002 Good girl SE37 (3 weeks)
SE
2003 Discography SE4th
platinum
platinum

(26 weeks)SE
Roots and Wings SE5
platinum
platinum

(38 weeks)SE
2005 Being Who You Are SE4th
gold
gold

(17 weeks)SE
The Christmas in You SE3
gold
gold

(12 weeks)SE
2006 The Woman I've Become SE2
gold
gold

(14 weeks)SE
2007 Music Row SE3
platinum
platinum

(22 weeks)SE
2008 Baby blue paper SE3
gold
gold

(27 weeks)SE
2009 Music Row II SE2
platinum
platinum

(21 weeks)SE
2010 The Well-Known and Some Other Favorite Stories SE2 (14 weeks)
SE
2011 Flirting with disaster SE1
gold
gold

(26 weeks)SE
2012 A Woman Can Change Her Mind SE3 (15 weeks)
SE
2014 Live music from Jill's Veranda, Nashville SE1
gold
gold

(35 weeks)SE
Songs for Daddy SE1
gold
gold

(11 weeks)SE
2015 In tandem SE1 (25 weeks)
SE
Live music from Jills Veranda, Nashville säsong 2 SE11 (3 weeks)
SE
2016 For you I'll wait SE3 (14 weeks)
SE
2017 Tolkningarna - Så mycket bättre säsong 7 SE37 (5 weeks)
SE
rodeo SE11 (2 weeks)
SE
Christmas Island SE9 (9 weeks)
SE
Live music from Jills Veranda, Nashville säsong 3 SE38 (1 week)
SE

Singles

year title Top ranking, total weeks, awardChartsChart placements
(Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)
Remarks
SE SE
1996 Kommer tid, Kommer vår
Jan Johansen 2
SE38 (6 weeks)
SE
1998 Kärleken är
När hela världen ser på
SE5
gold
gold

(20 weeks)SE
2003 Crazy in Love
SE9 (22 weeks)
SE
Can't Get Enough of You
Roots and Wings
SE27 (18 weeks)
SE
2004 Oh, vilken härlig dag
SE37 (5 weeks)
SE
God's Gift
SE12 (4 weeks)
SE
2005 God Bless a Girl in Love
Being Who You Are
SE37 (5 weeks)
SE
2006 Heartbreak Hotel
SE41 (6 weeks)
SE
Cowboy Up
The Woman I've Become
SE32 (6 weeks)
SE
2007 Angel of the Morning
Music Row
SE30 (12 weeks)
SE
2008 Top of the World
Baby Blue Paper
SE56 (1 week)
SE
2015 I väntan på Julen
SE73 (3 weeks)
SE
En julsaga (Fairytale of New York)
SE99 (1 week)
SE
2016 Open your heart
SE2
gold
gold

(13 weeks)SE
The Burden
SE93 (1 week)
SE
Heaven is oskyldight blå
SE75 (1 week)
SE

Video albums

  • 2008: Music Row - Live in Concert (SE:goldgold)

swell

  1. ^ Jill Johnson på turné med Toby Keith , expressen.se
  2. a b c Chart discography Sweden
  3. Awards for music sales: SE
  4. In Tandem (album) in the Swedish charts

Web links

Commons : Jill Johnson  - Collection of Images