Top40-Charts.com
Support our efforts,
sign up for our $5 membership!
(Start for free)
Register or login with just your e-mail address
Pop / Rock 14 October, 2009

'Barbie Girl' Is Back As Pop Phenom Aqua Reunites For 'Back To The '80s' And Other New Songs On Greatest Hits

Hot Songs Around The World

Die With A Smile
Lady Gaga & Bruno Mars
654 entries in 29 charts
A Bar Song (Tipsy)
Shaboozey
770 entries in 22 charts
APT.
Rose & Bruno Mars
429 entries in 29 charts
That's So True
Gracie Abrams
312 entries in 21 charts
Bad Dreams
Teddy Swims
224 entries in 19 charts
Happy
Pharrell Williams
1286 entries in 35 charts
HeatWaves
Glass Animals
1410 entries in 26 charts
Blinding Lights
Weeknd
1849 entries in 33 charts
Tu Falta De Querer
Mon Laferte
208 entries in 3 charts
Stargazing
Myles Smith
464 entries in 20 charts
Espresso
Sabrina Carpenter
844 entries in 27 charts
Si Antes Te Hubiera Conocido
Karol G
301 entries in 13 charts
The Emptiness Machine
Linkin Park
222 entries in 21 charts
Birds Of A Feather
Billie Eilish
826 entries in 25 charts
New York, NY (Top40 Charts/ Universal Music Enterprises) - The global pop phenomenon Aqua is back. After selling more than 30 million albums and singles worldwide and racking up the massive hit "Barbie Girl," the Danish-Norwegian group disbanded in 2001. Now Aqua returns with its first single in eight years, "Back To The '80s," and two other new tracks on Greatest Hits (Geffen/UMe), released October 13, 2009.

At a time when '80s pop is undergoing a revival with new artists such as Lady GaGa, Aqua re-emerges with a hymn to that decade. As producer/songwriter Claus Norreen says, "We write songs that put a smile on people's faces...Maybe people are ready again for music that's about good times." Apparently toy manufacturer Mattel agrees. The company is using a cover version of "Barbie Girl" as the soundtrack to its 50th anniversary celebration of the iconic doll.

Along with the new "Back To The '80s," "My Mamma Said" and "Live Fast, Die Young," Greatest Hits features 16 remastered recordings. Included are the No 7 U.S. hit "Barbie Girl" (No 1 U.K.) and Top 30 U.S. "Lollipop (Candyman)," both from the band's 1997 U.S. triple platinum, Top 10 debut album Aquarium. Also culled from that album are two other U.K. No 1s-"Doctor Jones" and "Turn Back Time"-plus "Happy Boys & Girls," "Be A Man," "My Oh My" (No 6 U.K.) and "Roses Are Red." From the band's second and most recent original album, 2000's Top 10 U.K. Aquarius are "Cartoon Heroes" (No 7 U.K.), "Around The World" (Top 30 U.K.), "Cuba Libre," "Freaky Friday," "We Belong To The Sea," "Halloween," "Goodbye To The Circus" and the title track.

Aqua formed in 1994, but it was "Barbie Girl" which transformed singers Lene Nystrom Rasted and Rene Dif, and Norreen and producer/songwriter Soren Nystrom Rasted into major stars. Aqua became that rare group to hit No 1 in the U.K. with its first three singles, and as a result of this great achievement a position in the Guinness Book of Records. Follow-up album Aquarius broadened the group's dance-pop formula. But the pressures of worldwide fame took its personal toll and a projected third album was never completed.

Lene and Soren married and became parents. Lene also released a solo album, co-wrote "No Good Advice" (a No 2 U.K. hit for Girls Aloud) and launched an acting career. Soren worked on various music projects, including Lazyboy (known as Lazy B in the U.K.), a Royal Danish Opera ballet, and penning hit songs for other artists. Claus, a father too, collaborated with Soren and also wrote music for the theatre. Meanwhile Rene worked as an actor, published his autobiography and recorded a solo album.

Yet Aqua's fans never forgot the band. Says Norreen: "Our music had been the soundtrack to other people's lives. We heard stories from people who were 16 when they got into Aqua and now they have kids of their own. It's really heart-warming."

With Greatest Hits, it's time to party once more to the good-time pop of Aqua.

Aqua's recent video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kw5s3CB_1pE






Most read news of the week


© 2001-2025
top40-charts.com (S6)
about | site map
contact | privacy
Page gen. in 0.0117011 secs // 4 () queries in 0.0052828788757324 secs