Happy Nation is the debut studio album by Swedish pop group Ace of Base. It was initially released in Denmark on 2 November 1992 by Mega Records. During development of the record, the group was heavily influenced by a Jamaican reggae band residing in a nearby studio.[5] For a release in North America, Japan and some Latin American countries, the album was retitled The Sign with a heavily revised track listing and three new tracks. To coincide with this, Happy Nation was reissued with the new tracks in other territories as Happy Nation (U.S. Version). In 1995, Guinness Book of World Records named the LP the best-selling debut studio effort in music history, at more than 19 million copies sold worldwide.[6] By 1998, Happy Nation/The Sign had sold approximately 21 million units including 9 million in the US alone.[7]Happy Nation/The Sign is one of the best-selling albums of all time.
^Larkin, Colin (2010). The Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music, Volume 1. Guinness Publishing. p. 51. ISBN 978-1-5615-9176-3. When Ace of Base scored a massive worldwide number 1 in 1993 with 'All That She Wants', the comparisons to fellow Swedish group, Abba, seemed obvious: Two female vocalists, one blonde, one brunette, and two male musicians, playing catchy dance pop.
^Larkin, Colin (2007). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (5th Concise ed.). United Kingdom: Omnibus Press. p. 34. ISBN 978-1-84609-856-7.
^Sullivan, Caroline (1993-06-11). "Music: Rock/pop". The Guardian.
^Jones, Alan (1993-06-19). "Market Preview: Mainstream - Albums" (PDF). Music Week. p. 23. Retrieved 2023-01-29.
^"Ulf Ekberg (Ace of Base): The Interview". EuroMenTravel. 7 April 2016. Retrieved 11 July 2016.
^Tortorici, Frank (2000-05-18). "Ace of Base's Jenny Berggren". MTV. Retrieved 2016-08-31.
^Ferro, Charles (30 May 1998). "Ace Of Base Sprouts 'Flowers'". Billboard. p. 70. Retrieved 1 November 2019.
HappyNation is the debut studio album by Swedish pop group Ace of Base. It was initially released in Denmark on 2 November 1992 by Mega Records. During...
achieved worldwide success following the release of their debut album, HappyNation in 1992. Later re-issued as The Sign, it was certified nine times platinum...
throughout the 1990s. Ekberg played an integral part in the production of the HappyNation album, co-writing nearly all of the album's tracks. Ekberg would continue...
Mega Records as the second single from the group's first studio album, HappyNation (1992), and in the following year, it was released as the first single...
song recorded by Swedish pop group Ace of Base from their debut album, HappyNation (1992). It was released in Scandinavia in April 1993 as the fourth single...
"All That She Wants" (Malin Berggren, Jonas Berggren, and Ulf Ekberg) "HappyNation" (Malin Berggren, Jonas Berggren, and Ulf Ekberg) "Dimension of Depth"...
Sign (Ace of Base album), an alternate name for the Ace of Base album HappyNation "The Sign" (song), a 1993 hit from this album The Sign (Crystal Lake...
Linn shared leads. Linn had a somewhat minor role in the composition of HappyNation and The Sign, only having co-writing credits on one track on a re-release...
Research UK (Press release). April 26, 2010. Retrieved February 21, 2022. "HAPPYNATION songs and albums | full Official Chart history". Official Charts. "GIRLS...
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and Mega as the seventh and final single from the group's debut album, HappyNation (U.S. version) and fourth single from their American debut release, The...
Elofsson, Per Magnusson and Andreas Carlsson. Ace of Base's first album HappyNation (reissued as The Sign) is one of the best-selling debut albums of all...
works were: The Hermit, The Ghost, Otaraant Widow, Kako The Robber, HappyNation, Letters of a Traveler and Is a man a human?!. Chavchavadze was killed...
Turn Around (1994) by Ace of Base". imvdb.com. Retrieved 2017-02-02. "HappyNation (1993) by Ace of Base". imvdb.com. Retrieved 2017-02-02. "Living in Danger...
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Fredrik Sixten. The psalm also forms the introduction of the 90s pop song HappyNation by Swedish pop group Ace of Base,[citation needed] and a popular arrangement...
with the worldwide number-one hits "All That She Wants", "The Sign", "HappyNation" and "Don't Turn Around" by Ace of Base. Eurodance artists such as Dr...
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