Songoftheday 3/26/20 - I believe life could be paradise once again, and the love we thought we lost is sleeping within...
from the album The Bridge (1995)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #30 (one week)
Weeks in the Top-40: 4
Today's song of the day comes from the Swedish pop group Ace Of Base, whose second album in America, The Bridge, had already scored them their fifth top-40 pop hit with "Beautiful Life" in the closing days of 1995. The second single from the project was the breezy "Lucky Love". Written by band member Jonas Berggren along with "song doctor" Billy Steinberg, who wrote many of the hits of the 1980s ("So Emotional", "Eternal Flame"), with Jonas producing the track with Denniz PoP and Max Martin. In Europe, "Lucky Love" was actually the lead single from the album, where the dance-pop production was a huge hit; in America, it actually was the more guitar-based "acoustic" mix that was favored on the radio...
"Lucky Love" became the second top-40 pop hit from The Bridge in April of 1996. The song also reached both the Adult Contemporary (#38) and Adult Top-40 (#33) "easy listening" radio format charts in Billboard magazine. The club remixes of the song helped the song land their third and final #1 hit on the Dance chart as well. Internationally, the single spent three weeks at #1 in Finland and a week there in their native Sweden. It also reached the top ten in Denmark (#2), Canada (#6), Spain (#6), France (#9), and Belgium (#9W/#24F). The song made the top-20 in New Zealand (#12), Norway (#12), Germany (#13), Austria (#14), The Netherlands (#16), Switzerland (#19), the UK (#20), and Italy (#20). A third single from the record, "Never Gonna Say I'm Sorry", missed the official American pop chart, "bubbling under" the Hot 100 at #106, while doing much better overseas, landing in the top-40 in The Netherlands (#12), Denmark (#12), Finland (#17), Sweden (#24), Austria (#38), and Iceland (#40).
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Here's the original European single version of the song, which was more dance-pop in production...
Next up, one of the remixes of the song that helped top the dance charts from the late legendary Frankie Knuckles...
And the group appearing on Top Of The Pops (actually singing live to track)...
Finally, Ace of Base in concert in Chile in 1996...
Up tomorrow: This diva says she'll be sticking around.
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