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Aqua: The Video Collection is a video album/documentary film by the Danish-Norwegian dance-pop group, Aqua, released in 2000.It includes all of the band's videos from the period 1996–2000 and most of the videos made for the singles from their first two studio albums.
In 2016, Caramella Girls released a version called "Candy Girl" on iTunes, [141] as well as a YouTube music video. [142] The most recent rendition of the song was recorded by Ice Spice and Nicki Minaj, accompanied by Aqua, titled "Barbie World".
Aqua is a Danish-Norwegian Europop band, [6] [7] best known for their 1997 single "Barbie Girl". [ 8 ] [ 9 ] The group formed in 1995 in Copenhagen [ 10 ] and achieved international success around the globe in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
Aqua: The Videos (1998) Aqua: The Video Collection (2000) Aqua: The Videos is a compilation of Aqua's music videos, released in 1998. It includes four videos ...
The film is a comprehensive video history of Aqua, about their early days in the mid-1990s, when they were called Joyspeed as well as the personal lives of Lene Grawford Nystrom, Rene Dif, Soren Nystrom Rasted, and Claus Norreen. The film also shows footage from the band's concerts as well as a glimpse behind the stage.
The video parodied the groups status as a "Barbie band", gained due to the success of their hit "Barbie Girl", with Aqua trying to make a good music video, they made three videos, but being hampered by a poor director, a low-budget and faulty equipment.
It featured the band's biggest hit, "I Got a Girl", whose video received extensive airplay on MTV. By 1998, the album had sold over 300,000 copies in the United States. [8] The album was certified Platinum in Canada on May 1, 1998. [9]
Aquarium debuted at number one in Denmark. [13] As of August 2001, the album had sold 430,000 copies in Denmark. [14] It is the third best-selling album in Denmark to date, only beaten by Danish recording artist Kim Larsen's 1983 album Midt om natten and his 1986 album Forklædt som voksen.