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Swedish popular music, or shortly Swedish pop music, refers to music that has swept the Swedish mainstream at any given point in recent times.After World War II, Swedish pop music was heavily influenced by American jazz, and then by rock-and-roll from the U.S. and the U.K. in the 1950s and 1960s, before developing into dansband music.
In the 1960s, Swedish jazz musicians like Jan Johansson used folk influences in their work, resulting in an early 1970s series of music festivals in Stockholm. The Swedish Music Movement reflected a popular trend towards jazz- and rock-oriented folk music, featuring many performers who brought a new vitality to Swedish folk.
(note that Kvällstoppen was a combined singles and album chart, with singles dominating a large portion of the 1960s. The first album to reach number one was Abbey Road by the Beatles in 1969, and the first Swedish-language album was Cornelis sjunger Taube by Cornelis Vreeswijk that same year)
Topics specifically related to the decade 1950s in the music of Sweden, i.e. in the years 1950 to ... 1940s; 1950s; 1960s; 1970s; 1980s; 1990s; 2000s; Subcategories ...
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The list of best-selling Swedish music artists according to the Swedish newspapers. List. Artist Sales ABBA: 150 million [1] Roxette: 75 million [2] Ace of Base:
It was by this time that the first jazz clubs was started in Sweden. The golden age of Swedish jazz is considered to be during the 1950s, with artists like Arne Domnérus, Lars Gullin, Alice Babs and Monica Zetterlund. East-West Records was a jazz record label active during the 1950s which featured American and Swedish musicians. [1]
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