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(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)
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.
Music portal; Sweden portal; 1960s portal; Topics specifically related to the decade 1960s in the music of Sweden, i.e. in the years 1960 to 1969. 1910s; 1920s; 1930s ...
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.
1960: 2 February "Alla andra får varann" Östen Warnerbring/Inger Berggren: Åke Gerhard, Ulf Kjellqvist 10th (performed by Siw Malmkvist) [a] 1961: 6 February "April, april" Siw Malmkvist/Gunnar Wiklund: Bobbie Ericson, Bo Eneby 14th (performed by Lill-Babs) [a] 1962: 13 February "Sol och vår" Inger Berggren/Lily Berglund: Åke Gerhard, Ulf ...
1960s in Swedish music (9 C, 1 P) S. 1960s in Swedish sport (13 C) ... Pages in category "1960s in Sweden" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total.
UK 1 – Jan 1961, US BB 1 – Nov 1960, Canada 1 – Nov 1960, Australia 1 for 8 weeks May 1960, US BB 3 of 1960, Sweden (alt) 3 – Nov 1980, Norway 3 – Jan 1961, POP 3 of 1960, Germany 4 – Feb 1961, RYM 4 of 1960, US CashBox 6 of 1961, Australia 9 of 1960, South Africa 12 of 1960, Netherlands 15 – Jan 1981, Italy 28 of 1961, DDD 29 of ...
The main influence for rock-oriented bands is the rock music of the 1950s and 1960s. The terms dansband and dansbandsmusik were coined around 1970, when Swedish popular music developed a signature style. The genre developed primarily in Sweden, but has spread to neighbouring countries Norway, Denmark and the Swedish-speaking regions of Finland.