Pop
As with rock music, the Danish pop scene has started to benefit from the Music Export Denmark initiative.
- Thomas Helmig is one of the most popular Danish pop artists who has won awards at the Danish Music Awards (DMA) eight times.
- Tina Dico is a Danish Singer-songwriter who have won several prices including awards at the Danish Music Awards in 2004 and 2006. Most famous songs are "Welcome Back Colour", "Count To Ten", "Copenhagen", "Warm Sand", "Nobody's Man", "Sacre Coeur", "Open Wide", "On The Run" and latest her new song "Moon To Let". She is also very popular in UK after she had been a part of the band Zero 7 back in 2003 with whom she also made the popular song "Home". Tina is also known as the owner of her own record label called Finest Gramophone.
- Medina is currently one of the most successful artists of this country and she is known in most European countries, US and Mexico. She sings both in Danish and English. She has made about ten singles in the top 2 of Denmark. Most famous is the song Kun for Mig ("You and I"), other popular songs are Ensom, Vi to, For altid,Velkommen Til Medina,Synd For Dig,Kl. 10, Addiction and Gutter.
- Oh Land is a Danish singer-songwriter with great success in Europe and the US. She had her TV debut on the Late Show with David Letterman with her song "Son of a Gun" in 2010. She has been touring around the US with stars like Katy Perry in 2011. Another of her popular songs is White nights released in 2011.
- Aura is another successful singer who in 2010 reached the top of the charts in Germany and was doing well in the rest of Europe.
- Infernal is a popular group that has progressed in Europe with singers Lina Rafn and Paw Lagermann. Their most successful hits have been From Paris to Berlin and Ten Miles.
- Agnes Obel is a Danish singer/songwriter. Her first album, Philharmonics, was released by PIAS Recordings on 4 October 2010 in Denmark, Norway, Germany and other European countries. Since February 2011, Philharmonics is certified double platinum. In November 2011, Agnes Obel wins at the Danish Music Awards five prizes for : Best Album Of The Year, Best Pop Release Of The Year, Best Debut Artist Of The Year, Best Female Artist Of The Year and Best Songwriter Of The Year. Most famous song is Riverside.
- Fallulah is the stage name of a Danish young pop music song writer and singer. She is known for her debut single I Lay My Head which was the prequel to the album The Black Cat Neighbourhood. Other popular songs from this album are Give us a little love and Out of it. Fallulah's music can be accounted to the Pop music genre but according to her own statements is a mix of Indie rock and Balkan beats, which adds a hint of folklore to her productions.
- Rasmus Seebach is a Danish singer-songwriter who sings in his mother tongue language. He has had great success in the Scandianvian countries. Among his most successful songs are Lidt i fem, Natteravn and I mine øjne.
- Alphabeat, now working in the UK have been successful with their increasingly retro pop hits Fascination, 10,000 Nights and The Spell.
- Burhan G is a Danish R&B and pop singer, songwriter and producer of Kurdish/Turkish origin. In 2010 he was certified platinum in Denmark for his album Burhan G. He has had many singles including two #1 hits, Mest ondt featuring Medina and Tættere på himlen featuring Nik & Jay.
- Nik & Jay is a popular Danish R&B / Hip-Hop / pop duo which has produced many popular singles such as Hot! in 2003 and Mod solnedgangen from 2011
Popular in the early and mid 90s was the pop-soft rock band Michael Learns to Rock, whose brand of ballads made it a popular act in many Asian markets, selling nearly 9 million records in Asia. A Danish band with a big impact outside of Denmark is the europop group Aqua, whose hit "Barbie Girl" helped the band sell a total of 15 million albums and 6 million singles.
Denmark also participates in the annual Eurovision Song Contest, and holds its own Dansk Melodi Grand Prix competition to select the song that will represent Denmark in the Eurovision contest. Denmark has won the Eurovision Song Contest twice: first with Grethe & Jørgen Ingmann's "Dansevise" in 1963; and again with Brødrene Olsen's (Olsen Brothers) "Fly on the Wings of Love" (from the Danish Smuk Som Et Stjerneskud, literally "Beautiful as a shooting star") in 2000.
The winners of the 2010 Melodi Grand Prix, Christina Chanée and Tomas N'evergreen with "In a Moment Like This" were already doing well in Eastern Europe by mid-March as their song became the most popular download in several countries.
Some hit songs of Danish origin have become international hits after being covered by foreign artists. Vengaboys covered The Walkers' "Shalala Lala", Jamelia covered Christine Milton's "Superstar", Shayne Ward covered Bryan Rice's "No Promises" and Celine Dion covered Tim Christensen's "Right Next To The Right One". Different covers of Rune's "Calabria" have also been international hits.
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Famous quotes containing the word pop:
“The children [on TV] are too well behaved and are reasonable beyond their years. All the children pop in with exceptional insights. On many of the shows the children’s insights are apt to be unexpectedly philosophical. The lesson seems to be, “Listen to little children carefully and you will learn great truths.””
—G. Weinberg. originally quoted in “What Is Television’s World of the Single Parent Doing to Your Family?” TV Guide (August 1970)
“Compare the history of the novel to that of rock ‘n’ roll. Both started out a minority taste, became a mass taste, and then splintered into several subgenres. Both have been the typical cultural expressions of classes and epochs. Both started out aggressively fighting for their share of attention, novels attacking the drama, the tract, and the poem, rock attacking jazz and pop and rolling over classical music.”
—W. T. Lhamon, U.S. educator, critic. “Material Differences,” Deliberate Speed: The Origins of a Cultural Style in the American 1950s, Smithsonian (1990)
“Every man has been brought up with the idea that decent women don’t pop in and out of bed; he has always been told by his mother that “nice girls don’t.” He finds, of course, when he gets older that this may be untrue—but only in a certain section of society.”
—Barbara Cartland (b. 1901)