Dance Love Pop
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| Studio album by Agnes | ||||
| Released | October 29, 2008 (see release history) |
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| Recorded | 2008 | |||
| Genre | Pop, dance | |||
| Length | 40:05 (Standard edition) 67:23 (Love Love Love edition) 41:40 (UK edition) 62:00 (Australian deluxe edition) |
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| Label | Roxy | |||
| Producer | Anders Hansson | |||
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Dance Love Pop is the third studio album by Swedish recording artist Agnes, released originally on October 29, 2008 in Sweden. This was Agnes' first studio album since 2006 and her comeback to the music stage. The album is written and produced by Swedish songwriter Anders Hansson and geared towards the dance and club genre. When released the first single "On and On" it immediately showed a clear change of artistic direction for her music. This was clearly observed by the critics who all homaged her new musical style. In Sweden, a deluxe edition of the album titled Dance Love Pop: The Love Love Love Edition was released, featuring the original 10 tracks plus new song "Love Love Love", of which Agnes competed with in the Swedish drafts for Eurovision Song Contest 2009 in Moscow. The deluxe edition also included remixes and music videos of the album's singles and re-entered the official Swedish Top 60 Album Chart peaking at number 12. A re-release of the album was also made in France, where the "Edition Collector" was released on January 18, 2010 and peaked at forty-seven.
The album originally peaked at five in Sweden and the deluxe edit at twelve, in France it stayed on the charts for twenty-nine weeks and peaked at thirty-eight in the physical chart and forty-three in the digital chart. In Germany, Austria and Switzerland, the album was released by Warner Music and it peaked at sixty-eight in Germany, at seventy in Austria and at forty-five in Switzerland. In the UK it peaked at 13 on the Dance Chart.
The name of the album was first revealed on September 13, 2008 on Swedish radio show "Tracks", the host, Kaj Kindvall declared that the name would be Dance! Love! Pop!. The spelling with exclamation marks after each words was later dispatch by the label Roxy Recordings and changed to merely "Dance Love Pop". The album was described as follow: "it covers the three things that the music is all about [...]; dance music that has a twist of pop and is about love".
With this album, Agnes together with her producer and fellow songwriter geared towards the dance and club genre. Agnes recalls when Hansson's name first came up for the album “They said maybe you should just meet first and see if you like each other, as opposed to just working together.” They got on – so well that Hansson ended up producing an album that helped Agnes realize her vision, Dance Love and Pop together in one album“A lot of things changed for me when I started to work with this album. I really liked it, because I knew that I wanted to do something totally different to the two others. I wanted to do uptempo, disco-orientated songs and I really wanted to work with Anders because he felt the same way."
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