" Yeah Yeah Wow Wow" is a Swedish language

Swedish language

Swedish is a North Germanic language, spoken by approximately 10 million people, predominantly in Sweden and parts of Finland, especially along its coast and on the Åland islands. It is largely mutually intelligible with Norwegian and Danish...

 song written and sung by the Swedish

Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

 singer Martin

Martin Svensson

Martin Svensson also known as Martin is a Swedish singer, author and musician. He moved to Varberg in 1981. He started as a solo artist. His debut single "Rymdraket" from his 1997 debut album Pojkdrömmar...

 (full name Martin Svensson) who got his big break in the 1999 edition

Melodifestivalen 1999

Melodifestivalen 1999 was the selection for the 39th song to represent Sweden at the Eurovision Song Contest. It was the 38th time that this system of picking a song had been used. 1315 songs were submitted to SVT for the competition. The final was broadcast on SVT2 and Sveriges Radio's P4 network...

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lizwlR6mQgof the Swedish Melodifestivalen

Melodifestivalen

Melodifestivalen is an annual music competition organised by Swedish public broadcasters Sveriges Television and Sveriges Radio . It determines the country's representative for the Eurovision Song Contest, and has been staged almost every year since 1959...

. It finished in the 4th place overall. The lyrics are critical of the advertising

Advertising

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 profession practices. Martin also made an English language

English language

English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...

 version with the title of "(You Are So) Yeah Yeah Wow Wow"

Despite not winning the Melodifestivalen, the song became very popular, and was released as a single on 11 March 1999 topping the Swedish Singles Chart at #1 for 2 consecutive weeks on the charts of 8 and 15 April 1999.

Covers

• In 2003, the group Heartquake made a cover version of the song. It appears on the compilation album Hits Kidz Sommarlov.
• Swedish singer Jimmy Jansson
  Jimmy Jansson
  Jimmy Jansson is a Swedish singer and songwriter.-Music career:Jansson's music career began when he formed a boy band, The Poets, with some of his friends in 2002...
  
   sang it three times http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLWCp5KAYW4http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKl6AD6r8wIhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05cqPZVio-g in talent show Fame Factory.

Charts

Chart (1999)	Peak position
Swedish Singles Chart Sverigetopplistan Sverigetopplistan, earlier known as Topplistan and Hitlistan and other names, is since October 2007 the Swedish national record chart, based on sales data from Swedish Recording Industry Association ....	1