"Don't Bring Flowers" is a song by Swedish singer-songwriter Erik Hassle

Erik Hassle

Erik Hassle is a Swedish pop singer-songwriter.-Biography:Hassle was raised in a rural village two hours south of Stockholm and originally aspired to be a professional footballer. He grew up listening to soul music and realised his love of music early after listening to Wilson Pickett...

. It was released in the United Kingdom on 23 August 2009 as the first single from his debut album, Pieces

Pieces (Erik Hassle album)

-Release history:...

. The song peaked at number eleven in Denmark and at number twenty-five in Sweden.

Reception

David Balls of British entertainment website Digital Spy

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 said the song captures the greatness of Scandinavian pop music. He gave the song four stars (out of five) and wrote, "Over a minimalist-yet-epic synth backdrop, Hassle urges: "Don't bring flowers after I'm dead, save your givings for the living instead." Slightly morbid message aside, it's his vocals, unique and full of pleading innocence, that really stand out. We'll be keeping an eye on this one."

Track listing

• UK digital download #1

1. "Don't Bring Flowers" – 3:15
2. "The Thanks I Get" – 3:31

• UK digital download #2

1. "Don't Bring Flowers" (Martin Roth NuStyle Remix) – 6:05
2. "Don't Bring Flowers" (Three Fingers Remix) – 5:08
3. "Don't Bring Flowers" (Ee-Sma Remix) – 8:20
4. "Don't Bring Flowers" (Plugs Remix) – 5:13

Personnel

• Mack - music
  Composer
  A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...
  
  , lyrics
  Lyricist
  A lyricist is a songwriter who specializes in lyrics. A singer who writes the lyrics to songs is a singer-lyricist. This differentiates from a singer-composer, who composes the song's melody.-Collaboration:...
  
  
• Tysper - music, lyrics, production
  Record producer
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  , recording
  Sound recording and reproduction
  Sound recording and reproduction is an electrical or mechanical inscription and re-creation of sound waves, such as spoken voice, singing, instrumental music, or sound effects. The two main classes of sound recording technology are analog recording and digital recording...
  
  , mixing
  Audio mixing (recorded music)
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• Grizzly - music, lyrics
• Erik Hassle
  Erik Hassle
  Erik Hassle is a Swedish pop singer-songwriter.-Biography:Hassle was raised in a rural village two hours south of Stockholm and originally aspired to be a professional footballer. He grew up listening to soul music and realised his love of music early after listening to Wilson Pickett...
  
   - music, lyrics
• Björn Engelmann - mastering
  Audio mastering
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Charts

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Chart (2009)	Peak position

Certifications

Country	Certifications Music recording sales certification Music recording sales certification is a system of certifying that a music recording has shipped or sold a certain number of copies, where the threshold quantity varies by type and by nation or territory .Almost all countries follow variations of the RIAA certification categories,... (sales thresholds)
Denmark	Gold