"'Gubben i lådan" 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 by 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....

 artist Daniel Adams-Ray

Daniel Adams-Ray

Daniel David John Adams-Ray is a Swedish rapper, singer, and fashion designer.-Early years:Daniel Adams-Ray was born in Kenya to an Indonesian mother and a father of Swedish/Scottish heritage. His mother was a school administrator and his father a medical surgeon...

 taken from his 2010 debut album Svart, vitt och allt däremellan released on Sweden Music and reaching the top of the Sverigetopplistan

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 ....

, the official Swedish Singles Chart staying four 4 weeks at #1. It was the 2nd single from the album following his debut single "Dum av dig". "Gubben i lådan" was written and produced by Adams-Ray himself and songwriter Carl Wikström Ask.

Adams-Ray had stopped his musical career in 2006. In the summer 2009, he recorded a song for a fashion show and then felt "a desire" to come back to music again. The song which mean "Jack-in-the-box" in Swedish is about a relation where he took loyalty a bit too far. So when the relationship collapsed, he took that he had lost part of himself in it.

Charts

The song debuted at #15 at the Swedish Singles Chart on October 8, 2010 making it to the top of the charts on October 29, 2010, taking over from former band mate Oskar Linnros

Oskar Linnros

Hans Oskar "Kihlen" Linnros is a Swedish musician.-Snook:Linnros started out as a rapper in the alternative hip hop duo Snook together with Daniel Adams-Ray. Snook released two albums and received both praise and heavy criticism...

 other hit "Från och med du". It stayed at #1 for 4 weeks before being overtaken by the September

September (singer)

Petra Linnea Paula Marklund who is better known as September is a Swedish singer and songwriter.-Early life and career:...

 massive hit "Mikrofonkåt

Mikrofonkåt

"Mikrofonkåt" is a Swedish song written by Thomas Rusiak and Petter and originally performed Swedish rapper Petter. Taken from his album Mitt sjätte sinne, it was a minor hit for him on the Swedish Singles Chart in 1999 reaching #53...

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"Gubben i lådan" was certified platinum by the Swedish Recording Industry Association

Swedish Recording Industry Association

Grammofonleverantörernas förening , or the Swedish Recording Industry Association in English, is an organization representing the music recording industry of Sweden...

 with certified sales of 20,000 copies until 20 December 2010. The song also reached #2 on DigiListan

DigiListan

DigiListan is a Swedish radio programme in SR P3 airing the top singles sold electronically to computers, mobile phones and other kinds of media players in Sweden . The statistics are created using Nielsen SoundScan....

, Sweden's top list of most downloaded songs.

Chart (2010)	Peak position
Sweden (Sverigetopplistan 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
Sweden (DigiListan DigiListan DigiListan is a Swedish radio programme in SR P3 airing the top singles sold electronically to computers, mobile phones and other kinds of media players in Sweden . The statistics are created using Nielsen SoundScan.... )	2

Chart succession