Jill Johnson
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Jill Anna Maria Johnson, (born May 24, 1973), is a 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....

 country
Country music
Country music is a popular American musical style that began in the rural Southern United States in the 1920s. It takes its roots from Western cowboy and folk music...

- and pop
Pop music
Pop music is usually understood to be commercially recorded music, often oriented toward a youth market, usually consisting of relatively short, simple songs utilizing technological innovations to produce new variations on existing themes.- Definitions :David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop...

-singer and songwriter. She performed the Melodifestivalen 1998
Melodifestivalen 1998
Melodifestivalen 1998 was the selection for the 38th song to represent Sweden at the Eurovision Song Contest. It was the 37th time that this system of picking a song had been used. 1141 songs were submitted to SVT for the competition...

 winning song Kärleken är
Kärleken är
"Kärleken är" is a ballad in Swedish about love. It was written by Ingela Forsman, Bobby Ljunggren and Håkan Almqvist. The song was sung by Swedish pop and country singer Jill Johnson in the Swedish Melodifestivalen 1998, where it won and competed for Sweden in the Eurovision Song Contest 1998. It...

, and represented Sweden at the Eurovision Song Contest 1998
Eurovision Song Contest 1998
The Eurovision Song Contest 1998 was the 43rd Eurovision Song Contest and was held on 9 May 1998 at the National Indoor Arena in Birmingham, United Kingdom. The presenters were Terry Wogan and Ulrika Jonsson...

 with that song, which finished 10th with 53 points. In 2003 she again entered Melodifestivalen with Crazy in Love
Crazy in Love (Jill Johnson song)
Crazy in Love is a song in English, written by Lennart Wastesson, Larry Forsberg and Sven-Inge Sjöberg, and performed by Swedish pop and country singer Jill Johnson at the Swedish Melodifestivalen 2003, there "Crazy in Love" finished 4th. However, "Crazy in Love" became a Svensktoppen hit in 2003,...

, which finished fourth in the final. She also hosted the final of Melodifestivalen in 2005. Johnson is today one of the most successful artists in Sweden, with several gold and platinum records.

Biography

Johnson is from the small town of Ängelholm
Ängelholm
Ängelholm is a locality and the seat of Ängelholm Municipality in Skåne County, Sweden with 22,532 inhabitants in 2005.It is known for its clay cuckoos — a special kind of ocarina. This is however a dying tradition as there is now only one producer of clay cuckoos, Sofia Nilsson.Tourism is an...

 in the south western part of Sweden, but the surroundings and the media compare her with the biggest stars in the music business. By the age of four, she had decided that she wanted to become an artist, an asperation towards which she was highly encouraged by her local choir leader. As a 12-year old, she started off as vocalist in a Country & Western band, Tomboola Band, touring in Norway and Denmark. She signed eventually with EMI-Medley in Denmark and recorded an album, produced by top producer Paul Bruun. The title-track, Sugar Tree, became a hit in Denmark
Denmark
Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...

. In 1996, she had her first Swedish hit with Kommer tid, kommer vår, a duet with Jan Johansen. She now lives in a hunting lodge in the Western Gothlandic woods of Sweden, but also has a home in Stockholm
Stockholm
Stockholm is the capital and the largest city of Sweden and constitutes the most populated urban area in Scandinavia. Stockholm is the most populous city in Sweden, with a population of 851,155 in the municipality , 1.37 million in the urban area , and around 2.1 million in the metropolitan area...

.

In 1998, she performed Kärleken är at 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...

, winning the Swedish finals and going on to represent Sweden in the Eurovision Song Contest
Eurovision Song Contest
The Eurovision Song Contest is an annual competition held among active member countries of the European Broadcasting Union .Each member country submits a song to be performed on live television and then casts votes for the other countries' songs to determine the most popular song in the competition...

. This established Johnson as one of the prime Swedish artists. The success was followed by the hit album När hela världen ser på and a successful tour.

In mid 1999, Johnson went to L.A. to look for material for her second album. At home, she worked with Andreas Carlsson
Andreas Carlsson
Andreas Carlsson is a Swedish music producer, composer, and pop songwriter.-Biography:Carlsson was part of the Cheiron Studios team until the studio was closed down in 2001....

 (ASCAP Writer of the Year 2000), who is known for several massive hits, the biggest, so far, being Celine Dion
Celine Dion
Céline Marie Claudette Dion, , , is a Canadian singer. Born to a large family from Charlemagne, Quebec, Dion emerged as a teen star in the French-speaking world after her manager and future husband René Angélil mortgaged his home to finance her first record...

's That's the Way It Is. She also tried out a few local new-comers and the album Daughter of Eve was released in early 2000. It was very well received and Johnson was compared with some of the world's best artists.

In 2000, she received a platinum-record in Denmark for the sound-track Promise To Love from the Danish block-buster, "Eneste Ene". Later that year, Johnson started to collaborate with other songwriters such as Jenny Orenstein, Charlie Stefl, Mary Green [Biem Writer of the Year 2001]. This resulted in her receiving a Publishing contract in Nashville Tennessee. Consequently, in 2002 Johnson's album entitled "Good Girl" came to be with the help of producer Scott Bagget and some of Nashville’s top musicians. This album secured Johnson's artistic sound and style and once again she was extremely well received by the press in their reviews where she was described as an artist of International calibre.

In the Swedish finals of the Eurovision Song Contest 2003 she qualified at fourth place (out of 32 entries) but and her song “Crazy in Love" became a hit and received a great deal of radio play and was followed by a successful tour.

Johnson's collective "Discography" CD was released in late March 2003. It contains the 20 most popular songs since her debut in 1995. This Cd went straight into the sales charts for best selling CDs in Sweden. The single “Crazy in Love” stayed at No 1 in the Swedish Top Charts (Svensktoppen) 12 weeks consecutively and No 2 for 15 weeks. "Discography" sold Gold in Sweden and Johnson also got a Grammy for this album.

The latest album "Roots and Wings" was released in November 2003, recorded and produced by Amir Aly in Sweden and by Scott Baggett in Nashville, USA.
"Roots and Wings" sold gold in less than two weeks and platinum a few months later.
The album "Being who you are" was released in Sweden in late March 2005 and sold gold in only a few weeks.
Johnson was the host of the 2005 Swedish finals of the Eurovison Song Contest in Stockholm.

Discography

Studio albums
Title Details Peak positions 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 threshold)
SWE
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 ....


Sugartree
Sugartree
Sugartree was released in 1996 and is the debut album from the Swedish pop and country singer Jill Johnson.It includes the singles "Shake the Sugartree" and "All Kinds of People".-Track listing:#Shake the Sugartree#As Dreams Go By...

  • Release date: 1996
  • Label: self-released
  • Formats: CD
    Compact Disc
    The Compact Disc is an optical disc used to store digital data. It was originally developed to store and playback sound recordings exclusively, but later expanded to encompass data storage , write-once audio and data storage , rewritable media , Video Compact Discs , Super Video Compact Discs ,...

    , cassette
    Compact Cassette
    The Compact Cassette, often referred to as audio cassette, cassette tape, cassette, or simply tape, is a magnetic tape sound recording format. It was designed originally for dictation, but improvements in fidelity led the Compact Cassette to supplant the Stereo 8-track cartridge and reel-to-reel...

När hela världen ser på
När hela världen ser på
När hela världen ser på was released on 10 May 1998 and is an album from Swedish pop and country singer Jill Johnson. The album peaked at #37 at the Swedish album chart.-Track listing:#När hela världen ser på - 4:30#Kärleken är - 3:00...

  • Release date: May 10, 1998
  • Label: Lionheart Records
  • Formats: CD, cassette
  • 37
    Daughter of Eve
    Daughter of Eve
    Daughter of Eve was released on November 30 in the year 2000 and is an album from Swedish pop and country singer Jill Johnson. It peaked at #59 at the Swedish album chart.-Track listing:#Mother's Jewel - 3:38#Secrets in My Life - 3:29...

  • Release date: November 30, 2000
  • Label: Lionheart Records
  • Formats: CD, cassette
  • 59
    Good Girl
  • Release date: 2002
  • Label: Lionheart Records
  • Formats: CD, cassette
  • 37
    Roots and Wings
  • Release date: November 26, 2003
  • Label: Lionheart Records
  • Formats: CD, music download
    Music download
    A music download is the transferral of music from an Internet-facing computer or website to a user's local computer. This term encompasses both legal downloads and downloads of copyright material without permission or payment...

  • 5
  • SWE: Platinum
  • Being Who You Are
    Being Who You Are
    Being Who You Are was released on 23 March 2005 and is an album from Swedish pop and country singer Jill Johnson. It peaked at #4 at the Swedish album chart.-Track listing:#God Bless a Girl in Love - 3:07#So Much Love to Make - 3:36#A Little Bit More - 4:14...

  • Release date: March 23, 2005
  • Label: Lionheart Records
  • Formats: CD, music download
  • 4
  • SWE: Gold
  • The Woman I've Become
    The Woman I've Become
    The Women I've Become is the 9th album from Swedish pop and country singer Jill Johnson, released on 25 October 2006. The album was recorded in Nashville and is produced by Nathan Chapman and his musicians...

  • Release date: October 25, 2006
  • Label: Lionheart Records
  • Formats: CD, music download
  • 2
  • SWE: Gold
  • Music Row
  • Release date: November 28, 2007
  • Label: Lionheart Records
  • Formats: CD, music download
  • 2
  • SWE: Platinum
  • Baby Blue Paper
    Baby Blue Paper
    Baby Blue Paper is the 11th album from Swedish pop and country singer Jill Johnson, released on 28 October 2008. The album was recorded in Nashville...

  • Release date: October 2008
  • Label: Lionheart Records
  • Formats: CD, music download
  • 3
  • SWE: Gold
  • Music Row II
    Music Row II
    Music Row II is the second cover album by Jill Johnson, recorded in Nashville and released on 28 October 2009, two years after Music Row.-Track listing:-External links:*...

  • Release date: October 28, 2009
  • Label: Lionheart Records
  • Formats: CD, music download
  • 2
    Flirting with Disaster
    Flirting with Disaster
    Flirting with Disaster is a 1996 American comedy film written and directed by David O. Russell about a young father's search for his biological parents. The film stars Ben Stiller, Patricia Arquette, Téa Leoni, Mary Tyler Moore, George Segal, Alan Alda and Lily Tomlin...

  • Release date: October 7, 2011
  • Label: Lionheart Records
  • Formats: CD, music download
  • 1
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    Compilation albums
    Title Details Peak positions 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 threshold)
    SWE
    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 ....


    Discography, 1996-2003
    Discography (Jill Johnson, 1996-2003)
    Discography was released on 27 March 2003 and is a compilation album from Swedish pop and country singer Jill Johnson. It peaked at #4 at the Swedish album chart.-Track listing:#Crazy in Love - 3:00#Desperado - 3:38#What's Wrong with You - 4:41...

    • Release date: March 27, 2003
    • Label: Lionheart Records
    • Formats: CD, music download
    4
  • SWE: Platinum
  • The Well-Known And Some Other Favourite Stories
  • Release date: October 27, 2010
  • Label: Lionheart Records
  • Formats: CD, music download
  • 2


  • Holiday albums
    Title Details Peak positions 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 threshold)
    SWE
    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 Christmas in You
    The Christmas in You
    The Christmas in You was released on 16 November 2005 and is a Christmas album from Swedish pop and country singer Jill Johnson. The album was recorded in Nashville, Tennessee in the United States...

    • Release date: November 16, 2005
    • Label: Lionheart Records
    • Formats: CD, music download
    3
  • SWE: Gold


  • Singles
    Year Single Peak positions Album
    SWE
    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 ....


    1995 "Shake the Sugartree" Sugartree
    1996 "All Kinds of People"
    1998 "Kärleken är
    Kärleken är
    "Kärleken är" is a ballad in Swedish about love. It was written by Ingela Forsman, Bobby Ljunggren and Håkan Almqvist. The song was sung by Swedish pop and country singer Jill Johnson in the Swedish Melodifestivalen 1998, where it won and competed for Sweden in the Eurovision Song Contest 1998. It...

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    5 När hela världen ser på
    "När hela världen ser på"
    2000 "Mother's Jewel" Daughter of Ever
    "Secrets in My Life"
    "It's Only You"
    2001 "Jump in a Car" Good Girl
    2002 "What's Wrong with You"
    "Luckiest People"
    2003 "Crazy in Love
    Crazy in Love (Jill Johnson song)
    Crazy in Love is a song in English, written by Lennart Wastesson, Larry Forsberg and Sven-Inge Sjöberg, and performed by Swedish pop and country singer Jill Johnson at the Swedish Melodifestivalen 2003, there "Crazy in Love" finished 4th. However, "Crazy in Love" became a Svensktoppen hit in 2003,...

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    9 Discography, 1996-2003
    "Can't Get Enough of You" 27 Roots and Wings
    2004 "Hopelessly Devoted to You
    Hopelessly Devoted to You
    "Hopelessly Devoted to You", written by John Farrar, is a song originally performed by Olivia Newton-John. The song, featured in the film version of Grease, received an Oscar nomination as Best Original Song, losing to "Last Dance" at the 51st Academy Awards. She performed the song at the 21st...

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    "God's Gift
    God's Gift
    God's Gift is the second soundtrack but 5th overall album by Romeo. On the second CD there was a movie based on a boxing film. The album was recorded at the end of 2005 and during 2006. This was Romeo's first album to use the name Romeo and to have explicit language...

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    12
    2005 "God Bless a Girl in Love" 37 Being Who You Are
    "A Little Bit More
    A Little Bit More
    "A Little Bit More" is a song written and first performed by Bobby Gosh. The first hit version was recorded by the band Dr. Hook and was released as a single in 1976. It made #11 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart, and #2 on the UK Singles Chart...

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    2006 "Cowboy Up" 32 The Woman I've Become
    "Baby Don't Go"
    2007 "Angel of the Morning
    Angel of the Morning
    "Angel of the Morning" is a popular song that has been recorded numerous times, and has been a charting hit single for several artists including Juice Newton, Merrilee Rush, Nina Simone, P.P...

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    30 Music Row
    2008 "Jolene
    Jolene (song)
    "Jolene" is a song written and performed by Dolly Parton from her album Jolene , produced by Bob Ferguson. It is ranked #217 on the Rolling Stone magazine's list of "the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time".-History:...

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    "Top of the World" 56 Baby Blue Paper
    2009 "It's a Heartache" Music Row II
    "—" denotes releases that did not chart
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