The song representing Stockholm Pride 2013, ”New Colours”, is co-written by Jörgen and recorded by Janet Leon.
Stockholm Pride is held July 30 – August 3. This year’s artist is Janet Leon whom also is one of the co-writers of the festival’s, the largest in Scandinavia, official song.
The instrumental version:
”New Colours”, released today, is written by Jörgen Elofsson, Janet Leon, Lisa Desmond and Jesper Jakobson.
Agnetha Fältskog tells her story in this two part interview by the Sunday Night Show’s reporter Rahni Sadler.
Promoting her new album ”A” in London this week, only a couple of days before Agnetha left for the UK, Australian broadcast company ”Seven Network” came to Sweden to sit down with the singer. The interview, including several ABBA flashbacks and on the channel’s website bonus material, was aired last evening, local time.
Agnetha Fältskog’s ”When You Really Loved Someone” spent the previous week as Record of the Week on BBC Radio 2.
After climbing from #19 to #6, Agnetha’s new single, written by Jörgen, is now one of the UK radio station’s 10 most played, obviously entering this week’s A List.
Agnetha Fältskog’s album titled ”A” is released on Monday, May 13.
Today Agnetha Fältskog releases her brand new single
“When You Really Loved Someone”. Written by Jörgen Elofsson, this is the former ABBA member’s first original song in 25 years. (Below the press release, music video and several links…)
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
AGNETHA MAKES A UNIVERSAL RETURN Siren songstress from ABBA has new album “A” due on May 13 Brand new single “When You Really Loved Someone”out today!
STOCKHOLM, March 11, 2013 – “Never thought that I’d ever sing again. But hearing the first three songs, I just couldn’t say no!”
With these words, one of popular music’s most recognisable and celebrated names of the past 40 years – Agnetha Fältskog – signals her return to the spotlight. The siren songstress from ABBA is coming back with a new album “A”, due for release in May and preceded by a curtain-raising track, “When You Really Loved Someone,” which is available internationally as a single to buy from TODAY, Monday March 11. Agnetha’s new official website,Facebook, Twitter (@AgnethaOfficial) and VEVO channel featuring the brand new video for “When You Really Loved Someone” will all be live from 10am UK time today.
Agnetha has been working with renowned, Grammy-nominated songwriter/producer Jörgen Elofsson – who has been responsible for hits by Britney Spears, Kelly Clarkson, Celine Dion and Westlife, among others – and acclaimed producer/arranger Peter Nordahl on her brand new album.
“She wanted to make music again,” says Elofsson, “We could feel that. She had been thinking about it. Basically, she’s a musician, a songwriter/singer who hasn’t done that for a while. We saw her open up, become much happier, with music again in her life.”
“A” features one of Agnetha first co-writes in many years: “I hadn’t written any music for a long, long time,” she says. “But I sat at the piano, and suddenly it was there.”
Anticipated by millions of ABBA fans worldwide, Agnetha’s brand new material is being released by Universal Music Group, the global music leader. Max Hole, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Universal Music Group International, added: “You can imagine the excitement that all of us felt at the prospect of Agnetha making new music. So we were determined that she would choose Universal to bring that music to the world, and we are gratified that she did. This is a dream project for so many people inside our company, and for Agnetha’s fans around the globe.”
The most anticipated new album of 2013, “A” was recorded and produced by Jörgen Elofsson and Peter Nordahl: “We wanted to make this as if Agnetha hadn’t entered ABBA,” says Elofsson. “We were interested in what she sounded like if she hadn’t been in the group. And yet it’s important that she comes across as we remember her to be.”
Kelly Clarkson tonight received a GRAMMY Award for Best Pop Vocal Album. Included on the album is the record breaking Billboard Hot 100 #1 “Stronger (What Doesn’t Kill You)”, co-written by Jörgen.
Spending three weeks atop of the Hot 100, the song went on peaking at the pole position on 11 different Billboard charts. By July 4th, 2012, it had become the best-selling single of all time by an American Idol.
”Stronger (What Doesn’t Kill You)”, which also was nominated for Song of the Year, is written by Jörgen, Ali Tamposi, David Gamson and Greg Kurstin.
The 2013 GRAMMY Nominees album is now available on iTunes and Amazon. It contains 22 tracks, including ”Stronger (What Doesn’t Kill You)” with Kelly Clarkson. Co-written by Jörgen, the song is nominated for Song of the Year.
A portion of the proceeds from the album benefit the MusiCares Foundation and the GRAMMY Foundation — two charitable organizations established by The Recording Academy.
The 55th Annual GRAMMY Awards is being held on Sunday, February 10 at the Staples Center in Los Angeles.
The 55th Annual GRAMMY Awards Nominees were announced today. Kelly Clarkson’s ”Stronger (What Doesn’t Kill You)”, co-written by Jörgen, is found in four categories.
On February 8, Kelly Clarkson captured the Billboard Hot 100 #1 with her ”Stronger (What Doesn’t Kill You)”. Less than five months later, on July 4, Clarkson made American Idol history as Nielsen SoundScan unvealed that her hit, by selling more than 3,510,000 copies, had become the best-selling Idol single of all time.
”Stronger (What Doesn’t Kill You)” went on peaking at the pole position on 11 different Billboard charts. By December 2012, Clarksons’s single has sold in excess of 5 million copies worldwide.
Today, on December 5, ”Stronger” and Kelly Clarkson were nominated for four GRAMMY Awards in the following categories:
Song of the Year: ”Stronger (What Doesn’t Kill You)”
Written by Jörgen Elofsson, David Gamson, Greg Kurstin & Ali Tamposi
Record of the Year: ”Stronger (What Doesn’t Kill You)”
Artist: Kelly Clarkson
Best Pop Vocal Album: ”Stronger (What Doesn’t Kill You)”
Artist: Kelly Clarkson
Best Pop Solo Performance: ”Stronger (What Doesn’t Kill You)”
Artist: Kelly Clarkson
Last Tuesday night, Australia’s fourth X Factor winner was crowned. 24 hours later, Samantha Jade’s coronation song ”What You’ve Done to Me” topped the iTunes’ list.
Today, six days later, Jade hit the ARIA Singles Chart at #1. And by selling more than 70,000 singles in the past five days, it also has gone platinum. The song is written by Jörgen and the Australian songwriters David Musumeci, Anthony Egizii and Tania Doko.
Samantha Jade’s self-titled debut album is released on December 7. It includes Jade’s cover of Kelly Clarkson’s Billboard Hot 100 #1 song ”Stronger (What Doesn’t Kill You)”, also co-written by Jörgen.
Third studio album Glassheart includes ”Stop the Clocks”, written by Jörgen, Leona Lewis, Fraser T Smith and Rachel Moulden.
Ivor Novello Award with Leona Lewis On the evening of December 16, 2006, Leona Lewis won the UK’s third series of The X Factor. Lewis’s winning-song, ”A Moment Like This”, was actually co-written by Jörgen four years earlier and released in 2002 by the first American Idol winner, Kelly Clarkson. It landed at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100, Jörgen’s first top position on the US Singles Chart.
Leona Lewis’ version of the song, her debut single, was released for download only minutes after her victory, and physically four days later. By outselling the rest of the UK Top 40’s sales combined, it became the most downloaded song in 2006, and also that year’s Christmas Number One.
For this achievement, Jörgen, on May 24, 2007, received his second straight Ivor Novello Award, the previous year collecting his first for the song “That’s My Goal”, recorded by Shayne Ward.
