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2020 in Scandinavian music, the Glossary

The following is a list of notable events and releases that happened in Scandinavian music in 2020.^[1]

164 relations: ABBA, Abbath (band), Academy Award for Best Original Score, Ace of Base, Agnes Obel, Aksel Kankaanranta, Alamaailman Vasarat, Alan Gilbert (conductor), Alexander Vedernikov, Alexandre Tharaud, Alexi Laiho, Alf Cranner, All That She Wants: The Classic Collection, Allan Botschinsky, Amaranthe, Anders Hillborg, Anita Lindblom, Antti Tuisku, Apocalyptica, Avatar (band), Bent Sørensen (composer), Berith Bohm, Blabbermouth.net, Blind Channel, Bo Winberg, Brave Words & Bloody Knuckles, Cadaver (band), Children of Bodom, Children of Ginko, Christopher Amott, Classic Rock (magazine), Cold Courage, Copenhagen, COVID-19, COVID-19 pandemic, COVID-19 pandemic in Denmark, Daði Freyr, Dagens Nyheter, Daniel Freyberg, Daniel Herskedal, Dark Sarah, Dark the Suns, Dark Tranquillity, David Sundin, Decibel (magazine), Demon Music Group, Denmark in the Eurovision Song Contest 2020, Draconian (band), Dynazty, Edith Thallaug, ... Expand index (114 more) »
2020 in music
Scandinavian culture

ABBA

ABBA are a Swedish pop supergroup formed in Stockholm in 1972 by Agnetha Fältskog, Björn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson, and Anni-Frid Lyngstad.

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Abbath (band)

Abbath is a Norwegian black metal band formed in 2015 by former Immortal guitarist and vocalist Abbath Doom Occulta after departing from Immortal earlier in 2015.

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Academy Award for Best Original Score

The Academy Award for Best Original Score is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) to the best substantial body of music in the form of dramatic underscoring written specifically for the film by the submitting composer.

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Ace of Base

Ace of Base is a Swedish pop group, formed in 1987, originally consisting of siblings Jonas, Linn, and Jenny Berggren, with Ulf Ekberg.

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Agnes Obel

Agnes Caroline Thaarup Obel (born 28 October 1980) is a Danish singer, songwriter, and musician based in Berlin.

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Aksel Kankaanranta

Aksel Kankaanranta (born 28 January 1998) is a Finnish singer.

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Alamaailman Vasarat

Alamaailman Vasarat (translated: "The Hammers of the Underworld") is an avant-garde Finnish musical group formed in 1997.

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Alan Gilbert (conductor)

Alan Gilbert (born February 23, 1967) is an American conductor and violinist.

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Alexander Vedernikov

Alexander Alexandrovich Vedernikov (Александр Александрович Ведерников; 11 January 1964 – 29 October 2020) was a Russian conductor.

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Alexandre Tharaud

Alexandre Tharaud (born 9 December 1968) is a French pianist.

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Alexi Laiho

Alexi Laiho (born Markku Uula Aleksi Laiho; 8 April 1979 – 29 December 2020) was a Finnish guitarist, composer, and vocalist.

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Alf Cranner

Alf Cranner (25 October 1936 – 3 March 2020) was a major Norwegian folk singer, lyricist and painter, considered by many to be the pioneer of the Norwegian folk music wave of the 1960s.

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All That She Wants: The Classic Collection

All That She Wants: The Classic Collection is a commemorative box set by the Swedish pop group Ace of Base.

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Allan Botschinsky

Allan Botschinsky (29 March 1940 – 26 November 2020) was a Danish jazz trumpeter and flugelhornist, composer, arranger, conductor, producer, and record label owner.

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Amaranthe

Amaranthe is a Swedish heavy metal band originally known as Avalanche.

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Anders Hillborg

Per Anders Hillborg (born 31 May 1954) is one of Sweden’s leading composers.

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Anita Lindblom

Anita Lindblom (14 December 1937 – 6 September 2020) was a Swedish actress and singer.

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Antti Tuisku

Antti Tuisku (born 27 February 1984) is a retired Finnish pop singer.

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Apocalyptica

Apocalyptica is a Finnish symphonic metal band from Helsinki, formed in 1993.

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Avatar (band)

Avatar is a Swedish heavy metal band, formed in Mölndal, Gothenburg in 2001.

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Bent Sørensen (composer)

Bent Sørensen (born 18 July 1958) is a Danish composer.

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Berith Bohm

Berith Maria Kristina Bohm (23 August 1932 – 14 May 2020) was a Swedish opera singer and actress in theater.

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Blabbermouth.net

Blabbermouth.net is a website dedicated to heavy metal and hard rock news, as well as album and music DVD reviews.

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Blind Channel

Blind Channel is a Finnish nu metal band from Oulu.

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Bo Winberg

Bo Fredrik Winberg, (27 March 1939 – 3 January 2020) was a Swedish singer and guitarist in the band The Spotnicks.

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Brave Words & Bloody Knuckles

Brave Words & Bloody Knuckles (BW&BK) is a Canadian heavy metal website and former magazine.

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Cadaver (band)

Cadaver is a Norwegian death metal band from Råde and Fredrikstad.

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Children of Bodom

Children of Bodom was a Finnish melodic death metal band from Espoo.

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Children of Ginko

Children of Ginko (Frøbarna) is a children's opera by Marcus Paus, set to a Norwegian-language libretto by Oda Fiskum.

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Christopher Amott

Christopher Amott (born 23 November 1977) is a Swedish guitarist, younger brother of Michael Amott and founding member of the metal bands Arch Enemy and Armageddon.

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Classic Rock (magazine)

Classic Rock is a British magazine and website dedicated to rock music, owned and published by Future.

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Cold Courage

Cold Courage is an international crime-drama television series based on Vilpittömästi sinun (2011, in English: Sincerely Yours), which is the first instalment of the Studio book series by Finnish writer.

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Copenhagen

Copenhagen (København) is the capital and most populous city of Denmark, with a population of 1.4 million in the urban area.

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COVID-19

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a contagious disease caused by the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2.

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COVID-19 pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic (also known as the coronavirus pandemic), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), began with an outbreak of COVID-19 in Wuhan, China, in December 2019.

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COVID-19 pandemic in Denmark

On 31 December 2019, China announced the discovery of a cluster of pneumonia cases in Wuhan.

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Daði Freyr

Daði Freyr Pétursson (born 30 June 1992), known professionally as Daði Freyr or simply Daði, is an Icelandic musician living in Berlin, Germany.

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Dagens Nyheter

(), abbreviated DN, is a daily newspaper in Sweden.

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Daniel Freyberg

Daniel Freyberg (born 4 February 1982) is a Swedish-born Finnish heavy metal guitarist, best known as a former guitarist for Finnish melodic death metal bands Children of Bodom and Bodom After Midnight.

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Daniel Herskedal

Daniel Herskedal (born 2 April 1982) is a Norwegian jazz tubist.

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Dark Sarah

Dark Sarah is a Finnish symphonic metal band formed by Heidi Parviainen after her departure from Amberian Dawn in 2012.

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Dark the Suns

Dark the Suns is a melodic death/gothic metal band formed in 2005 in Jyväskylä, Finland.

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Dark Tranquillity

Dark Tranquillity is a Swedish melodic death metal band from Gothenburg.

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David Sundin

David Kai Lennart Sundin, (born 23 May 1976) is a Swedish author, television presenter and comedian.

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Decibel (magazine)

Decibel is a monthly heavy metal magazine published by the Philadelphia-based Red Flag Media since September 2004.

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Demon Music Group

Demon Music Group Limited (DMG; formerly Object Enterprises Limited from 19821991 and Music Collection International Limited from 19912000) is a record company owned by BBC Studios that is mainly concerned with back-catalogue rights and re-issuing recordings as compilations on physical media (CDs and vinyl) via supermarkets and specialist stores.

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Denmark in the Eurovision Song Contest 2020

Denmark originally planned to participate in the Eurovision Song Contest 2020 with the song "Yes" written by Emil Lei, Jimmy Jansson and Linnea Deb.

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Draconian (band)

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Dynazty

Dynazty is a Swedish power metal band from Stockholm.

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Edith Thallaug

Edith Thallaug (16 June 1929 – 7 June 2020) was a Norwegian actress and opera singer.

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Edition Records

Edition Records is an independent record label that was founded in 2008 by pianist Dave Stapleton and photographer Tim Dickeson.

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Endless Twilight of Codependent Love

Endless Twilight of Codependent Love is the seventh studio album by Icelandic post-metal band Sólstafir.

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Ensiferum

Ensiferum (Latin:, n adj., meaning "sword bearing") is a Finnish folk metal band from Helsinki.

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Enslaved (band)

Enslaved is a Norwegian extreme metal band formed by Ivar Bjørnson and Grutle Kjellson in Haugesund in 1991.

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Eurovision Song Contest 2020

The Eurovision Song Contest 2020 was planned to be the 65th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest.

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Falconer (band)

Falconer was a Swedish power metal band from Mjölby, formed in 1999 by the former guitarist of Mithotyn, Stefan Weinerhall.

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February 29

February 29 is a leap day (or "leap year day")—an intercalary date added periodically to create leap years in the Julian and Gregorian calendars.

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Finland in the Eurovision Song Contest 2020

Finland originally planned to participate in the Eurovision Song Contest 2020 with the song "Looking Back" written by Joonas Angeria, Whitney Phillips, Connor McDonough, Riley McDonough and Toby McDonough.

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Finntroll

Finntroll is a Finnish metal band from Helsinki that combines elements of black metal and folk metal.

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Flowers of Evil (Ulver album)

Flowers of Evil is the twelfth studio album by Norwegian experimental electronica band Ulver.

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From a Dying Ember

From a Dying Ember is the ninth and final studio album by Swedish power metal band Falconer, released on 26 June 2020 through Metal Blade Records.

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Gösta Linderholm

Gösta Gunnar Linderholm (22 June 1941 – 29 December 2020) was a Swedish singer.

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Green Carnation

Green Carnation is a Norwegian progressive metal band from Kristiansand, formed in 1990.

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HammerFall

HammerFall is a Swedish power metal band from Gothenburg.

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Hans Abrahamsen

Hans Abrahamsen (born 23 December 1952) is a Danish composer born in Kongens Lyngby near Copenhagen.

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Helge Rykkja

Helge Rykkja (27 August 1943 – 13 June 2020) was a Norwegian author, poet, teacher and politician.

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Hella Joof

Hella Joof (born 1 November 1962) is a Danish actress and director.

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Hildur Guðnadóttir

Hildur Ingveldardóttir Guðnadóttir (born 4 September 1982) is an Icelandic musician and composer. A classically trained cellist, she has played and recorded with the bands Pan Sonic, Throbbing Gristle, Múm, and Stórsveit Nix Noltes, and has toured with Animal Collective and Sunn O))).

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Hitlisten

Hitlisten, also known as Tracklisten, is a Danish top 40 record chart that is updated every Wednesday at midnight on the website hitlisten.nu.

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Human. :II: Nature.

Human.

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Iceland in the Eurovision Song Contest 2020

Iceland planned to participate in the Eurovision Song Contest 2020, which was scheduled to be held in Rotterdam, Netherlands.

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Idol 2020 (Sweden)

Idol 2020 was the sixteenth season of the Swedish Idol series.

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Ihsahn

Vegard Sverre Tveitan (born 10 October 1975), better known by his stage name Ihsahn, is a Norwegian musician, singer, songwriter, record producer, and composer who is best known for his work with the black metal band Emperor.

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Jahn Teigen

Jahn Teigen (born Jan Teigen; 27 September 1949 – 24 February 2020) was a Norwegian singer, musician and comedian.

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January 1

January 1 is the first day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar; 364 days remain until the end of the year (365 in leap years).

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Jarno Sarkula

Jarno Sarkula (4 August 1973 – 12 July 2020) was a Finnish musician and one-time TV-personality.

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JóiPé & Króli

JóiPé & Króli are an Icelandic hip hop duo consisting of Jóhannes Damian Patreksson (JóiPé, born 2000) and Kristinn Óli Haraldsson (Króli, born 1999).

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Johan Reinholdz

Johan Reinholdz (born 30 June 1980) is a progressive metal artist best known for his work with the Swedish progressive metal band Andromeda, Swedish death metal band NonExist and the melodic death metal band Skyfire.

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John Lundvik

John Lundvik (born 27 January 1983) is a Swedish singer, songwriter, and former sprinter.

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Joker (2019 film)

Joker is a 2019 American psychological thriller film directed and co-produced by Todd Phillips from a screenplay he wrote with Scott Silver.

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Jon Christensen (musician)

Jon Ivar Christensen (20 March 1943 – 18 February 2020) was a Norwegian jazz drummer.

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Kai Hahto

Kai Hahto (born 31 December 1973) is a Finnish musician, best known as the drummer of Nightwish.

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Katatonia

Katatonia is a Swedish heavy metal band formed in Stockholm in 1991 by Jonas Renkse and Anders Nyström.

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Kerstin Behrendtz

Clary Kerstin Margareta Behrendtz, for a time Behrendtz Samuelsson (18 August 1950 – 28 March 2020) was a Swedish radio presenter and director of music for Sveriges Radio's programmes.

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Kerstin Meyer

Kerstin Margareta Meyer, CBE (3 April 1928 – 14 April 2020) was a Swedish mezzo-soprano who enjoyed an international career in opera and concert.

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Killection

Killection is the tenth studio album by the Finnish rock band Lordi.

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Kjell Karlsen

Kjell Oddvar Karlsen (29 July 1931 – 5 May 2020) was a Norwegian band leader, composer, arranger, jazz pianist and organist, and a Nestor of Norwegian music and show business, with a career spanning more than 60 years.

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Kvelertak

stranglehold is a Norwegian heavy metal band from Stavanger, formed in 2007.

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Leaves' Eyes

Leaves' Eyes is a symphonic metal band from Germany and Norway.

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Let's Dance 2020

Let's Dance 2020 is the fifteenth season of the Swedish celebrity dancing show Let's Dance. The season premiered on 20 March 2020, and was broadcast on TV4.

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Lordi

Lordi is a Finnish hard rock and heavy metal band.

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Los Angeles Times

The Los Angeles Times is a regional American daily newspaper that began publishing in Los Angeles, California in 1881.

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Lost Society

Lost Society is a Finnish metal band from Jyväskylä, formed in 2010.

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Magnus Karlsson (musician)

Magnus Karlsson (born 26 November 1973) is a Swedish heavy metal musician, songwriter and producer.

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Malin Gjörup

Eva Malin Maria Gjörup (28 April 1964 – 20 May 2020) was a Swedish actress and mezzo-soprano.

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Manifest (Amaranthe album)

Manifest is the sixth studio album by Swedish heavy metal band Amaranthe.

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Marcus Paus

Marcus Nicolay Paus (born 14 October 1979) is a Norwegian composer and one of the most performed contemporary Scandinavian composers.

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Margareta Hallin

Gunhild Margareta Hallin Ekerot (20 February 1931 – 9 February 2020) was a Swedish opera singer, composer and actress.

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Martin Tingvall

Martin Tingvall (born 1974) is a Swedish jazz pianist and composer.

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Mats Rådberg

Mats Rådberg (8 June 1948 – 27 June 2020) was a Swedish country singer, guitarist, composer and architect scoring several chart successes in Sweden during the 1970s/80s.

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Melodifestivalen

Melodifestivalen is an annual song competition organised by Swedish public broadcasters Sveriges Television (SVT) and Sveriges Radio (SR).

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Metal Blade Records is an American independent record label founded by Brian Slagel in 1982.

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Moment (Dark Tranquillity album)

Moment is the twelfth studio album by Swedish melodic death metal band Dark Tranquillity, being released on 20 November 2020 via Century Media Records.

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Mortal (film)

Mortal (Torden) is a 2020 fantasy action film co-written and directed by André Øvredal.

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Myopia (Agnes Obel album)

Myopia is the fourth studio album by Danish singer-songwriter Agnes Obel.

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Myrkur

Myrkur is a solo black metal project by Danish singer Amalie Bruun.

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Nadja Holm

Nadja Kasanesh Holm, (born 10 October 1997) is a Swedish singer and winner of Idol 2020.

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Naglfar (band)

Naglfar is a Swedish melodic black metal band formed in 1992.

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Necrophobic

Necrophobic is a Swedish blackened death metal band.

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Nightwish

Nightwish is a Finnish symphonic metal band from Kitee.

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Niklas Sundin

Niklas Sundin (born 13 August 1974) is a Swedish musician, best known as a founding member and former lead guitarist of the melodic death metal band Dark Tranquillity from 1989–2020.

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Nils Patrik Johansson

Nils Patrik Johansson (born 14 October 1967) is a Swedish heavy metal singer who has been the lead singer of Astral Doors since 2002 and was the lead vocalist of Civil War from 2012 to 2016.

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Norway in the Eurovision Song Contest 2020

Norway originally planned to participate in the Eurovision Song Contest 2020.

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Official Charts Company

The Official Charts Company (OCC or Official Charts; previously known as the Chart Information Network, CIN, and the Official UK Charts Company; legally known as the Official UK Charts Company Limited) is a British inter-professional organisation that compiles various official record charts in the United Kingdom, Ireland and France.

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Ola Magnell

Nils Olaus Lennart Karl Magnell (20 January 1946 – 6 February 2020) was a Swedish pop-rock singer and guitarist.

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Olof Palme

Sven Olof Joachim Palme (30 January 1927 – 28 February 1986) was a Swedish politician and statesman who served as Prime Minister of Sweden from 1969 to 1976 and 1982 to 1986.

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Pain of Salvation

Pain of Salvation is a Swedish progressive metal band led by Daniel Gildenlöw, who is the band's main songwriter, lyricist, guitarist, and vocalist.

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Persuader (band)

Persuader is a Swedish power metal band from Umeå in the Swedish province of Västerbotten Norrland.

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Philharmonia Orchestra

The Philharmonia Orchestra is a British orchestra based in London.

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Pierre Dørge

Pierre Dørge (born 28 February 1946) is a Danish avant-garde jazz guitarist.

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Pitchfork (website)

Pitchfork (formerly Pitchfork Media) is an American online music publication founded in 1996 by Ryan Schreiber in Minneapolis.

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Ralph Lundsten

Ralph Harold Lundsten (6 October 1936 – 5 July 2023) was a Swedish composer of electronic music, as well as a film director, visual artist, and author.

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Rasmus Bjerg

Rasmus Bjerg (born 28 July 1976) is a Danish actor, comedian and singer.

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Roland Cedermark

Roland Cedermark, (23 April 1938 – 24 December 2020) was a Swedish musician (accordionist).

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Roxette

Roxette is a Swedish pop rock group, formerly consisting of Marie Fredriksson (vocals and piano) and Per Gessle (vocals and guitar).

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Royal Danish Theatre

The Royal Danish Theatre (RDT, Danish: Det Kongelige Teater) is both the national Danish performing arts institution and a name used to refer to its old purpose-built venue from 1874 located on Kongens Nytorv in Copenhagen.

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Royal Swedish Opera

Royal Swedish Opera (Kungliga Operan) is an opera and ballet company based in Stockholm, Sweden.

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Santtu-Matias Rouvali

Santtu-Matias Rouvali (born 5 November 1985) is a Finnish conductor and percussionist.

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Sólstafir

Sólstafir is an Icelandic post-metal band formed in 1995 and currently signed to Century Media.

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Söngvakeppnin

Söngvakeppnin (known from 1986–1989 as Söngvakeppni sjónvarpsstöðva and in 1981, 1983 and 1990–2012 as Söngvakeppni sjónvarpsins) is an annual music competition organised by Icelandic public broadcaster (RÚV).

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Signum Records

Signum Records, also known as Signum Classics, is a classical musical record label in the UK founded in 1997.

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Sigrid (singer)

Sigrid Solbakk Raabe (born 5 September 1996), known mononymously as Sigrid, is a Norwegian singer-songwriter.

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Small Time Giants

Small Time Giants is an alternative rock band from Greenland.

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Soilwork

Soilwork is a Swedish melodic death metal band from Helsingborg.

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Sorcerer (band)

Sorcerer is a Swedish epic doom metal band from Stockholm that was founded in 1988, disbanded in 1992 and re-formed in 2010.

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Spånga

Spånga is a community and parish in the borough of Spånga-Tensta in Stockholm County, Sweden.

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Splid

Splid (Norwegian for "discord") is the fourth studio album by Norwegian heavy metal band Kvelertak, released on 14 February 2020.

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SteepleChase Records

SteepleChase Records is a jazz record company and label based in Copenhagen, Denmark.

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Svante Henryson

Svante Henryson (born 22 October 1963 in Stockholm, Sweden) is a composer, cellist, bass guitarist and double bassist, active within jazz, classical music, and hard rock.

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Sveriges 12:a

("Sweden's twelve ") was a one-off music competition in the Eurovision format, organised and broadcast by the Swedish broadcaster Sveriges Television (SVT). 2020 in Scandinavian music and Sveriges 12:a are 2020 in music.

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Sveriges Television

Sveriges Television AB ("Sweden's Television Stock Company"), shortened to SVT, is the Swedish national public television broadcaster, funded by a public service tax on personal income set by the Riksdag (national parliament).

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Swan Lake

Swan Lake (p), Op. 20, is a ballet composed by Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky in 1875–76.

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Sweden in the Eurovision Song Contest 2020

Sweden originally planned to participate in the Eurovision Song Contest 2020.

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The Daily Telegraph

The Daily Telegraph, known online and elsewhere as The Telegraph, is a British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed in the United Kingdom and internationally.

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The Hollywood Reporter

The Hollywood Reporter (THR) is an American digital and print magazine which focuses on the Hollywood film, television, and entertainment industries.

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The Spotnicks

The Spotnicks were an instrumental rock group from Sweden that formed in 1961.

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Think About Things

"Think About Things" is a song by Icelandic singer Daði Freyr and his band i. The song was released on 10 January 2020 with the Icelandic title "i", the name of the band.

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Times Like These (song)

"Times Like These" is a song by American rock band Foo Fighters.

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To/Die/For

To/Die/For (often abbreviated TDF) are a gothic metal band from the town of Kouvola in southeast of Finland, originally assembled in 1993 as a hard rock band under the name Mary-Ann.

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Turmion Kätilöt

Turmion Kätilöt (literally "Midwives of Ruin", "Midwives of Bane" or "Midwives of Perdition") is a Finnish industrial metal band founded in 2003 by MC Raaka Pee and DJ Vastapallo, who until the latter's departure, were the only studio lineup.

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Ulla Pia

Ulla Pia Nielsen (17 February 1945 – 22 August 2020), known simply as Ulla Pia, was a Danish singer, best known internationally for her participation in the 1966 Eurovision Song Contest.

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Ulver

Ulver (Norwegian for "wolves") is a Norwegian experimental electronica band founded in 1993, by vocalist Kristoffer Rygg. Their early works, such as debut album Bergtatt, were categorised as folklore-influenced black metal, but the band has since evolved a fluid and increasingly eclectic musical style, blending genres such as experimental rock, electronica, ambient, trip hop, symphonic and chamber traditions, noise, progressive and experimental music into their oeuvre.

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