Sweden: Eric Saade releases his fifth album along with the brand new single “Nån som du”

Sweden: Eric Saade releases his fifth album along with the brand new single “Nån som du”
Friday, 12 June 2020

  • The Swedish Eurovsion 2011 act and Green Room host at Eurovision 2013, Eric Saade,  is back with a fresh album along with his brand new song “Nån som du”.

    29 year old Eric Saade, who lately experienced a painful break up with the 23 yo influencer Nicole Falciani might not want to talk about it openly in public but surely sings about in his new song Nån som du”.( Someone Like You) . His new single is included in his also newly released fifth personsal album titled '“Det svarta fåret” (The Black Sheep). 

    Talking to Aftoblandet about his new single he stated: 

    "You have to say that it does. It became a last minute song which I think became very good, for some damn reason you write your best songs when you feel crap. I don't know why that is so. I wrote it two weeks ago, in two hours. Everything came naturally. That said, for some reason it comes naturally when you go through things. It is probably the only positive side with all this, that you write good songs. "Someone Like You" is a positive break-up song, you might say."

    Eric's new work is written by himself given a hand by Sebastian Atas , Victor Sjöström and Viktor Broberg who are also behind the production of the song. 

    You can listen to the song in the following Youtube video: 

    Saade's new single is one of the tracks included in his also fresh album titled '“Det svarta fåret” (The Black Sheep) which is a collection of the act's songs in Swedish. Talking about his new work and where it got it's title from Eric said: 

    "I've always felt like the black sheep while upbrought , in my family, in the music industry and in the present. I have always found myself in being the black sheep, going my own way and not receiving much support. I grew up in Kattarp outside Helsingborg where there is a lot of racism and I was the only dark haired. I grew up in a family where one half is Muslim, the other half Swedish, and I ended up somewhere in the middle and didn't really fit in with anyone, I felt. I went to Stockholm when I was 18 without a plan, and everyone else lives in Skåne."

    Listen to the whole line up of songs on the folllowing digital platforms: 

    Spotify

     

     

    About Eric Saade

    Saade began singing after seeing Michael Jackson on TV, and his other musical influences are Robbie Williams, Bryan Adams, the Backstreet Boys and Justin Timberlake.  In 2007, Saade was a founding member of What's Up!, a Swedish boy band which included Robin Stjernberg, Ludwig "Ludde" Keijser and Johan Yngvesson. Its members were picked from a competition attracting hundreds of applicants. Fifteen finalists (including Saade) competed at the Ericsson Globe, and the four winners became the band's founding members.

    Not long after he goes solo and in August 2009, Saade signed with the Swedish record label Roxy Recordings while in December he released his first solo single, "Sleepless". In February 2010 Saade sang "Manboy", written by Fredrik Kempe and Peter Boström, at the second semi-final of Melodifestivalen 2010 . He wins the semi final round and finishes 3rd in the overall results. His entry goes platinum in Sweden topping the charts and receive the Marcel Bezençon Press Award in March 2010. 

    Saade released his first solo album, Masquerade, in May 2010. The album reached #2 in Sweden, and went gold! Some of the songs that stood out apart from the title track "Masquerade"  were also  "Break of Dawn"  and "It's Gonna Rain".

     

    Eric in Eurovision 2011

    In February 2011, Saade entered the Melodifestivalen for a second time. This time he made it to the final,which he won with his entry  "Popular" (written by Fredrik Kempe and produced by Peter Boström). He went on representing Sweden at Eurovision 2011 in Dusseldorf, Germany where he finsihed 3rd in the Grand final, marking Sweden best result after its vicotry back in 1999 with "Take me to your heaven" by  Charlotte Perrelli . 

     In June 2011 Eric releases his second album Saade Vol. 1 which includes songs such as "Still Loving It", and "Hearts in the Air", a duet with J-Son . Very quickly his album reaches platinum certification. In November follows his 3rd album Saade Vol. 2  in which we find among others his track "Hotter than fire" . In In June 2012 , he released a new single with Norwegian singer Tone Damli entitled "Imagine"  while the singer released two new singles in October: "Miss Unknown" and "Marching (In the Name of Love)" . In April 2013 Eric announced his next album's title, Forgive Me, and released its first single "Coming Home".

    During the final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2013 in Malmö, Sweden, Saade was co-host in the "green room" . In 2015 he makes a third participation in Melodifestivalen with his song "Sting" and after coming first in his semi final , he qualified to the Finals where he was placed 5th. On May 22, 2015 Saade released his new single "Girl From Sweden".

    Saade released his extended play Saade on June 24, 2016. Saade released the lead single from Saade titled "Colors" on March 18, 2016. On May 27, the title track "Wide Awake" featuring Gustaf Norén was released as the album's second single. On May 25, 2017, Saade released his new single "Another Week". 

    Saade was co-host of all six shows of Melodifestivalen 2019 alongside Sarah Dawn Finer, Marika Carlsson and Kodjo Akolor. Saade was Swedish spokesperson for the Eurovision Song Contest 2019.

    On June 14, 2019, Saade released the single "Skit för varandra".

     

     News source/cover photo: Aftonblandet/Eric Saade/