Sweden’s biggest popstar, Veronica Maggio, yesterday made an equally large comeback. Releasing the first single from her long awaited forthcoming fourth album, and in doing so, knocking Avicii’s ‘Wake Me Up’ off of the number 1 on the Swedish iTunes chart (something which neither Lady Gaga or Katy Perry managed last week). This comes after her last album and its subsequent singles saw her be the most streamed artist on Spotify in Sweden over the course of 2011 and 2012 (that’s a big deal over there). She’s like Adele levels of successful. Innit tho.
The new single is ‘Sergels Torg’. And it’s a blinder of a track that may well see her tie 2013 up in that Spotify record of hers.
Quite why she decided to name it after the worst part of the city (Sergels Torg really is the rancid arsehole of Stockholm) is beyond us. But that’s not important. What’s important is that ‘Sergels Torg’, and thus the sound of Swedish radio over the next few months, is pretty damn good. It’s got the sweetest of melodies, which manages to be melancholic and uplifting at the same time. It’s a delightful listen.
Best bit: the brillo middle eight, and the shrieking return to the chorus which directly follows that middle eight. Triumphant.
‘Sergels Torg’ is out now, in Sweden.
