Danish pop, punk and soul band take s No. 1 spot
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Lukas Graham the Danish pop, punk and soul band has taken the No: 1 spot on the UK singles chart with the song ‘7 Years’.
The track is the band’s debut UK release which took 105,000 combined sales to register the chart topping position. In total ‘7 Years’ has over 200,000 combined sales from two weeks of release and has been certified as Silver by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI).
Lukas Graham is the third act from Denmark to top the UK singles chart after Whigfield did it ‘Saturday Night’, in 1994 and Aqua with ‘Turn Back The Clock’ in 1998. Lukas Graham Forghammer is the leader of the band with other members being Mark Falgren, Magnus Larsson and Kasper Dangaard.
The quartet has been together since 2011 and popular in Denmark since 2012. Where they scored five No: 1 songs. They soon got noticed in the rest of the Scandinavian region. ‘7 Years’ has taken Lukas Graham to new region with success.
The pop, soul track is written by the band leader with Stefan Forrest, Morten Ristorp and Morten Pilegaard. ‘7 Years’ is taken from the album ‘Lukas Graham (Blue Album)’.
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