Why Sweden is so damn good at Pop Music

Sweden is the only country besides the US and the UK that exports more music than it imports. Legendary bands like ABBA, Roxette and Ace of Base come from the small country in the north. The successful songwriter Max Martin wrote all the big hits of the nineties, DJ Avicii was also Swedish. And even the most successful streaming service Spotify was invented here. Why is this country so incredibly good when it comes to pop music?

A film by Matthias Schwarzer.

▪️ 0:00 – Intro
▪️ 2:55 – The Cheiron story
▪️ 7:02 - The Avicii story
▪️ 10:06 – The ABBA story
▪️ 12:02 – The Spotify story
▪️ 15:06 – Why is Sweden so good at music?
▪️ 15:50 – Early music education
▪️ 17:15 – Music in society & media
▪️ 18:39 – Sweden's internationality
▪️ 20:20 – Swedish English
▪️ 22:57 – Sweden's melancholic melodies
▪️ 25:30 – Outro


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Here's the Spotify playlist with all the songs I mentioned in the video:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/29j...


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Intro Song:
MÆT - Start Again

Music:
Epidemic Sound

Photos:
The Avicii picture in the thumbnail is from The Perfect World Foundation licensed under CC BY 3.0.
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avicii#...

The ABBA picture was taken by me in the ABBA museum.


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