DANSBAND is another genre of music only found in Sweden and to a degree in Norway that resembles somewhat country music
"The term "dansband" was coined in Sweden in 1976, to sound more modern and tougher than the earlier "dansorkester" (dance orchestra), but later many of the bands have begun to call themselves "live bands"
"The main audience for dansband music is middle-aged adults. The music is often performed live by the bands at venues where the main interest of the audience is dancing, rather than watching the performance on stage."
On the image above you can see some famous Swedish dansband artists/bands but by far the biggest Dansband band is Vikingarna
"Vikingarna was a Swedish dansband, formed in 1958, and disbanded in 2004 after an extensive farewell tour. It is the best-selling dansband, and one of the best-selling artists, in Scandinavia and are often regarding as the greatest dansband to have existed. At the time of its 2004 dissolution it had sold more than 11 million records."
"The term "dansband" was coined in Sweden in 1976, to sound more modern and tougher than the earlier "dansorkester" (dance orchestra), but later many of the bands have begun to call themselves "live bands"
"The main audience for dansband music is middle-aged adults. The music is often performed live by the bands at venues where the main interest of the audience is dancing, rather than watching the performance on stage."
On the image above you can see some famous Swedish dansband artists/bands but by far the biggest Dansband band is Vikingarna
"Vikingarna was a Swedish dansband, formed in 1958, and disbanded in 2004 after an extensive farewell tour. It is the best-selling dansband, and one of the best-selling artists, in Scandinavia and are often regarding as the greatest dansband to have existed. At the time of its 2004 dissolution it had sold more than 11 million records."
Disco almost killed dansband in the 1970s and many dansband have complained TV and radio do not play a lot of dansband that is true to a degree but even so dansband still do events and have some TV programs
The 2 biggest TV programs was:
1. Dansbandskampen (2008-2010) were new dansband bands got to compete on TV
Many famous dansband bands were asked to compete against the new bands but they all said no because they did not want to follow strict rules like having to make covers of metal songs or if the big bands they lost would get a very bad reputation
2. Tack för dansen (2016), probably the biggest dansband TV program in decades where famous dansband bands did an interview then went live on TV
The program even managed to get Vikingarna to do a one day reunion concert after 12 years
One of the producers from Tack för dansen went on TV and said he managed to get Vikingarna by convincing them that they had to go live to show the new generation who had no idea just how big dansband was long before the internet
Back when the way you met people in the village/town you lived in was to go see a dansband band perform every weekend that could easily attract 6000-10000 people/weekend and how Vikingarna managed to sell 11 million albums considering many young people now think dansband is only for farmers/old people and was never as big as modern music styles
The 2 biggest TV programs was:
1. Dansbandskampen (2008-2010) were new dansband bands got to compete on TV
Many famous dansband bands were asked to compete against the new bands but they all said no because they did not want to follow strict rules like having to make covers of metal songs or if the big bands they lost would get a very bad reputation
2. Tack för dansen (2016), probably the biggest dansband TV program in decades where famous dansband bands did an interview then went live on TV
The program even managed to get Vikingarna to do a one day reunion concert after 12 years
One of the producers from Tack för dansen went on TV and said he managed to get Vikingarna by convincing them that they had to go live to show the new generation who had no idea just how big dansband was long before the internet
Back when the way you met people in the village/town you lived in was to go see a dansband band perform every weekend that could easily attract 6000-10000 people/weekend and how Vikingarna managed to sell 11 million albums considering many young people now think dansband is only for farmers/old people and was never as big as modern music styles
Below is a modern example of how it might have looked back in the day if you remove the rock music influence and the English lyrics and replace the old people with young people including teenagers
Some say that since most people who likes dansband are older when the generation born after 1980 get old dansband will be dead because even if some young people do start dansband bands the whole dansband era is long gone
As for now dansband still lives on even if mostly found in smaller towns/villages and less in big cities that are more influenced by modern music coming from other countries like USA
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