Burnin' (Cue song)

"Burnin'" is a 1997 song by Anders Melander first released by Swedish music group Cue. The song was awarded a Grammis for "Song of the year 1997" (Swedish: Årets låt 1997), which was the first time a song performed in another language than Swedish won this award. The song was featured on the band's self-titled album which was released in 2000.

"Burnin'"
Single by Cue
A-side"Burnin'"
Released1997
FormatCD
Genrepop
Songwriter(s)Anders Melander
Cue singles chronology
"Burnin'"
(1997)		 "Crazy"
(2000)

French Canadian singer Garou covered the song for his 2008 album Piece of My Soul.

History

Anders Melander was a composer working for the Swedish TV and a theatre director at Angeredsteatern. He was also much earlier a member in the progg band Nationalteatern. Niklas Hjulström on the other hand was an actor. The two had cooperated before working on a song and Anders knew Hjulström was a skilled singer. So when Anders needed a singer to sing "Burnin'", a song composed by him for the Swedish TV series Glappet, he asked Hjulström and they formed together a band called Cue.

Although not strictly intended for release as a hit, just usage for the TV series, the song gained popularity and upon release as the first single for Cue, it hit the Swedish charts at #1 for 4 weeks (14 November to 12 December 1997. It eventually sold 90,000 copies making it one of the most successful singles in the 1990s in Sweden.[1] It also reached #4 in Norway and #9 in Finland.

Chart performance

References
  1. Rate Your Music page on Cue
  2. Finnishcharts - Burnin'
  3. "Íslenski Listinn NR. 257 vikuna 29.1. - 5.2. 1998". Dagblaðið Vísir - Tónlist. Retrieved January 21, 2020.
  4. Norwegiancharts - Burnin'
  5. Swedishcharts - Burnin' Archived December 12, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
  6. "Årslista Singlar – År 1997" (in Swedish). Hitlistan. Archived from the original on February 8, 2015. Retrieved November 22, 2019.


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