Liebling by Andreas Johnson

Liebling, the second studio album from Swedish singer-songwriter Andreas Johnson, came out on Warner Music Group on 25 May 1999, and it's the one that carries "Glorious", the big, bright, sky-scraping single that gave him an international hit that year. The song went on to soundtrack ads for Volvo, Nutella and Vauxhall, which tells you how much uplift it packs.

Johnson grew up on the road with his jazz musician parents and cut his teeth fronting Planet Waves before going solo with Cottonfish Tales. Here he goes for polished, anthemic pop-rock, and the album's other songs traveled too: "People" and "The Games We Play" both landed on the 2000 year-end Border Breakers chart, which tracked European acts getting airplay outside the country where they were signed, and "People" turned up in a commercial for America's TBS.

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