TEAM RNS PRESENTS

ARTIST: Ace Of Base

TITLE: The Sign

0hr 19min total- 18.3mb

RELEASE DATE: 1993-00-00
RIP DATE: 2004-05-02

01 The Sign (Radio Edit)          4:45
02 The Sign (Long Version)        7:04
03 The Sign (Dub Version)         7:13

Comprised of vocalists Jenny Berggren
and Linn Berggren, and keyboardists
Jonas "Joker" Berggren and Ulf "Buddah"
Ekberg, the Swedish quartet Ace of Base
became a phenomenally popular
international act with their 1993
debut album, The Sign. Ace of Base's
simple, melodic Euro-disco was equally
popular on radio and in the clubs,
earning the quartet three U.S. Top 10
singles  "All That She Wants," "Don't
Turn Around," and "The Sign," which
spent six weeks at number one.
Before the quartet formed in 1990,
sisters Jenny and Malin Berggren sang
in local church choirs in Gothenburg,
Sweden. Their brother, Jonas, played
synthesizers and wrote songs with Ulf
Ekberg. Eventually, Jonas and Ulf
recruited Jenny and Linn to sing with
them, and the quartet began playing
dance music at local clubs in the late
summer of 1990. Within a year, the group
signed with Mega Records and released
their debut single, "Wheel of Fortune,"
in 1992. By that time, the quartet had
joined forces with John Ballard, who
produced their recordings and wrote the
majority of their songs; occasionally,
Ballard co-wrote with Jonas Berggren.
"Wheel of Fortune" became a hit across
Scandanavia, and soon the German-based
record label Metronome signed a European
distribution deal with the group. "All
That She Wants" was Ace of Base's first
single in Europe and, thanks to heavy
exposure on MTV, the song became a
number one hit in ten different
countries. In the spring of 1993, Ace of
Base released their European debut
album, Happy Nation.

"All That She Wants" was released in
America in the fall of 1993 and quickly
went platinum, beginning a string of
platinum Top 10 singles in the US.
Released in the fall of 1993, Ace of
Base's American debut album The Sign  a
reconfigured version of Happy Nation,
featuring four new songs  quickly sold
nearly two million copies in the US.
Throughout 1994, Ace of Base dominated
radio in America and Europe as "All That
She Wants," "Don't Turn Around," and
"The Sign" received heavy airplay on a
number of radio formats, including Top
40, adult contemporary, urban, and,
bizarrely, modern rock. By the end of
the year, The Sign had sold over eight
million copies in the US alone. Ace of
Base was nominated for three Grammys
that year, including Best New Artist.

Ace of Base released their second album,
The Bridge, in the fall of 1995.
Although it went platinum in its first
six months of release, the record
failed to duplicate the remarkable
multi-platinum success of The Sign. After
a three-year hiatus, the duo returned
with Cruel Summer, which suffered a
similar fate. 2000 saw the release of
Greatest Hits, a blend of original singles