Top 3 Scandinavian Bands

[Mick Dundee]

Nekromantix
Korpiklaani
The Hives

 

[Hongkongphooey]

Blue Swede
A-Ha
ABBA

 

[vote quimby]

The blonde tart off gladiators

Warrior?

 

[Forrest Gump]

Warrior?

Wad

 

[Kubicki26]

Aqua

 

[Daylight]

The Knife
The Soundtrack of Our Lives
The Concretes

Forgot about The Concretes used to love those Victoria had a beautiful voice.

 

[jarramackem]

Alphabeat
ABBA
Miike Snow

 

[Billy Rocket]

I’m including Iceland as that is sometimes recognised as Scandinavia according to Wiki

If so;
Sigur Ros
Bjork
Olafur Arnalds

Two are artists like

Good calls. I'd have The Sugarcubes in instead of Bjork like.

 

[Stubbs ftm]

The hives
Of monsters and men
Sigor ros

 

[Billy Rocket]

Fairly sure Roxette are the biggest selling scandie band ever.

No way did they outsell Abba shirley.

 

[parm]

Abba , AHA , the hives

 

[miltonunez9]

Blue Swede

Great shout.

 

[Billy Rocket]

What's that noisy Danish rock band from a few years back?

Edit it was Sort Sol

So:

The Raveonettes
The Sugarcubes
Sort Sol (or maybe Abba)

 

[onegaryrowell]

First aid kit
Sigur ros
The tallest man on earth

 

[ErichZann]

Damn only 3....

Emperor
Darkthrone
Burzum

 

[Typhoonftm]

No way did they outsell Abba shirley.

Thats what I thought. But sure I heard it on QI or similar.

Maybe it's the amount of hits in the UK?

 

[kinkyjohn]

Damn only 3....

Emperor
Darkthrone
Burzum

Immortal
Gogoroth
Carpathian forest.

 

[ErichZann]

Immortal
Gogoroth
Carpathian forest.

Narrowly missed out.....

 

[CheersMarra84]

The Knife
Miike Snow
Kings of Convenience
Lo-Fi Fnk
The Tallest Man on Earth

 

[Billy Rocket]

Thats what I thought. But sure I heard it on QI or similar.

Maybe it's the amount of hits in the UK?

According to this Abba sold 375m and Roxette 75m. It doesn't say where so I'd guess worldwide.

Doubt it'd be much different here. We were one of Abba's biggest markets.

Maybe in the US (iirc Abba weren't that big there) or even Sweden?