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55 albums · 1967–2022

Music of Denmark, from Gasolin' and Kim Larsen to Roskilde, metal, hip hop and today

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The Orange Stage at Roskilde Festival with the crowd on the field in front of it
Kim Larsen singing with his guitar on stage, a bass player beside himMichael Poulsen of Volbeat with his guitar on stage at Roskilde Festival
The Orange Stage at Roskilde Festival, 2009. Photo: Wouter Kiel, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. · Kim Larsen on stage at Odderøya Live, Kristiansand, 2013. Photo: Jørund Føreland Pedersen, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons. · Michael Poulsen of Volbeat at Roskilde Festival, 2009. Photo: Bill Ebbesen, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Denmark's popular music has a festival at its centre, Roskilde and its Orange Stage, and a voice most of the country can sing along to, Kim Larsen's, with Gasolin' and alone; around them Steppeulvene and The Savage Rose in the sixties, Shu-bi-dua, Sebastian and C.V. Jørgensen in the seventies, the jazz of Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen and Palle Mikkelborg, Kliché, Sort Sol and TV-2 in the eighties, Mercyful Fate and D-A-D for the metal, Dizzy Mizz Lizzy and Mew in the nineties and after, Aqua for the world, the hip hop of Den Gale Pose, Trentemøller's electronics, Agnes Obel, MØ, Lukas Graham and Volbeat on the big stages, and Tobias Rahim and Benjamin Hav today. The list has 55 records from 1967 to 2022, one or two by each of the names above and only a small part of what they made; Nielsen beyond a nod and most of the classical tradition, dansktop, and the Faroe Islands' and Greenland's own music would each need a list of their own. About 45 hours of music, 5 days of a few records each.

By genre

Rock 19%Pop 17%Electronic 6%Other 58%
  • Rock 19%
  • Pop 17%
  • Electronic 6%
  • Other 58%

The genres named most: danish, pop, rock, hip hop, electronic, heavy metal.

The colours of the covers

A stripe for each cover, in the colour Tidal picks from it, sorted by hue; the greys at the end.

Where the music comes from

Music from 1 country: Denmark 55. The deeper the colour, the more albums: one, two to four, five to nine, ten and more.

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