Cue is a Swedish pop duo group made up of musician Anders Melander and Niklas Hjulström. They have topped the Swedish Singles Chart with "Burnin'".
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.Rate Your Music page on Cue It also reached #4 in Norway and #9 in Finland.
When Hjulström's work at Angeredsteatern ended, it was an opportune time for the duo to release in 2000 their first album Cue and a second single from the album entitled "Crazy".
A second album followed in 2006 entitled Guide in Blue where both Anders Melander and Niklas Hjulström wrote songs.
Eventually Cue became more of a Hjulström solo project besides his new work as director and art leader at the theatre Folkteatern.
Discography Albums Year Title Chart positionsswedishcharts.com - Cue - Cue SWE 2000 Cue 8 2006 Guide in Blue 24
Singles Year Title Chart positions SWE NOR FIN NLD 1997 Burnin' 1 4 9 - 2000 Crazy 9 14 - - SwayCue (2) - Sway (CD) at Discogs - - - - 2002 Hello - - - 85 2006 Take Me Home 38 - - - 2011 StayAmazon.com: Stay: Cue: MP3 Downloads - - - - 2012 Don't Wanna LieAmazon.com: Don't Wanna Lie: Cue: MP3 Downloads - - - -
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