Aquarium (album)

Aquarium was the debut album from Scandinavian dance-pop group Aqua. Although the group had been together for three years, albeit under their original name Joyspeed, they had never released an album and up until the release of Aquarium only one release of any kind had occurred, being a single called "Itzy Bitsy Spider". The album is best known as including three UK number ones in "Barbie Girl", "Doctor Jones" and "Turn Back Time", the first of those being a huge hit across the globe and a platinum seller Stateside.

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Scandinavian - Aqua - Itzy Bitsy Spider - UK - Barbie Girl - Doctor Jones - Turn Back Time - Stateside

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The release of "Barbie Girl" took the unknown four-piece group onto the A-List of European music, meaning that when the album was released a month later in November 1997 pop fans everywhere gone out to buy it. The album would peak at Number 6 in the UK charts, which wasn't a bad achievement for a group who most would assume to be a 'huge one-hit wonder' (and, to some, they still are). The album's second single release came in 1998 and was a UK number one, "Doctor Jones" not becoming a million seller like "Barbie Girl" but still staying at the top for two weeks in February. The third release "Turn Back Time" would give the group another week at Number One, and further releases "My Oh My" and "Good Morning Sunshine" would peak at Number 6 and Number 18 respectively in the UK charts.

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European - Music - November - 1997 - One-hit wonder - My Oh My - Good Morning Sunshine

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