"A Perfect Match" was

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' second single from their third album '' New Arrival''. The track was written by Mack, Habolin and Jasson and became one of the band's biggest hits in Sweden and

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. The song reached number-two in Sweden and

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, it also reached number-five in

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despite the album ''New Arrival'' was never released there and also hit number-eleven in

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and number-seventy on the Official Euro chart. Because of the delays in

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both the single and album flopped in the country, reaching a disappointing number seventy-seven on the Singles Chart.

Music video

The video was filmed in

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, and was co-directed by the A-Teens themselves. It tells a story of a rich girl and a poor boy who fall in love with each other, but their families are against their relationship; however, despite this, and their differences, they are still "a perfect match". It was a hit in both Sweden and Mexico and despite the album was never released in Argentina, the video reached number-one on MTV's "Los 10 + Pedidos". The video was out of the request charts 2003 as the 34th most played video of MTV Mexico, and the 45th on MTV South America. It has 690,000 views on

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as of 28, November 2009.

Cover songs and renditions

*An additional version of the song, in which the references to "South Park" and "Snatch" had been changed to "Star Wars" and "Flash", was played on Radio Disney, to make it more child-friendly. *The music was used with new lyrics in

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singer

Nami Tamaki Nami ( ar, نامي, ja, 波 ('wave'), ('regular'), etc.) may refer to: Given name * Nami (, , , , ), Japanese feminine given name * Nami Akimoto (born 1968), Japanese manga artist * , Japanese film director, screenwriter and editor *, Japanes ...

's 2004 single "Daitan ni Ikimashou – Heart & Soul"

Releases

Swedish CD single #A Perfect Match ingle Mix- 3:00 #A Perfect Match xtended Mix- 4:15 #Slam - 3:04 European 2-track single #A Perfect Match ingle Mix- 3:00 #A Perfect Match xtended Mix- 4:15 International CD Maxi #A Perfect Match ingle Mix- 3:00 #A Perfect Match xtended Mix- 4:15 #A Perfect Match ranceglobal Club Mix- 5:33 #Singled Out - 4:13

Weekly charts

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Perfect Match A-Teens songs 2003 singles 2002 songs Universal Music Group singles