Aikakone (
Finnish for
time machine
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) is a Finnish
pop music
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group active from 1995 to 1998 and shortly in 2001 and 2003 as ''Aika''. In 2003, they changed their name back to Aikakone and have since been active on and off.
Their debut album ''Tähtikaaren taa'' went triple platinum in Finland,
IFPI
/ref> the follow-up, ''Toiseen maailmaan'', double platinum, their third, ''Maa'', went platinum, and their fourth album, ''Hear Me Now'', went gold.
Aikakone was awarded the Newcomer of the Year Emma award
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* Emma (given name)
Film
* ''Emma'' (1932 film), a comedy-drama film by Clarence Brown
* ''Emma'' (1996 theatrical film), a film starring Gwyneth Paltrow
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in 1995. They were also selected the best band of the year in 1995 in a vote on Radiomafia
Radiomafia was a Finnish radio station owned by Yle and mainly directed to teenagers and young adults. It was established on 1 June 1990 and decommissioned on 12 January 2003. It was followed by YleX, with some of the programmes moved to other cha ...
.
Band members
* Sani (Saija Aartela)
* Vera (Heidi Puurula)
* Alex (Alex Ojasti)
* Maki (Marko Kolehmainen)
Discography
Studio albums
Compilations
Singles
See also
* List of best-selling music artists in Finland
These are the lists of the music artists that have the highest certified record sales in Finland (and/or sales explicitly confirmed by Musiikkituottajat – IFPI Finland in their database). The lists consist of albums and singles (vinyl, CD, d ...
References
External links
Finnish Eurodance groups
Finnish pop music groups
Musical groups established in 1995
Musical groups disestablished in 1998
Musical groups reestablished in 2001
Musical groups disestablished in 2003
Musical groups reestablished in 2008
Bertelsmann Music Group artists
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