Alexander Erik Kronlund (born 10 December 1971 in
Bredäng
Bredäng is a suburb of Stockholm, Sweden. In the southwest section of the city, it is a part of the Skärholmen borough and is named after a former farm in the area. Bredäng has an 18th-century mansion (''Jakobsbergs gård'') named after its f ...
) is a Swedish
producer and
songwriter
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.
Kronlund co-wrote
Meja
Meja Anna Pernilla Kullersten (formerly Beckman; born Anna Pernilla Torndahl, 12 February 1969) is a Swedish composer, artist and singer. Among her best known songs are "Private Emotion", a duet with Ricky Martin from his multi-Platinum album ...
's million-selling debut album on
Sony
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and co-wrote two songs for
Britney Spears
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' second album, ''
Oops!... I Did It Again''.
Kronlund co-wrote her hit single, "
Lucky", with
and
Rami and also co-wrote "Don’t Go Knockin' on My Door". He has also worked with
Backstreet Boys
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The gr ...
,
Lesley Roy
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and
*NSYNC and, more recently,
Robyn
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and
Lambretta
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The name is derived from the word Lambrate, the suburb of Milan named after the river Lambro which flows through the area, and whe ...
.
Kronlund also co-wrote two songs with
Cyndi Lauper
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for her 2008 album ''
Bring Ya to the Brink''. Kronlund also co-wrote the third single from
Britney Spears
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' sixth album, ''
Circus
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'' entitled, "
If U Seek Amy
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", and "
Till the World Ends
"Till the World Ends" is a song by American singer Britney Spears from her seventh studio album, ''Femme Fatale (Britney Spears album), Femme Fatale'' (2011). It was written by Kesha, Dr. Luke, Alexander Kronlund, and Max Martin, while the prod ...
", the second single from ''
Femme Fatale
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'', along with
.
In 2009, a joint between Kronlund, the DJ
Ali Payami
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Payami's first number one hit on the Billboard Hot 100 was The Weeknd's single "Can't Feel My Face". In 2016, he won a Grammy for Album of the Year for his contributions on ...
and the teenage
Swedish
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* Swedish language, a North Germanic language spoken primarily in Sweden and Finland
** Swedish alphabet, the official alphabet used by ...
singer
Mimmi Sandén
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worked in the song "Du" ("You" in Swedish). This song was selected by the national broadcaster of
JESC
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in
Sweden
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, TV4, and Mimmi performed it in the final of
Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2009
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, which took place on 21 November 2009, on
Kyiv
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,
Ukraine
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. He went in to collaborate with Tove Lo.
Kronlund also co-wrote
Ariana Grande
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's 2016 hit song "
Side to Side
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", alongside Grande,
Nicki Minaj
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(who was featured in the song), and two other songwriters,
and
Ilya Salmanzadeh
Ilya Salmanzadeh (; born 19 September 1986 in Stockholm), known mononymously as ILYA, is a Swedish-Persian songwriter, producer and singer. He rose to prominence outside of Sweden after co-writing and producing Ariana Grande's " Problem" and Je ...
.
Since 2017 he has been a judge in
Idol
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* Murti, a point of focus for devotion or medit ...
which is broadcast on
TV4 TV4 or TV 4 may refer to:
*TV4 (Poland), a private Polish television station
*TV4 (Sweden), a Swedish television network
**TV4 Group, owners of the Swedish television station
*South African Broadcasting Corporation TV4, a channel operated by the st ...
.
References
External links
on Discogs
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Swedish songwriters
Living people
1971 births