"All I Ever Wanted" is a song by Swedish musician

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. It is similar to his previous single " Now You're Gone" in that it is an

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remake using music based on a previous Basshunter track, without any lyrical connection. The melody for "All I Ever Wanted" is largely a remixed version of "

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", as is Basshunter's earlier song "

Vi sitter i Ventrilo och spelar DotA "Vi sitter i Ventrilo och spelar DotA" (Swedish for "We're sitting in Ventrilo, playing DotA" and shortened to "DotA") is a song by Swedish musician Basshunter which samples a remixed version of the French song " Daddy DJ" by Daddy DJ. The lyrics ...

". "All I Ever Wanted" uses the melody from the song "Daddy DJ", created by the French dance act of the same name.

Composition

"All I Ever Wanted" is a beat-driven, heavily-vocodered track.

Music video

The video clip was recorded in Fuengirola, Málaga, Spain, featuring

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and Lucas Thorheim.

Chart performance

On 6 July 2008, the song entered the

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at number three, climbing to number two the following week. It had a long and successful chart run in the UK and a year and a half after its release it re-entered the UK top 100 at number 98 due to Basshunter being a contestant on ''

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'' and it often being played on the spin-off shows. In

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, the song debuted at number 27 and peaked at number seventeen. It was certified gold after 18 weeks, selling over 7,500 copies.

Adaptations

Jón Bjarni sang "All I Ever Wanted" at the vocational competition for upper secondary school careers in Verkmenntaskólinn á Akureyri.

Track listing

*UK single # "All I Ever Wanted" (Radio Edit) - 2:59 # "All I Ever Wanted" (Extended Mix) - 5:25 # "All I Ever Wanted" (

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Remix) - 6:39 # "Now You're Gone" (

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Remix) (featuring DJ Mental Theo's Bazzheadz) - 5:39

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Certifications

References

External links

* {{Authority control 2008 singles Basshunter songs Irish Singles Chart number-one singles 2008 songs Number-one singles in Scotland Songs written by David Le Roy Songs written by Jean Christophe Belval Songs written by Scott Simons Songs about loneliness Song recordings produced by Basshunter