"Angel in the Night" is a song by Swedish musician

Basshunter Jonas Erik Altberg (; born 22 December 1984), known professionally as Basshunter, is a Swedish singer, record producer, songwriter and DJ. Basshunter has recorded five studio albums: ''The Bassmachine'' (2004), ''LOL (Basshunter album), LOL'' (2 ...

from his published work ''

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''. The single was released on 15 September 2008, and was written and produced by Basshunter, Robert Uhlmann, and Scott Simons. "Angel in the Night" has an instrumentation consisting of

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. A music video for "Angel in the Night" was released on 29 August 2008. It was directed by

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and filmed in

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. The clip continues the story with

Aylar Lie Aylar Dianati Lie ( fa, آیلار دیانتی لی; born 12 February 1984) is an Iranian-Norwegian actress, model, singer and former pornographic actress. She has worked as a music video actress and singer, appearing in several of Swedish DJ Ba ...

. The single peaked at number 10 on

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and number 14 on

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. In 2022 it was certified Silver for sales of 200,000 copies.

Description

"Angel in the Night" is two minutes and 57 seconds long, which is over 20 seconds shorter than album version. The song was written by Basshunter, and produced by Basshunter, Robert Uhlmann and Scott Simons. Basshunter said that he wanted to develop artistically and the song was the first step toward much rockier songs. He want to make songs with

s and

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s within a trancey

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Release

Basshunter's previous single, " All I Ever Wanted", was released on 29 June 2008. "Angel in the Night" was premiered on 14 July on his ''

''. The song was added to Friday Floor Fillers which is part of

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radio show on

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on 22 August 2008. On 17 September 2008, the song was upgraded to BBC Radio 1's A-List. The single "Angel in the Night" was released on 15 September 2008. Maxi single contains remixes from

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, Headhunters and Soulseekerz. "Russia Privjet (Hardlanger Remix)" is the next single and was released on 13 October 2008.

Music video

The music video for "Angel in the Night" was shot in

and was directed by

. The video follows on from the previous music video, " All I Ever Wanted". Left by ex-boyfriend Lucas, Ayal Lie is comforted by her new boyfriend Basshunter, who invites her to a

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. Marielle Mathiassen who previously appeared in music video for " Now You're Gone" play Lie's friend. The story continued in the next music video, " I Miss You".

Reception

Nick Levine from

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said that "Angel in the Night" is different than previous Basshunter singles and he drew attention to the existence of guitar

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. Levine said that

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beats are throbbing and deadpan vocals over the top are tuneless. He also described

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sounds negatively. Richard Dyer from

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desceibed "Angel in the Night" as eurotrash soundtrack without sense. He added that this song is not for him but plenty of people will love it. Alex Fletcher from Digital Spy said that "Angel in the Night" has a more

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feel to the songs on the ''

''. Antti Niemelä from Findance.com said that the song uses a completely inappropriate

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Chart performance

"Angel in the Night" entered the

at number 54 on 13 September 2008 and peaked in its fifth week on chart at number 14. In its second last week on chart in 2009 it sold 4,592 copies. In 2022 it was certified Silver for sales of 200,000 copies. "Angel in the Night" debuted on

on 11 September and peaked at number 10 for two weeks. On 16 October it debuted on

Swedish singles chart Sverigetopplistan (, lit. "the Sweden top list") is the Swedish national record chart, formerly known as Topplistan (1975–1997) and Hitlistan (1998–2007) and known by its current name since October 2007, based on sales data from the Swedish R ...

at number 50 where it spent one week.

Track listing

Personnel

Credits * Writer – Basshunter * Producer – Basshunter, Robert Uhlmann, Scott Simons

Charts

Certifications

Notes

References

External links

* {{Authority control 2008 singles Basshunter songs 2008 songs Songs written by Basshunter Torch songs Song recordings produced by Basshunter