"Hej Hej Monika" is the debut single by Swedish pop band

Nic & the Family Nic & the Family is a Swedish pop group formed in 2004 in Helsingborg. They are best known for their hit song Hej Hej Monika "Hej Hej Monika" is the debut single by Swedish pop band Nic & the Family from their only album ''Hej Hej Skiva''. The s ...

from their only album ''Hej Hej Skiva''. The song was written by

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, as well as

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members

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and (under the pseudonyms Nancy Blond and Joey Demo, respectively). The song was released as a single shortly after the album's release. The song reached number one on the

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 ...

and remained there for three weeks, before falling to number two, and rising back to the top position the following week. The song was number one for a total of four weeks (three of them consecutive), and remained on the charts for a total of 25 weeks. In 2006, Swedish newspaper ''

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'' called it one of the worst summer hits of the decade. The song was brought to international attention after Swedish YouTuber

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(Felix Kjellberg) mentioned and sang the song in one of his videos on December 12, 2017, in reference to the character Monika from the video game ''

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''. In response to the popularity, PewDiePie uploaded a cover of the song by

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on January 27, 2018, which has since received over 46 million views . Since then, PartyInBackyard has released an additional house remix featuring PewDiePie on June 20, 2018, which has received over 492 thousand views .

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