''Now You're Gone – The Album'' is the third studio album 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 ...
. Released on 14 July 2008, it is his debut
English language
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album, entering the
UK Albums Chart
The Official Albums Chart is a list of albums ranked by physical and digital sales and (from March 2015) audio streaming in the United Kingdom. It was published for the first time on 22 July 1956 and is compiled every week by the Official Charts C ...
at number one, and selling in excess of 329,717 copies in the UK making it platinum.
In
New Zealand
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, the album peaked at number one in its fifth week, and was certified platinum and selling over 20,000 copies. The album spent a total of two weeks at number one.
Reception
Ronny Larsson from ''
QX'' noted that the English-language lyrics no longer refer to the data as they did on the ''
LOL
LOL, or lol, is an initialism for laughing out loud and a popular element of Internet slang. It was first used almost exclusively on Usenet, but has since become widespread in other forms of computer-mediated communication and even face-to ...
'' album, but still sings on about nonsense, adding that dance music lyrics are not too poetic.
Chart performance
On 20 July 2008 ''Now You're Gone – The Album'' debuted at number one on
UK Albums Chart
The Official Albums Chart is a list of albums ranked by physical and digital sales and (from March 2015) audio streaming in the United Kingdom. It was published for the first time on 22 July 1956 and is compiled every week by the Official Charts C ...
.
Track listing
Charts
Weekly charts
Year-end charts
Certifications
Release history
See also
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List of UK Albums Chart number ones of the 2000s
The UK Albums Chart is a weekly record chart based on album sales from Sunday to Saturday in the United Kingdom; during the 2000s, a total of 274 different albums by 170 artists reached number one. The chart was compiled weekly by the Official ...
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List of UK Dance Albums Chart number ones of 2008
These are the Official Charts Company's UK Dance Chart number-one albums of 2008. The dates listed in the menus below represent the Saturday after the Sunday the chart was announced, as per the way the dates are given in chart publications such as ...
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List of number-one albums from the 2000s (New Zealand)
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New Zealand top 50 albums of 2009
References
External links
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2008 albums
Basshunter albums
Ultra Records albums
Warner Music Sweden albums