Cue is a Swedish pop duo group made up of musician Anders Melander and Niklas Hjulström.
They have topped the Swedish Singles Chart with "Burnin'".
Anders Melander was a composer working for the Swedish TV and a theatre director at Angeredsteatern. He was also much earlier a member in the progg band Nationalteatern. Niklas Hjulström on the other hand was an actor. The two had cooperated before working on a song and Anders knew Hjulström was a skilled singer. So when Anders needed a singer to sing "Burnin'", a song composed by him for the Swedish TV series "Glappet", he asked Hjulström and they formed together a band called Cue.
Although not strictly intended for release as a hit, just usage for the TV series, the song gained popularity and upon release as the first single for Cue, it hit the Swedish charts at #1 for 4 weeks (14 November to 12 December 1997. It eventually sold 90,000 copies making it one of the most successful singles in the 1990s in Sweden. It also reached #4 in Norway and #9 in Finland.
When Hjulström's work at Angeredsteatern ended, it was an opportune time for the duo to release in 2000 their first album Cue and a second single from the album entitled "Crazy".
A second album followed in 2006 entitled Guide in Blue where both Anders Melander and Niklas Hjulström wrote songs.
Eventually Cue became more of a Hjulström solo project besides his new work as director and art leader at the theatre Folkteatern.
Year | Title | Chart positions | |||
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2000 | Cue | 8 | |||
2006 | Guide in Blue | 24 |
Year | Title | Chart positions | |||
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SWE | NOR | FIN | NLD | ||
1997 | Burnin' | 1 | 4 | 9 | - |
2000 | Crazy | 9 | 14 | - | - |
Sway | - | - | - | - | |
2002 | Hello | - | - | - | 85 |
2006 | Take Me Home | 38 | - | - | - |
2011 | Stay | - | - | - | - |
2012 | Don't Wanna Lie | - | - | - | - |
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