NRJ Music Award for International Breakthrough of the Year, Brit Award for International Breakthrough Act, Sitting Down Here, Unforgivable Sinner, Where I'm Headed
Star Sign
Leo
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Fact
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Currently in the studio writing and recording her follow-up album to her 1999 debut "Playing My Game". [May 2002]
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Her single "Where I'm Headed", from the French film Mauvaises fréquentations (1999) topped the charts in France and Italy.
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Sometime during the summer of 1997, NRK (the main Norwegian TV/Radio station) in Lene's hometown, Tromsø, received a tip about this talented young girl who wrote and played her own songs, writing them from her room at home. The TV station invited her in to record a song. Someone who worked for NRK heard her music and told Per-Erik Johansen at Virgin Records about Lene. Three weeks later a contract had been signed and Lene's life took an interesting turn.
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During 1999 her album sales have soared. Her album continues to sell well in Europe, today album sales total around 1,500,000. This is a very promising sign for Lene Marlin, her management, and Virgin Records.
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Lene won four awards (Best Pop Solo Artist, Best Single ("Sitting Down Here"), Best Newcomer and the Artist Of The Year) at the Norwegian equivalent to the Grammy awards 1999 ("Spelleman"), as well as the MTV-Europe award for Best Nordic Act in Dublin on November 11, 1999.
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The album "Playing My Game" has now sold over 1,000,000 copies.
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Lene Marlin wrote all the songs on "Playing My Game" alone.
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Her debut single "Unforgiveable Sinner" appeared in the Norwegian movie Schpaaa (1998), the song was also included on the soundtrack.
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In 1998 came the release in Norway of her first single "Unforgivable Sinner". It proved to be a huge hit as it reached number one and kept that position for 8 weeks. It was also the fastest selling single in Norwegian music history. Her second single "Sitting Down Here" also did very well in Norway and led into the release of her album "Playing My Game" on March 22 in Norway. In only 3 days the album sold 50,000 copies, quite an accomplishment in a country with a population of 4.4 million. (To put that in perspective for those in the US, that would mean that an artist would need to sell 3.4 million in the US in 3 days to match her numbers.)
Soundtrack
Title
Year
Status
Character
100% Senorita
2003
TV Series performer: "Disguise"
Maybe Baby
2000
performer: "Unforgivable Sinner"
Top of the Pops
TV Series performer - 1 episode, 2000 writer - 1 episode, 2000
$17 Million
