Jill Johnson | |
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 Johnson in 2009 | |
| Background information | |
| Born | Jill Anna Maria Johnson (1973-05-24)24 May 1973 (age 52) |
| Genres | |
| Instrument | Vocals |
| Years active | 1996–present |
| Labels | Freebird Entertainment |
| Website | jilljohnson |
Jill Anna Maria Johnson (born 24 May 1973) is a Swedishcountry andpop singer, songwriter[1] and TV-host.[2] She performed in theMelodifestivalen 1998 contest, winning with the song "Kärleken är" ("Love Is"), and represented Sweden at theEurovision Song Contest 1998 with that song, which finished 10th with 53 points. In 2003 she enteredMelodifestivalen for the second time with "Crazy in Love", which finished fourth in the final. She also hosted the final ofMelodifestivalen 2005. Johnson is today one of the most successful artists in Sweden, with several Gold and Platinum records and since 2014 has hosted her own Swedish TV-show fromNashville,Jills veranda.
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Johnson is from the small town ofÄngelholm in the south western part of Sweden. By the age of four, she had decided she wanted to become an artist, an aspiration towards which she was highly encouraged by her local choir leader. As a 12-year-old, she started off as the vocalist in a Country & Western band, Tomboola Band, touring in Norway and Denmark. She signed eventually with EMI-Medley in Denmark and recorded an album, produced by producer Paul Bruun. The title-track, "Sugar Tree", became a hit inDenmark. In 1996, she had her first Swedish hit with "Kommer tid, kommer vår", aduet withJan Johansen.
In 1998, she performed "Kärleken är" ("Love is") at national contestMelodifestivalen, winning the Swedish finals and going on to represent Sweden in theEurovision Song Contest. The success was followed by the hit albumNär hela världen ser på and a successful tour.
In mid-1999, Johnson went to Los Angeles to look for material for her second album. At home, she worked withAndreas Carlsson (ASCAP Writer of the Year 2000), who is known for several hits, includingCeline Dion's "That's the Way It Is". She also tried out a few local newcomers and the albumDaughter of Eve was released in early 2000. It was very well received and Johnson was compared with some of the world's best artists.
In 2000, she received a Platinum-record in Denmark for the sound-track "Promise To Love" from the Danish block-buster,Eneste Ene. Later that year, Johnson started to collaborate with other songwriters such as Jenny Orenstein, Charlie Stefl, Mary Green [Biem Writer of the Year 2001]. This resulted in her receiving a publishing contract in Nashville, Tennessee. Consequently, in 2002 Johnson's album entitledGood Girl came to be with the help of producer Scott Baggett and some of Nashville's top musicians. This album secured Johnson's artistic sound and style and once again she was extremely well received by the press in their reviews where she was described as an artist of international calibre.
In the Swedish finals of the Eurovision Song Contest 2003 she qualified at fourth place (out of 32 entries) but and her song "Crazy in Love" became a hit and received a great deal of radio play and was followed by a successful tour.
Johnson's collectiveDiscography CD was released in late March 2003. It contains the 20 most popular songs since her debut in 1995. The CD went straight into the sales charts for best selling CDs in Sweden. The single "Crazy in Love" stayed at No 1 in the Swedish Top Charts (Svensktoppen) 12 weeks consecutively and No 2 for 15 weeks.Discography sold Gold in Sweden and Johnson also got aGrammis for this album.
The albumRoots and Wings was released in November 2003, recorded and produced by Amir Aly in Sweden and by Scott Baggett in Nashville, Tennessee.Roots and Wings sold Gold in less than two weeks and Platinum a few months later.
The albumBeing who you are was released in Sweden in late March 2005 and sold Gold in only a few weeks.
Johnson was the host of the 2005 Swedish finals of the Eurovision Song Contest in Stockholm. In 2014 she became the hostess of her own Swedish musical TV-series,Jills veranda, where she brought together and performed with different Swedish and American music personalities in Nashville, the city where she also spends much time working with her own music. In 2014, she was awarded with the Swedish Kristallen-prize for "Female host of the year", due toJills veranda. The show aired two following seasons in 2015 and 2017. In 2016 she participated in the popular musical TV-seriesSå mycket bättre, which was broadcast onTV4.
In 2019, Jill released the single "Is It Hard Being A Man?" among others which topped the Swedish radio charts. The same year, Jill went on a club tour, "My Remedy Tour", which visited fifteen citites and premiered on 8 March in Malmö. On 18 August 2019, Jill hosted her own episode in the popular Swedish radio show Sommar i P1.
Johnson will play the role as Camilla in the Swedish TV-series "Udda Veckor", which airs on Discovery+ during the spring of 2021. Jill's participation in the show marks her debut as an actress in a fictional role.
Studio albums
| Title | Details | Peak positions | Certifications (sales threshold) | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SWE [3] | |||||||||
| Sugartree | — | ||||||||
| När hela världen ser på |
| 37 | |||||||
| Daughter of Eve |
| 59 | |||||||
| Good Girl |
| 37 | |||||||
| Roots and Wings |
| 5 |
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| Being Who You Are |
| 4 |
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| The Woman I've Become |
| 2 |
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| Music Row |
| 2 |
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| Baby Blue Paper |
| 3 |
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| Music Row II |
| 2 | |||||||
| Flirting with Disaster |
| 1 | |||||||
| A Woman Can Change Her Mind |
| 3 | |||||||
| Duetterna |
| — | |||||||
| Songs for Daddy |
| 1 | |||||||
| In Tandem (withDoug Seegers) |
| 1 | |||||||
| For You I'll Wait |
| 3 | |||||||
| Tolkningarna – Så mycket bättre säsong 7 |
| 37 | |||||||
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart | |||||||||
Compilation albums
| Title | Details | Peak positions | Certifications (sales threshold) |
|---|---|---|---|
| SWE [3] | |||
| Discography |
| 4 |
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| The Well-Known And Some Other Favourite Stories |
| 2 |
Christmas albums
| Title | Details | Peak positions | Certifications (sales threshold) |
|---|---|---|---|
| SWE [3] | |||
| The Christmas in You |
| 3 |
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| Välkommen jul |
| - | |
| Christmas Island |
| 9 [4] |
Live albums
| Title | Details | Peak positions | Certifications (sales threshold) |
|---|---|---|---|
| SWE [3] | |||
| Livemusiken från Jills veranda |
| 1 |
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| Livemusiken från Jills veranda, Nashville säsong 2 |
| 11[5] | |
| Livemusiken från Jills veranda, Nashville säsong 3 |
| 38[6] |
| Title | Details | Peak positions |
|---|---|---|
| SWE [3] | ||
| Rodeo |
| 11 [7] |
| Year | Single | Peak positions | Album | ||||||
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| SWE [8] | |||||||||
| 1995 | "Shake the Sugartree" | — | Sugartree | ||||||
| 1996 | "All Kinds of People" | — | |||||||
| 1998 | "Kärleken är" ("Eternal Love") | 5 | När hela världen ser på | ||||||
| "När hela världen ser på" | — | ||||||||
| 2000 | "Mother's Jewel" | — | Daughter of Ever | ||||||
| "Secrets in My Life" | — | ||||||||
| "It's Only You" | — | ||||||||
| 2001 | "Jump in a Car" | — | Good Girl | ||||||
| 2002 | "What's Wrong with You" | — | |||||||
| "Luckiest People" | — | ||||||||
| 2003 | "Crazy in Love" | 9 | Discography, 1996–2003 | ||||||
| "Can't Get Enough of You" | 27 | Roots and Wings | |||||||
| 2004 | "Hopelessly Devoted to You" | — | |||||||
| "God's Gift" | 12 | ||||||||
| 2005 | "God Bless a Girl in Love" | 37 | Being Who You Are | ||||||
| "A Little Bit More" | — | ||||||||
| 2006 | "Cowboy Up" | 32 | The Woman I've Become | ||||||
| "Baby Don't Go" | — | ||||||||
| 2007 | "Angel of the Morning" | 30 | Music Row | ||||||
| 2008 | "Jolene" | — | |||||||
| "Top of the World" | 56 | Baby Blue Paper | |||||||
| 2009 | "It's a Heartache" | — | Music Row II | ||||||
| 2016 | "Open Your Heart" | 2 | Så mycket bättre | ||||||
| "The Burden" | 93 | TBA | |||||||
| "Himlen är oskyldigt blå" | 75 [9] | ||||||||
| 2019 | "Aqualung" | —[A] | Så mycket bättre | ||||||
| "Are You Ready" | —[B] | ||||||||
| 2020 | "Miles of Blue" (feat. Robin Stjernberg) | ||||||||
| 2020 | "When I Get Older" | ||||||||
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart | |||||||||
Notes
| Year | Video |
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| 1996 | "Kärleken är" |
| 2000 | "Mother's Jewel" |
| 2001 | "Jump in a Car |
| 2006 | "Cowboy Up" |
Media related toJill Johnson at Wikimedia Commons
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| Preceded by | Sweden in the Eurovision Song Contest 1998 | Succeeded by |
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