Source: The Encyclopedia of Popular Music by Colin Larkin. Whigfield continues to perform from her base in Barcelona, Spain. Further European hits followed during the late 90s, although she failed to break into the lucrative American market.
#WHIGFIELD SATURDAY NIGHT 1994 SERIES#
In 1995, Whigfield presented an edition of BBC Televisions Top Of The Pops, and drew a series of complaints for the revealing costume she wore. A third UK Top 10 hit single, Think Of You, accompanied the release of her debut album. Best known for her 1994 number one Saturday Night, Sannie Carlson, who is known by her stage name Whigfield, insisted to. Now aged 49, the Saturday Night star stunned fans with her 'youthful appearance', as she revealed that she is now writing new house music.
#WHIGFIELD SATURDAY NIGHT 1994 TV#
The follow-up single, √nother Day, adopted a similar approach to reduced effect, although it still reached the UK Top 10.īefore Whigfield, Carlson had spent several years playing in a jazz-based duo, the Whigfield Project, with her brother in Denmark (her brother publicly disowned her after the success of Saturday Night). Whigfield appeared on Lorraine this week, much to the surprise of TV viewers. They pointed instead to the involvement of producer Larry Pignagnoli (formerly behind Ivana Spagna) and writer David River. Though purists saw it as the antithesis of art, Whigfield herself merely lapped up the attention: The greatest satisfaction was hearing cameramen and technicians on Top Of The Pops saying that they hated it, then afterwards hearing them all humming it. She appeared widely on television with her distinctive braided hair to support the single, but several commentators questioned the authenticity of the product. It was the Barcelona-based former models debut single, though it had originally been released in Italy in 1992. Whigfield, her stage-name derived from the surname of a former music teacher, made her debut in 1994 with Saturday Night, a repetitive example of banal Europop which became a huge international seller on release in September of that year, reaching the top of the UK charts and selling over 750, 000 copies in its first week of release. Outside Europe, the song peaked at number 3 in Zimbabawe, number 19 on the Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart in the US and number 78 in Australia.Sannie Charlotte Carlson, 11 April 1970, Skælskør, Denmark. And was a top 10 hit in Austria, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway and Sweden. "Saturday Night" also reached number-one in Germany, Ireland, Spain and Switzerland. As of October 2015, it has sold a total of 1.18 million copies in the UK. The single went straight to number-one in the UK Singles Chart - dethroning Wet Wet Wet's 15-week chart-topper "Love Is All Around", despite that single increasing its sales from 65,000 the previous week to 104,000. In 1994, the song was included on her debut album, Whigfield. The song is written by Italian producers Larry Pignagnoli and Davide Riva, and produced by Pignagnoli. Time to Party for Whigfield (heute nacht ist SATURDAY NIGHT ) Sie hatte 7 Hits in Holland von 19 und dieser war die Größte für die dame aus (glaube ich Danmark): 12 Wochen - Rang 7. It was re-released in 1994 in Europe and experienced worldwide success. It was first released in 1992 in Italy and November 1993 in Spain through Prodisc. "Saturday Night" is a song performed by Danish Eurodance artist Whigfield. Notes: Peaked at 1 on The European Hot 100 Singles and 1 on The European Dance Radio bubbling at 4 on The MTV European Top 20.