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"Boten Anna"
Song

"Boten Anna" ("Anna, the bot") is a song by Swedish dance musician BassHunter, which appears on his second studio album LOL <(^^,)>. Due to the song, BassHunter became a noted artist in his native Sweden, as well as Finland, Denmark, Iceland, Norway, Poland and the Netherlands after the release of the single in 2006. The song topped hit charts and – on May 3, 2006 – was named Norway's official Russ-song[1]. It was also the most popular song at The Gathering demo party 2006.

The Swedish lyrics of Boten Anna tell the story of a female IRC user mistaken for an IRC bot by the vocalist who later finds out the truth; subsequently, however, he states that she will always remain a bot in his eyes. The song is based on an actual experience of Jonas Erik Altberg (a.k.a. BassHunter), who explained the situation in an interview with the Finnish website Stara.fi. His friend said he would create a bot with administrative capabilities to keep order in his channel, #BassHunter.se; when this happened Jonas saw a new user with administrative capabilities named Anna enter the channel, and naturally thought this was the bot. Months later, he learned that Anna was actually not a bot, but was his friend's girlfriend; the embarrassment, he says, inspired him to create the song.

Despite the esoteric subject of the lyrics, the song was well-received by mainstream media, albeit the word bot was frequently mistaken for boat (bot is commonly mispronounced as boat), and the double meaning of the word channel — the IRC channel mistaken for the body of water. The video to the song shows BassHunter riding a pedal boat down a canal, further adding to the confusion.

In the Dutch Top 40 in the Netherlands, a spoof of the song has peaked at #6 in weeks 38 and 39 of 2006. It is also called "Boten Anna" and it is by De Gebroeders Ko, who also made other Dutch versions of known songs like "Dragostea din Tei". Although they knew the original song wasn't about a boat, they translated it as if it were (one called Anna). "Boten" is the plural form of "boat" in Dutch. In November another spoof of the song, again by De Gebroeders Ko, charted the Dutch Top 40. In week 47 the song called "Sinterklaas Boot (Boten Anna)" charted in the Dutch Top 40 and peaked at #7. This version of "Boten Anna" is about the boat of Sinterklaas. An Israeli band called Chovevei Tzion (חובבי ציון) spoofed "Boten Anna" with their popular single, "Rotze Banot" (רוצה בנות), which was extensively spoofed in turn.[2]

A bot named Anna occasionally resides in the IRC channel #BassHunter.se on Quakenet, albeit due to the popularity of the song, the channel, as well as #Anna, has been filled up with bots.

Now You're Gone

An English version of Boten Anna titled "Now You're Gone", sung by Sebastian Westwood with unrelated lyrics, by DJ Mental Theo's Bazzheadz which was originally released in 2006, has become the music to a video by Basshunter with the same title in November 2007. The video and the track is sweeping through the world charts and became the most requested record in summer holiday resorts around Europe in early 2008 and as people return from their holidays desperate to hear it again, TV channels in the UK have been inundated with requests for the video. [3]

Formats and track listings

Maxi Single (May 29 2006)

  1. "Boten Anna" [Radio Edit] - 3:29
  2. "Boten Anna" [Club Remix] - 5:26

CD Single (September 4 2006)

  1. "Boten Anna" [Radio Edit] - 3:29
  2. "Boten Anna" [Club Remix] - 5:26
  3. "Boten Anna" [DJ Micro Spankin Club Remix] - 5:30
  4. "Boten Anna" [Backslash Fluffy Style Remix] - 4:40
  5. "Boten Anna" [SkillsToPayTheBills Remix] - 4:34
  6. "Boten Anna" [Instrumental] - 3:20

Chart performance

Chart (2006) Peak (weeks)
Dutch Top 40 1 (2)
Finnish Top 20 4 (1)
Norwegian Top 20 3 (2)
Swedish Top 60 1 (2)
Austria Top 40 4 (9)
Israel Top 10 2 (3)
German 100 9 (1)
Czech IFPI Chart 17 (1)
UK top 40 1 (2)
Dutch Top 40 (starting 2006/week 31)
Week 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16
Position
16
9
3
1
1
2
2
2
2
2
5
6
7
13
19
34
Norwegian Top 20 (starting 2006/week 24)
Week 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15
Position
8
7
4
4
4
4
4
3
3
4
6
7
8
Swedish Top 60 (starting 2006/week 23)
Week 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17
Position
3
3
2
2
2
2
2
2
1
2
1
2
3
3
3
8
7
Finland Top 20 (starting 2006/week 32)
Week 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15
Position
16
9
12
11
-
-
-
11
-
-
20
-
8
16
4
Czech IFPI Chart (starting 2007/week 18)
Week 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13
Position
56
45
32
31
33
35
35
30
24
17
32
28
29

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Svensktoppen

On 9 July 2006, "Boten Anna" was tested for Svensktoppen, where it as best was placed 4th.

References

  1. ^ Template:No icon "Årets landeplage", from NRK, accessed on June 21 2006
  2. ^ Template:No icon [1], accessed on August 24 2007
  3. ^ Ministry of Sound - Basshunter, accessed on January 4 2008
Preceded by UK Singles Chart number-one single
13 January 2008 – [[]] 		Succeeded by
incumbent
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