| "Beautiful Life" | ||||
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| Single by Ace of Base | ||||
| from the album The Bridge | ||||
| Released | November 7, 1995 (North America), January 1, 1996 (Europe) | |||
| Genre | Eurodance | |||
| Length | Album Version 3:39 Single Version 3:37 |
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| Label | Arista | |||
| Writer(s) | Jonas Berggren | |||
| Producer | Denniz Pop Max Martin | |||
| Ace of Base singles chronology | ||||
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"Beautiful Life" is a hit song by Swedish band Ace of Base, released in Autumn of 1995. In North America it was the first single released from the band's The Bridge; in Europe it followed Lucky Love.
The song was written on January 1, 1994 by band member Jonas Berggren while he was in the Canary Islands. His earlier song The Sign had just hit #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 list. Berggren incorporated gospel elements into the song, and the single proved quite successful worldwide, reaching #15 on the Billboard Hot 100 and on the UK Singles Chart. It also hit #1 on the U.S. Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart.
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The video for the song was directed by Richard Heslop, who would go on to direct the band's later video for "Never Gonna Say I'm Sorry". The video included computer generated bubbles which whisked the band from place to place.
According to music channel VH1 in the United States, the band's record label, Arista Records, insisted the bubbles be removed from the video, leading to a somewhat strange-looking U.S. video, with the band members looking at (and reacting to) bubbles that were no longer there. In Europe, both the versions (bubble video and bubble-free) were released.
In addition to the two alternate videos, remix videos were also created, and in 1998 VH1 released a Pop-up Video version of the video.
| Chart | Peak position |
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| Australian ARIA Singles Chart | 11 |
| Austrian Singles Chart | 24 |
| Canadian Hot 100 | 1 |
| Chile Top 100 Chart | 2 |
| Dutch Singles Chart | 27 |
| Finnish Singles Chart | 3 |
| French Singles Chart | 10 |
| German Singles Chart | 20 |
| Irish Singles Chart | 12 |
| MTV European Top 20 | 8 |
| New Zealand RIANZ Singles Chart | 44 |
| Swiss Singles Chart | 33 |
| Swedish Singles Chart | 22 |
| UK Airplay Chart | 17 |
| UK Singles Chart | 15 |
| US Billboard Hot 100 | 15 |
| US Billboard Hot Dance Club Play | 1 |
| Preceded by "Be My Lover" by La Bouche |
Billboard Hot Dance Club Play number-one
single January 6, 1996 - January 12, 1996 |
Succeeded by "If I Were You" by k.d. lang |
Indie band Jukebox The Ghost recorded a cover of the song for Engine Room Recordings' compilation album Guilt by Association Vol. 2, which was released in November of 2008.[1]
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