Ace of Base – The Sign

“The Sign” – Single by Ace of Base from the album The Sign / Happy Nation (U.S. Version)
B-side “Young and Proud”
Released 1 November 1993
Label Arista Mega
Songwriters Jonas Berggren
Producers Berggren, Denniz Pop, Douglas Carr
Charted No.1 in US; No.2 in UK; No.2 in Sweden; No.1 in Australia; No.1 in Canada; No.1 in Denmark; No.1 in Finland; No.1 in Germany.

This spent 14 weeks at #1 on Billboard’s Pop Songs radio airplay chart, the most for any song to date. It also spent six nonconsecutive weeks at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100.

This was the #1 song of 1994 according to Billboard magazine’s year-end charts. It was also Arista Record’s most successful Billboard chart single in the label’s history, selling over nine million copies in America.

This was produced by Swedish hitmaker Denniz Pop from his Cheiron Studios in Stockholm, where many of America’s hottest pop acts of the ’90s were born. Pop’s protege Max Martin wrote Scandinavian smashes for Britney Spears, Backstreet Boys, and ‘N Sync, but he caught his first glimpse of genius on “The Sign.”