"10,000 Lovers" is a hit single by the Norwegian

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

 hard rock

Hard rock

Hard rock is a loosely defined genre of rock music which has its earliest roots in mid-1960s garage rock, blues rock and psychedelic rock...

 band TNT

TNT (band)

TNT is a Norwegian hard rock/glam metal band from Trondheim, formed in 1982. The band has released twelve studio albums, three EPs and two live albums while going through numerous line-up changes since its formation...

, taken from their 1987 album Tell No Tales

Tell No Tales

- Band :*Tony Harnell – vocals*Ronni Le Tekrø – guitars, guitar synthesizer*Morty Black – bass guitar, pedal synthesizer*Morten "Diesel" Dahl – drums, percussion-Additional personnel:*Håkon Iversen – background vocals*Bård Svendsen – keyboards and programming...

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The song was written about a girl who TNT's vocalist at that time, Tony Harnell

Tony Harnell

Antony "Tony" Harnell is an American hard rock singer, best known for his work with the Norwegian hard rock band TNT....

, knew. It reached the Billboard Hot 100

Billboard Hot 100

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 chart in America, and earned the band a Norwegian Grammy.

In 2006 TNT recorded a new version of the song together with the Norwegian rapper Vinni from the band Paperboys. This version included newly written and controversial rap lyrics, which fueled Harnell to make a statement.

Vinni joined TNT for a couple of performances of the new version in concerts and on national TV shows. It was scheduled to be included on a compilation of Norwegian hits, but it was cancelled due to unknown problems.

Music videos

There are two different music videos for the song. Apparently the band wasn't satisfied with the first video, jokingly referred to as "pølsevideoen" (the sausage video), so they went to London

London

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 and recorded a new video there. Both videos are included on the TNT DVD The Collection: Volume 1

The Collection (TNT DVD)

The Collection: Volume 1 is a DVD released by the Norwegian hard rock band TNT. It features a concert recorded in Japan, band interviews and the music videos the band made from 1984 to 2004.-Live in Japan:# "A Nation Free"# "As Far as the Eye Can See"...

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Band

• Tony Harnell
  Tony Harnell
  Antony "Tony" Harnell is an American hard rock singer, best known for his work with the Norwegian hard rock band TNT....
  
   - Vocals
• Ronni Le Tekrø - Guitars, guitar synthesizer
• Morty Black - Bass guitar, pedal synthesizer
• Morten "Diesel" Dahl
  Morten Dahl
  Morten "Diesel" Dahl is the drummer and co-founder of the Norwegian hard rock band TNT.He started playing the drums at the age of 15, and played in bands like Burn, Edge and Hotlips before he formed TNT together with vocalist Dag Ingebrigtsen in 1982...
  
  - Drums, percussion