Miike Snow is the self-titled debut album by the Swedish indie pop

Indie pop

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 band Miike Snow

Miike Snow

Miike Snow is a Swedish indie pop band formed in 2007. The band consists of producing team Christian Karlsson and Pontus Winnberg and Andrew Wyatt.-Early years:Miike Snow was formed in 2007 in Stockholm, Sweden....

. It was released in the United States on 9 June 2009 by Downtown Records

Downtown Records

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 and in the United Kingdom on 26 October 2009 by Columbia Records

Columbia Records

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, reaching number ninety-five on the UK Albums Chart

UK Albums Chart

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. A deluxe edition was released on the iTunes Store

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 in the U.S. and Australia on 13 April 2010 and in Japan on 26 May 2010, including remixes of past tracks and the single "The Rabbit".

Singles

The first single to be taken from the album was "Animal", released on 10 August 2009, which reached as far as number ninety-eight on the UK Singles Chart

UK Singles Chart

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. "Black & Blue", the album's second single, was released on 26 October 2009 and became the band's most successful single to date when it peaked at number sixty-four on the UK Singles Chart. Third single "Silvia" was released on 25 January 2010 in the UK, but failed to crack the top 100 and instead peaked at number 154.

Track listing

Personnel

• Miike Snow – vocals
  Singing
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  , production
  Record producer
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  , mixing
  Audio mixing (recorded music)
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• Niklas Flyckt – mixing (tracks 7, 10)
• Anders Hvenare – mixing (tracks 1–6, 8, 9, 11)
• Ted Jensen – mastering
  Audio mastering
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• Sebastian Mlynarski – innersleeve, band portraits
• Dirk Vandenberk – cover image photography

Charts

Chart (2009/2010)	Peak position
Greek International Albums Chart IFPI Greece International Federation of the Phonographic Industry Greece or IFPI Greece is the Greek branch of the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry and is the official charts provider and recording sales certification body for Greece. Currently two charts are compiled, one for sales of...	42
UK Albums Chart UK Albums Chart The UK Albums Chart is a list of albums ranked by physical and digital sales in the United Kingdom. It is compiled every week by The Official Charts Company and broadcast on a Sunday on BBC Radio 1 , and published in Music Week magazine and on the OCC website .To qualify for the UK albums chart...	59
U.S. Dance/Electronic Albums	11
U.S. Heatseekers Albums Top Heatseekers Top Heatseekers refers to either of two separate "Breaking and Entering" music charts issued weekly by Billboard Magazine: the Heatseekers Albums chart or the Heatseekers Songs chart. They were introduced by Billboard in 1993 with the purpose of highlighting the sales by new and developing musical...	15

Release history

Country	Release date	Format	Edition	Label
Sweden	May 22, 2009	Digital download Music download A music download is the transferral of music from an Internet-facing computer or website to a user's local computer. This term encompasses both legal downloads and downloads of copyright material without permission or payment...	Standard	Sony Music Sony Music Entertainment Sony Music Entertainment ' is the second-largest global recorded music company of the "big four" record companies and is controlled by Sony Corporation of America, the United States subsidiary of Japan's Sony Corporation....
United States	June 9, 2009	CD Compact Disc The Compact Disc is an optical disc used to store digital data. It was originally developed to store and playback sound recordings exclusively, but later expanded to encompass data storage , write-once audio and data storage , rewritable media , Video Compact Discs , Super Video Compact Discs ,...		Downtown Records Downtown Records Downtown Records is a record label owned and operated by Downtown Music LLC. Music on the Downtown label is distributed by Universal Music's Fontana Distribution and, for certain releases, as a joint venture with Atlantic Records and also for select releases, by Alternative Distribution Alliance...
Australia	July 2, 2009		Expanded
	July 3, 2009		Standard
United States	September 22, 2009	Digital download
Germany	October 23, 2009	CD, digital download		Sony Music
United Kingdom		Digital download		Columbia Records Columbia Records Columbia Records is an American record label, owned by Japan's Sony Music Entertainment, operating under the Columbia Music Group with Aware Records. It was founded in 1888, evolving from an earlier enterprise, the American Graphophone Company — successor to the Volta Graphophone Company...
	October 26, 2009	CD
Sweden	October 28, 2009			Sony Music
Australia	April 13, 2010	Digital download	Deluxe	Downtown Records
United States
Japan	May 26, 2010	CD	Standard, deluxe	Hostess Entertainment Hostess Entertainment , DBA Unlimited, is a Japanese independent music company, representing some of the biggest Western alternative artists and labels in Japan, such as the Beggars Group , Domino Records, V2 Records and PIAS UK Distribution...