Sleepless is the debut charting single of the Swedish

Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

 pop

Pop music

Pop music is usually understood to be commercially recorded music, often oriented toward a youth market, usually consisting of relatively short, simple songs utilizing technological innovations to produce new variations on existing themes.- Definitions :David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop...

 singer Eric Saade

Eric Saade

Eric Saade born 29 October 1990) is a Swedish pop singer and children's television presenter. After two years with the boyband What's Up!, he left in February 2009 to pursue a solo career. Eric Saade represented Sweden in the Eurovision Song Contest 2011 in Germany after winning the national...

. The song was written by Fredrik Kempe

Fredrik Kempe

Fredrik Kempe, born in Vårgårda in 1972, is a Swedish songwriter and opera and pop singer. He has participated in Swedish versions of the musicals Les Misérables and Chess. In 2002, Kempe had a hit with Vincerò, where he mixed opera and disco....

 and Peter Boström

Peter Boström

Peter Boström is a Swedish music producer and songwriter. He is also known as Bassflow.Boström wrote his first song at the age of seven. In 1992, at the age of 21, he started Bassflow Productions, a production company near Stockholm, Sweden...

. It also appears in his début album Masquerade

Masquerade (Eric Saade album)

Masquerade is the debut album from Swedish singer and TV star Eric Saade. It was released on May 19, 2010, debuting and peaking at number 2 on the official Swedish album chart...

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The single came after Eric Saade signed a new contract with Roxy Recordings

Roxy Recordings

King Island Roxystars Recordings AB, more known as Roxy Recordings, or Roxy was an independent record label based in Stockholm, Sweden. It was bought by Universal Music Group in August 2011. The label was formed in 2007 and is owned by Egmont through Nordisk Film and MBO...

 (Agnes Carlsson

Agnes Carlsson

Agnes Emilia Carlsson, also known mononymously as Agnes , is a Swedish recording artist. She rose to fame as the winner of Idol 2005, the second season of the Swedish Idol series...

, Malena Ernman

Malena Ernman

Sara Magdalena "Malena" Ernman is a Swedish opera singer . Ernman is a versatile artist in her field, who outside the world of opera and operettas also has performed chansons, cabaret, jazz, appeared in musicals and she is a performer who's declared that she's very much attracted to the attributes...

, Peter Jöback

Peter Jöback

Peter Arne Jöback is a Swedish singer and musical artist, and is regarded as being one of Sweden's best male vocalists .- 1997–2000 :...

, Erik Hassle

Erik Hassle

Erik Hassle is a Swedish pop singer-songwriter.-Biography:Hassle was raised in a rural village two hours south of Stockholm and originally aspired to be a professional footballer. He grew up listening to soul music and realised his love of music early after listening to Wilson Pickett...

, Sarah Dawn Finer

Sarah Dawn Finer

Sarah Dawn Finer, born 14 September 1981 in Stockholm, Sweden, is a singer, songwriter and actress. Sarah Dawn Finer has Russian and American heritage. Her grandparents emigrated from Russia to America, and her mother is American.-Career:...

). Saade had signed his first music contract at age 16 which resulted in three singles, none of which had charted, and one album.

Music video

The music video directed by Anders Rune shows Eric Saade trying to seduce a girl in a disco party, with the rest of the scenes showing him dancing with three young male co-dancers.

Track listing

Credits and personnel

• Lead vocals – Eric Saade
  Eric Saade
  Eric Saade born 29 October 1990) is a Swedish pop singer and children's television presenter. After two years with the boyband What's Up!, he left in February 2009 to pursue a solo career. Eric Saade represented Sweden in the Eurovision Song Contest 2011 in Germany after winning the national...
  
  
• Music – Fredrik Kempe, Peter Boström
• Lyrics
  Lyrics
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   – Fredrik Kempe, Peter Boström
• Label
  Record label
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   – NFM

Charts

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Chart (2010)	Peak position

Release history

Country	Date	Format	Label
Belgium	21 December 2009	Digital download	Roxy Recordings Roxy Recordings King Island Roxystars Recordings AB, more known as Roxy Recordings, or Roxy was an independent record label based in Stockholm, Sweden. It was bought by Universal Music Group in August 2011. The label was formed in 2007 and is owned by Egmont through Nordisk Film and MBO...
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