Dance Love Pop

The name of the album was first revealed on 13 September 2008 on Swedish radio show "Tracks", the host, Kaj Kindvall declared that the name would be Dance! Love! Pop!. The spelling with exclamation marks after each words was later dispatch by the label Roxy Recordings and changed to merely "Dance Love Pop". The album was described as follow: "it covers the three things that the music is all about [...];Christmas music that has a twist of pop and is about love". With this album, Agnes together with her producer and fellow songwriter geared towards the dance and club genre. Agnes recalls when Hansson's name first came up for the album: "They said maybe you should just meet first and see if you like each other, as opposed to just working together." They got on – so well that Hansson ended up producing an album that helped Agnes realize her vision, Dance Love and Pop together in one album A few new tracks have been added for the international release, "You Rain", "Secret Love" and "If I Could Build My Whole World Around You". For the francophone market the French version of "Release Me", called "Réalise" was also included. Just like "I Need You Now", another ballad called "Big Blue Wall" has been re-recorded in to a dance-music version called "the Moonwalker version" and is featured on the album as well as the original version from the Swedish release which is renamed "the Piano version". ==Chart performance==

The album entered the Swedish official chart on 6 November 2008 just a few days after it was released on October 28. It entered at five and that was also its peak, the following weeks it started to fall and left the chart after nine weeks to later re-enter it in late April due to the re-release of the album, the Love Love Love Edition, and peaked at twelve. After staying on the chart for another six weeks it left it for good with a total of fifteen weeks. In France it entered and peaked the French Albums Chart on 12 September 2009 at thirty-eight and stayed on the chart for a total of twenty-nine weeks leaving on 24 April 2009. As in Sweden, a re-release of the album was made called the "Edition Collector". The first version of the album stayed on the chart for fifteen weeks and the latter stayed there for fourteen weeks peaking at forty-seven. The album later received a Silver certification in France where 30,000 albums were sold. In Germany the album peaked at sixty-eight with sales of 20,000 copies, and in Austria and Switzerland it peaked at seventy and forty-five. In Poland it peaked at fourteen and in the United Kingdom it peaked at 112 on the official charts and peaked at 13 on the dance albums chart. ==Singles==

"Release Me", was the last song to be recorded for Dance Love Pop since the record company felt that the album would need another track. It was chosen as the lead single internationally, except from Sweden and the Netherlands where "On and On" was the lead single. It became the album's best-selling and most popular single, and peaked at number one in the Billboard Hot Dance Club Play. "I Need You Now" was the fourth single in Sweden, the third in Belgium, the Netherlands and Italy and the second single in the United Kingdom, Norway and Australia. On the original track listing of Dance Love Pop this song was a ballad, the solution was to re-record it as a dance-music song for the single release. ==Critical reception==

Sandra Wall from Norrköpings Tidningar writes "she makes an album that fits the dance floor at any club. A mood trigger with bubbling enjoyment." and "''Agnes has been keeping great standard since she won Idol, but now when she's increased the tempo, it becomes really great. The lyrics is about messy relationships and aren't that deep. Which fits perfectly on the dance floor.''" Göteborgsposten's Johan Rylander says that the cooperation with Anders Hansson is "the improvement Agnes aspired for since she won Idol 2005. The bombastic Celine-ballads are gone and modern dance-pop of great quality (like Release me) have replaced it." ==Track listing==

Standard Editions Deluxe / Limited Editions Bonus tracks ==Personnel==

• Vocals: Agnes Carlsson • Executive Producer: Anders Hansson • Producers: Anders Hansson, Felix Persson, Marta Grauers • Mixer: Ronny Lahti • Mastered by: Erik Broheden • Keyboards: Anders Hansson, Felix Persson, Marta Grauers • Strings: Erik Arvinder, Anders Hansson, Erik Arvinder • Violin: Erik Arvinder, Josef Cabrales-Alin, Andreas Forsman, Anders Hjortvall, Anna Larsson, Daniel Migdal, Andrej Power, Aleksander Satterstrom, Fredrik Syberg • Viola: Olof Ander, Erik Holm, Anders Noren, Christopher Ohman • Cello: Gudmund Ingvall, Cecilia Linne, Henrik Soderquist, Erik Wahlgren • Doublebass: Danijel Petrovic • Guitar: Staffan Astner, Anders Hansson • Backing Vocals: Agnes Carlsson, Britta Bergstrom, Jeanette Olsson, Martin Rolinski, Anders Hansson • Album covers design: Ricky Tillblad/Zion Graphics • Album Photography: Waldemar Hansson • Album Photography [UK & Dutch Release]: Linda Alfvegren == Charts ==

Weekly charts Year-end charts ==Release history==