Vikingarna

Vikingarna is the most popular Swedish dansband, and one of the best-selling Scandinavian acts of all time. Though active under different monikers since the late 1950s, they settled on the name Vikingarna as dansbandmusik, an upbeat mixture of schlager, country, rock & roll, and swing, was established as a genre around the beginning of the 1970s. They topped the Swedish charts for the first time with 1975's "Du Gav bara löften," from Kramgoa Låtar 1, the first album in a series which continued for decades. Their sound and repertoire became the standard for dansbands, as they k...