FanTastic is the debut studio album by Danish bubblegum pop band Toy-Box. It was released by Edel on 21 May 1999. It includes the hit singles "Tarzan & Jane", "Best Friend" and "The Sailor Song", and the promotional single "Teddybear". It also includes the "Toy-Box Space Trap" video game for PC. It spent two weeks at number 1 on the Dutch chart in July of the same year.[1]
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| Released | 21 May 1999 | |||
| Recorded | 1998–1999[1] | |||
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| Length | 42:13 | |||
| Label | Edel | |||
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| AllMusic |   [1] |
The artwork resembles the layout of European PlayStation games.
Music videos
editToy-Box released music videos for "Tarzan & Jane", "Best Friend", "The Sailor Song" and "Teddybear". Most of Toy-Box's videos could be considered cartoonish, while "Teddybear" is a more realistic video. "Tarzan & Jane" featured live monkeys and elephants in a cartoon parody, "Best Friend" features Amir El-Falaki and Anila Mirza having a neon sword fight and turning into little fuzz balls, "The Sailor Song" showed several men flying off a boat, and "Teddybear" is set in Paris and shows El-Falaki and Mirza in a more romantic way than the other videos.
Commercial performance
editBy early August 1999, the album had reached worldwide sales of 300,000, with 80,000 units sold in Denmark.[2]
Track listings
edit| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Toy-Box Pictures Presents" | 0:38 |
| 2. | "The Sailor-Song" | 3:04 |
| 3. | "Best Friend" | 3:28 |
| 4. | "Tarzan & Jane" | 3:04 |
| 5. | "E.T." | 3:40 |
| 6. | "Teddybear" | 4:14 |
| 7. | "Super-Duper-Man" | 3:17 |
| 8. | "I Believe in You" | 3:29 |
| 9. | "Earth, Wind, Water & Fire" | 3:36 |
| 10. | "What About" | 3:40 |
| 11. | "Eenie, Meenie, Miney, Mo" | 3:17 |
| 12. | "A Thing Called Love" | 3:16 |
| 13. | "Sayonara (Goodbye)" | 3:25 |
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| 14. | "So Merry Christmas Everyone" | 3:52 |
| No. | Title | Length |
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| 15. | "Tarzan & Jane" | |
| 16. | "Best Friend" | |
| 17. | "The Sailor Song" | |
| 18. | "Teddybear" | |
| 19. | "Behind the Scenes of "Tarzan & Jane"" | |
| 20. | "Behind the Scenes of "Best Friend"" | |
| 21. | "On Location Interview" | |
| 22. | "Interview" | |
| 23. | "Toy-Box in Tivoli" |
Charts
edit| Chart (1999) | Peak position |
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| Dutch Albums (Album Top 100)[3] | 1 |
| Finnish Albums (Suomen virallinen lista)[4] | 28 |
| Norwegian Albums (VG-lista)[5] | 9 |
| Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan)[6] | 17 |
References
edit- ^ a b c AllMusic review
- ^ Gonzales, David (7 August 1999). "Global Music Pulse". Billboard. Retrieved 7 November 2018.
- ^ "Dutchcharts.nl – Toy-Box – Fantastic" (in Dutch). Hung Medien. Retrieved 4 February 2019.
- ^ "Toy-Box: Fantastic" (in Finnish). Musiikkituottajat – IFPI Finland. Retrieved 4 February 2019.
- ^ "Norwegiancharts.com – Toy-Box – Fantastic". Hung Medien. Retrieved 4 February 2019.
- ^ "Swedishcharts.com – Toy-Box – Fantastic". Hung Medien. Retrieved 4 February 2019.
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