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Highland (song)

song written and composed by Nanne Grönvall and Peter Grönvall; originally recorded by One More Time and released in 1992

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 21, 2025
Entity authorityQ10523935 ↗
Source-derived summary

"Highland" is a song performed by Swedish musical group One More Time. The song was written by Nanne Grönvall and Peter Grönvall and released as a single in September 1992. The song became an international hit, peaking at number two on the Swedish Singles Chart and topping Belgium's Ultratop chart for three weeks. The song appears on the group's 1992 debut studio album, Highland.

Track listings

Swedish 7-inch single

A. "Highland" – 5:22

B. "Vitality" – 4:55

European maxi-CD single

"Highland" (edited version) – 4:32

"Highland" (complete version) – 5:22

"Vitality" – 4:55

Charts

Cover versions

Blackmore's Night recorded a version of the song for their 2010 album Autumn Sky.

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The public source identifies “Highland (song)” as song written and composed by Nanne Grönvall and Peter Grönvall; originally recorded by One More Time and released in 1992. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Highland, song and written.

Editorial reviewA productive route into publication, performance and collection histories when the underlying object or edition remains clearly identified. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1992, 2010—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Highland, song and written providing the first useful test.
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Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 21, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q10523935. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1992 and 2010.

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This entry incorporates text from “Highland (song)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.