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Northern Light (song)

Basshunter song

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 2, 2026
Entity authorityQ60594511 ↗
Source-derived summary

"Northern Light" is a song by Swedish musician Basshunter, which appears on his fifth studio album, Calling Time.

Music video

Music video was directed by Alex Herron and uploaded by All Around the World on 27 April 2012.

Reception

Lucy Jones from NME mentioned "Northern Light" by Basshunter as one of the songs inspired by northern lights.

Live performances

Basshunter perform "Northern Light" on 12 May 2012 at Maspalomas Pride 2012, his performance was recorded and released on the box set various artists. Artist singing "Northern Light" and "Boten Anna" on 4 July 2012 at Allsång på Skansen in Stockholm.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Northern Light (song)” as basshunter song. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Northern, Light and song.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2012—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Northern, Light and song providing the first useful test.
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A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Northern Light (song)”, the useful work is to connect “basshunter song” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 2, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q60594511. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2012.

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This entry incorporates text from “Northern Light (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.