My Scandipop recommendations this month come from a quartet of queens who are propping up the pop scene across the Nordics right now.

Danish artist EMI WIDE sings of being a small fish in a big pond and wanting to keep up with all the sharks out there. But with an electropop gem that is sparkling as bright as her latest single, I hope she continues swimming in this lane for a great deal more time to come. Big Shark Club is the name of her current hit, and it’s also well worth checking out her new collaboration with German artist Laura Nahr, Delusional.

Her previous release Come Over made a late bid for my Song of the Summer, now the Norwegian newcomer May is back with the follow-up, and with Closure she’s gone and made another top-tier ten-out-of-ten for all of us! This is a break-up ballad that comes with some bang – from the subtle build in production to the storytelling that will have you hanging on every word from the beginning.

Swedish artist Nea has taken the melody of one of Tokio Hotel’s signature hits Monsoon and interpolated it into the chorus of her brand-new single Unaffected. It’s a stunner of a soft-tempo song about an unrequited break-up. And regardless of whether you’re familiar with the original by the German rock legends or not, you won’t be able to listen to Unaffected and remain, well, unaffected… Those lyrics hit hard.

It was released by Norwegian artist Trine Rein in 1996 before being made famous by Natalia Imbruglia in 1997, so it’s nice to see Torn make its way back to Norway three decades on. Ingrid Vårvik is the latest singer to release a version of the classic, though she puts a different spin on it for 2025 – recording the song in Norwegian! Delt i To is a whole new chapter enabling you to fall in love with this story all over again.

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