Hello Saferide

Hello Saferide is a Swedish twee pop band fronted by songwriter Annika Norlin. According to Norlin's MySpace, the stage name "Hello Saferide" was "inspired by an intelligent bus driver in a drug-addicted small town, don't ask."^[1] The Swedish-language version of the band's biography^[2] identifies the town as Willimantic, Connecticut.

Hello Saferide
Hello Saferide in September 2007
Background information
Origin	Stockholm, Sweden
Genres	Twee pop, indie pop
Years active	2005 – present
Labels	Razzia Records
Members	Annika Norlin Andreas Söderlund Maia Hirasawa Fredrik Hultgren Jens Lagergren
Website	hellosaferide.com

Based on the Internet success of the song "Highschool Stalker," Hello Saferide was signed to Razzia Records in 2005.

In 2007, Norlin released a Swedish-language album under the band name Säkert!^[3] (a phrase that means "Yeah, right!", but also "Safe"). The album won her two Grammis awards in 2008, for best female pop act and best lyrics. She was chosen by Matt Groening to perform at the edition of the All Tomorrow's Parties festival he was curating in May 2010 in Minehead, England.

Annika Norlin is a journalist, and has worked for several newspapers in Sweden. She has also hosted different radio shows at Sveriges Radio P3.

Discography

Albums

as Hello Saferide

Year	Album	Peak positions	Certification
		SWE [4]
2005	Introducing...Hello Saferide	39
2008	More Modern Short Stories from Hello Saferide	3
2014	The Fox, The Hunter and Hello Saferide	4

as Säkert!

Year	Album	Peak positions	Certification
		SWE [5]
2007	Säkert!	8
2010	Facit	2
2011	Säkert! på engelska	13
2017	Däggdjur	2 [6]

EP/Singles

as Hello Saferide

Year	Album	Peak positions
		SWE [4]
2005	"If I Don't Write This Song Someone I Love Will Die"	–
	"My Best Friend"	–
2006	Long Lost Penpal EP	44
2006	Would You Let Me Play This EP 10 Times a Day?	4
2008	Anna	43

as Säkert!

Year	Album	Peak positions
		SWE [5]
2007	"Allt som är ditt"	–
2008	"Vi kommer att dö samtidigt"	53
2010	"Fredrik"	53

Featured in

Year	Album	Peak positions
		SWE [4][5]
2007	"Logiskt" (Petter feat. Säkert!)	10

Notes

1. MySpace.com – Hello Saferide – Stockholm, SE – Indie / Pop / Folk – www.myspace.com/saferide
2. "Hello Saferide » Press". Archived from the original on 2016-01-28. Retrieved 2015-01-31.
3. Säkert!
4. "Hello Saferide discography". swedishcharts.com. Hung Medien. Retrieved 11 September 2014.
5. "Säkert! discography". swedishcharts.com. Hung Medien. Retrieved 11 September 2014.
6. "Sverigetopplistan – Sveriges Officiella Topplista". Sverigetopplistan. Retrieved 11 February 2017. Click on "Veckans albumlista".

External links

• Hello Saferide
• Hello Saferide on MySpace
• Razzia Records Archived 2008-07-02 at the Wayback Machine
• Last.fm
• Hello Saferide Archived 2011-07-17 at the Wayback Machine at The Indie Music Database