LOL (Basshunter album)

On 21 November 2005, Basshunter announced that he was working on a new album and had completed ten songs.^[4] He announced his upcoming single "Welcome to Rainbow" the following month,^[5] and it was released on 1 April 2006. The single included the hardstyle remix and two bonus tracks: "Evil Beat" and "Boten Anna".^[6] Basshunter re-recorded "Boten Anna" in March, and posted it on his website for download.^[7] He signed with Extensive Music in April,^[8] and Warner Music Sweden^[9] and "Boten Anna" was released on 9 May.^[10]

Basshunter worked on LOL for three and a half weeks.^[11] The album was recorded at Basshunter Studio and PJ Harmony Studio. Basshunter produced most of the songs; three were produced by PJ Harmony. Vocals were recorded by Basshunter and Robert Uhlmann at Basshunter Studio and Extensive Studio. LOL was mastered by Björn Engelman at the Cutting Room.^[12] Ali Payami assisted Basshunter on three tracks.^[11] According to the singer, its songs have elements of hard dance and hard trance and he chose them for his old and new listeners.^[13] "Strand Tylösand" is inspired by party that Basshunter and its friends had in the summer of 2005.^[14]

Basshunter said that he had more songs and planned to release a continuation of LOL called ROFL or KTHXBYE for free but he couldn't do it due to the record label.^[1] In 2025, Basshunter revealed that he no longer has the project for "Strand Tylösand", so he had to use an artificial intelligence tool to remove the vocals, so he could get a decent instrumental version.^[15]

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According to Matthew Chisling of AllMusic, LOL contains Basshunter's best "beats and grinds".^[16] Håkan Steen of Aftonbladet wrote that the album was for people who share Basshunter's lifestyle: using the social-media website LunarStorm and chatting and playing computer games online. Steen considered "Festfolk" the album's best song.^[19] Stefan Thungren of Svenska Dagbladet sensed an intentional inadequate execution in the material, and wrote that the sophisticated, difficult shout in "Festfolk" was inspired by the musician E-Type. Thungren compared "Strand Tylösand" to the band Gyllene Tider's summer hits, criticised the trance adaptation of the Swedish national anthem in "Sverige", and noted a certain melancholy in the instrumental version of "Boten Anna".^[20] Andreas Nordström from Expressen negatively described album as one of the most difficult records in the history.^[21] Basshunter found the Nordström review amusing.^[14] In 2020 "I'm Your Basscreator" was placed on list Italian Mob by Italian rap DJ's.^[22]

LOL entered the Swedish albums chart at its peak position at number 5 on 7 September 2006. It stayed on the chart for eight weeks.^[23] Day later it debuted on Danish albums chart at number six and peaked two weeks later at number three. Album was there on the chart for 19 weeks.^[24] Album was certified double Platinum.^[25] LOL entered the Finnish albums chart at number 34 and 13 weeks later it peaked at number four for two weeks.^[26] LOL was certified Platinum and became fourth best selling foreign album of 2006 in Finland with 33,365 copies sold.^[27] Album stayed there for 24 weeks on the chart.^[26] In 2007 LOL debuted on Austrian albums chart^[28] and in 2008 it entered French albums chart^[29] and also charted at the United States Top Dance/Electronic Albums.^[30]