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Revision as of 11:25, 13 November 2022

Miss Li
Miss Li in 2011
Miss Li in 2011
Background information
Birth nameLinda Karlsson
Born (1982-07-21) 21 July 1982 (age 42)
Borlänge, Sweden
Genres
Occupations
  • Singer
  • songwriter
  • musician
Instruments
Years active2006–present
Spouse
Sonny Boy Gustafsson
​
​
(m. 2007)​

Linda Karlsson (born 21 July 1982), better known by her stage name Miss Li, is a Swedish singer and songwriter. Since beginning her career in the early-2000s, she has released a total of eight studio albums, and several of her songs have been featured in Swedish commercials as well as numerous American television series.

Life and career

Linda Karlsson was born on 21 July 1982[a] in Borlänge, Sweden. In her adulthood, she relocated to Stockholm.

Using the stage name Miss Li, she released her debut album, Late Night Heartbroken Blues, in 2006.[3] Her single "Don't Try to Fool Me" has been featured on the Showtime original series Weeds, as well as Grey's Anatomy,[4] both in 2007.

Miss Li performing at the 2009 Stockholm Pride Festival

Her song "Bourgeois Shangri-La" from her fourth studio album, Dancing the Whole Way Home (2009), was used by Apple in the iPod Nano 5G television commercial, and her song "Oh Boy" was used in a 2010 Volvo C70 commercial. Her track "True Love Stalker" was used in the television promo of an episode of Desperate Housewives. The track "Forever Drunk" was featured in the opening scene of Grey's Anatomy. Her song "My Heart Goes Boom" was featured on multiple adverts for the popular UK furniture store DFS in late 2012, shortly after her appearance on Så mycket bättre that same year. In 2013 "My Heart Goes Boom" was used in American television advertisements of women's clothes by White House Black Market.[5] After an extensive tour promoting her seventh album, Wolves concluded in 2014, Miss Li stated she sank into a depression, and went into seclusion.[6] She subsequently attended a songwriters' camp in Los Angeles, California, where she collaborated in the studio with Rihanna, writing a track for the artist's album Anti (2016).[6] However, The unnamed track did not appear on the album, though Li stated that Rihanna had purchased the rights to it.[7]

Miss Li released her eighth studio album, A Woman's Guide to Survival, in 2017.[8] The song "Aqualung" from the album was featured in the debut video for the 2019 Volvo XC40.[9] Her song, "I Can't Get You Off My Mind", is used for movie promos on the cable and satellite station Starz.

Discography

Albums

Year Information SWE
[10] 		Certification
2006 Late Night Heartbroken Blues 60
2007 God Put a Rainbow in the Sky
  • Released: 2 May 2007
  • Label: National
  • Format: CD, LP, Digital download
 29
Songs of a Rag Doll
  • Released: 17 October 2007
  • Label: National
  • Format: CD, LP, Digital download
 23
2009 Dancing the Whole Way Home
  • Released: 31 March 2009
  • Label: National
  • Format: CD, LP, Digital download
 8
2011 Beats & Bruises [11]
  • Released: 16 March 2011
  • Label: National
  • Format: CD, LP, Digital download
 13
2012 Tangerine Dream
  • Released: 10 October 2012
  • Label: National
  • Format: CD, LP, Digital download
 11
2013 Wolves
  • Released: 10 April 2013
  • Label: National
  • Format: CD, LP, Digital download
 2
2017 A Woman's Guide to Survival
  • Released: 24 November 2017
  • Label: Sony Music
  • Format: CD, LP, Digital download
 27
2021 Underbart i all misär[12]
  • Released: 24 September 2021
  • Label: Pistol Packin' Music[13]
  • Format: CD, LP, Digital download
 1
[14]
2021 Wonderful Misery[15]
  • Released: 12 November 2021
  • Label: Pistol Packin' Music[16]
  • Format: Digital download
 -

Compilation albums

Year Information SWE
[10] 		Certification
2007 Best of 061122‒071122 11
2012 Singles and Selected
  • Released: 7 November 2012
  • Label: National
  • Format: CD, LP, Digital download
 15

EPs

  • Så mycket bättre 2012 – Tolkningar (2012)[17]
  • Så mycket bättre – Tolkningarna (2019)[18]

Singles

Year Single Peak chart positions Certification Album
SWE
[10] 		GER
[19]
2006 "Oh Boy" [A] 8 — Late Night Heartbroken Blues
2007 "High on You" — —
"I'm Sorry, He's Mine" 46 — God Put a Rainbow in the Sky
"Good Morning" — — Non-album single
"Om du lämnade mig nu" (with Lars Winnerbäck) 1 — Daugava
"Let Her Go" — — God Put a Rainbow in the Sky
"Gotta Leave My Troubles Behind" — — Songs of a Rag Doll
2008 "Ba Ba Ba" 42 —
2009 "I Heard of a Girl" 39 — Dancing the Whole Way Home
"Dancing the Whole Way Home" — —
"Stupid Girl" — —
2010 "Bourgeois Shangri-La" (featuring Amanda Jenssen) — —
2011 "I Can't Get You Off My Mind" — — Beats & Bruises
"You Could Have It (So Much Better Without Me)" — —
"Hit It" — —
2012 "My Heart Goes Boom" — — Tangerine Dream
"Plastic Faces"[B] — 57
"Här kommer natten" 16 — Så mycket bättre 2012 – Tolkningar
"Nåt för dom som väntar" 40 —
"1:a gången" 19 —
2013 "Lovekiller" 47 —
2014 "I Finally Found It"[23] — — Non-album single
2016 "Bonfire" —[C] — A Woman's Guide to Survival
2017 "Aqualung" — —
"Love Hurts" — —
"The Day I Die (I Want You to Celebrate)" —[D] —
2018 "Den vintertid nu kommer" 23 — TBA
2019 "Blommorna"
(with Petter) 		—[E] —
"Lev nu dö sen" 1 —
  • GLF: 6× Platinum[28]
 Så mycket bättre
"Until It All Ends" 69 —
"Everything's Alright" 61 —
"Då börjar fåglar sjunga" 19 —
"Kaffe och en cigarett" 46 —
"Second Life Replay" —[F] —
2020 "Komplicerad"[G] 2 —
  • GLF: 6× Platinum[28]
 Underbart i all misär[b]
"Starkare"[H][30] 26 —
  • GLF: Platinum
"Terapi"[I][31] 39 —
2021 "Förlåt"[J][32] 27 —
  • GLF: Gold
"Instruktionsboken"[K][33] 18
[34] 		—
  • GLF: Platinum
"Utan dig"[L][12] 26
[35] 		—
"Tidsmaskin"[M][12] 36
[36] 		—
2022 "X"[37] 2
[38] 		— Non-album singles
"Hälsa Gud"[39] 10
[40] 		—
  1. ^ "Oh Boy" did not chart until July 2008.[20]
  2. ^ "Plastic Faces" did not chart until 2013 in Germany.[22]
  3. ^ "Bonfire" did not enter the Swedish Singles Chart, but peaked at number 19 on the Swedish Heatseeker chart.[24]
  4. ^ "The Day I Die (I Want You to Celebrate)" did not enter the Swedish Singellista Chart, but peaked at number five on the Swedish Heatseekers Chart.[25]
  5. ^ "Blommorna" did not enter the Swedish Singellista Chart, but peaked at number one on the Swedish Heatseeker Chart.[27]
  6. ^ "Second Life Replay" did not enter the Swedish Singellista Chart, but peaked at number 11 on the Swedish Heatseeker Chart.[29]
  7. ^ An English version was released titled "Complicated".
  8. ^ An English version was released titled "Stronger".
  9. ^ An English version was released titled "Therapy".
  10. ^ An English version was released titled "Sorry".
  11. ^ An English version was released titled "The Manual".
  12. ^ An English version was released titled "Without You".
  13. ^ An English version was released titled "Time Machine".
Year Single Peak chart positions Album
SWE
[10] 		AUT
[41] 		GER
[19]
2019 "Close Your Eyes"
(Felix Jaehn and Vize featuring Miss Li) 		63 23 21 Breathe

Notes

  1. ^ Karlsson notes in a 2018 Facebook post that 21 July is her date of birth.[1] AllMusic lists her birth year as 1982.[2]
  2. ^ An English version of the album was released titled "Wonderful Misery".

References

  1. ^ Karlsson, Linda (21 July 2018). "I'm not skinny. I'm not tall. I don't look like a model..." Facebook. Archived from the original on 2 May 2019. Retrieved 2 May 2019.
  2. ^ "Miss Li Biography". AllMusic. Archived from the original on 2 May 2019. Retrieved 2 May 2019.
  3. ^ "Late Night Heartbroken Blues". iTunes. 22 November 2006. Retrieved 2 May 2019.
  4. ^ "Kung Fu Fighting". Grey's Anatomy. American Broadcasting Company. 1 November 2007.
  5. ^ "White House Black Market TV Commercial Featuring Coco Rocha, Song by Miss Li". iSpot. 2013. Archived from the original on 12 June 2018. Retrieved 2 May 2019.
  6. ^ a b Eriksson, Elin Bergvik (29 August 2016). "Linda "Miss Li" Carlsson om åren av tystnad". Dalarnas Tidningar (in Swedish). Archived from the original on 2 May 2019. Retrieved 2 May 2019.
  7. ^ "Miss Li skrev musik till Rihanna". Sveriges Radio (in Swedish). 15 September 2016. Archived from the original on 2 May 2019. Retrieved 2 May 2019.
  8. ^ "A Woman's Guide to Survival". AllMusic. Archived from the original on 2 May 2019. Retrieved 2 May 2019.
  9. ^ "Miss Li - Aqualung / Volvo". Sony Music Sweden. Retrieved 2 May 2019.
  10. ^ a b c d "Miss Li in Swedish Charts". Archived from the original on 2012-10-20. Retrieved 4 October 2020.
  11. ^ "It will be a little quiet of Miss Li the next few month. She is in studio recording a new fantastic album. You have to wait until early 2011 to be able to hear it, but its worth waiting for". Archived from the original on 2016-03-22. Retrieved 2020-02-13.
  12. ^ a b c "Miss Li släpper singeln "Utan Dig" och avslöjar titeln på kommande album" (Press release) (in Swedish). Sony Music. Mynewsdesk. 20 August 2021. Retrieved 22 August 2021.
  13. ^ "Miss Li · Underbart I All Misar (CD) (2021)" (in Swedish). iMusic. Retrieved 22 August 2021.
  14. ^ "Veckolista Album, vecka 39". Sverigetopplistan. Retrieved 1 October 2021.
  15. ^ "Miss Li releases new album "Wonderful Misery" & new single "Without You"" (Press release). allboutmusic.com. 18 November 2021. Retrieved 27 October 2022.
  16. ^ "Miss Li · Wonderful Misery (2021)". Apple Music. Retrieved 27 October 2022.
  17. ^ "Så mycket bättre 2012 - Tolkningar - EP by Miss Li on Apple Music". Apple Music. Retrieved 1 May 2021.
  18. ^ "Så mycket bättre - Tolkningarna - EP by Miss Li on Apple Music". Apple Music. Retrieved 1 May 2021.
  19. ^ a b "Discographie von Miss Li". GfK Entertainment. Retrieved 4 October 2020.
  20. ^ "Oh Boy" on Swedish Chart
  21. ^ "Årslista Singlar, 2008" (in Swedish). Sverigetopplistan. Retrieved 1 May 2021.
  22. ^ "Plastic Faces by Miss Li - Music Charts". Archived from the original on 2017-11-14. Retrieved 2017-11-14.
  23. ^ "I Finally Found It - Single av Miss Li". Apple Music. Retrieved 4 October 2020.
  24. ^ "Veckolista Heatseeker, vecka 33, 2016" (in Swedish). Sverigetopplistan. Retrieved May 1, 2021.
  25. ^ "Swedish Heatseekers Chart – 13 October 2017". Archived from the original on 13 October 2017. Retrieved October 14, 2017.
  26. ^ "Veckolista Singlar, vecka 48" (in Swedish). Sverigetopplistan. Retrieved 3 December 2021.
  27. ^ "Veckolista Heatseeker, vecka 23". Sverigetopplistan. Retrieved 7 June 2019.
  28. ^ a b "Veckolista Singlar, vecka 18" (in Swedish). Sverigetopplistan. Retrieved 7 May 2021.
  29. ^ "Veckolista Heatseeker, vecka 49". Sverigetopplistan. Retrieved 7 December 2019.
  30. ^ "Starkare by Miss Li". Spotify. Retrieved 29 May 2020.
  31. ^ "Terapi - Single av Miss Li". Apple Music. Retrieved 4 October 2020.
  32. ^ "Sorry - Single av Miss Li på Apple Music" (in Swedish). Apple Music. Retrieved 30 January 2021.
  33. ^ "Instruktionsboken - Single av Miss Li på Apple Music" (in Swedish). Apple Music. Retrieved 23 April 2021.
  34. ^ "Veckolista Singlar, vecka 28" (in Swedish). Sverigetopplistan. Retrieved 16 July 2021.
  35. ^ "Veckolista Singlar, vecka 34". Sverigetopplistan. Retrieved 27 August 2021.
  36. ^ "Veckolista Singlar, vecka 39". Sverigetopplistan. Retrieved 1 October 2021.
  37. ^ "Miss Li släpper singel om alla sina ex". gaffa.se. Retrieved 2 November 2022.
  38. ^ "Veckolista Singlar, vecka 26". Sverigetopplistan. Retrieved 1 July 2022.
  39. ^ "Miss Li släpper nya singeln "Hälsa Gud" och uppträder på Idolfinalen 2022". mynewsdesk.com. Retrieved 2 November 2022.
  40. ^ "Veckolista Singlar, vecka 45". Sverigetopplistan. Retrieved 12 November 2022.
  41. ^ "Discographie Miss Li". austriancharts.at (in German). Retrieved 4 October 2020.
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