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| 19 Love Ballads | ||||
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| Released | Summer 2001 | |||
| Genre | Soft rock, pop rock | |||
| Label | EMI | |||
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19 Love Ballads is a compilation album by Danish soft rock group Michael Learns to Rock. It was released in summer 2001 by EMI in Asia,and in 2002 in Europe under the title 19 Love Songs. The album contains songs from Michael Learns to Rock's first five studio albums,including the new song "The Ghost of You".
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Producer(s) | Length |
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| 1. | "The Ghost of You" | Jascha Richter, Johan Stentorp | Stentorp | 4:02 |
| 2. | "The Actor" | Richter | Jens Hofman, Oli Poulsen, Tony Peluso | 4:08 |
| 3. | "Sleeping Child" | Richter | Poulsen, MLTR | 3:33 |
| 4. | "Complicated Heart" | Richter | Poulsen, MLTR | 4:24 |
| 5. | "25 Minutes" | Richter | Poulsen, MLTR | 4:20 |
| 6. | "Out of the Blue" | Richter | Poulsen, MLTR | 4:20 |
| 7. | "I Wanna Dance" | Richter | Poulsen, MLTR | 3:48 |
| 8. | "That's Why (You Go Away)" | Richter | MLTR | 4:10 |
| 9. | "Love Will Never Lie" | Richter, Ashley Mulford | MLTR | 3:34 |
| 10. | "How Many Hours" | Richter | MLTR | 4:43 |
| 11. | "I'm Gonna Be Around" | Richter, Poulsen, Mulford | Poulsen | 4:20 |
| 12. | "Nothing to Lose" | Richter | MLTR | 3:58 |
| 13. | "Paint My Love" | Richter | MLTR | 3:50 |
| 14. | "Breaking My Heart" | Richter | MLTR | 4:04 |
| 15. | "Strange Foreign Beauty" | Richter | MLTR | 4:04 |
| 16. | "You Took My Heart Away" | Richter | Boe Larsen, Mikkel Lentz (co.) | 4:32 |
| 17. | "Blue Night" | Richter, Soulpoets | Larsen, Lentz (co.) | 3:38 |
| 18. | "More Than a Friend" | Søren Madsen, Mulford | Larsen, Lentz (co.) | 3:42 |
| 19. | "Forever and a Day" | Richter, Mulford | MLTR | 3:18 |
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