This Could Be Heaven (album)

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This Could Be Heaven
This Could Be Heaven by Pandora (album).jpg
Studio album by
Released8 December 1997 (1997-12-08)
Recorded1997
StudioHit Vision Studios,
PAD Studios, Canada
Dreamhouse Studios
Genre
Label Universal Music / EMI Music
Producer
Pandora chronology
Best of Pandora
(1997)
This Could Be Heaven
(1997)
Pandora's Hit Box
(1998)
Singles from This Could Be Heaven
  1. "Single Life"
    Released: 1997
  2. "Show Me What You Got"
    Released: 1997
  3. "Spirit to Win"
    Released: 6 March 1998
  4. "This Could Be Heaven"
    Released: 1998
  5. "You Drive Me Crazy"
    Released: May 1998
  6. "Mr Right"
    Released: 1998

This Could Be Heaven is the fourth studio album by Swedish singer Pandora. It was released in December 1997 by Universal Records. The album peaked at number 19 in Finland.

Contents

The album was re-released in Sweden in 1998 and included the bonus track "Spirit to Win" which was recorded as the official track of the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan. [1]

Track listing

  1. "Single Life" (Mark Taylor, Paul Colgate) – 3:36
  2. "Everybody's Livin' It Up" (Taylor, Paul Barry, Steve Torch) – 4:10
  3. "Shout It Out" (featuring Martin Carboo) (Hendrik Andersson, Martin Ankelius, Peter Johansson) – 3:16
  4. "Show Me What You Got" (featuring Patrick Ntumba) (Martin Ankelius, Peter Johansson) – 3:22
  5. "Great Life" (Mats Nyman, Pandora) – 3:54
  6. "If This Isn't Love (What Is It)" (Nyman, Pandora) – 4:20
  7. "This Could Be Heaven" (Taylor, Barry) – 3:55
  8. "Let It Go" (Andersson, Ankelius, Johansson) – 3:02
  9. "(You'll Always Be) The Love of My Life" (Taylor, Barry) – 4:00
  10. "Mr. Right" (Andersson, Johansson) – 3:32
  11. "I'll Be There for You" (Andersson, Ankelius, Johansson) – 4:32
  12. "I Welcome You" (Nyman, Pandora) – 3:43
  13. "You Drive Me Crazy" (featuring Martin Carboo) (Andersson, Johansson) – 3:15
  14. "I Feel Free" (Graham Stack, Taylor, Barry) – 3:38
  15. "Spirit To Win" (Klaus Maria Weigurt, Enrico Joseph) – 3:09 (1998 bonus track)

Charts

Chart (1997/98)Peak
position
Finnish Albums (Suomen virallinen lista) [2] 19

Certifications

RegionCertification Certified units/sales
Japan (RIAJ) [3] Platinum200,000^

^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

Release history

RegionDateFormatLabelCatalogue
Japan8 December 1997 [4] CD, Cassette Universal MVCE-24067
ScandinaviaDecember 1997 EMI Records 7243 4 95034 2 7
Sweden1998

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References

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