Aqua performing live in 2009. From left to right: René Dif, Lene Nystrøm Rasted and Claus Norreen |
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| Releases | ||
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| ↙Studio albums | 3 | |
| ↙Compilation albums | 2 | |
| ↙Singles | 22 | |
| ↙Music videos | 23 | |
| ↙Remix albums | 3 | |
The discography of Aqua, a Danish–Norwegian dance-pop group, contains two studio albums, two compilation albums, three remix albums and twenty-two singles.
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| Year | Album details | Peak chart positions | Certifications | ||||||||||
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| DEN [1] |
AUS [2] |
GER [3] |
NLD [4] |
NZ [5] |
NOR [6] |
SWE [7] |
SWI [8] |
UK [9] |
US [10] |
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| 1997 | Aquarium | 1 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 7 | ||
| 2000 | Aquarius
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1 | 15 | 16 | 42 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 24 | 82 | ||
| 2011 | Megalomania
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2 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
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| "—" denotes items that did not chart or were not released. | |||||||||||||
| Year | Album details | Peak chart positions | Certifications | |||
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| DEN [25] |
NOR [6] |
SWE [7] |
UK [26] |
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| 2002 | Cartoon Heroes: The Best of Aqua
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| 2009 | Greatest Hits
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1 | 7 | 24 | 135 | |
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| Year | Album details | Peak chart positions | Certifications | ||
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| NZ [5] |
NOR [6] |
SWE [7] |
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| 1998 | Aqua Mania Remix
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— | 4 | 31 |
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Bubble Mix (The Ultimate Aquarium Remixes Album)
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36 | — | — | ||
| 2002 | Remix Super Best
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| Title | Year | Peak chart positions | Certifications | Album | |||||||||
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| DEN [25] |
AUS [2] |
GER [28] |
IRE [29] |
NLD [4] |
NZ [5] |
NOR [6] |
SWE [7] |
SWI [8] |
UK [9] |
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| "Roses Are Red" | 1996 | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | 2 | 5 | — | — | Aquarium | |
| "My Oh My" | 1997 | 1 | 56 | 12 | 30 | 17 | 12 | 20 | 4 | 12 | 6 |
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| "Barbie Girl" | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||
| "Lollipop (Candyman)" | — | 3 | — | — | — | 22 | — | 10 | — | — |
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| "Doctor Jones" | 1 | 1 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 11 | 1 | |||
| "Turn Back Time" | 1998 | 3 | 10 | 42 | 4 | 26 | 2 | — | 4 | 26 | 1 | ||
| "Good Morning Sunshine" | — | — | 94 | — | 80 | — | — | — | — | 18 | |||
| "Cartoon Heroes" | 2000 | 1 | 16 | 13 | 10 | 35 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 11 | 7 | Aquarius | |
| "Around the World" | 1 | 35 | 56 | 47 | 44 | — | 16 | 4 | 42 | 26 |
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| "Bumble Bees" | 16 | 65 | 96 | — | — | — | — | 34 | — | — | |||
| "We Belong to the Sea" | 2001 | 19 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| "Back to the 80s" | 2009 | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | 3 | 25 | 20 | — | Greatest Hits | |
| "My Mamma Said" | 4 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
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| "Spin Me a Christmas" | 43 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| "How R U Doin?" | 2011 | 4 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
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Megalomania |
| "Playmate to Jesus" | 13 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| "Like A Robot" | - | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory. | |||||||||||||
| Year | Title | Peak chart positions | Album | ||
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| DEN [25] |
AUS [2] |
GER [28] |
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| 1997 | "Didn't I" | — | — | — | Aquarium (Deluxe Edition) |
| 2000 | "Freaky Friday" | — | — | — | Aquarius |
| Year | Title | Peak chart positions | Album | ||
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| DEN [25] |
SWE [7] |
GER [28] |
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| 1995 | "Itsy Bitsy Spider" (as Joyspeed) | — | 54 | — | Non-album release |
| 1999 | "Selv En Dråbe" (as Various Artists) | 1 | — | — | Grænseløs Greatest |
| 2005 | "Hvor Små Vi Er" (as Various Artists) | 1 | — | — | Non-album release |
| 2009 | "Live Fast - Die Young" | 24 | — | — | Greatest Hits |
| Year | Album details | Notes |
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| 1997 | Aqua: The Videos
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| 1997 | Around the World
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| 1998 | The Aqua Diary
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| 2000 | The Video And Karaoke
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| 2000 | Aqua: The Video Collection
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| 2001 | The Hits Karaoke
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| 2009 | Greatest Hits (Special Edition)
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| Year | Title | Director(s) | Notes |
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| 1996 | "Roses are Red" | Christian Bjarke Dyekjær, Peter Hiort | Aqua is singing in a simple white box, supposed to be in the bottle, while in the second scene are two boring guys on a party drinking "Aqua" and get into party animals at the end of the video. The directors are Aqua's close friends. |
| 1997 | "Barbie Girl" | Peder Pedersen, Peter Stenbæk | Lene is playing the doll Barbie and René Dif the doll Ken Carson just parodying the characters being so plastic. At the end of the video it turned to a party with two other dolls similar to Aqua's most other early music videos . The shoot was in Denmark. |
| "Doctor Jones" | Peter Stenbæk | The video and song is loosely based around the Indiana Jones character from the film quadrilogy of the same name, with René Dif playing Doctor Jones and rescuing his fellow band members from a stereotypical voodoo tribe. The shoot was in Denmark. | |
| "Lollipop (Candyman)" | Peder Pedersen, Peter Stenbæk | Aqua are in outer space, a similar to their later music video "Cartoon heroes", just more cartoon-ish and includes a fight against aliens, where a small robot called "C.A.N.D.Y." is helping Aqua and saving the day. | |
| 1998 | "My Oh My" | The video features Aqua on a pirate ship, with Lene being captured by the three male members, who are playing pirates before turning the tables around and taking over. They then go on to discover treasure. | |
| "Turn Back Time" | Peter Stenbæk | It contains scenes from the "Sliding Doors" film and was different to the previous comedy videos. There are two edits of this video, which was filmed on the abandoned platform 5 at Holborn tube station in the UK, the only place where filming is allowed. | |
| "Good Morning Sunshine" | Unknown | An arabic flavoured "Good morning sunshine" live performance including different behind the scenes footage from their tour. The song was live released as well. | |
| 1999 | "Selv En Dråbe" | Charity music video and song featuring Various Artists. Lene is singing a verse, René Dif is part of the raps and in a few sequents you can see Claus and Søren. | |
| 2000 | "Cartoon Heroes" | Thomas Masin | It featured the world in help, who called and re-animated Aqua as heroes in the outer space, saving the globe from a big octopus, which is destroying world capitals. It's the most expensive Aqua video ever and more serious than their "Lollipop (Candyman)" space themed video. There are two slightly different video cuts released. |
| "Around the World" | Ronnie West, Peter Stenbæk | The video also has a more serious style, but still a parody of the movie "Entrapment". The video featured the members of the band planning a big coup just for fun, a robbery in the night, which ended up with stealing a main valuable diamond for their Aquarium. | |
| "Around the World" (Version 2) | Thomas Masin | Remains unreleased. You can see Aqua sitting relaxed on the couch and switching the channels of the world like homeshopping channels, soccer games, cooking shows and news, all portrayed by themselves, until they fall asleep at the end of the video. Pieces of the music video can be seen in the "Turn back time" Documentary in 2005. | |
| "Bumble Bees" | Ronnie West, Peder Pedersen, Peter Stenbæk | The video parodied the groups status as a "Barbie band", gained due to the success of their hit "Barbie girl", with Aqua trying to make a good music video, they made three videos, but being hampered by a poor director, a low-budget and faulty equipment. | |
| 2001 | "We Belong to the Sea" | Toby Hooper | Lene is stealing René Dif in the form of a goldfish, and later releasing him into the wide open sea. A shark fin then appears in the water, implying Rene's death and possibly also that of Aqua as a music group and the fight between Lene and René. The video had been shot in Spain. |
| "Aquarius" | Unknown | Looks like a typical goodbye video featuring clips from all of their music videos, live performances, bonus candid material and never seen before beind the scenes footage similar to their "Good morning sunshine" music video to end up a chapter. It can only be found in the "The Hits: Karaoke Videos" CD. | |
| 2005 | "Hvor Små Vi Er" | Charity music video and song featuring Various Artists. Lene is singing a verse in front of a simple white background in a close up. At the end all artists singing together in a hall. You only can see Lene from Aqua in the video. | |
| 2007 | "Centerpubben" | Michael Christensen | Black and white Hej Matematik music video, which features a cameo appearance of Aqua as "Centerpubben" in a shopping window. The video is directed by Michael Christensen for Gaucho Film. |
| 2008 | "Goodbye to the Circus" | Unknown | Remains unreleased and has been exclusively recorded for their comeback life shows. Aqua are dressed like sad clowns singing the song in close ups in front of a black background. The video has been shown numeous of times in the background of their life shows while performing this song. |
| 2009 | "Back to the 80's" | Peter Stenbæk | Aqua's first music video after almost nine years. They're wearing 80's clothes and long wigs like old rockstars, which fit perfectly to the message of the song. There are two slightly different video cuts released due the changed line from "When Michael Jackson's skin was black" to "When Arnie told us I'll be back". |
| "My Mamma Said" | Rasmus Laumann | Aqua's darkest and most serious video in their career, which has been released in October 26, 2009. Aqua are all in black, sitting around a table. Everything there like flowers e.t.c., except the flesh, is in black and white. | |
| "Spin Me a Christmas" | Peter Stenbæk | Aqua's back to their roots of funny and cheesy, but also cartoonish and colorful videos, released in November 30, 2009. Aqua visiting René as drunken Santa Claus, receiving gifts from him and having a fun time in a plastic winter wonderland. | |
| 2011 | "How R U Doin'?" | Rasmus Laumann | It starts with Aqua walking towards the camera with the words "How R U doin'?" appearing in beat with the music. René and Lene are then driving white trucks throughout a dirty, post-apocalyptic cartoonish environment with Søren and Claus as passengers, respectively. After doing jumps, maneuvering through explosions and crashing into various objects, the group walks away from the trucks with the words "How R U Doin'?" appearing again. |
| "Playmate to Jesus" | Uffe Kongsted | A serious arty music video in decent colors. Aqua are in a left mansion following a black something until it escapes to heaven at the end of the video. | |
| "Like a Robot" | TBA | TBA |
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