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Robyn is a Swedish pop singer-songwriter. Her US breakthrough came in 1997 with dance-pop styled singles Show Me Love and Do You Know (What It Takes) - both top ten hits on the Billboard Hot 100 taken from her Robyn Is Here album. She was due to support the Backstreet Boys on their 1997 tour but had to pull out through exhaustion. Her next album My Truth released in 1999 didn't fare as well owing mainly in part to the fact that it couldn't get a release in the US - her label asked her to re-record sections of it but she refused. However, she still had a hit single Electric that was massive across Europe.

Those set of events subsequently set a trend for Robyn who would continue to have further disagreements with her record label and management teams. She became an ambassador for UNICEF in 1999 and travelled the world for the next two years. Upon her return to music she changed labels, moving from RCA to Jive for her 2002 album Don't Stop The Music. In 2004 the album Robyn's Best was released in the US which was little more then an attempt at a ‘greatest hits' package by her label - a shortened version of her first album minus the hits from the latter two. Meanwhile in Sweden a different ‘greatest hits' album was issued Det Bästa Med Robyn - again minus her hits Don't Stop The Music and Keep This Fire Burning.

Robyn bought herself out of her contract and formed her own label Konichiwa in 2005 - the year of her fourth studio album Robyn which earned her three Swedish Grammies and her first Swedish No. 1. In all she released four singles from the album and a revised version was released in the UK in 2007 containing new tracks including With Every Heartbeat, which hit No.1 in August that year. Robyn's story is a tale of if at first you don't succeed, keep trying. She wins points for perseverance with her music and her haircut, which must get annoying being in her eyes all the time. Plus, With Every Heartbeat was one of our records of 2007.