Fantastic (Toy-Box album)

Fantastic is the debut studio album by Danish bubblegum dance duo Toy-Box, released in May 1999 in Europe. It spent two weeks at number 1 on the Dutch chart in July, after which it was released on 17 August 1999 in the US.[1] It includes the hits "The Sailor Song", "Teddybear", "Best Friend" and "Tarzan & Jane". The Singapore edition included the "Toy-Box Space Trap" video game for the PC. The Special Christmas Edition of the Fantastic Album featured a bonus track; So Merry Christmas Everyone (X-MAS Bonus) produced & arranged for Candy Hell Entertainment. The artwork resembles to the layout of European PlayStation games.

FanTastic
Studio album by
Toy-Box
ReleasedMay 1999 (1999-05)
Recorded1998–1999[1]
StudioGolden Child Studios and New Touch Studio, Denmark
GenrePop
Length42:08
LabelEdel, Victor, Mega Records
ProducerDeAnn, Golden Child, Soul Poets
Toy-Box chronology
FanTastic
(1999)		 Toy Ride
(2001)
Singles from FanTastic
  1. "Best Friend"
    Released: 8 April 1998
  2. "Tarzan & Jane"
    Released: 12 November 1998
  3. "The Sailor Song"
    Released: August 1999
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]

Toy-Box videos

Toy-Box released music videos for "The Sailor-Song", "Best Friend", "Tarzan & Jane", and "Teddybear." Most of Toy-Box's videos could be considered cartoonish, but "Teddybear" is a more realistic video. While "Best Friend" features Amir El-Falaki and Aneela Mirza having a neon sword fight and turning into little fuzz balls, "The Sailor Song" showed several men flying off a boat, and "Tarzan and Jane" featured live monkeys and elephants in a cartoon parody, "Teddy Bear" is set in Paris and showed Amir and Aneela in a more romantic way than the other videos.

Commercial performance

By early August 1999, the album had reached worldwide sales of 300,000, with 80,000 units sold in Denmark.[2]

Track listing
  1. "Toy-Box Pictures Presents" – 0:38
  2. "The Sailor Song" – 3:15
  3. "Best Friend" – 3:28
  4. "Tarzan & Jane" – 3:04
  5. "E.T." – 3:40
  6. "Teddybear" – 4:14
  7. "Super-Duper-Man" – 3:17
  8. "I Believe in You" – 3:29
  9. "Earth, Wind, Water & Fire" – 3:36
  10. "What About" – 3:40
  11. "Eenie, Meenie, Miney, Mo" – 3:17
  12. "A Thing Called Love" – 3:16
  13. "Sayonara (Goodbye)" – 3:25
  • Christmas edition bonus track
  1. "So Merry Christmas Everyone" – 3:55
  • Special edition bonus videos
  1. "Best Friend"
  2. "The Sailor Song"

Singles
  • "Tarzan & Jane" (1998)
  • "Best Friend" (1999)
  • "The Sailor Song" (1999)

Promotional single
  • "Teddybear" (2000)

Charts
Chart performance for Fantastic
Chart (1999) Peak
position
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100)[3] 1
Finnish Albums (Suomen virallinen lista)[4] 28
Norwegian Albums (VG-lista)[5] 9
Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan)[6] 17

References
  1. AllMusic review
  2. Gonzales, David (7 August 1999). "Global Music Pulse". Billboard. Retrieved 7 November 2018.
  3. "Dutchcharts.nl – Toy-Box – Fantastic" (in Dutch). Hung Medien. Retrieved 4 February 2019.
  4. "Toy-Box: Fantastic" (in Finnish). Musiikkituottajat – IFPI Finland. Retrieved 4 February 2019.
  5. "Norwegiancharts.com – Toy-Box – Fantastic". Hung Medien. Retrieved 4 February 2019.
  6. "Swedishcharts.com – Toy-Box – Fantastic". Hung Medien. Retrieved 4 February 2019.
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