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The young Icelandic band Of Monsters And Men is enjoying incredible success in the US: their album My Head Is An Animal sold in 55,000 copies in one week and on Wednesday it went straight to sixth place on the US Billboard list.
Of Monsters And Men a few years ago. Photo by Páll Kjartansson.
This is the best achievement Icelandic musicians have ever boasted on the Billboard list, which has reported on record sales in the US since 1945, Fréttablaðið reports.
The highest score by an Icelandic musician on the Billboard list to date was when Björk’s album Volta climbed to ninth place in 2007. Sigur Rós reached 15th with Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust the following year.
In other music news, singer-songwriters Lára Rúnars and Myrra Rós embarked on their Iceland tour yesterday, Morgunblaðið reports.
The tour started with a concert in Grindavík, which will be followed by other towns in southwest Iceland, then moving up north, ending in Siglufjörður.
Click here to read more about Of Monsters and Men and here to read an interview with Lára Rúnars.
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Four Icelandic contestants will participate in this year’s World Skills International, the world cup for industrial- and vocational subjects. The competition is held every other year.
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This year’s free English-language travel guide Around Iceland has been released, the 38th year in a row. The guide is also published in Icelandic and German and is distributed in 100,000 copies to the country’s most frequented tourist destinations.
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An international group of divers recently traveled to Þingvellir National Park in Southwest Iceland to explore this unique diving destination. A Polish guide, Michail Zinieuricz, who works for the DIVE.is, led the team of North Americans and a French couple.
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Iceland’s northernmost island is no longer one island. In a recent surveillance excursion to the Kolbeinsey, the Icelandic Coast Guard discovered that the island is now divided in two.
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The 2013 June-July issue of Iceland Review is out. Themed ‘We Are Young’ the magazine celebrates the arrival of summer by interviewing young energetic Icelanders who excel in art, sports, business and politics—and Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson, the youngest PM in the republic’s history and the world’s youngest ruling state leader. Click here to take a look at a selection of the current issue and here to subscribe to the magazine.
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Historian Guðni Th. Jóhannesson busts some resilient myths about Icelandic Vikings and criticizes the (ab)use of history.
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Sin Fang will celebrate the release of his third album with a release concert in Iðnó on June 12. Flowers was released in February by Morr Music and has been well received by music enthusiasts and critics alike. The concert will be supported by Vök, this year’s winners of the Icelandic Music Experiments.
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