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"Boten Anna" ("Anna the Bot") is a song by Swedish eurodance musician Basshunter, which appears on his third studio album, LOL <(^^,)>. Due to the song, Basshunter became a noted artist in his native Sweden, as well as Finland, Denmark, Iceland, Norway, Poland and the Netherlands after the release of the single in 2006. The song topped hit charts and, on May 3 2006, was named Norway's official Russ-song of the year. It was also the most popular song at The Gathering demo party 2006.
A bot named Anna occasionally resides in the IRC channel #BassHunter.se on QuakeNet, albeit due to the popularity of the song, the channel, as well as #Anna, has been filled up with bots.
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The Swedish lyrics of Boten Anna tell the story of a female IRC user mistaken for an IRC bot by the vocalist who later finds out the truth; subsequently, however, he states that she will always remain a bot in his eyes. The song is based on an actual experience of Jonas Erik Altberg (a.k.a. Basshunter), who explained the situation in an interview with the Finnish website Stara.fi. His friend said he would create a bot with administrative capabilities to keep order in his channel, #BassHunter.se; when this happened Jonas saw a new user with administrative capabilities named Anna enter the channel, and naturally thought this was the bot. Months later, he learned that Anna was actually not a bot, but was his friend's girlfriend; the embarrassment, he says, inspired him to create the song.
Despite the esoteric subject of the lyrics, the song was well-received by mainstream media, albeit the word bot was frequently mistaken for boat (bot ("bot") is commonly pronounced almost the same as båt ("boat") in the dialect spoken by Altberg), and the double meaning of the word channel — the IRC channel mistaken for the body of water. The video to the song deliberately plays on double meanings, it shows BassHunter riding a "bass hunter" pedal boat (used for hunting the fish called "bass") with a capital "A" on it, down a canal.
An English version of "Boten Anna" titled "Now You're Gone," sung by Sebastian Westwood with the Net-Tag of Masrad, using unrelated lyrics by DJ Mental Theo's Bazzheadz which was originally released in 2006, has become the music to a video by Basshunter with the same title in November 2007. The video and the track were met with world chart success and became the most requested record in summer holiday resorts around Europe in early 2008. As people returning from their holidays wanted to hear it again, TV channels in the UK were inundated with requests for the video. On the 13 January 2008, "Now You're Gone" entered number one in the UK Singles Chart and spent five weeks at the top of the charts, ending Leon Jackson's three week run with "When You Believe." In the sixth week after the song's release it was knocked off the top by Welsh songstress Duffy, with her song "Mercy." The song reached No. 1 on the Irish singles chart on 2 February 2008.
Maxi Single (29 May 2006)
CD Single (4 September 2006)
| Chart (2006) | Peak |
|---|---|
| Dutch Top 40 | 1 |
| Danish Top 40 | 1 |
| Finnish Top 20 | 4 |
| Norwegian Top 20 | 3 |
| Swedish Top 60 | 1 |
| Austria Top 40 | 4 |
| PA Top 25 | 2 |
| German 100 | 5 |
| Czech IFPI Chart | 17 |
| Chart (2008) | Peak |
| UK Singles Chart | 1 |
| UK Download Chart | 1 |
| Irish Singles chart | 1 |
| Irish Downloads chart | 2 |
On 9 July 2006, "Boten Anna" was tested for Svensktoppen, where the highest position it reached was 4th.
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