Joacim Cans
Person · male · Sweden · Mora · born 1970 · recording since 2013
Swedish singer (born 1970)
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Also known as Йоаким Канс
Timeline
1970s
2010s
· Debut release
Debut release: Annelie
First documented Single in the MusicBrainz discography.
source: musicbrainz
Biography
Biography
Joacim Cans (born 19 February 1970) is a Swedish singer, best known as the lead vocalist of power metal band HammerFall. He is the only member aside from founder and guitarist Oscar Dronjak to appear on all of the band's albums.
Cans attended the Musicians Institute in Hollywood, California.
He released his first solo album titled Beyond the Gates in 2004.
Cans participated with a choir team in the Swedish television program Körslaget (the Swedish version of Clash of the Choirs) in 2008. On 10 May his team won the competition.
Bands
Line-up
Joacim Cans – vocals
Oscar Dronjak – lead and rhythm guitars
Pontus Norgren – lead and rhythm guitars
Fredrik Larsson – bass and backing vocals
David Wallin – drums
Current bands
HammerFall
Cans
Past bands
Lost Horizon
Warlord
Mrs. Hippie
Discography & profile
Normalised profile
Percentiles are computed over every artist in the database, so a tier-3 artist can still sit in the 95th percentile on a single axis.
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 20 | 81.1th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 1 | 73.9th |
| Studio albums | 0 | 0th |
| Awards recorded | 0 | 0th |
| Timeline events | 2 | 62.1th |
| Recording span (years) | 0 | 9.4th |
| Genres | 3 | 80.4th |
Percentiles are computed at render time; missing values mean the artist has no data on that axis.
Discography (1 release groups)
Single · 1
| Cover | Year | Title | Notes | First release |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | AnnelieSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 1 track · 3:081Annelie (single version)3:08 | 10 February 2013 |
Stats & PK
Percentile within all 23,672 published artists.Put Joacim Cans head-to-head →
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 20 | 81.1th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 1 | 73.9th |
| Studio albums | 0 | 0th |
| Awards recorded | 0 | 0th |
| Timeline events | 2 | 62.1th |
| Recording span (years) | 0 | 9.4th |
| Genres | 3 | 80.4th |
Awards & honours
Line-up
| Name | From | To | Role |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cans(band) | — | present | lead vocals |
| HammerFall(band) | 1996 | present | lead vocals |
Where this record comes from
portrait—Wikimedia Commons · CC0 · retrieved 11 October 2026
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Joacim_Cans_2010.05.06.jpgaliases/urls—musicbrainz · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://musicbrainz.org/artist/a6f8ee48-d467-4f93-bce3-e1b2b59f6d58discography—musicbrainz · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://musicbrainz.org/artist/a6f8ee48-d467-4f93-bce3-e1b2b59f6d58core—wikidata · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q360855genre—wikidata · CC0 · retrieved 11 October 2026
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q360855seed-list—wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joacim_Cansbiography—wikipedia-en · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joacim_Cans
Why this artist is in the database
- List of Swedish musicians
Tier rule: curated genre/region list
Image: Thargol · CC0 · Wikimedia Commons
Wikidata: Q360855 · MusicBrainz: a6f8ee48-d467-4f93-bce3-e1b2b59f6d58
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