"Release Me" was another top ten hit for Agnes in Sweden and also charted in Belgium, Denmark, Ireland, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom.

Fraser McAlpine of the BBC's Chart Blog said: "73% of why this is a great song rests with those amazing swooping harmonies.

"[3] Nick Levine of Digital Spy described "Release Me" as "far classier" than other Europop songs performed by contemporaries such as September and Velvet.

Radio stations started to play the 2009 single again, and after Agnes's live performance at the final of Swedish Idol it climbed even higher on the charts.

These are the main parts of the video, other sequences are shown of people dancing in various places and Agnes singing in front of the orange wall.

The music video had a massive impact in the UK, where it started to spin on radio stations and TV channels already in February 2009, almost four months before the release of the song.

The music video made for the European market was rejected by the American record company, Geffen/Interscope, and according to director Thomas Kloss she looked far too grown up.

[13] The U.S video starts off with Agnes standing in the studio recording "Release Me" and for a few seconds you hear the a cappella version of the song, when suddenly she rushes out the door and, together with her friends, walks to a club.

The day after on 6 July she performed the same song in Sweden in the sing-along show Lotta på Liseberg, broadcast by TV4.

[15] One week later she returned to Gothenburg for the Gothia Cup Opening Ceremony, where she performed the song on Ullevi, the largest venue in northern Europe.

During the spring of 2010 Agnes went to the U.S to start promote the single, which led to numerous performances on TV-shows and concerts all over America.

Among others she performed at "White Party" in Palm Springs on Sunday 11 April, where Britney Spears wrote on her Twitter that she was on her way to check out Agnes.