News Archives: August 2008
Marie hits #1
Written by Roxryder on August 28, 2008 to Marie Fredriksson and Sales & Charts.
Marie Fredriksson's "Där du andas," the theme song for the movie Arn - Riket vid vägens slut - debuts this week right at #1 on the Swedish singles chart. This is Marie's first #1 solo single ever! Congratulations!
Another “Million-Air” award for Listen to Your Heart
Written by tevensso on August 18, 2008 to Exclusive, Roxette and Sales & Charts. Source: Jimmy Fun.
STOCKHOLM - Per Gessle and Mats MP Persson will travel to London October 7 to receive yet another "Million-Air" award for "Listen to Your Heart."
"Listen to Your Heart" has been played over 4.000.000 times on US radio, same as "It Must Have Been Love" in 2005. According to BMI.com, based on an average length of three minutes, one million airplays is the equivalent of 50,000 hours or 5.7 years of continuous airplay. Top Million-Air songs are for instance The Police's "Every Breath You Take" and The Beatles' "Yesterday" with both over 8.000.000 plays.
Roxette has eight BMI awarded songs.
Per Gessle is obviously very pleased with this and comments "Yay!"
20 year old song enters chart in Australia
Written by tevensso on August 11, 2008 to Roxette and Sales & Charts. Source: ARIA.com.au.
For reasons yet unknown Roxette's US #2 single from 1989, "Dangerous," has entered the Australian download chart at #30. "The Oz people are famous for their exquisite taste. Marie and myself are very happy indeed" comments Per to The Daily Roxette.
Video for “Där du andas”
Written by abysmo on August 10, 2008 to Marie Fredriksson. Source: MarieFredriksson.se.
According to MarieFredriksson.se, Marie is filming a video for the new single “Där du andas,” which is taken from the soundtrack of "Arn - Riket vid vägens slut." A 1-track CD single will be released August 20, two days before the movie opens.
Update August 13: You can now watch the video on TV4 following this link.