TobyNZ said on February 19, 2006 23:12:

Some of you may (or may not) be able to remember that as far back as two or three years ago on this site among others, I started a thread asking for people to submit their top 10 favourite Roxette songs lists. You can view this thread here: http://www2.dailyroxette.com/smalltalk/thread.php/8181 ...and vote in it also if you haven’t already. Note that if you want to change your list (if posted previously) please do NOT edit your old reply, but please post a new reply with your changed list, remembering to state that it actually is a changed list. Thanks so much! :)

My promise was to compile all of it together, and now as promised, here is the top 100.

NOTE: So far this top 100 is made up from 216 top-10 lists and is correct as of 15 September 2006.

NB!!: As of 19 March 2006 I am no longer including alternate versions (live/unplugged/etc...) and the list has now been updated to reflect this! :)

Enjoy!

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POSITION, SONG TITLE

1 Listen To Your Heart
2 Fading Like A Flower (Every Time You Leave)
3 It Must Have Been Love
4 Sleeping In My Car
5 The Look
6 Dangerous
7 Spending My Time
8 Joyride
9 Things Will Never Be The Same
10 Wish I Could Fly
11 A Thing About You
12 Run To You
13 How Do You Do!
14 Silver Blue
15 She Doesn’t Live Here Anymore
16 Crash! Boom! Bang!
17 Milk And Toast And Honey
18 Almost Unreal
19 The Centre Of The Heart
20 Paint
21 Breathe
22 The Sweet Hello, The Sad Goodbye
23 Real Sugar
24 Fireworks
25 The Rain
26 Queen Of Rain
27 Opportunity Nox
28 Crush On You
29 Stars
30 Salvation
31 Little Miss Sorrow
32 Dressed For Success
33 Perfect Day
34 Anyone
35 What’s She Like?
36 Watercolours In The Rain
37 (Do You Get) Excited?
38 June Afternoon
39 So Far Away
40 My World, My Love, My Life
41 Church Of Your Heart
42 Fingertips (incl. Fingertips’93)
43 Neverending Love
44 (I Could Never) Give You Up
45 7Twenty7
46 It Hurts
47 Vulnerable
48 Hotblooded
49 Fool
50 Surrender
51 You Don’t Understand Me
52 I’m Sorry
53 I Don’t Want To Get Hurt
54 I Remember You
55 The First Girl On The Moon
56 Never Is A Long Time
57 The Weight Of The World
58 Lies
59 Crazy About You
60 Bla Bla Bla Bla (You Broke My Heart)
61 It Takes You No Time To Get Here
62 Soul Deep
63 Jefferson
64 The Heart Shaped Sea
65 Harleys & Indians (Riders In The Sky)
66 Looking For Jane
67 Go To Sleep
68 Make My Head Go Pop
69 Keep Me Waiting
70 The Big L
71 Chances
72 Knockin’ On Every Door
73 Call Of The Wild
74 Here Comes The Weekend
75 Cinnamon Street
76 Entering Your Heart
77 From One Heart To Another
78 See Me
79 Sleeping Single
80 Staring At The Ground
81 Dance Away
82 Secrets That She Keeps
83 Like Lovers Do
84 Love Is All (Shine Your Light On Me)
85 Beautiful Things
86 I Was So Lucky
87 Happy Together
88 Small Talk
89 You Can’t Put Your Arms Around What’s Already Gone
90 Come Back (Before You Leave)
91 Better Off On Her Own
92 Cry
93 Shadow Of A Doubt
94 I Love The Sound Of Crashing Guitars
95 Waiting For The Rain
96 Do You Wanna Go The Whole Way?
97 Every Day
98 The Voice
99 It Will Take A Long Long Time
100 Seduce Me

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NOTES:

Lists submitted at:
Daily Roxette
Run To Roxette
ABBAMAIL
...and others.

Calculations were made as follows:
On each top 10 list submitted, a number 1 song received 10 points and a number 2 song received 9 points...etc, then all points were added together for each song.
THEN...: the amounts of lists each song appeared on was counted. The more lists the song appeared on, the higher their position on this chart. If two songs or more appeared on the same number of lists, they were ordered according to their number of points.

EXAMPLES:
Song A receives 27 votes and has 150 points.
Song B receives 27 votes and has 134 points.
Song C receives 26 votes and has 151 points.

The order they would appear on the list would be “A, B, C”. This is because although song C received more points than both others, it appeared on less lists. If song C had appeared on one more list, however, it would have done better (and been listed higher) than both songs A and B.

http://www2.dailyroxette.com/smalltalk/thread.php/8181
Vote now if you haven’t already!

RobS said on February 20, 2006 06:59:

Very nice work. :)

Interesting to see that there are six ballads in the Top 10.

ally77 said on February 23, 2006 14:36:

Good work, well done you!

denny said on February 28, 2006 23:55:

Wow, nice stats Toby!

And yay Surrender is 53 now. :))))

roxtexanet said on March 1, 2006 01:18:

Really interesting, thanks Toby!

Nice to see that fully 25% of the songs in the Top 20 are from the 2001-3 era, despite the opinion of some that Roxette haven’t done anything good since “Crash! Boom! Bang!”...

TobyNZ said on March 16, 2006 13:48:

Hey guys,
Some more stats which I’ve taken from my top 100 list so far; the #1 song has 65 votes, the #2 song has 61 votes while the #10 song has 37 votes.

song number 41 has: 14 votes, 68 points
song number 42 has: 13 votes, 66 points
song number 43 has: 13 votes, 61 points
song number 44 has: 12 votes, 86 points
song number 45 has: 12 votes, 41 points
song number 46 has: 12 votes, 40 points
song number 47 has: 11 votes, 63 points
song number 48 has: 11 votes, 58 points
song number 49 has: 11 votes, 57 points
song number 50 has: 11 votes, 54 points
song number 51 has: 11 votes, 42 points
song number 52 has: 10 votes, 69 points
song number 53 has: 10 votes, 64 points
song number 54 has: 10 votes, 54 points
song number 55 has: 10 votes, 51 points
song number 56 has: 10 votes, 51 points
song number 57 has: 10 votes, 50 points
song number 58 has: 10 votes, 38 points
song number 59 has: 9 votes, 65 points
song number 60 has: 9 votes, 51 points

There you go... so one vote can make all the difference!

davidc4 said on April 28, 2006 14:02:

im glad run to you has done so well but was surprised i dont want to get hurt was as low