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Chart positions in Japan in Australia?
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Wicf said on April 28, 2006 16:55:
Does anyone know all Roxette chart positions in Japan and Australia? All I know is RTY on #6 in Japan, and WICF on #57 in Australia... Thanx
Sparvogamarie said on April 29, 2006 07:10:
The Look, Joyride and IMHBL were number one in Australia. I know that all the singles until The Big L were top 10.
Room_service said on April 29, 2006 09:21:
These are all the figures I have. Don’t blame if they are not 100% correct, I collected them from different websites and sources. So, I am not sure they are totally accurate.
AUSTRALIA
The Look #1
Listen To Your Heart #12
Dangerous #8
It Must Have Been Love #1
Joyride #1
Fading Like A Flower #10
The Big L. #22
Spending My Time #17
How Do You Do! #28
Queen Of Rain #28
Almost Unreal #16
Sleeping In My Car #19
Run To You #40
JAPAN:
Chances #43 (is this true?)
The Look #1
Dressed For Success #2
Listen To Your Heart #21
Dangerous #14
It Must Have Been Love #1
Joyride #2
Fading Like A Flower #5
The Big L. #9
Spending My Time #7
How Do You Do! #6
Almost Unreal #19
Sleeping In My Car #11
Run To You #6
Ingo said on April 29, 2006 10:01:
The chart positions I have for Australia have LTYH at No.9 and FLAF at No.2, The Big L. at No.13 and Spending my time at No.8. And you totally forgot Dressed for Success, it peaked at No.3.
RobS said on April 29, 2006 12:23:
These are from a previous post, i think from someone else, I think most a pretty right.
The Look - #1
Dressed for Success - #3
Listen to your Heart - #9
Dangerous - #9
IMHBL - #1
Joyride - #1
Fading Like A Flower - #2
The Big L - #13
Spending My Time - #8
Church of Your Heart - #34
How do you do! - #12
Queen of Rain - #47
Almost Unreal - # 18 (might’ve been higher)
Sleeping in my car - #13
Crash!Boom!Bang! - #72
Fireworks - #68
Run to you - #39
Vulnerable - didnt chart (not sure about this one)
You dont understand me - didnt chart
June Afternoon - not officially released
She Doesn’t Live Here Anymore - not released
Wish I could fly - #65
Anyone - not released
Stars - Radio promo only
Salavation - not released
The Center of the Heart - didn’t chart
MATAH - didn’t chart
brentnewtown said on April 30, 2006 06:16:
@RobS
Some of those chart positions look wrong.
DFS: don’t think it got to no 3
FLAF: peaked at no 7 I’m pretty sure (as has been said the 7th consecutive and final top 10)
SMT: it didn’t reach top 10
Big L.: don’t think it got to no 13
Although, in those days there were two Australian charts so I could be wrong in what I have said above. Aria (used by Take 40 and Rage) and Australian Music Report (used by Smash Hits and possibly was the chart source for the Rock 40 countdown ???). I vaguely remember FLAF peaking higher on AMR than Aria.
It is stupid that Aria don’t offer online access to the charts from those days. I think they used to have archived charts back to mid nineties but checking their site now I can’t see that it is still available. The following website does contain past charts but ony back to 1993 - prior years you can only get year end charts.
Sparvogamarie said on April 30, 2006 07:27:
I’m pretty sure DFS did make #3 cos I had an ARia chart with it on, but I think Brent is right about the others. I’m fairly certain SMT didn’t make top 10 and I don’t think FLAF got as high as #2, it did in USA though.
Wicf said on April 30, 2006 07:34:
What about singles from DBUGTTC, HAND and RS in Japan? They were never released there?
Sparvogamarie said on April 30, 2006 07:38:
I don’t think there’s a lot of Japanese fans here. Maybe one or two.
Room_service said on April 30, 2006 10:21:
Don’t know which singles were released in Japan after CBB. All I know is Pay The Price/Anyone. I guess that one was the last to date. By the way, it’s not a big market for Roxette & related releases (although TWATG, DSR and The Change were released there). Don’t know if IETSV was available too.
Hotblooded said on April 30, 2006 11:34:
DFS: Definitely made #3
FLAF: Peaked at #7
SMT: Wasn’t top 10 I think it peaked around #12
The Big L: I think was #21 or something like that :)
BTW there did used to be two charts one by ARIA (the official sales chart) and another which used sales and other sources. I remember video hits used this chart.
RobS said on April 30, 2006 12:31:
I thought most were right?? Oh well now i know :-) I only know the ones from HDYD onwards, sadly half of them never even got to the charts :-(
It would be really nice if ARIA could post all the old charts...hopefully someday.
Wicf said on April 30, 2006 13:11:
I remember reading somewhere that Anyone/Pay The Price was #51 in Tokio Hot 100... But I don’t know what kind of a chart TH100 is...
rox-kuryliw said on April 30, 2006 14:28:
i would thought Stars and tcoth would of charted well in japan, but saying i have no idea the music culture there at all ?
Ingo said on May 1, 2006 17:55:
I only know from articles that Rox’s albums were very succesful in Japan, C!B!B! was the highest new entry of a non-japanese album in Japans Chart history and HAND was awarded a Gold record there.
davidc4 said on May 2, 2006 15:00:
what i did find out that surprised me was that the look was #1 in OZ for 6 weeks!it only made #7 in The UK :(
Hotblooded said on May 3, 2006 03:17:
Yep and ’The Look’ was the 2nd biggest selling single of that year (89’) behind Madonna’s ’Like A Prayer’!!!
Wicf said on May 4, 2006 15:40:
I’m a bit confused about Australia... Someone says TBL made it into top 20, but than someone doesn’t agree... And I’ve found #57 spot for WICF on wikipedia.org, but someone here says it peaked at #65... But Roxette singles charted in 2 australian charts, so maybe that’s the reason...
EDIT: Oh my God, I’ve just looked at Wikipedia, and someone’s added new chart positions there and they’re wrong! Stars at #52 and MATAH at #58! I really don’t understand it
pwbbounce (moderator) said on May 4, 2006 15:43:
Many people think that they don’t seem that succesful in the UK, but looking at some charts from around the world, they seem to be more succesful than i thought comparing to other places.
Wicf said on May 4, 2006 15:55:
@ pwbbounce: Yes, you’re right. For example, all 5 singles from CBB managed to reach Top 50 (first four singles made it into Top 30) in the UK, but in Germany only 2 singles reached Top 50.
Ingo said on May 5, 2006 18:01:
When you look at the Top 40 the UK chart statistics are rather good for Roxette, but looking at number of Top 10 Hits, you have only 5 in the UK, but 8 in Germany and 9 in Australia.
RobS said on May 6, 2006 01:08:
Just had a look at some old ARIA charts that i’ve got. Looks like RTY only got to 50 for 2 wks. I was certain it made it to the top40?!
ChartFreak said on August 11, 2006 01:08:
I am not really a Roxette fan, but found this thread doing a search for ARIA charts. I have been an avid Australian chart follower since 1988, and can list the Roxette ARIA singles chart peaks I know below - all of them are accurate and taken from my own records. I only have top 60 data pre 1994 at this point:
The Look #1
Dressed For Success #3
Listen to Your Heart #10
Dangerous #9
It Must Have Been Love #1
Joyride #1
Fading Like a Flower #7
The Big L #20
Spending My Time #16
Church of Your Heart #55
How Do You Do #13
Queen of Rain (missed top 60, reached #77 on AMR chart)
Almost Unreal #17
Sleeping In My Car #18
Crash! Boom! Bang! #73
Fireworks #68
Run to You #49
From memory Wish I Could Fly charted in the 50s-60s, but I haven’t bothered to look that one up yet.
brentnewtown said on August 11, 2006 10:31:
@Chartfreak
do you have an online source for Aria charts you wish to share? or do you have a mountain of aria charts sitting at home??
RobS said on April 29, 2006 01:52:
I’ve got a list of the Australian ones around somewhere, i’ll post them if i can find them.