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20 year old song enters chart in Australia

Written by tevensso on August 11, 2008 to and . 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.

38 comments

pwbbounce (moderator) said on :

Good news! Maybe the UK fans can get together and try and get Rox on the charts in the UK??? Pick a song and mass-download it on a certain day

Txiqui said on :

:)
It would be nice if suddenly Dangerous becomes a hit everywhere again!
:)

RoXoR said on :

Has anyone confirmed it? Eventhough you might say I am a wet blanket, don’t you think it is a typo and instead of Roxette - Dangerous, it actually means Kardinal Offishall ft. Akon - Dangerous or something like that? ;-)

rox-kuryliw said on :

How odd ! i think its a great song, but very dated. I would of picked a newer song to re enter charts if i had a choice.

Roxlander said on :

Well, it’s a curious new, but it’s a nice one too.

ettexor said on :

Yeah!! “dangerous” is a success forever, knows no age!
i hope roxette comeback soon!!

crashroxer said on :

Is that really true?? Hmm...strange. But, GREAT ;-)

Roxette Rocks!!!

Roxryder said on :

I have the same doubt as RoXoR

By the way, the relevant in here is that Per still has Marie’s telephone number :)

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like magic and love lots of forgotten words
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmA-ar3wNFw

ncurran said on :

was it used in a tv programme or something?

Kerstin said on :

Strange but great news, indeed.

Though Roxette obviously is no longer vivid they still rock around the globe :)

Jasper said on :

We certainley have not forgotten Roxette down here in Australia, although it surprises me, quite often we get airplay on the radio stations, and on the Music Max channel, usually the most popular songs they had like, The Look, It Must Have Been Love, etc.

konstpaus said on :

im from australia too and im really happy with the news, but im also not sure if it is a mistake or not.

also who says per phoned marie? maybe they got the news after they stepped out of the booth laying down a vocal track for a song of a new album????

hahaha it sure good to dream

imazombieinthem... said on :

Surely ARIA couldn’t make a typo mistake? But I haven’t seen anything that could of caused that myself. To enter a chart these days, is it like the old selling chart where it appears a couple of weeks after selling? Or is the download top 40 an up to date chart? Could of played the song on the Olympics of something :P

abysmo said on :

@konstpaus: Ha ha, I like you point of view.

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RobS said on :

imazombieinthem... said: “Could of played the song on the Olympics of something :P

i thought the same, people could have heard it on the Olympic broadcast and then a crapload of people could have downloaded it.

At this stage there is nothing to give any indication why it has happend.

Pretty slim chance of a typo, but you never know.

RoXoR said on :

Hi again,

I am not sure if I am allowed to post links here, but on this webpage: http://australian-charts.com/forum.asp?todo=viewthread&id=23080
they also say it is a mistake and as you can see it is not the first time.
Of course it would be fun if Roxette really entered the charts but being realistic (not pesimistic :-p ) it sounds too odd to be real :)

brentnewtown said on :

This is a little off topic RoXoR but that is a great website you have linked to as it includes week by week chart history since way back (at least 1989). I’ve been looking for such a site for a long time. Thank you

tevensso (moderator) said on :

Why wouldn’t you be allowed to post links?
They are discussing a possible error, but no one says it is an error. And the previous “errors” are regarding charting two versions of the same song separately. Another theory they have is that the current hits with the same names as the older hits have stirred an interest in the older material.

Ben Harper - Forever -> Chris Brown - Forever
Muse - Take a Bow -> Rihanna - Take a Bow
Count Basic - See You Again -> Miley Cyrus - See You Again
Future Troubles - Shake It -> Metro Station - Shake It
Roxette - Dangerous -> Kardinal Offishall - Dangerous

I think it maybe the actual buying public downloading these simalar titled tracks out of pure curosity. Take Katy Perry’s track, when i first heard the name i immeadiatly assumed it would’ve been a cover of Jill Sobul’s from ’95.
I would think A.R.I.A could not make such notable errors of this magnitude. but weirder things have happened.

Sure, this may still be an error, but no one says, and no one knows.

RoXoR said on :

You are welcome brentnewtown, to help people by accident is one of my biggest strength ;-)

Yep, Mr Tevensso you are right, they don’t say that it is actually a mistake, I just wanted to stress the fact that other people talking about this miracle :) But with Roxette you never know...

Oh, an I thought in some forums it is not allowed to post links, isn’t it!?

brentnewtown said on :

Maybe someone can check the iTune chart (I think you need to have iTunes installed to do this and I don’t) to see if it is charting there. Aria digital chart uses various sources including iTunes and Bigpond. I’ve checked Bigpond and it is not listed in the top 40 tracks.

TheRoxettishFan said on :

WoW!
“Just a little bit dangerous...”

Kerstin said on :

iTunes only lists Kardinal Offishall in the top 40

ditroia said on :

The chart is compiled from such sites as, Apple’s iTunes, BigPond Music, Destra Music, ninemsn Music and Soundbuzz, as well as key retailers such as Ripit, Leading Edge and JB HiFi.

Cheers

Dave

Never Left The Joyride..
Visit http://www.roxette20.eu/

whateveriam said on :

’pwbbounce said on August 11, 2008 11:53:

Good news! Maybe the UK fans can get together and try and get Rox on the charts in the UK??? Pick a song and mass-download it on a certain day.’

Don’t be silly - it wouldn’t work at all. Partly because the charts are so manipulated by the record companies anyway that any genuine effort on a fans part would be useless and chances are, if it was noticed by chart compilers that the results are being distorted beyond truth by the public, then it will probably be discounted from the chart all together. By truth, in case you’re wondering, I mean that what you’re suggesting is fraudulent. If it were an election, it would be vote rigging.

I think it’s a typo. The whole thing smells a bit fishy to me.

Roxryder said on :

http://www.expressen.se/noje/musik/1.1263639/roxette-etta-i-australien-e...

What’s with expressen and all this sudden interest in Roxette/Marie? And the complete opposite with Aftonbladet they haven’t mention Där Du Andas single yet!?

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like magic and love lots of forgotten words
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmA-ar3wNFw

pwbbounce (moderator) said on :

whateveriam said on August 13, 2008 13:25:

’pwbbounce said on August 11, 2008 11:53:

Good news! Maybe the UK fans can get together and try and get Rox on the charts in the UK??? Pick a song and mass-download it on a certain day.’

Don’t be silly - it wouldn’t work at all. Partly because the charts are so manipulated by the record companies anyway that any genuine effort on a fans part would be useless and chances are, if it was noticed by chart compilers that the results are being distorted beyond truth by the public, then it will probably be discounted from the chart all together. By truth, in case you’re wondering, I mean that what you’re suggesting is fraudulent. If it were an election, it would be vote rigging.

I think it’s a typo. The whole thing smells a bit fishy to me.

It was a joke anyway.....:-) I know it would never happen!

pwbbounce (moderator) said on :

Roxryder said on August 13, 2008 14:37:

http://www.expressen.se/noje/musik/1.1263639/roxette-etta-i-australien-e...

What’s with expressen and all this sudden interest in Roxette/Marie? And the complete opposite with Aftonbladet they haven’t mention Där Du Andas single yet!?

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like magic and love lots of forgotten words
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmA-ar3wNFw

I don’t know why, but its all good. Maybe they know something we don’t.....

Roxryder said on :

Don’t think so...
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like magic and love lots of forgotten words
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmA-ar3wNFw

rossyrox said on :

With enough purchases pwbounce’s plan would work in the UK.

The Chris Moyels radio show recently got listeners to buy “Honey to the Bee” by Billie Piper and they got it to No17 in the UK singles chart.

http://chartrigger.blogspot.com/2007/01/billie-pipers-gonna-party-like-i...

rossyrox said on :

Since when have posts needed moderating?

tomos85 said on :

Is Expressen stupid or what? Number #1 in Australia? I think they should have learn to read with understanding...

Mr_Sandman said on :

You are close “Dangerous” wasn’t used it was “The Look”, which was on a show called “It Take Two”. Where famous Australian Singers pair up with Famous Australian TV, Sport stars. “Anthony Callea” who was the 2nd runner up on the 2nd version of Australian Idol and “Candice Falzon” who is an “Ironwoman”.

Here is a link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvmTcBFW11w which you can view the performance. It was the most terrible cover I have ever heard.

Brett

shannyn77 said on :

god that is awful...i live in australia and hadnt heard about the Dangerous download.....did it end up being correct??

RobS said on :

shannyn77 said: hadnt heard about the Dangerous download.....did it end up being correct??

Nothing was reported otherwise, and the new weeks list is up now. So we’ll just assume it was correct :-)

harriej said on :

Wow, my favourite Roxette-track back at the top (down under)!
Great news!

Roxerally said on :

How strange...

AURYTE said on :

I’ve returned from Greece and see that Roxette is back on the charts again. Miracles do happen :)

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