daniel_alv said on February 2, 2009 17:15:

It’s great news!

alexandru. said on February 2, 2009 19:10:

@Bunio, Yes is national radio. This radio is very popular here, around Bucharest.

Per, please here in Romania.

tevensso (moderator) said on February 2, 2009 21:38:

This could be news if anyone could verify this actually is an important radio station and not Romania’s answer to Radio Ljusdal... (very very small station)

alexandru. said on February 2, 2009 22:30:

@ ncurran, is only a blog, not official site, first of all.
2:nd this is from 2006. Now we are in 2009!!!!!!!

Source: The Romanian Association for Media Audience (ARA), latest research (Autumn, Sept. 9-oct. 29, 2006)

ncurran said on February 2, 2009 22:40:

and? has the fact that is is only a local station changed since then? not according to their own site! According to their website they are based in Campina (population of 38,000)broadcast in the following areas:
în Ploiesti, pe 95,9 FM
- în Târgoviste, pe 88,7 FM
- în Câmpina, pe 103,2 FM
- în Slobozia, pe 92,9 FM
- în Snagov, pe 103,1 FM
They are all in prahova county, which as you can see from the map is just a small area of the country
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Prahova.svg
The county has a total population of just less than 1 million people, so even though it is not a national station it could still be newsworthy, but that would also depend on just how popular that station is within the county. I may be wrong of course, but the impression I have from looking at the website, the playlist and the fact of the town it is based in, I dont think it is a very big radio station.

ncurran said on February 2, 2009 22:43:

I don’t have any problems mixella. Keep up the good work

mixella1 said on February 2, 2009 22:56:

I wonder if this was number one on a Hamburg radio station it would be important to you?. Ploiesti is a very important city and it;s very near to the capital. And i still am amazed that Per get there at number one with no intervention what so ever from us. I only found out this afternoon, so it;s important that not from us the word got out. Must have been some DJ who liked Per song from other radio station, who knows? The history repeats itself. If it was a minimum publicity of the album here, or at least the single there should have been a greater thing. I wonder why they don’t bother? I do get the feeling from this site that eastern Europeans are defending themselves too much in front of all of the other from this forum.

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www.roxette.ro/en

rox-kuryliw said on February 2, 2009 23:29:

Someone has a chip on his shoulder don’t they !

Robbie said on February 3, 2009 07:56:

When Roxette got the airwaves with “The Look” at KDWB in Minneapolis was it a major nation-wide radio station? C’mon guys... “Silly Really” wasn’t even released here, no promo copies sent here and there, no EMI to care about and so on, and it still got the attention of some radio people, same thing in the States back then.

Besides, “Prahova Valley”, it’s Romania’s main touristical attraction, (Dracula’s Castle nearby for example).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prahova_Valley

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinaia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predeal

P.S. If I were Per or Dimberg I would just simply hire an advisor for Eastern Europe, map out it’s potential and locate the profitable spots.

pwbbounce (moderator) said on February 3, 2009 09:07:

I need to keep my mouth shut.... :-) lol

Robbie said on February 3, 2009 11:58:

@kiwein1:

Those days when Roxette or Per got unlimited funds in order to do promotion / record an album have gone for good. Nowadays, he records “Mazarin” for example in that low-budget Aerosol Grey Machine Studio, he makes a high income out of it and reinvests it in the SOAP project targeting an international market with good sales and chart results. Which is obviously at a higher cost than promoting only in Sweden. The same with En Handig Man, where the money out of it goes in the “Party Crasher” project with a small (and less risky) club tour this time. The next thing will be again a swedish project, most likely GT 30, after that the Roxette project (hoepfully) which consumes the highest energies and resources.

Promotion is necessary, but not vital in order to get profitable. Example: Innsbruck, Austria, 2001, only 1500 (!) people attented the show, where at the time EMI Austria had a priority on Roxette.

And especially if you’re doing just a club thing with an average attendance of around 1500 ppl / show. When you do a club tour your approach is different than doing a regular one targeting a slightly higher attendance.

In Romania, Roxette is a well-known and radio-friendly band, with very low album sales. But club-life is over-top. In other words: no sales, but good profit, since there is a high interest for seeing a famous artist playing live.

Raëlian said on February 4, 2009 11:29:

Robbie: The SOAP project targeting an international market with good sales and chart results.

Sorry, but SOAP (even if supposed to be international) didn’t sell or chart so good outside of Sweden. As long as I know, the album didn’t chart in any other country. The singles had the same fate.

konstpaus said on February 4, 2009 12:29:

i dont think per cares about the money that much, he has all kinds of scrilla! its about the love of the game. i just whish hed rip out the gretsh white, falcon 2, chet atkins, bryan setzer, sparkle jet and the rickenbacker 360 jet glow and 330 burgandy and make a guitar drivin album that leaves me with that magical feelng deep in my guts thats been missing since parts of f5f!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ps. never been fond of the white ricky he plays from time to time

konstpaus said on February 4, 2009 14:14:

@mixella1 of corse he cares about the scrilla a bit wot i mean is if a concert runs at a loss its a tax write off, you know.... negitive gearing. that must work to some point. also you either like per or not, if you like him you buy EVERYTHING and if you dont you dont buy shit. there is a lot of money spent by fans i mean i paid 100usd for i want you to know single once and thats just 1 example it is quite expensive collectin per, not like say pink where you can buy any cd for 10bucks and any single for 5. with all that said i think he owes some countrys tours

ps i travelled to sweden for room service, altertaget, mazarin , enh andig man and gt25 but i refuse to this time, he should come to australia, at lease 1 show in sydney
thats fair dont you think

Robbie said on February 4, 2009 14:44:

@ Raëlian

I think you misunderstood my comment. What I was saying is that Per makes more income out of his swedish stuff and so a substantial part of it is being injected into the international projects. Whenever Per goes internationally he has to secure his budget, ’cos there’s no EMI anymore backing and funding him like in the good old days. That’s why he has to release swedish stuff in the first place, with a good turnover, in order to avoid the risks of going worldwide.

SOAP was a flop and Party Crasher might be a flop as well, but he cannot afford to be a flop as a businessman. And that’s what Per is nowadays, a successful businessman...

alexandru. said on February 4, 2009 15:49:

@ pwbbounce: are you red communist, or so?

What “back to topic”? “Doesn’t make sense” if Per is no1 here in Romania, even in a local station with 1000 ppl who listen it.
Silly Really sold till 700 c. and Radios from Romania is to small for TDR or for Sir Gessle.
Let’s see how many ppl will go yo see him in London...;D

ncurran said on February 4, 2009 16:50:

lol

Robbie said on February 4, 2009 17:39:

The probability these days for Per to be able to fill in a club in Romania is somehow higher than in the US...

alexandru. said on February 4, 2009 17:47:

@tevensso..well... who told you this have to be news?
It just great to see Per and NOT ROXETTE is no1 in Romania.

tevensso (moderator) said on February 4, 2009 17:56:

What drugs are you on? Romanian?

Raëlian said on February 4, 2009 18:24:

konstpaus, if you paid 100 USD for the “I want you to know” single, let me say you’re not the best at making business! LOL!

Robbie said on February 4, 2009 18:37:

@pwbbounce

If you had kept silent, you would have remained a philosopher...

pwbbounce (moderator) said on February 4, 2009 18:46:

Okay, that’s fine. I think I’ll live.

Anyway, this has gone off topic again. No personal attacks, or this threadvwill be closed

alexandru. said on February 4, 2009 19:27:

Dear ncurran,
are you so sure about Romania?

Please let me know...and much more then this.

alexandru. said on February 5, 2009 07:21:

My darling,

Is about money, you know? Money... No your thread.
And please dont be so sure. Are you only 12?