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"Sleeping In My Car" #50 in the USA 10 years ago!
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TheRain1981 said on July 16, 2004 05:05:
...This Week! http://www.billboard.com/bb/charts/ago/rewind.jsp?REWIND_YEAR=10&which=h...
Up from #54 (debut?) to #50 (it’s peak). Too bad it all went downhill from there. :(
Roxette-atic said on July 16, 2004 09:12:
Nice to see that old chart-even if it would have been nicer to see them highter on the list. How come songs like “How Do You Do!” “Almost Unreal” and “Sleeping In My Car” had so low peaks??
Where they played on radio or MTV when they were released. Im thinking that for example “How Do You Do!” came out only 1 year after the huge “Joyride”-success. It should have peaked highter than #56 or something like that.
coyboyusa said on July 16, 2004 12:43:
well if it wasnt for emi it would have been a top ten single for roxette it was the fastest climbing single on z100ny charts in 4 yrs so again FUCK emi
Roxreporter said on July 16, 2004 16:10:
I still don’t get how things started to go down after “Sleeping In My Car”. “CBB” still got lots of airplay but didn’t reach as high as expected. And then “Fireworks”, why didn’t that one become hugh, the same with “Run To You” and “Vulnerable”, nothing seemed to work anymore at that point, while three years earlier anything they released turned to gold or more. And this while CBB is their best album, such a shame :(
Kiwein1 said on July 16, 2004 17:08:
It’s all about how the music industry and the media support the artists, IMHO! That’s why things can go down that easy.
Roxreporter said on July 16, 2004 17:52:
I think that when the last three CBB singels and the three DBGTTC singles would have been great hits, they wouldn’t have waited till ’99 to release a new album.
Kiwein1 said on July 16, 2004 18:10:
Yes, that’s true, but isn’t it the music industry that makes the big hits?
LittleSpooky said on July 17, 2004 21:04:
You also have that “Favourites From Crash! Boom! Bang!” that didn’t help much.
Thank you Mickey Sleaze...
TheRain1981 said on July 18, 2004 02:17:
Yeah, “Favorites From CBB” pretty much ruined whatever chance there was. With “Sleeping In My Car” only managing a #50 position (an obvious hit), it only makes sense that nothing else was bound to do better.
marksufc said on July 18, 2004 03:49:
does’nt help when roxette’s record company does’nt hardly promote their material,i mean the only music these record companies are interested in now is this cheesy bubble gum music
Markuz said on July 18, 2004 06:56:
Yeah but Roxette is cheesy bubblegum music in a way... Don’t get me wrong, you know what I mean.
The problem with Roxette in the states is that EMI USA was just about to go out of business at the time and they just decided to focus in grunge and stuff like that.
Then, in 1995 Per and Marie were offered a brand new contract for the US by Capitol Records to release the DBUGTTC compilation. But a 6 month US promo tour was mandatory as part of that contract so Per and Marie declined.
My point? Stop blaming EMI. They’re just a record company who want to make money out of their artists. Hello, isn’t that what all companies do? Make money? If Per and Marie are not willing to promote their own material, now that’s a different story.
rox-kuryliw said on July 18, 2004 09:43:
They are alot of record companys THAT DONT get there artists to promote for 6 months, the record company does the promotion there ! ! They could of done it , and as for the cheesy bubblegum music thats a load of crap , they are not ’steps’ or ’s club’ or ’hear’say’ you know, your from england the land of cheese LOL you should know!
Roxette-atic said on July 19, 2004 15:53:
And this one is from 1989, also this week...
http://www.billboard.com/bb/charts/ago/rewind.jsp?which=hot100&REWIND_YE...
Thoose days...
coyboyusa said on July 19, 2004 22:47:
6 months to promote in the usa thats bollocks i heard it was more a monetary thing liek the contract per nixed with sony...marie and per aren’t guiltless in the lack of any usa effort letsa not forget
LittleSpooky said on July 20, 2004 02:24:
Should I beat Coy with my good friend Webster?
But you know what... I’ll let someone else do it.
RoxHard said on August 10, 2004 01:55:
The Ballad Hits Sleevenotes (Crash! Boom! Bang!)
“The groups honeymoon with the USA is strained when the American record company releases “favourites from Crash! Boom! Bang!”
And I think it was somewhere here: http://www2.dailyroxette.com/article.php/1241
that I heard about some new guy taking over EMI’s US Branch and then “nothing but the Beastie Boys mattered anymore”.
I mean, there is still demand there in the US. I read a topic here a few week ago with a post by Tevensso that stated over 100 people here are from the US.
And over 5 milllion copies of that blasted “Favourites From Crash! Boom! Bang!” thing were made... and all of them were sold within a month! And considering that past Roxette album only sold 1 million copies there - the full lenght version of the album didn’t stand much chance, did it?
God... there is so much hypocricy in the Rox camp. You have idiots like that Mare Dimberg and Rolf Nygon (or whatever his name his!) appearing on DVD’s telling us “they’re still doing great”, and these are the people that aren’t bothering with promotion in the big countries. Marie said on the All The Rox Vids... that “we were all relatively new in this game, so I think we did pretty well out of it back then”. They’re obviously not bothering anymore! And haven’t been since Crash! Boom! Bang! (when the Really Roxette documentary was made).
Fire them all Per... and swipe all their money from their bank accounts while you’re at it! They no longer deserve it!
You know... I’m pretty sure Per & Marie could take legal action against EMI... EMI have totally mis-managed Roxettes career for the past 10+ years. I mean - you know something’s gone terribly wrong when an album like HAND sells a mere 2 million copies! And what do we all blame that on? LACK OF PROMOTION!
coyboyusa said on August 10, 2004 14:29:
favourites sold 1 million copies in the usa not 5 the extra came from when emi released faves from cbb internationally. I think the fact remains that per wasnt satisfied with emi period and lets be honest even per said that in the beginning no usa labels were interested in roxette that their success here in the states was a fluke they filled a void between trends
Roxette-atic said on August 10, 2004 14:51:
@coyboyusa Did HAND really sold about 3.8 million? Wow thats a lot of records. I always believed they had sold everything between 1.6-2.2 million copies of that album.
RoxHard said on August 11, 2004 00:18:
Check The Ballad Hits sleeve notes under Salvation, Coyboy. It says “Another splended track from the Have A Nice Day album, which yielded 4 hits singles, sold 2 million copies - and was regarded as a disappointment. C’mon...”
And I read from an interview with Per himself that said 5 million copies of the 10-track edition were made for McDonalds, and all sold out within a month.
antz said on August 11, 2004 23:23:
“their success here in the states was a fluke they filled a void between trends”
Thats soooooooooo true!
(@coyboy: how do you come up with such such pearls of wisdom?!?!)
What I want to know is did they decide on the McDonalds promo thing BEFORE they completed the album artwork, i.e. the red and yellow font!
Was it really Pers idea to do the McDonalds promo?
I think a better album cover wouldve helped, its such a bad photo, they shouldve used the shots from the Fireworks single photo-cards (and Baladas album)
coyboyusa said on August 12, 2004 12:16:
the mc donlads thing was an emi decision because they didnt plan to distribute cbb in the states thats why the album came out i think it was what 4 months after sleeping in my car came out as a single? not really sure buit the album was pushed back twice i do remebmer that. usa retailers were pissed that they were only gonna get an album with 4 -5 songs that werent on the faves compilation and 2 of them were already gonnae be singles run to you and cbb. so retialers didnt stock the album very much. and i am right accoring to figues by ronald mc donald house the charity that thought up the iidea of selliing top musician compilations throught mc’y d’s for charity the total USA figure was 1.3 million copies....but mind you that was in a month as well. so one million americans bought essentially cbb which means essentially there were in 1994 1 million usa fans.....makes u woinder what happened
RoxHard said on August 12, 2004 13:28:
Yeah well... 1.3 million, 5 million, it doesn’t really matter. It was a long time ago, and I reckon a lot of those cheap cardboard cases went into the bin (not that it was a bad album, mind you).
Anyway... a lot of them have moved on now...
antz said on August 13, 2004 03:41:
OMG it gets worse! ...4 months after the release of SIMC!
If it was a meant to be a sampler/promo why did they have so many tracks on it!!!!!!! Why didnt they just release CBB for pitys sake!
Ive never seen a pic of the Favourites “cardboard” cover.
What does it look like?
I s’pose it has a big McDonalds M on it, which just happens to match the red and yellow of the CBB font!
LittleSpooky said on July 16, 2004 05:13:
No kiddin.