Halmstad is the city of the rich
Written by roxeteer on May 18, 2000 to Misc.
According to Halmstad’s local newspaper Hallandsposten, every 35th inhabitant of Per’s home town earns more than 1 million SEK (approx. 110,000 USD) per year. The figures are taken from the latest tax statistics in Sweden which are from the year 1998. The person who earned the most was company owner Svante Berger, whose annual earnings were 206 million SEK (22.5 million USD). Per Gessle is #7 on the list.
An interesting fact is that there are still more unemployed people (2,605) in Halmstad than millionaires (2,475).
US compilation album to be released in August
Written by roxeteer on May 17, 2000 to Misc.
According to an answer on haveaniceday.nu’s “Ask Per” section, Roxette will be releasing a new compilation album in the States this August. Unfortunately, this also means that the “Have A Nice Day” album won’t be released in the US at all. However, Per says that some songs from “Have A Nice Day” might turn up on the new compilation album.
Cows love “The Look”
Written by roxeteer on May 17, 2000 to Misc.
Roxie has informed us on the Roxette Mailing List about this very… err… impressive site called The Dancing Cow Page. Some of you may think that this is just a rip-off of the classic Hampster Dance site, but this one has a major improvement… Well, listen to it yourself!
World Music Awards results announced
Written by roxeteer on May 11, 2000 to Misc.
The results of the 12th annual World Music Awards have been officially announced on the Internet. As we know, Roxette received an award for “World’s best-selling Scandinavian Act of the Year (1999)”.
Among the other winners, Michael Jackson received an award for “Best Selling Pop Male Artist of the Millennium” and Mariah Carey for “Best Selling Pop Female Artist of the Millennium”.
EMI embraces Windows Media format
Written by Lars-Erik_Olson on May 11, 2000 to Misc.
EMI, Roxette’s record label, announced Wednesday its intention to sell downloads using only the Windows Media format.
EMI Recorded Music will offer up 100 albums and 40 singles through digital retail outlets starting in July. While EMI does have the option to sell music in other formats, the company will initially use Microsoft’s format exclusively.
Roxette.net website calls it quits
Written by roxeteer on May 10, 2000 to Misc.
Steven Howlett has decided to close his Roxette site once again. In just eight months, he has started and closed three different Roxette sites: International Roxette News, Roxette Interactive and, after purchase of the domain name, Roxette.net.
“Due to immense time constraints and a heavy workload,” he writes on his site, “I have reluctantly decided to cease all my Roxette-based web activities. To put it simply, I’m exhausted. My occupation takes up an enormous amount of both my time and energy.”
Steven has placed a notice on the site indicating he wants to sell the roxette.net domain.
ABC to broadcast World Music Awards on May 29
Written by Lars-Erik_Olson on May 10, 2000 to Misc.
ABC (the American Broadcasting Company) will broadcast their version of the World Music Awards show on Monday, May 29, at 8 pm (Eastern and Pacific time zones).
While Roxette is not mentioned in the network’s short promotional “blurb”, U.S. fans hope that the Roxette segment will be included when the show is aired. Read more…
World tour planned for next year
Written by Lars-Erik_Olson on May 10, 2000 to Misc.
“The thought is that Roxette will go out on a world tour next year. It’s been five years since the last one,” said Per Gessle in an interview with an Aftonbladet reporter from his hotel room in Monaco. Per and Marie were there to accept a World Music Award and share the stage with, among others, Michael Jackson, Mariah Carey and Ronan Keating.
A more definitive statement — “Next year we’re going on a world tour” — is how the Aftonbladet editors restated Per’s comments above a photo of Per and Marie.
Marie #1 in Sweden for 6th week in a row
Written by roxeteer on May 10, 2000 to Misc.
Marie’s greatest hits album “Äntligen [Bästa 1984 - 2000]” is number 1 on the Swedish chart for the 6th week in a row. The album went straight to #1 when it was released in March.
The single, “Äntligen”, is #50 on the singles chart, falling 3 places from last week.
Fanclub members can order Marie tickets online
Written by roxeteer on May 9, 2000 to Misc.
Members of the Official Roxette Fanclub are now able to pre-order tickets to Marie’s summer tour concerts online. The Fanclub has made a contract with EMA Telstar which makes it possible to sell tickets on Fanclub’s website. The tickets are available only to Fanclub members.
The price of the tickets is 31 euros (+ 8-10 euros for shipping). Each member can buy maximum of 4 tickets.
