“One Wish” enters charts
Written by swedishcharts on October 13, 2006 to Sales & Charts.
STOCKHOLM - “One Wish,” the new Roxette single, entered the official Swedish singles chart at the #2 position behind “7milakliv” from Martin Stenmarck.
The Swedish singles chart is compiled from the sales of physical singles, radioplay and legal downloads (except iTunes).
“One Wish” also entered the official Finnish singles chart at #5 this week. It is the first time Roxette’s enjoyed a top-5 hit in Finland since “Sleeping in My Car”. The last time they had a hit on the singles sales chart was with “The Centre Of The Heart,” which peaked at #13.
The new single is #3 as a new entry in Spain as well.
animalkingdom contributed to this article.
Radio broadcast of Room Service concert
Written by tevensso on October 9, 2006 to Roxette.
SÖDERHAMN - 
According to Roxette.se there will be no Roxette tour “within a forseeable future,” but Swedish Radio P3 will in celebration of Roxette’s 20th anniversary broadcast a concert recorded during the Room Service tour in the Globen Arena in 2001. The concert starts at 21:03 CET October 20 and lasts one hour.
This concert has been broadcast once before and consists of roughly a dozen songs:
01. Crush on You
02. Dressed for Success
03. Listen to Your Heart
04. Real Sugar
05. It Must Have Been Love
06. The Centre of the Heart
07. Sleeping in My Car
08. Milk & Toast & Honey
09. Joyride
10. Crash!Boom!Bang!/Anyone
11. The Look
Bravo performance to be pre-recorded, but Roxette WILL appear onstage at event
Written by marcusvandeursen on October 7, 2006 to Live.
HAMBURG - While Roxette’s actual performance will still be pre-recorded, Per and Marie are now both expected to take the stage this month at the Color Line Arena in Hamburg, Germany when Bravo magazine celebrates its 50th Anniversary with a live three-hour television event.
A notice posted yesterday on Roxette.se, the duo’s own site, indicated that Roxette will “make a live appearance on stage at the actual event on the 21st.”
And Bravo themselves yesterday released this message:
Dear Roxette-fans,
We have positive news! After intensive discussions, we have today received the definitive yes: Roxette will be on stage at the big ’50 Years BRAVO’ anniversary gala on 21 October 2006. We’re very happy to be able to bring all fans this news.
Thought of a big comeback long gone, but “maybe a mini tour,” says Marie Fredriksson
Written by tevensso on October 7, 2006 to Roxette.
STOCKHOLM - 
Roxette turns 20 years and celebrates by releasing their greatest hits. But even if the album contains two new tracks,
the thought of a comeback is far away.
“I take everything much, much slower these days,” Marie Fredriksson says.
Talking to Roxette, who turns 20 and releases a compilation album is of course a dead straight stroll down memory lane. Per Gessle and Marie Fredriksson dwell more than willingly on their memories of sold out arenas, chart positions and the superstar lives they lived during the early ’90s.
“We sold a decent amount of records in South America, but nothing remarkable. Maybe 30,000 records in Brazil. But when we released tickets we sold 120,000 - just in Rio. 60,000 in Sao Paolo, 55,000 in Montevideo. Totally amazing!”
says Per Gessle.
“China was special. Or Porto Alegre [Brazil],” says Marie Fredriksson in a noticeably quiet and a bit shaky voice.
Per Gessle adds “It was like Albert Hall only much bigger. Someone in the band had the stomach flu and threw up on stage. That was fun. And after a TV interview in Amsterdam we saw a guy in a window yelling ’I love your record!’ It was Tom Petty, my old hero. ’We love your records too!’ we yelled back.”
It’s easy to forget how big Roxette really was. During four years in the ’90s they never - never - left the Billboard chart. Roxette has sold around 75 million records. “It Must Have Been Love” has been played over four million times on American radio. It means it’s been played 685 times per day. For 16 years. Not bad for a band everyone considered a one hit wonder when it broke through with “The Look” in 1989.
“That’s what everybody thought. But we weren’t in our twenties, we were almost in our thirties. We owned our own
publishing companies, we had chosen our management, we kept a check on things. When we got our foot into things, we hung on,” says Per Gessle.
The comparison with ABBA they’ve heard a few times. But you can’t help it: a Swedish band selling enormous amounts of records all over the world. Loved by many but never favorites among the critics.
TT Spektra: “ABBA went from being despised by the establishment to being embraced twenty years after their
debut. Will the same thing happen with Roxette?”
“Yes I believe so. The climate of pop music is totally different today. Almost no artists get time to make mistakes anymore, it’s more of a product thinking these days. Suddenly Roxette stand out as the real deal. It’s for real, we write and produce ourselves and people know all our songs,” says Per Gessle.
The last few years have been dramatic to Roxette. When Marie Fredriksson [was discovered to have] a brain tumor, many thought that was the end for her and for Roxette. Today she’s well, but still marked by her illness. She talks quietly and moves stiffly.
“There was a time when I really didn’t think I’d be sitting like this and talking to reporters. But thank God I’m here again. But I take things much, much slower these days.”
TT Spektra: “Do you really have the energy for this?”
“I can manage, I wouldn’t be here if I didn’t. But I take one week at the time. No long-term plans. Very slow and quiet. I have my family as well, so I don’t want to be rushing about,” Marie says.
And by that, the question of a real comeback seems to be answered. To start long tours or record full albums doesn’t seem to be on the agenda.
“It’s this album that is for now. A world tour would be nice, but I don’t think we will do it the way we used to do. Maybe a mini tour?” says Marie Fredriksson.
Per Gessle can’t hold it in, he really has to tell another anecdote:
“When I was in New York this summer and went through immigration, the officer asked me what I did for a living. ’Musician’ I answered. Then he wondered if he should know about me. ’Well, I wrote that’ I said, and pointed to the radio which was playing ’Listen to Your Heart’. That was fun.”
Judith Seuma, Marcus van Deursen and Txiqui contributed to this article.
“Listen to Your Heart” 3 x “million-air”
Written by roxeteer on October 6, 2006 to Roxette.
LONDON (UPDATED) - 
BMI is once again giving awards to Per Gessle and Mats “MP” Persson as their song “Listen to Your Heart” has now reached its 3 millionth broadcast on American radio. It took nine years to reach two million – and eight years more to reach three million (total playing time non-stop: 27 years.) Recently, the pace was increased as D.H.T. released a succesful dance cover of the song. Per Gessle comments to Aftonbladet “This award means a lot to me as it clearly shows what an impact this song has had!”
Per also mentions that the Americans were “duly impressed” by the video as they thought Roxette had built Borgholm’s Castle ruin just for the video.
Update Oct. 6: “Listen to Your Heart,” written by Per Gessle and Mats “MP” Persson, and published by Jimmy Fun Music (all STIM), was named Song of the Year and received one of the organization’s [BMI] highest accolades; the Robert S. Musel Award. “I’ve never heard of this Robert dude. The sculpture was very big and very ugly!” comments Per. He also tells TDR that he thinks this is an amazing award, “…the last and the best of the night!”
Recorded by Belgium-based duo D.H.T., the song was originally a #1 hit for Roxette in 1989 and received the BMI Dance Award at last year’s ceremony.
Dan Kroll contributed to this article.
- BMI
- Aftonbladet (In Swedish)
“One Wish” video to premiere on VIVA tonight
Written by Jud on October 6, 2006 to Roxette.
VIENNA - German music channel VIVA will premiere “One Wish” video tonight in their program “NEU.” The program runs between 22:00 and 22:59 CEST and will be re-run on Saturday at 14:00 and Sunday at 09:00.
Sille-Rox contributed to this article.
Illegal sharing of Roxette music takes Swede to court
Written by roxeteer on October 5, 2006 to Music Business.
STOCKHOLM - A 44-year-old Swedish man is being prosecuted for illegally sharing thousands of music files on Direct Connect network. He’s the first person to appear in court for such activities in Sweden making this a test case for the Swedish copyright law.
According to the music industry body IFPI, the accused has made 13,000 MP3 files available online. However, the prosecutor is focusing on just four songs: “It Must Have Been Love” by Roxette, “There Must Be An Angel” by Eurythmics, “Sarah” by Mauro Scocco and “Vara vänner” by Jakob Hellman.
The man claims that he intended to upload just a few individual songs to be shared, but instead uploaded his whole collection of songs. He believes the case against him is unfair. “It’s wrong to find someone guilty for something that millions of people do,” he told Borås Tidning.
“One Wish” enters at #2 on German radio listener chart
Written by crashroxer on October 5, 2006 to Roxette.
BADEN-BADEN - Roxette’s brand new single “One Wish” entered the German radio station SWR3 TOP 33 charts at #2 last Sunday, and as such the highest entry last week.
SWR3 is one of the most important stations in the south of Germany and the Top 33 chart is built weekly with the votes the radio station receives from listeners via the Internet.
“One Wish” promoted on front page of newspaper in Spain
Written by Jud on October 4, 2006 to Roxette.
MADRID - Promotion for Roxette’s new single “One Wish” has already started in Spain and, in fact, is in high gear at the moment.
Commuters travelling to work this morning were greeted with a big, full-color Roxette picture on the cover of one of Spain’s most-read newspapers, the free 20 Minutos (which is distributed for free in a similar fashion to Metro in many countries or Heute in Austria).
An article inside reports about Roxette’s new release and comeback, and invites readers to visit the newspaper’s website today and tomorrow to view the video version of Roxette’s new single “One Wish.”
The newspaper is read by an average of two million people daily and can be picked up at subway stations and universities.
The single also started to be heard on the main radio stations last week and, as some TDR readers have reported, was sold out in some stores.
Roxette climbs the charts again in Sweden
Written by Roxryder-V2002 on October 3, 2006 to Sales & Charts.
STOCKHOLM - Roxette’s new single “One Wish” is the highest new entry this week on Sweden’s Topp 40 chart coming in at #26. “One Wish” also debuted at #17 on the Nielsen Radio Topp 20 chart.
The last time Roxette was seen with a single on an airplay chart in Sweden was with “Opportunity Nox.”
