STOCKHOLM - EMI is promoting the release of the Roxette Hits and RoxBox with a advertising campaign website built especially for this purpose.

  The site, which is expected to occupy the Roxette.com domain, contains music clips, screensavers, photos, and a video “trailer” (commercial) that ends with Per and Marie speaking to the camera during the bowling alley photo shoot. You can also hear a snippet of the second new song, “Reveal,” from the music player on the website.

  The site was designed by Flatmate, a creative agency that EMI Music Sweden is using to create all of their artist-related campaign sites. It is co-branded with Telia, the Swedish telephone company, as they have a service that offers digital downloads.

• EMI’s Roxette Hits website

STOCKHOLM - Jonas Åkerlund’s music video rendition of Roxette’s new single “One Wish” was premiered this morning on Swedish TV4’s “Nyhetsmorgon” morning news and talk show program.

  The video, which makes considerable use of a special effect where the RGB colors (red, green, blue) are shifted and out of alignment, includes clips of other Roxette music videos as an homage to their 20 years together.

  Readers of this newspaper report in the comments that follow that if you happen to have a pair of 3D glasses (red and blue lenses), it’s possible to get a 3D-effect in some parts of the video.

• “One Wish” video on TV4’s site
• Interview segment with Per
• Nostalgia trip with Roxette (from appearance in 2001)

STOCKHOLM - With editing and final production of the new Jonas Åkerlund music video for “One Wish” completed now, the video will be premiered – as have other Roxette videos – on TV4’s “Nyhetsmorgon” morning news and talk show tomorrow (Tuesday morning) at 06:54 CET. Per will be there at 07:44. Please note that these times are preliminary and are usually not 100% correct, besides the fact that they are in conflict with each other.

  In today’s editions of Aftonbladet, Roxette’s newly released single scores two out of five “plus signs” from reviewer Markus Larsson. “Easily digested radio pop” is his take on the song. Larsson normally reviews heavy metal and hard rock music for the paper. He had expected a powerful pop-bomb á la “Listen To Your Heart” or “Goodbye To You.” “All we got was a ’really…?”

  Other news in Aftonbladet is that Roxette will be guests on SVT’s gala “Världens barn,” as previously mentioned, and on October 20, Per and Marie travel to Germany for promotion. and we also get a date for the performance on “Bingolotto” - Nov. 4. Per will travel to London for promotion and Spain is being considered.

  Maybe the biggest piece of news is that the new material will be released in the US around December. It’s is so far unknown if Roxette will travel to the States to help with promotion.

• Aftonbladet’s article (In Swedish)

STOCKHOLM (UPDATED) - RIX-FM reports that (perhaps with a small about of exaggeration) that all of South America was listening via the Web this morning, when the station played “One Wish” for the first time. “You see, Roxette are really popular in South America,” they report on their site.

  “It’s always fun to meet with Per,” they continue. “We spoke a little about the election [Sweden just elected a new government] and Per had watched the election returns come in on TV and thought the result was expected. Per was dressed for the day in workout clothes, as he was headed for the gym when he was finished with us. That’s what it’s like to be a world star; a world premiere one minute, a workout the next.”

  “Morgon Zoo” is a very popular radio show that can be heard all over Sweden – and all over the world on the Internet – with hosts Roger, Titti and “Miss Sweden.”

  It turned out that the RIX-FM broadcast was not actually the world premiere of the song on the radio, as EMI Germany had sent promo copies of the single to radio stations in advance of EMI Sweden’s previously announced “official” airplay date, and several stations, apparently unaware of the “hold for release” date, went ahead and played the song immediately.

Additional reporting by Lars-Erik Olson

• Rix FM (In Swedish)

PHILADELPHIA - The American television broadcast network, ABC, is using Roxette’s chart-topping single “The Look” in commercial spots promoting their new series “Ugly Betty.”

  ”Ugly Betty,” based on the Colombian telenovella “Yo Soy Betty La Fea,” is pegged by critics to be one of the biggest hits of the new fall TV season here. American Roxette fans hope that the use of the song in such a prominent way could draw some additional attention to the possible US release of the new “Collection of Roxette Hits ’86-’06” release.

  ”Ugly Betty” debuts Thursday, September 28th at 8 pm on ABC.

BUDAPEST - One of the largest commercial radio station in Hungary is ready to play “One Wish.” They have an online poll on their website where one can listen to short snippets and rate whether new singles, played just once or twice on the station, should be added to their playlist.

EDITOR’S NOTE: While this newspaper is obviously not going to run a separate front page news story on each radio station, in every country, that begins to play Roxette’s new single now that airplay has begun, we think these first reports of radio airplay promotion are of sufficient interest to our readers to merit publication. — LEO

• Radio station’s online poll (“Nagyon tetszik” = “I love it!”)

FRANKFURT - The new Roxette single “One Wish” already got played in Germany’s radio stations today – unexpectedly early as the Swedish premiere was announced for next Monday.

  The song was played on SWR1 and SWR3, two of the most important stations in the south of Germany. Both stations do not list the song in their list of played songs however, perhaps because it is being played from CD and not from the electronic archive.

  The song was also played for the first time today on Bayern3, a station in Bavaria.

(UPDATED) - Finland’s EMI unit will release the “Hits” CD and the Rox Box; Austria’s, Germany’s and Italy’s as well. The tracklists are the same as previously announced.

  Argentina will also release the box, plus the “Hits” album - in a “Latin edition,” on October 24. According to Gabriela Toscano, a spokesperson at EMI Argentina, “Reveal” may be exchanged for “No Se Si Es Amor,” the Spanish version of “It Must Have Been Love.” A final decision has not yet been made, and it is possible that Brazil – another country likely to release the Hits – or some other Latin American EMI operating company, may make a different decision.

  In conjuction with these releases, The Daily Roxette has learned that ringtones have been developed and will be marketed for “One Wish.”

Additional reporting by Walter Lamas, Diego Scalabrini and Jorge Diaz.

STOCKHOLM - One of the tracks included in the “The Rox Box,” the demo “Anyone/I Love How You Love Me,” is actually half a cover of The Paris Sisters’ hit “I Love How You Love Me.” The song, written by Barry Mann and Larry Kolber, was produced by Phil Spector and was a big hit in 1961, when it reached #5 on the Billboard charts on October 30.


  The song has since then been covered by many artists such as Bryan Ferry, Ray Conniff and Chet Atkins.

Roxryder’s mom contributed to this article.

• The Paris Sisters

EMI finally published the enhanced tracklist for MTV Unplugged as featured on the RoxBox:

MTV UNPLUGGED!



01 THE LOOK

02 QUEEN OF RAIN

03 HOTBLOODED

04 Interview

05 I NEVER LOVED A MAN (THE WAY I LOVE YOU)

06 IT MUST HAVE BEEN LOVE

07 FINGERTIPS

08 Interview

09 HEART OF GOLD

10 CHURCH OF YOUR HEART

11 LISTEN TO YOUR HEART

12 Interview

13 HERE COMES THE WEEKEND

14 JOYRIDE

15 SO YOU WANNA BE A ROCK ’N’ ROLL STAR



BONUS TRACKS:

16 DANGEROUS

17 SPENDING MY TIME

18 THE HEART SHAPED SEA

19 CRY

20 WATERCOLOURS IN THE RAIN

21 SURRENDER

22 FADING LIKE A FLOWER (EVERY TIME YOU LEAVE)

23 PERFECT DAY

This is not the correct order of the tracklist (see below), for instance, “Dangerous” was played as the intro song, but all songs performed are on the DVD. The tracks “Things Will Never Be the Same,” “The Big L” and “So far away” were supposed to be played but were cut due to lack of time.



From the REACH MEDIA RELATIONS, INC. NEWS pressrelease



  Swedish chart-toppers Roxette may be known as a pop band, but they showed a lot of rock ’n’ roll heart during the rehearsals for MTV’s Unplugged, which was taped in Stockholm, Sweden, January 8th [1993].




  On a side-note, the tracklist for the German and Spanish “One Wish” single is identical to the Austrian release:

01 One Wish

02 The Rox Medley

03 It Must Have Been Love (Christmas For The Broken Hearted)

04 Turn To Me

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