Roxette enters Australian chart
Written by drdave on March 19, 2007 to Roxette and Sales & Charts.
Several months after its release in Australia, A Collection of Roxette Hits! has entered the Australian ARIA Album charts at number 93. This is the first time a Roxette album has entered the Top 100 in Australia since Have A Nice Day in 1999.
The Aria website had the following to say about the album.
A COLLECTION OF ROXETTE HITS: THEIR 20 GREATEST SONGS! - Roxette No.93
Arguably one of Sweden’s most popular musical exports, Roxette made their mark on the international pop circuit during the late '80s and early '90s. Per Gessle and Marie Fredriksson formed the pop double act phenomenon that was Roxette and brandished a whimsical blend of pop, rock, and dance to fans around the world that couldn’t seem to get enough of this dynamic duo. Mullets and shoulder pads aside, Roxette were the quintessential musical partnership of their time thanks to a string of successful releases including, Look Sharp! (#2 Sept. & Oct. ’89), Joyride (#2 Apr. ’91) and Crash! Boom! Bang! (#3 May ’94). Aptly titled, A Collection of Roxette Hits!, the band’s latest compilation offering celebrates twenty years in the music biz.
Other successful Swedish pop exports include Abba and Ace of Base.
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29 comments
Roxette-atic said on March 19, 2007 17:06:
What positions did the other albums reach??
Look Sharp #2
Joyride #2
Tourism ??
CBB #3
DBUGTTC??
HAND??
Position 93....could it reach higher than this‘?
animalkingdom said on March 19, 2007 19:46:
Don’t Bore Us made the Top-10 at least. Somehow I recall a #3 peak also. Could be wrong though.
Roxwriter said on March 19, 2007 23:33:
Firstly, “Don’t Bore Us” peaked at Number #10 on the ARIA Charts.
Secondly, there has been NO campaign nor TV ads that I’m aware of? This is truly bizarre? I was expecting HITS to make the Top 100 around it’s release time or Xmas time. But nothing happened. It’s always a handy gift to give to someone you don’t really like, a Roxette “best-of” :)
What on earth is happening here? I’m dumbfounded, cannot explain it at all??
RobS said on March 20, 2007 07:29:
WOW... I almost fell off my seat when I read the title.
Just goes to show that there is still demand here for Rox. Now imagine if EMI actually did some promo for this. I can’t see any reason why it can’t make the top50 and even have a single release.
I’m thinking the main factor is the bargain price, the standard edition is going for around $17. Strange that it took so long though.
Let’s hope it climbs from here.
Strange that we’re happy about Rox breaking the top100, don’t you think :-)
drdave said on March 20, 2007 07:49:
There is a reason for this as far as I can tell. Nothing to do with sudden promotion. I noticed recently that one of the music stores (JB Hifi) have advertised the CD at $9.95 which is really cheap in Australia. They seem to have had plenty of copies in the stores. I assume that the discounted price has resulted in enough purchases for it to make the charts. I’m not sure if any other stores have discounted it also.
On another note.... my local JB Hifi had about 5 copies of the RoxBox not long after it was released, so there was obviously some demand because I haven’t seen any there of late.
RobS said on March 20, 2007 08:16:
That could do it, but unless there is some promo some other stores do the same it looks like it will drop next week.
I had a look on the aria website and couldn’t find anything. The charts only go to 50?
brentnewtown said on March 20, 2007 09:02:
This morning the chartifacts section of the http://www.ariacharts.com.au site mentioned it but now it has disappeared.
imazombieinthem... said on March 20, 2007 09:34:
The only way this can go top40 is a with a quick tv promo tour. Pity nothing will happen out of this.
I cannot believe its been 7-8 years since the last charting album :/
Good news nethertheless.
coyboyusa said on March 20, 2007 11:35:
for all you people complianing don’t forget even per mentioned it emi as a company is downsizing amidst alot of financial problems, and mark my words in the furture roxette will release albums only in limited territories where they maintain large success liek scandinavia germany and latin america
abysmo said on March 20, 2007 14:33:
Anyone knows HAND, RS, TBH and TPH positions? Or at least HAND position if only Top 100 has been published.
Roxwriter said on March 21, 2007 05:51:
You’re excused.
But for those of us who are slightly interested in Roxette’s chart movements here in Australia, we’ll take a keen interest thanks.
Sparvogamarie said on March 21, 2007 07:39:
drdave is right, the CD has turned up everywhere for $9.95 and is sitting out the front of many stores on display in their “$10 bargain shelf” so people have suddenly started buying it. I’m sure it would do even better if there hadn’t already been DBUGTTC and the Hits CDs not all that long ago.
eBay said on March 21, 2007 18:18:
So please explain to me, what are you excited about really? The CD is dumped at lowest prices possible after very little months of the release have gone by and because of this it has barely entered the Top 100?? In my opinion this is rather a sad event.
veneziano said on March 21, 2007 21:26:
I think it‘s kinda clever lowprice the CD already, since many of those who bought the ROXBOX didn‘t want to buy Hits! at the same time but would wait until it got priced down. Which is now, before the album is too much out of sight/mind. Amazon, the biggest online retailor in Germany sells it at Euro 9,95 for about a week now. Due to this the item re-rose on the amazon.de sales chart up to #126 (before it got down to 2.000 and lower), a chart that combines both albums AND singles - should be among the 100 most sold albums, then. Maybe it even does a re-entry on the official albumchart, we‘ll see.
eBay said on March 21, 2007 23:02:
Do we hav any numbers of total world wide sales? Coz even in countries where Roxette usually sold a lot, like Germany, this release didn’t get that high in the charts..
Roxwriter said on March 22, 2007 01:25:
@Ebay
Hey knuckle-head. Where did anyone write that they were “excited”?
It’s an interesting bit of news which is, at best, perplexing. Why all of a sudden has the HITS entered the ARIA Charts, six months after its release? We’ve now discovered it’s due to a low retail price of $9.99.
So there you go. Where’s the drama? To suggest that we’re jumping for joy and thinking this is the Roxette-Second-Coming we are NOT. And let the record show that no-one even suggested it.
We were merely puzzled and curious. Not excited. So go yawn somewhere else.
Ta.
imazombieinthem... said on March 23, 2007 09:16:
everywhere $9.95!? This could do quite well if it continues.
RobS said on March 31, 2007 11:50:
They have a section on the aria website called “Chartifacts” which is part of the ARIA report which is released weekly (by subscription). The webpage features a few singles/albums from the top100.
drdave must have been lucky (or subscribes to the report) and was looking there at the right time to notice it.
Although i’m sure aria could give a full list if requested.
Checkout the site.
bradhdyd said on April 19, 2007 02:31:
I bought the standard edition from JB HIFI for $9.99. It has an orange sticker on the front that says “I’m Cheap! Buy Me NOW!! Limited Offer” - so I did!!
Sascha said on March 19, 2007 15:40:
Nice! Is there a reason for this unexpected late chart entry? A promo campaign, tv-show or something?