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US Airplay Peak for "Sleeping In My Car"??? and...
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Mfan28179-Jason said on January 17, 2002 21:59:
Hey guys! Well, let’s just say I’ve been obsessed with “Sleeping In My Car” lately and was curious as to why it didn’t fare all that well in the US (EMI I guess)...
In my Billboard book, I have all the airplay and sales peaks of Roxette songs in the USA till “Church Of Your Heart.” I’m curious to how the other songs performed airplay-wise and possibly single sales-wise - especially for “Sleeping In My Car.” I was at Ebay.com and found this cool radio adds promo poster for “Sleeping In My Car.” (I saved the pic). Look here: http://community.webshots.com/photo/22035978/22036111HAQfaCvhSl
One station was giving it 56 spins in one week! That’s a lot! I still remember my local radio station adding the song in fact and hearing it announced as “this is new from Roxette...etc.” - but I never paid attention at the time. So I was curious as to how well it did on radio overall. Maybe someone can refresh my memory and knows the airplay peak for the song. It seems like it was off to a good start but just faded away. What happened? (#50 peak on the Billboard Hot 100, right?)
Also, if there’s a site with this info, let me know. I’ve been looking for the past hour. Maybe someone here can help me out!
Thanks!
Buckster2002 said on January 19, 2002 19:37:
I remember that was the last song that I heard regularly of Rox, and that was radio only.
Mfan28179-Jason said on January 19, 2002 23:02:
Yeah, I still remember when the song came out in fact. That was before I was really a big Roxette fan. I remember hearing it on one of my local radio stations as a newly added song. And with no Internet and being like 13 years old, I just thought they faded away - until I rediscovered them last year! (By the way, I also remember the McDonald’s commercial advertising Favorites From CBB).
Thanks for the info Coyboy. That helps somewhat. I’m just curious if the song was a pretty big airplay hit and just lacked in single sales or the other way around - where it did well in single sales and lacked in airplay - for it’s #50 peak position.
Do any of you hear “Sleeping In My Car” on the radio today? I’m wondering if I can get a local station here to play it. HMMM.
Anyways...if anyone can help me I would appreciate it. :)
animalkingdom said on January 20, 2002 05:17:
Sleeping in My Car peaked at 60 and stayed 4 weeks on Billboard Hot 100 Singles Airplay.
Hope this helps.
coyboyusa said on January 20, 2002 11:53:
the single suffered from no promotion and the mc donalds dea made alot of USA retailers not want to sell the album. The album was also delayed twice. I has something else to bring up. Anybody see that news ticker on roxette.se that says all the footage from the first video shoot of cbb was lost to a digital error. Well I remeber a commercial or the wiz advertizing the album and it had footage from the CBB video that isnt in it. I never recorded it now I iwsh I did.
UrbanEscape said on January 20, 2002 12:30:
Well, I had just moved to West Virginia when CRASH! BOOM! BANG! came out and heard nothing from it. The local record stores had nothing at all from Roxette. I ended up ordering the CD from Columbia House. I never heard anything on radio from this fantastic recording. I’ve often wondered if I had lived somewhere else, would I have heard anything...West Virginia pretty much is the middle of nowhere.
ROXIEBABY16 said on January 21, 2002 08:29:
Jason don’t you ever check your mail my dear??lol!!! I must have sent you a million mails!
ROXIE
Mfan28179-Jason said on January 21, 2002 18:33:
Animalkingdom, thank you for the information! So, it peaked at #60 on the Hot 100 AIRPLAY chart and spend 4 weeks on that chart? That’s basically what I wanted to know. #60 isn’t all that great, but I guess it’s not that bad either.
As for the “Crash! Boom! Bang!” album, I also ordered mine from Columbia House last year. I was shocked to see it in stock. It’s now unavailable. Lucky me!
When it came out and I saw that McDonald’s commercial, I had no idea it was getting a whole release in record stores. I just figured that was the album...sold through McDonalds. That’s why I never got it when it was released.
Mfan28179-Jason said on January 21, 2002 18:38:
Roxie, I do need to check my e-mail more often. LOL.
Mfan28179-Jason said on January 21, 2002 18:40:
One more thing, while we are on a similar topic. does anybody know how much “Crash! Boom! Bang!” - the actual whole album release - sold in the USA? I read somewhere that “Favorites” sold 750,000.
rox74ever said on January 22, 2002 13:20:
does anybody know why in the hell roxette doesnt play in the US!! lately (1 year ago) the only song a heard ONCE was WICF and thats it!!! WHY? Whats wrong with USA? maybe are they scared that such a GOOD band is gonna take over them americans? (heheheheh >=) )
ROXIEBABY16 said on January 22, 2002 16:28:
Basically that is what the problem is!!! They have all the crappy bands out now, britney spears,BSB etc. Jason! I have sent you a million mails, if i’ve sent you one! most of them are just hellos and forwards!lol! I hate snow and i am freezing here!lol! Actually i wish they would play mor Rox on the radio but i never hear them. Also i think we don’t hear them ne more cause, they didn’t release RS here, otherwise people might hear it on the radio more often! They need to release something new, cause you can only play so many older songs in one day!
ROXIE
rox74ever said on January 22, 2002 17:24:
ddo you think if i call the radio stations over here, they may have any songs from RS?
Mfan28179-Jason said on January 22, 2002 20:12:
Rox74ever, many of us are under the impression that Roxette no longer wish to break
the US market again. I think putting out “Wish I Could Fly” in 2000 along with the US
version of “Don’t Bore Us” was a test for them. I actually have been at this board for
over a year now - thanks to “Wish I Could Fly.” A local radio station (Q-Lite 106.5)
added the song last year and started a whole Roxette craze for me. :) And news like this
is very disappointing for me. But Roxiebaby is right...it’s all about what’s popular and
what’s not popular. You have your teen stars and boybands.
Well, hopefully something will happen with Roxette in the US. A distribution deal would
be nice - at the very least.
I don’t hear much Roxette on the radio here simply because radio sux here. But I do hear
both “The Look” and “Listen To Your Heart” every weekend on Q-Lite 106.5’s “All 80s
Weekend”! No “Dressed For Success” though. :/ I’m going to go request that though!
And no, radio stations most likely would not have songs from “Room Service.” And more
likely, they would not be able to play them anyways if they did. Of course, that’s
debatable considering some careers have taken off from a radio station playing a song that
is not being promoted.
And Roxie, I have got a lot of your forward e-mails. Just haven’t replied to many. :) But
I did reply to a recent one you sent me. And yeah, some day I will get Yahoo! Messenger
downloaded.
coyboyusa said on January 24, 2002 07:01:
releasing wicf for the usa return was a big mistake. Edel marketed it ONLY to adult contemporary stations...and most larger stations at that time would not push a ballad. Crash boom bang sold exactly 1.4 million copies hrough the mc donalds offer...that is an official tally from the mc donalds corporation. Imagine that 1.4 million fans they’ve eaither lost or forgot! What I find odd is that for all intent and purpose cbb is ” out of print” ANd now the bigger disapopointment of nothing new from them until fall of this year :( WHat I did find refreshing was going back and looking at my ny pass and photos from the gig they did back in sept of 2000. God, I wish I could see them live before the chance passes me by. If roxette want to make any form of dent in the market here they have to really oush vh1. Mtv will not market them and lets be honest....they dont belong on trl with carson daily at all. I really hope that the new album it a bit more prodouced in terms of sound....rs has a smoky room kinda feel to it.....its fresh but I still like the cbb/ hand feel. Those albums stil make them sound hungry for succes, the songs make you want to hear them turn up the radio. maybe its just me
Mfan28179-Jason said on January 24, 2002 19:08:
1.4 million units of “Favorites”?!?!? I had no idea. That’s amazing. No wonder why there were issues with the full length version.
coyboyusa said on January 18, 2002 07:40:
simc speak on national air play lists on the east coast at 14....cbb hit a miserable like 56 or something...neither did well on us billboard