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Official “Charm School” charts

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We will collect the different official chart entries and positions of Roxette’s new album “Charm School” in this post. How is the album doing in your country? Let us know! Please provide sources to your numbers.

Update February 21: Roxette entered straight to #1 in Germany! Announcement by Media Control | EMI (who also provided us with a new promo picture).

Update April 1: “Charm School” enters South Africa! And Per says that it has been certified gold in Switzerland! Germany and Austria should follow that style, while the album is heading to platinum in Sweden, according to the latest Live Nation press release. And CS is not the only charting album: The current Roxette action brought the “Hits!” compilation up to #65 in the German charts…

Update April 14: The album has reached the Brasilian charts! According to different retailer charts it’s also selling well in Argentina, but the official chart site doesn’t get updated. There’s also lack of official sources for Russia and Asian countries. We’re grateful for your help!

Update April 20: “Charm School” got Gold in Germany for more than 100,000 sales! Russia now included in the table.

To see the charts:

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World tour 2011: Santiago, Chile – April 9 #13

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Setlist

The setlist in Santiago, Movistar Arena, was the same as in the past shows in Latin America (except the 2nd show in Argentina) and included Stars instead of Silver Blue.

01. Dressed for Success
02. Sleeping In My Car
03. The Big L.
04. Wish I Could Fly
05. Only When I Dream
06. She’s Got Nothing On (But the Radio)
07. Perfect Day
08. Things Will Never Be the Same
09. It Must Have Been Love
10. Opportunity Nox
11. 7twenty7
12. Fading Like a Flower (Every Time You Leave)
13. Stars
14. How Do You Do!
15. Dangerous
Band presentation
16. Joyride
17. Watercolours in the Rain
18.  Spending my Time
19. The Look
20. Way Out
21. Listen to Your Heart
22. Church of Your Heart

Concert videos

By emily3532: Things Will Never Be The Same, The Big L, Wish I Could Fly, Perfect Day, It Must Have Been Love, Fading Like A Flower

Fans are posting a lot of videos on youtube, here are some, but don’t forget to check youtube out for more!

Reviews

Chilean newspapers wrote quite nice reviews of the concert, but nothing really worth translating into English. They are all in Spanish.

Metro Chile: Roxette deleita a 14 mil personas en el Movistar Arena (or MSN)

La Cuarta:  Roxette tuvo su festival del adulto joven

Cooperativa: En encendido concierto Roxette se reencontró con su público chileno

Cinestres: Sobredosis de nostalgia y energia

Misc

The show was almost sold out, with a capacity of 15.000, 14.500 tickets had been sold for this show.

Confirmed: next Roxette single is “Speak To Me”

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As mentioned earlier last week, Roxette’s second out of “Charm School” is going to be “Speak To Me”. Now it’s official, at least for Sweden, Belgium and South Africa.

The song which is going to be played on the radio is however the called “Bassflow remake”, mixed by Peter Boström. You can listen to a snippet of the song on TDR following this link.

Radio start is April 11th and you’ll be able to buy the single digitally on April 18th. According to TDR, and as you can see on the album cover, the b-side is “Stars” (live in Barcelona 2001). However, earlier yesterday the titles of some more remixes were published (and later removed) in the article, so we expect there will be a remixes single released additionally (as it was with “She’s Got Nothing On”) or a maxi containing all of the tracks.

The cover is again red and in the same style as “She’s Got Nothing On” but with another picture. The red cover was however used for the promo single, the comercial single cover was purple.

Update April 21st: “Stars” version included on the single comes from the “Room Service Tour”, not from the Barcelona showcase.

World Tour 2011: Buenos Aires, Argentina – April 4 #10

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Today Roxette will play in Buenos Aires, Argentina, the first of the two sold out shows in this city. Run To Roxette and The Daily Roxette have also organised an After Party at disco Dorsia. The disco is located just a short walk away from Luna Park venue and opens its doors at 23:30. Roxette music, videos and prizes are guaranteed!
The entry fee is $50 (pesos) and includes one free drink (soda, water or beer). You can find more information on the event Facebook page.

Setlist

01. Dressed for success
02. Sleeping in my car
03. The Big L.
04. Wish I could fly
05. Only when I dream
06. She’s got nothing on (But the radio)
07. Perfect day
08. Things will never be the same
09. It must have been love
10. Opportunity nox
11. 7twenty7
12. Fading like a flower (every time you leave)
13. Stars
14. How do you do!
15. Dangerous
Band presentation
16. Joyride (With “La Cumparsita” introduction)
17. Watercolours in the Rain
18. Spending my time
19. The look
20. Way out
21. Listen to your heart
22. Church of your heart

Articles and photos

Llegaron los Roxette (Roxette arrived!) on Clarin | Concert review by RollingStone Argentina

Videos

Roxette arrival and fans

Roxette arrival and fans II

Videos by Javiruli69: The Look | Spending my time (do you hear Roxette at all? ;))

Videos by matyconmigo: How Do You Do! / Dangerous | Dangerous | Watercolours in the rain & Spending my time | Wish I Could Fly

By Joserey101:  Perfect Day | Fading Like A Flower

There are lots of videos on Youtube.. will post them later on. If you can’t wait, check this here. It searches for the latest entries with “roxette”.

World Tour 2011: Montevideo, Uruguay – April 2 #09

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Yesterday Roxette landed in Montevideo, Uruguay, what is their first stop in the South American leg of the World Tour 2011. They are going to spend some weeks in Latin America touring in Argentina, Chile and Brazil.
We have read (mostly on Facebook) that many fans already met Roxette and even have partied with the musicians (C, M and P!). Below you’ll find some links!

According to roxette.se, fans who purchase an item from the Official Merchandise stand in the venues in Uruguay, Argentina and Chile will enter a draw to win a Meet and Greet with Marie and Per.

Setlist
The set list contained no new songs (contrary to what Per said that a new song would be added in each continent) and “Silver Blue” was skipped.
Christoffer played “La Cumparsita” during the band introduction.
There was also a big screen at each side of the stage.

Thanks to Rosina for the information.

Photos
Fans and the band
Pictures of rehearsals and concert by Rosina Marmion on Facebook

Videos
Marie with fans (on Facebook, you might not be able to see it due to FB privacy settings!)
Christoffer and the band arrived! (From Roxette Official Facebook)
by Andrese06: Roxette at Sheraton hotel | Per and the band at hotel | Marie signing autographs | Things will Never Be The Same
by elyoru100: Roxette at the hotel
by PiCaLoKi: Beginning of the show (very bad quality)