New Roxette album Travelling entered official Czech album chart on #7. Although was realease date set to this Monday, album was already released last week in Thusrday. So only two days were enought for Travelling to jump on positin 7. FYI Charm School scored #1 and received Gold status in Czech Republic last year.
Additionally “It’s possible” debuted at #64 on German single charts.
Roxette´s comeback album “Charm School” became 24th best selling album of 2011 in Sweden according to Sverige Topplistan. Let’s remind the previous years in Rox album history.
Year 2001: Roxette – Room Service #9 (platinum), Marie Fredriksson – Äntligen – Marie Fredriksson bästa #65 (3x platinum).
Year 2002: Roxette – The Ballad Hits #33 (gold)
Year 2003: Per Gessle – Mazarin #1 (4x platinum)
Year 2004: Gyllene Tider – Finn 5 fel! #1 (3x platinum), Gyllene Tider – GT25 – Samtliga Hits! #12 (platinum), Per Gessle – Mazarin #13 (5x platinum), Marie Fredriksson – The Change #18 (gold), Gyllene Tider – Ljudet av ett annat hjärta #48
Year 2005: Son Of A Plumber #3 (platinum)
Year 2006: Son Of A Plumber #75 (platinum), Roxette – A Collection Of Roxette Hits #85
Year 2007: Per Gessle – En händig man #7 (3x platinum)
Year 2008: Per Gessle – Party Crasher #24 (platinum)
So voting is over, almost 400 of us – fans, participated and here are ‘Top Rox 2011’ results.
Winners are Joyride (best album), Room Service (best sleeve), Tourism (best booklet), It Must Have Been Love (best single), A Thing About You (best video), She’s Got Nothing On (worst video), Charm School Tour (best tour), Joyride era 1991-1992 (best haircut), Den ständiga resan (best Marie’s solo album) and The World According To Gessle (best Per’s album).
Complete results can be found on Roxroom site.
Roxette is the 42th most listened artist for 2011 on http://www.last.fm/bestof/2011/artists?limit=100 server with 135,591 listeners. Check Top 100 list on the Last.fm website.
It’s almost one month since we started our last survey Top Rox 2011 on Roxroom, so it’s time to summarize all results in all ten categories where you can vote for your favourite Roxette album, single, tour, album sleeve, album booklet, best Per’s and Marie’s haircut, best Per’s and Marie’s album and also best and worst Roxette video. So here we have last 7 days to vote in this survey. So far about 200 fans voted, but the more fans will participate, the more precise results we will get about which Rox item fans like the most.
The results – I do believe interesting results – will be published day or two after.
Vote here till January 15th and thanks for your participation.