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Gold with “Charm School” and “Way Out” second single in Germany

Apr 19

Posted by Judith in Charts, Releases, Roxette | 20 Comments

As EMI Germany proudly announces, the next single to be released out of “Charm School” will be “Way Out”, available digitally and on CD-single on June 10th in Germany. Roxette also have sold 100.000 copies of “Charm School” in Germany, which entitles them to the Gold award. The album already got awarded in Sweden and Switzerland.

Uli Mücke, Vice President New Music of EMI Music Germany says:

“Roxette are among the most successful and most likeable artists on the EMI roster. We are very pleased that this phenomenal comeback of the Swedes in cooperation with Star Watch Entertainment and Marek Lieberberg concert promotion and with great support by the radio stations has been successful.

As a side note, Roxette will be playing in open airs in Germany this Summer starting on June 11th in Berlin. They will visit Germany again later in Autumn as well.

Source: EMI press release

Update a few hours after publishing: Way Out will also be the 2nd single in Austria.

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Official “Charm School” charts

Apr 14

Posted by Judith in Charts, Roxette | 183 Comments


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: Read the rest of this entry »

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Roxette highest new entry on UK Radio Airplay Charts this week

Mar 14

Posted by Alison in Charts, Radio, Roxette | 3 Comments

Update March 21, 2011:

“She’s Got Nothing On” up to #26! on UK Radio Airplay Charts.

Thanks Chris for the tip.

Published March 14, 2011 – 13:12

Roxette entered the UK Radio Airplay Charts with “She’s Got Nothing On (But The Radio)” at #31, the highest new entry of the week!

The song started out last week on Radio 2’s A-List and several programmes frequently played it. It still remains on the A-List for a second week running! Fans also report hearing it on Radio 1 as well as local commercial radio stations!

The new album “Charm School” sees a release in the UK on March 28th with both the regular and the deluxe album being already available for pre-order from online stores! All fans want now is that UK tour date!

Andreas Weizbauer contributed to this article.

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“She’s Got Nothing On (But The Radio)” climbs the charts!

Mar 8

Posted by Sascha in Charts, Roxette | 16 Comments

Week 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17
Austria 75 – – – 22 29 9 13 10 14 17 23 24 28
Germany 100 – – – 18 22 12 12 10 10 18 19 23 22 25
Switzerland 75 – – – – 67 26 24 21 19 31 30 35 31
Belgium (Fl.)* 94 86 84 –

Thanks to intensive promotion via “Wetten Dass…?” and TV spots “She’s Got Nothing On (But The Radio)” climbed up to #9 in Austria and #12 in Germany! We will collect the different chart positions of Roxette’s new single in this post…

Did the single enter the official chart of your country? Please tell us how it is doing!

Update March 8: As EMI Germany proudly announces, the single climbs to #10 this week! That makes “She’s Got Nothing On” Roxette’s 9th top 10 hit, the highest ranking single since “How Do You Do!” in 1992. Also in Austria the single jumps up to #10. What a magnificent comeback! This success shows how much potential Roxette still has – and compared to markets like Sweden, what a difference some promotion makes…

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Roxette are back in the German singles Top 20 after 17 years!

Feb 8

Posted by Sascha in Charts, Releases, Roxette | 6 Comments

The insider report by Roxette fan Gellner just got officially confirmed: Roxette’s new single “She’s Got Nothing On (But The Radio) entered the official sales charts of Germany at #18! This is Roxette’s first Top 20 hit single since “Sleeping In My Car”, the lead single from “Crash! Boom! Bang!” in early 1994.

All singles after that failed to reach a Top 20 position, with “Wish I Could Fly” (#26) and “Stars” (#23) coming close in 1999. It’s clear that Roxette got more of an album band in these regions, with all studio albums since “Joyride” reaching a Top 3 position.

On the national radio charts the song climbed up to #20 after 22, 43 and 71 in Germany. In Austria it reached #27 after 52 and 44, while climbing from 63 to #49 in Switzerland.

The full sales charts with Roxette’s entry will be published on Friday. Source: Media Control

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Roxette #1 on German and Russian listener charts

Jan 24

Posted by Judith in Charts, Roxette | 4 Comments

Roxette entered directly to #1 on the German radio SWR3 (one of Germany’s top radios) charts with “She’s Got Nothing On (But The Radio) this Sunday. The charts are done with the votes from the listeners via the same homepage. Keep on voting for Roxette!

Roxette is also #1 on Radio Berlin, after being one week at #2.

In addition, Roxette entered the official German airplay charts at #71 and the Austrian at #44.

But that’s not all, Roxette also entered directly to #1 on Russian radio ROKS, based in St. Petersburg, this weekend. This charts are also done with the votes from the listeners.

Andreas Weizbauer and Evgeny Perekopskiy and many Germans and Russians and other fans contributed to this article ;)

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“She’s Got Nothing On” out in Spain and reaches #12 on iTunes

Jan 12

Posted by Judith in Charts, Releases, Roxette | 8 Comments

Roxette’s new single is out in Spain via iTunes since yesterday. Funny how, the single reached #12 in the iTunes charts and that without promotion, since the promotion on radios won’t start until this weekend. The highest position was reached in Sweden so far: #10.

You can see an overview of all iTunes charts on this website.

There are no confirmed dates for Spain yet, it will probably depend on the sales of the single and specially the album, but if it goes on like this, no promoter could ever say no!

We’ll keep you informed!

Update Jan 13: The single has reached #10 in Spain as well!

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Marie pushes Roxette into prestigious Australian Radio Countdown!

Dec 2

Posted by Judith in Charts, Marie Fredriksson, Roxette | No Comments

We got this article from Steve from Australia. Thanks Steve!

Roxette, in particular Marie Fredriksson, has made the “Hummingbird 100“. The countdown is an all female list and is run in conjunction with Australian Music Channel “MusicMax”.

Four Roxette tracks made the list, “It Must Have Been Love”, “Listen To Your Heart”, “The Look” and “Joyride”. Pink, meanwhile, claims the most spots of any female artist with seven tracks inside the 100. Beyonce, Roxette and Madonna both have four and Blondie, Rihanna and Alanis Morissette have three apiece.

The poll results have been picked up by several Australian online news sites including Queensland’s “Courier Mail“.

Vote for Roxette as best band ever!

Nov 8

Posted by Sascha in Charts, Fans, Media, Roxette | 2 Comments

Posted on October 12:

Big German radio station WDR2 runs a poll to find the best band of all times. Wouldn’t it be fun to see Roxette high up there?

The poll ends November 5 and a big countdown will be broadcasted November 7 and 8. The website is in German but it’s easy: Just choose “Roxette” from the list, click “weiter”, type in the code, choose “Nein, …” and click “jetzt abstimmen”. Ready!

Additionally you can win 200 albums or a journey, tickets and a meeting for concerts with Depeche Mode, Pet Shop Boys or Nickelback. If you want, just choose “Ja, …” and fill in your data and click “jetzt abstimmen”.

On WDR2: Info page (in German) | The poll

PS. You can listen to WDR2 via livestream.

Update, November 8: Roxette made it to number 50!

Not bad, taking into acount how many new artists/bands appear on the hitlists every year. Keep in mind that this voting was heavily influenced by fan groups as the positions of some teengroups (Monrose, No Angels) show… ;)

The result on WDR2

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“Gessle over Europe” is #1. On Bengans.se charts.

Oct 29

Posted by Tomasz in Charts, Per Gessle, Releases | 8 Comments

GOE on Bengans.se

…and “Gessle over Europe” LP is currently no 6 on this list. Tomorrow at 9 am Swedish time Hitlistan chart – the official Swedish Top 60 will be published. Which place should we except?

Edit: The album debuted at #24 on Hitlistan chart.

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Top Rox 2009 results

Oct 6

Posted by abysmo in Charts, Editorial, Fans | No Comments

Hey hey hey, thanks to almost 500 of you who voted. See you next year again with Top Rox 2010.

Top Rox 2009 results can be found here: http://www.roxroom.wz.cz/top09final.php

“Roxette Ballads” on #4!

Jul 13

Posted by Tomasz in Charts, Roxette | No Comments

Roxette’s song pack Roxette Ballads for the PlayStation game SingStar is #4 on the SingStore’s global download list for June.

Source: Roxette.se & TDR

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Two Roxette songs in Top 10

Jun 6

Posted by Tomasz in Charts, Per Gessle, Roxette | 1 Comment

Per Gessle has, once again, scored two Top 10 positions among the most played songs by Swedish composers outside of Sweden in 2008. STIM, Swedish music organisation, published its annual report on June 5th. Here are the results:

1. U + Ur Hand – Pink
Lyrics: Max Martin, Rami Yacoub, Lukasz Gottwald & Pink
Music: Max Martin, Rami Yacoub, Lukasz Gottwald & Pink

2. Who Knew – Pink
Lyrics: Max Martin, Lukasz Gottwald & Pink
Music: Max Martin, Lukasz Gottwald & Pink

3. Young Folks – Peter, Bjorn and John
Lyrics: John Eriksson, Peter Morén & Björn Yttling
Music: John Eriksson, Peter Morén & Björn Yttling

4. Dancing Queen – ABBA
Lyrics: Benny Andersson, Stikkan Anderson & Björn Ulvaeus
Music: Benny Andersson, Stikkan Anderson & Björn Ulvaeus

5. Listen To Your Heart – Roxette
Lyrics: Per Gessle
Music: Per Gessle & Mats Persson.

6. With Every Heartbeat – Kleerup feat. Robyn
Lyrics: Andreas Kleerup & Robyn
Music: Andreas Kleerup & Robyn

7. Fairytale Gone Bad – Sunrise Avenue
Lyrics: Samu Haber
Music: Samu Haber & Jukka Backlund.

8. It Must Have Been Love – Roxette
Lyrics: Per Gessle
Music: Per Gessle

9. Save Tonight – Eagle-Eye Cherry
Lyrics: Eagle-Eye Cherry
Music: Eagle-Eye Cherry

10. Mamma Mia – ABBA
Lyrics: Benny Andersson, Stikkan Andersson & Björn Ulvaeus
Music: Benny Andersson, Stikkan Andersson och Björn Ulvaeus

Source: STIM.se

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Roxette among top artists at amazonMP3

May 27

Posted by Sascha in Charts, Misc, Releases, Roxette | No Comments

Roxette Hits Album CoverRoxette made it to #16 of the “current top artists” at amazonMP3 in Germany! At the same time the “Roxette Hits” album is in the MP3 charts since 40 days, currently at #30.

Looks like an early effect of the NOTP promotion!

Per Gessle “utmanare” at Svensktoppen

May 24

Posted by Judith in Charts, Per Gessle | 1 Comment

Per Gessle’s “The Party Pleaser” is “utmanare” (something like challenger, or candidate to enter the list) this week in P4′s Svensktoppen. Swedish contestant at Eurovision Song Contest Malena is #1 this week.

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