One more success for Roxette: the new album “Travelling” has sold gold (20.000 copies) in Sweden already! The album was released on Friday 23rd of March.
At what position will the album enter the official Swedish charts? We’ll see on Friday!
Source: D&D Management.
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 new album “Travelling” is out today in many countries and it has already entered some iTunes Store Album Top 10 charts today:
Sweden #3 (down to #6 as per March 26, back to #4 – March 28)
Finland #6
Germany #9
Czech Republic #5
Switzerland #8 (down to #10 as per March 26))
Spain #8
Keep on buying! 😉
If you look at the iTunes Store Top 10 POP Albums:
Germany #4
Austria #8
Denmark #8
Norway #9
Spain #4
Sweden #3
Switzerland #7
Thanks Fabio (ettexor) for the hint!
Roxette are nominated for the German Echo award with their album “Charm School”. The category Roxette is nominated is called “Gruppe International Rock / Pop” – best international Rock/Pop group. The award is really important in Germany, as much important as the Grammys in the US. There’s not a jury choosing the winner. The sales charts decide the nominees and in the end – the winner.
On the Wikipedia site it says (used Google translate):
The ranking of the winners in most categories results from the added up weeks results of the Media Control sales charts in February of one year to January of the following year. This has the consequence that the absolute sales figures – should be – distributed over the entire year. This easy distortion of the results is possible. Good sales of the artists who achieve over longer periods (no weekly current top positions in the charts) good sales results will be penalized. [1] In some categories (lifetime achievement and special rates) are the winners selected by a jury, the most successful live act is nationally determined via online voting.
The awarding will take place on March 22th in Berlin. The show will be broadcast the same evening. Other nominees are Coldplay, Sunrise Avenue, Snow Patrol and Superheavy.
Our reader Dennis informs that Roxette have been nominated several times before:
According to wikipedia Roxette were nominated for the ECHO award in the categorie “best international group” at least in the years 1992, 1993 & 1995 – (For the year 1994 no nominations were listed, but as Roxette had no new album out the year before, I guess they weren’t nominated).
Thanks for letting us know.
Source: Musikwoche
Fabio Deluca from Argentina has just informed us that after a very long delay, the Argentinian charts for February, March and April were finally published by CAPIF. It seems like “Charm school” was not only the number 1 in Germany, Switzerland and Czech Republic, but also in Argentina!
Have a look at monthly and weekly charts from there:
Monthly Chart
* February: Charm School #1
* March: Charm School #11; A Collection of Roxette Hits #18
Weekly Chart
Week / Date / Position (Album)
7 / Feb.13 / #1 (CS)
8 / Feb.20 / #12 (CS)
9 / Feb.27 / #8 (CS)
10 / Mar.06 / #14 (CH)
11 / Mar.13 / #7 (CS) – #9 (CH) – #17 (BE)
12 / Mar.20 / #12 (CS)
17 / Apr.24 / #17 (CS)
(CS) Charm School / (CH) A Collection of Roxette Hits / (BE) Baladas en Español
As you can see, on week 11 there were 3 Roxette albums in the Top 20!