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Gyllene Tider + new single is out = dizzy Monday!

Mar 18

Posted by Judith in Gyllene Tider, Radio, Releases | 4 Comments

Gyllene Tider’s first single out of “Dags att tänka på refrängen” – “Man blir yr” is out! And there is a lot going on around this release today.

Here are some links and information:

Gyllene Tider – radio visits today:

07:30 – Mix Megapol Göteborg (or here)
07:50 – Mix Megapol ”Äntligen Morron” (or here)
08:30 – NRJ, Vakna Med NRJ-Kanal 5
14:30 – SR P4 Extra med Lotta Bromé

On newspapers:

Aftonbladet: Gyllene Tider låter yngre än någonsin

Per Gessle tells that the album is 37 minutes long. You can also listen to the 2 tracks “Man blir yr” and “Chikaboom #2″ if you have WIMP.

Aftonbladet gives the single 3 pluses.

Expressen: Anders Nunstedt writes about the single in his typical style and gives it 2 bees. Expressen also interviewed Gyllene Tider, Per reveals that some concerts are sold-out and that they will do some “adjustments” around Easter.

 

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“Lover Lover Lover” next radio single?

Sep 13

Posted by Sascha in Radio, Releases, Roxette, Rumours | 13 Comments

As German radio station “RPR1.” reports, Roxette are back with their new single “Lover Lover Lover”. Yesterday the song had it’s airplay premiere at the channel. Let’s hope for solid airplay!

Source: rpr1.de

Thanks to Tina E. for the info!

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Just rumours: no new (Roxette) songs with Jonas Isacsson in the end

Aug 16

Posted by Judith in Radio, Roxette | 6 Comments

In case you are wondering, there is some information spread in Facebook which seems not to be true.

According to the fan, Jonas Isacsson told in an interview broadcasted on Sirius Radio on August 14 that Per Gessle has recorded three new demos. Jonas explained that the songs are “for sure” for Roxette and that he was called to play the guitar base for these songs because Christoffer was busy touring with Roxette.

See what Jonas said about this:

Update, August 17: We contacted Jonas and he disclaims the report:

I have not done an interview for sirius radio, and I don’t know anything about 3 new songs. I’m afraid it’s all made up.

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Roxette’s “It’s Possible” #1 in major German radio station charts

Apr 2

Posted by Judith in Charts, Radio, Releases | 2 Comments

Roxette’s latest single “It’s Possible” reached #1 in the German radio station SWR3′s chart. This chart is done with the votes sent in by the radio listeners during the past week. Roxette entered the chart at #2 last week and has finally climbed to #1 this week.

SWR3 (Südwestrundfunk) was is one of the biggest radio stations in Germany and the biggest in south Germany.

 

 

 

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Interview with Per Gessle on Swedish radio P4

Mar 27

Posted by Judith in Interview, Promotion, Radio | 5 Comments

Per Gessle was interviewed today in the Swedish Radio P4 show “P4 extra med Lotta Bromé”.

In the approximately 20 minute long interview Per explained about live on tour, about him being quite picky about certain things, playing with Barbies, “Travelling” and much more. You can listen to the interview – in Swedish of course – on SR’s website here.

Roxette Café has uploaded it on mp3. And Roxette.RO has done a short translation to English of the interview.

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“It’s Possible” is record of the week at BBC Radio 2!

Mar 15

Posted by Sascha in Promotion, Radio, Roxette | 3 Comments

It was just per accident that we learned Roxette’s Travelling is “Record of the Week” on BBC Radio 2 in the UK. That means the single is getting special daily airplay. The website points to the single release on March 16. Let’s hope this promotion opportunity does more for the new single in the UK than it did for She’s Got Nothing On a year ago!

PS. Note that they misspelled the name to “It’s Impossible”. ;)

Update: Actually they write “Release date: 16 April”, not March. A physical UK release on the horizon?

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Countdown to German radio prize gala with Roxette

Sep 8

Posted by Sascha in Promotion, Radio, Roxette, TV | 5 Comments

As reported some time ago, Roxette will perform tonight at “Der Deutsche Radiopreis” gala in Hamburg, Germany. Marie & Per have landed in Germany and acts are having soundchecks right now.

What we still don’t know is if Roxette will perform playback, live, singback or whatever. Per said they “prepared” music for this event some days ago, whatever that means. German radio channel “NDR 2″– part of the organizers – told their listeners today, that Roxette will perform “She’s Got Nothing On” additionally to the announced “Speak To Me” stage premiere.

The show will start at 20:05 European Summer time and will be broadcasted live on 50 (!) German radio stations and via video stream on the official website www.deutscher-radiopreis.de. They started posting backstage videos already!

6 regional TV stations will broadcast the gala all over Germany, with “NDR Fernsehen” being the first on 22:00 CEST.

In Hamburg for the German Radio Awards! Performing tonite. Pelle lost his bag in Stockholm. Chris lost his mind.

The radio stations:
bremen vier, hr3, MDR JUMP, NDR 2, RBB radioBerlin, SR AntenneSaar, SWR 3, WDR 2, B5 plus, 94,3 rs2, 94.5 Radio Cottbus, 105‘5 Spreeeradio, ANTENNE MV, alster radio 106!8, Berliner Rundfunk 91.4, bigFM, delta radio, ENERGY Berlin, ENERGY Hamburg, ENERGY München, ENERGY Nürnberg, ENERGY Rhein-Main, ENERGY Stuttgart, Hit-Radio Antenne, HIT RADIO FFH, HITRADIO OHR, Oldie 95, Radio 7, RADIO 21, RADIO BOB!, radio ffn, Radio Hamburg, Radio Hitwave, Radio NORA, RADIO PSR, radio SAW, ROCKLAND, ROCKLAND RADIO, RPR1, R.SH Radio Schleswig-Holstein, Schwarzwaldradio, ANTENNE BAYERN, HITRADIO RTL, NRW-Lokalradios, Radio Regenbogen.

The television stations:
NDR, MDR, WDR, hr, rbb, SWR.

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Roxette to perform at German Radio Prize gala

Aug 24

Posted by Judith in Radio, Roxette | 13 Comments

According to Bayerische Rundfunk, Roxette will be one of the artists to perform at the German Radio Prize gala on September 8th, in Hamburg.

The information can also be found on the “Der Deutsche Radiopreis” website so we can say it’s confirmed. According to this website, Roxette will perform “live”. Marie reveals that they will play “Speak To Me” for the first time on stage.

As far as I could find out, it seems to be a “private” gala for invited guests only (media?), at least last year there were only 700 guests.

According to the report from last year’s gala, it was broadcasted by 26 radio stations at the same time (including web radios) and there was even a live video stream via internet. The show was then broadcasted on NDR TV (not live). Let’s hope this year the media coverage is going to be the same!

Update Aug 24 – some hours later:

Good news for all of us! I was just told that the gala will be broadcasted by

- 42 radio stations
- via internet on www.deutscher-radiopreis.de
- TV (after the gala, not live)

More information and details will be available within the next days.

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Per Gessle on radio interview: “We are preparing new songs”

May 11

Posted by Judith in Radio, Roxette | Comments off

Per Gessle was interviewed on KFM radio, Cape Town. You can listen to the interview here.

Per talked about how he met Marie, that they’ve never been together as a couple, and goes very fast through Roxette’s career.

He also revealed that this tour will go “waaaay into next year” and that they are “preparing new songs meanwhile travelling because if you are on the road like this, this becomes your life style”.

Thank you Barry Mieny via Twitter!

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#6 at World Chart! Roxette is sitting on Top(10) of the world..

May 10

Posted by Judith in Charts, Radio, Roxette | 2 Comments

…and we like it!

Roxette’s “She’s Got Nothing On (but the Radio)” is now at #6 on Radio Express World Chart, after entering the Top 10 two weeks ago at #9 and climbing to #7 last week.

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“She’s Got Nothing On (But The Radio)” reaches #9 on the World Chart

Apr 27

Posted by Judith in Charts, Radio, Roxette | 1 Comment

Roxette’s first single off “Charm School”, “She’s Got Nothing On (But the Radio)”, has hit #9 on Radio Express’ World Chart. This means that Roxette’s song is the 9th most played song on this planet!

Roxette’s song has been on the list for 12 weeks now and has been climbing from #12 two weeks ago, to #11 last week and #9 this week. Current #1 is Lady Gaga’s “Born This Way”, followed by Rhianna’s “S&M”.

And this is how the World Chart is created: every week Radio Express compiles the World Chart by tabulating the most listened-to pop songs on the planet, based on the playlists of 100s of top radio stations worldwide.

Together with the chart, Radio Express offers The World Chart Show, “which is available fully produced in a 2-hour English version presented by Lara Scott or in a easy-to-assemble version for local co-producers. There are 48 minutes of program time per hour.”

The World Chart Show also has a Facebook page.

 

 

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Some news from Greece: Roxette promotion at full speed!

Mar 18

Posted by Judith in Radio, Tour | Comments off

Kostas Soldatos from Greece sent us some interesting facts about Roxette in the charts and promotion of the concert in Athens the upcoming May 27th 2011.

As you can see on RockFM, Roxette is on #3 on the radio playlists charts. Furthermore, “Charm School” was album of the week on KissFM.

Promotion for the show Roxette will play in Athens can be seen everywhere. Here are examples of the bus promo campaign and promo posters. More pictures can be found on Kostas Flickr.

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And here are two hilarious videos promoting the concert.


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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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Interview with Magnus Börjeson on Nordic Rox

Mar 13

Posted by Judith in Band Members, Radio | Comments off

One of our readers sent us a link to an interview with Magnus Börjeson which was broadcasted on Nordic Rox (program on US radio station SIRIUS XM) some days ago.

In this nice interview Magnus talks about his career and some of his music productions and projects are played as well:

  • Here She Comes Again – Vibike Saugestad (produced, played by Magnus and David Birde, ex-Brainpool!)
  • The Morning Show – Metrojets (with David Birde)
  • Sound of Noice (film)
  • Beagle
  • Favorita
  • Goodbye London – Luke Jackson (with Magnus, Christoffer, recorded in AGM)
  • Magnus’ favourite track: Jet by Paul McCartney.

And much more! Enjoy!

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Roxette gets an A on BBC’s Radio 2!

Mar 7

Posted by Alison in Radio, Releases, Roxette | 8 Comments

UK Roxette fans have good news this week. Roxette’s single ‘She’s Got Nothing On (But The Radio)’ has made it to the exclusive A-List on BBC’s Radio 2 which is absolutely fantastic news since Radio 2 is perhaps one of the biggest national radio stations in the country.

According to the BBC Radio 2 website the Playlist Committee, is made up of producers and chaired by Jeff Smith, Head of Music Radio 2. They meet each week to decide which new releases will be added to the station’s playlist.

The playlist contains about 30 tracks which are then divided into three different levels the A list, which receive the most plays, about 20 each week, the B list which gets around 10 plays and the C list which receives around 5 plays.

Per tweeted his happiness this morning:

‘She’s Got Nothing On (But The Radio) has been A-listed on BBC Radio 2 playlist in UK” – We like that!!!’

Yes Per so do we…