Venezuelian promotor Emporio Group announced yesterday that Roxette is set to perform in Caracas, Venezuela on April 17. Tickets are already on sale on Tuticket.com.
The concert in Quito, Ecaudor was moved to April 19 according to the official schedule on Roxette.se.
Thanks to RoxetteCafe.com for sharing this news.
According to Swedish online shops – Ginza.se, Bengans.se and CDon.se – the new Roxette album called “Travelling” will be released on March 23, a week earlier than previously expected. On the same date such star like Madonna will also release her long anticipated album.
Update February 7: As it looks like, the album will be released on March 23 in Germany and other “Friday release” countries, March 26 in most other countries.
As Swedish Government informs on its official website – Roxette is to receive music export award for 2011. Here is the official statement:
This year’s music export award-winnig duo celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2011 with one of the biggest tours a Swedish band has ever done. The world tour that began in Russia in February 2011 – and that will extend well into this year – exceeded the forecast for number of tickets sold to over one million. The group has since its start sold over 50 million albums and another 20 million singles, and created some of music history’s greatest hits: It Must Have Been Love, Joyride, The Look, Listen to Your Heart and Dressed for success – just to name a few. After ABBA – Roxette’s the most successful band of all time on the international music scene.
The Government’s 2011 Music Export Prize will go to Swedish House Mafia as well. Roxette received this prize once in the past in 2001 for Room Service album and tour.
Congrats to Roxette from the whole RoxetteBlog.com team!
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
Some of us like the cover, some of us hate the cover. This is always like that with every Roxette release. Hard to please all at the same time.
But hatred aside (just jokin!), can you help us to investigate if any of band members’ picture from the cover had been published online previously?
Basia Konarzewska from RoxettePL Facebook page informs that Helena’s photography was taken during Dutch Bospop Festival – here’s the orginal picture.
Swedish photographer Fredrik Etoall is the man in charge for new Roxette photosession that will probably find its way in the TRAVELLING album bookler or promotion process. He has published a blurry photo from his photoshoot yesterday.
Thanks to RoxetteCafe.com for this information.
If you haven’t become a fan of the official TRAVELLING cover YET, so we collected several fan made ideas how the album cover could’ve looked like in parallel universes.
Would you like to share your vision of the parallel world? Send your projects to office@roxetteblog.com
We have it! Barry Mieny informed us that the font used on the TRAVELLING album cover is called Vanthian Ragnarok.
Tina Engmann added that “Songs from Studios, Stages, Hotel Rooms and other strange Places” is written with Bebas Neue and Roxette on the bus with Musa.
Antonio Epifania from Australia reports that Sydney radio station Mix 106.5 is giving listeners a chance to win a meet & greetwith Roxette plus tickets to their show on the 25th of February! He was listening after they announced Monday’s winner to an interview with Oscar winner South African actress Charlize Theron and it turned out that she is also a Roxette fan! Roxette helped her get through her difficult high school years.
You can have a listen here & she says it at 1:45min
The cover of the forthcoming album called TRAVELLING was published today on the Roxette’s Facebook page. After previous projects for “2Rism” and “T2 – Tourism2″ Roxette finally decided to pick up different name. The album is due to be released on March 30 in Sweden.
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)
As you know – the plane picture used on not the final cover of the Roxette’s forthcoming “T2 – Tourism 2″ album was taken by Norwegian photographer Fredrik Olastuen. Who is he – you may ask.
Here’s the little piece of information he publishes on his Flickr page.
26 years old, living in Jessheim, Akershus, Norway.
Work in the videoconferencing industry, certified on Tandberg equipment. When not on work, I spend most of my time as a hobby-/freelance-photographer.
I do mostly sports and concert foto, but experiencing with all kind of genres.
I have always been interested in photo, but it really startet to evolve when I bought my first DSLR. Now I’m almost only shooting with my Canon Powershot G10, but it’s still a lot of fun and I like to experience with motives and techniques.
My main goal is to have fun and take nice pictures of my life and surroundings, and experience while having fun. If you like my photos, that’s a nice bonus
If you want to follow my updates, you can add me as a contact here on Flickr or on Twitter where I will post every time I publish new photos.
Our reader Barry Mieny has removed the dark area in the bottom of the cover published by online Swedish shop CDON.com. If you look closer you may see that the album’s name includes colone instead of dash [T2:Tourism2[ and that there’ll probably be no spaces in between. This looks like a very tricky name!
We have no confirmation if this cover is real or not.
Update: The cover appeared in better quality at Ginza.se:
Thanks Honky Tonk!
Update 2 by J: Sven H has done some research and found the original plane picture and some information. The picture with the airplane was taken by Fredrik Olastuen who posted the following on his blog:
Speaking of photography, before the weekend I had a very pleasant surprise. Somebody had discovered one of my photos on Flickr and wanted to buy it, to use it album cover of a famous band in Sweden. I, of course, agreed to it, nice that my work is noticed and is appreciated. The picture otherwise also received many good comments earlier, quite funny actually, since the picture was taken almost by chance.
And I myself found this comment on Fredrik Olastuen page, left by Pär Wickholm at Minus on January 11. He basically writes that he works as a graphic designer and would like to buy a picture for an album cover for a “successful artist in Sweden”.
So it looks like the cover will at least have this plane on the cover. The idea is nice, also playing with the T2 = terminal 2, plane, travel, that the whole band is on the cover.. but let’s hope the bus and the band pictures get better!
Thanks Sven!
Jan 25
Per Gessle has just answered fan’s questions on the Roxette’s Facebook page if the Colombian gig is cancelled . Unfortunately, he confirmed that.
Looks like the Col gig won’t happen this year. Some LiveNation issue I guess.
It is very likely that Chilean date will be included in the tour schedule between Quito and Lima concerts.
Update January 24:
Here’s the intial cover for T2 – Tourism 2 release. CDON.com also changed Unviersal reference – the album will be out on EMI label.
Swedish base online shop CDON.com published intial date for the T2 – Tourism 2 album release. According to the website the new Roxette album goes out on March 30 and will cost around EUR 17.95. The name is still unknown.
The interesting fact is that it’s the first Roxette’s album to be released under Universal Music label.
Thanks to Daniel Kuhn for finding this and RoxetteCafe.com for informing about the cover.
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