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Per Gessle and MP at the BMI Awards

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The 2014 BMI London Awards took place at the Dorchester Hotel (Park Lane) tonight. The invitation-only gala recognizes the UK and European songwriters and publishers of the past year’s most-played BMI songs on American radio and television. As Per posted about it earlier today, he and Mats MP Persson were there to receive the Million-Air Awards for Listen To Your Heart and It Must Have Been Love for the songs being played more than 5 million times each. Per has been prepared for this event since at least a year ago, when he posted a pic of him and MP from the 2005 gala. 5 million plays! Sounds fab, doesn’t it! I mean it’s really huge! Just to make it easier (or harder) to imagine, 5 million plays of LTYH means appr. 50 years if it were constantly played and 5 million plays of IMHBL means appr. 41 years. Amazing!

In the meantime, LTYH video is heading for 40 million views on YouTube, while IMHBL is heading for 45 million. Millions here and there and everywhere. Hats off! Before the gala, Per posted both videos (1, 2) on Roxette Official with these words:

OVER five million radioplays in the US. Happy. Proud. Thanx everyone for listening! /P.

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Check the photo on BMI’s website!

Per says in a short BMI interview:

I hope we’re good role models for the new generation.

 

One more short PG interview has been uploaded by BMI on 27th October. Check it out by clicking HERE.

 

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MP, Marie and Per at the BMI Awards gala in 2005. Pic from BMI.

1 million plays earlier, It Must Have Been Love got the BMI Million-Air Award for 4 million plays in 2005. Marie and Per were there at the gala. You’ll find some pics here. You can watch a video with Per from that year about how he started and another about how he writes.

Listen To Your Heart got the award for 4 million plays 3 years later, in 2008. Here you will find a pic and here a video with Per and MP. Per says:

It’s great! I mean this is for 4 million airplays. It’s the second time I’m part of it. This is for Listen To Your Heart, last time it was for It Must Have Been Love. It’s just amazing! Amazing! I have to pinch my arm. It’s just great!

 

Photos from the event:

Photos on Roxette Official and PER GESSLE OFFICIAL: 1, 2, 3, 4,

rexfeatures.com photos

contactmusic.com

entertainment.ie

tipsimages.it: 1, 2, 3

monstersandcritics.com: 1, 2, 3

musikindustrin.se article

 

Poll results! Roxette fans would love to hear these songs live!

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After weeks of voting.. here are the results! This is the Top 10 of songs that fans woud love to hear live in the next Roxette tour, which starts soon! Some of them were never played live, some have been but long long time ago.

1. A Thing About You – 275
2. Almost Unreal – 172
3. (Do You Get) Excited – 160
4. Paint – 155
5. June Afternoon – 119
6. The Sweet Hello, The Sad Goodbye – 97
7. What’s She Like – 84
8. Touched By The Hand Of God – 78
9. Speak To Me – 79
10. The Rain – 65

Thank you very much  for participating. Now let’s just cross our fingers and hope that one (or two?) of these songs makes it to the setlist.

A Thing About You – video

Almost Unreal – Live

(Do You Get) Excited? – Live

Paint – Live

You can check out all results here.

Which Roxette songs would you like to hear live? #12 and final!

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rox-rehearsalAs soon as we got to know that Roxette would embark on a world tour this year we started a poll for all of you to choose those songs that you would like Roxette to play live – and haven’t been played live at all or not for a (very) long time. We have run 11 polls since May!

This week, Per and Marie and the band started rehearsing for the tour, which starts this month (! time flies, huh?) in Vladivostok (RU) and, if everything goes as planned, will last until 2016! Per posted this picture and this message on Facebook today:

GREETINGS FROM THE REHEARSALS! WONDERFUL day today. Great to see all the guys and dolls in the band + crew. We’re on a roll! More to come, watch this space! /P.

So we now decided to run one more poll. This time we have selected the Top 3 of each poll (except 5 for the last poll with more songs), in total 35 songs and we would like to ask you to choose 2 of these songs – which ones are your favourite? Or would love to hear live? The poll will run until the end of this week so hurry up!

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Here are all the results per poll:

Pearls of Passion:
#1 – Neverending Love (247 votes)
#2 – So Far Away (222 votes)
#3 – Secrets That She Keeps (217 votes)

Look Sharp!
#1 – Paint (504 votes)
#2 – (I Could Never) Give You Up (282)
#3 – Sleeping Single (207)

Joyride
#1 – (Do You Get) Excited? (404 votes)
#2 – Hotblooded (292 votes)
#3 – Knockin’ On Every Door (278 votes)

Tourism
#1 – The Rain (296 votes)
#2 – Fingertips (252 votes)
#3 – Queen Of Rain (239 votes)

Crash! Boom! Bang!
#1 – Fireworks (407 votes)
#2 – What’s She Like? (385 votes)
#3 – Run To You (384 votes)

Have A Nice Day
#1 – Crush On You (465 votes)
#2 – Anyone (257 votes)
#3 – Beautiful Things (222 votes)

Room Service
#1 – The Center Of The Heart (378 votes)
#2 – Milk And Toast And Honey (374 votes)
#3 – Real Sugar (324 votes)

Charm School
#1 – Speak To Me (613 votes)
#2 – No One Makes It On Her Own (302 votes)
#3 – Only When I Dream (301 votes)

Travelling
#1 – Lover Lover Lover (675 votes)
#2 – Touched By The Hand Of God (668 votes)
#3 – Me & You & Terry & Julie (351 votes)

Special poll #1 – album singles and hits
#1 – Crash! Boom! Bang! (368 votes)
#2 – Fading Like A Flower (305 votes)
#3 – Wish I Could Fly (271 votes)

Special poll #2 – hits and b-sides
#1 – A Thing About You (552 votes)
#2 – June Afternoon (545 votes)
#3 – Almost Unreal ( 485 votes)
#4 – The Sweet Hello, The Sad Goodbye (435 votes)
#5 – One Wish (370 votes)

Look Sharp! 25 radio documentary on the shortlist at the Swedish Radio gala

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You surely remember the fabulous radio documentary of Tara Moshizi and Tove Meyer related to Look Sharp!’s 25th anniversary. Here you can read our summary of the docu, which was broadcast on New Year’s Eve last year. Now this great radio documentary got on the shortlist for The music program of the year at the Swedish Radio gala.

Stora Radiopriset is organized by the Radio Academy, which is a nonprofit organization in alliance with major radio companies. The aim is to annually reward and pay attention to Sweden’s best radio productions. This year there was a record number of nominations, namely 260 programs were nominated. On 18th September it will turn out if the Roxette docu is the winner of the category.

Keep your fingers crossed, Roxers! Good luck, Tara & Tove! You would definitely deserve this great prize.

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