Roxette entered the Swedish album chart at #8 with “Travelling”. As expected, #1 was Madonna with her “MDNA”. This means that Roxette was the second highest entry this week.
(One could think it was a bit of a bad timing to release the album the same week as Madonna…, but who cares, we still love our great band).
Per Gessle announced yesterday on Facebook that the video of “It’s Possible” will be premiered on Saturday March 31 on at Nyhetsmorgon, on the Swedish channel TV4.
Per will be in the TV studio for an interview as well. Normally the show is available online some hours after the TV broadcast.
Looks like the video premiere of It’s Possible + PG live interview in the studiosofa will be the real deal at Nyhetsmorgon, Swedish TV4 this Saturday at 10.30 am. Swell.
Update: Marie will join Per for the interview, which could already happen on 9.00 am!
The German video premiere will follow soon after, at 12.00 pm on MyVideo.de.
Mar 28
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.
Mar 28
This the new ad promoting “Travelling” album in Sweden. It includes previously not seen pictures from Asian leg of the tour.
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.
Mar 27
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.
The news seem to have been circulating for a few days now. It is however still not confirmed at this point.
We have received some messages from fans indicating that Roxette are to play at Molson Amphitheatre in Toronto on August 30, 2012. But again, as mentioned above, the date is still not confirmed and the information we could find was published on ticket reseller websites.
Per Gessle commented in Facebook some weeks ago that they would probably be in Canada end of August and in US in September (Articles no 1, no 2 and no 3).
We will post the official information and the link to the official ticket seller when we receive it from Live Nation. For now we can only recommend to wait a little bit and avoid super expensive reseller websites.
Roxette’s performance at Swiss SF1 show Benissimo can now be found on the Benissimo website (starts at about 2:00:00) or youtube (see below). Roxette performed “It’s Possible” in which seems to be the only TV performance to promote “Travelling”.
There was also a short interview on SF1 Glanz & Gloria
Jonas Åkerlund’s “Small Apartments” film had its official premiere on the SXWS festival in Texas last week. As for long-awaited soundtracked composed by Per Gessle – there is still not stiff release date. According to Gessle himself:
Nobody knows [when it'll be out]. Chris is putting together the last missing bits as I write this. Mastering next. Release: ? – Cheers, P.
We will keep you posted once we know any details (or rumours).
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!
Here is a collection of some videos we found on YouTube with the new songs from Travelling.
The purpose of adding the links here is to spread the word about this brilliant new album, don’t forget to buy a copy on iTunes or Amazon or your store next door! You can also listen to the album in some countries on Spotify.
The videos might be gone soon, so just use your imagination to look for other options.
01. Me & You & Terry & Julie
02. Lover Lover Lover
03. Turn Of The Tide
04. Touched By The Hand Of God
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Here are the very first look at Roxette’s TRAVELLING album. Have you purchased/ordered your copy yet?
Marie Fredriksson gave a touching interview for programme about cancer done for a Russian NTV channel. Here are the quotes from Marie translated by Evgeny Perekopskiy and proofread by Celestte. This exclusive interview was shot during one-hour session at Marie’s house in Stockholm in December 2011.
WATCH THE WHOLE PROGRAMME (Marie’s part starts at 39:48)
Narrator:
A slim woman singing about changes in the microphone can actually grab the audience in venues with the capacity of 100 000 people. But when she tries to say the word “cancer”, she still feels insecure.
Marie Fredriksson
I couldn’t learn how to talk about it without worrying. I just sang the song “The Change”. Few people know that this song is about cancer. For some unknown reason I needed this meeting with cancer. It changed me totally. I started to listen to my inner voice, talk to my body. And the main thing is that I started to draw. (Marie laughs)
All that I feel and experience is in these drawings. By the way, this is Madonna (Marie points at her drawing). Not the singer, no. This is the Madonna that I imagine for myself. Who saved me from illness. Who rescued me.
The first drawings I created because of fear. I just wanted to understand what was happening to me. What the cancer was all about.
Narrator:
Looking like an alien, drawing alien subjects, for a while wonderfully Marie Fredriksson created her personal, alien theory of the origin of cancer.
Marie Fredriksson:
I started to think that cancer is somehow a new form of life inside of us. That people having those cells that then will become cancerous are born and live and then those cells wake up. And perhaps in the future people will be able to live with those cells.
Narrator:
In spite of the incredible story, from the scientific point of view, the singer of Roxette is right in many things. To transform cancer in chronic illness that won’t break off life is one of the directions of the modern scientific thought
