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RoxetteBlog Facebook is back in our hands!

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It’s a crazy world out there… During the past 4 days the team got like 10-20 years older fighting against the hackers, but fortunately, we got our admin rights back to our Facebook page just an hour ago and kicked out all the Vietnamese hacker admins. Their post on our page got deleted by us and now we are trying to get our original name back, which might take some more time, since it’s not possible to change a page’s name each day. Changes are only permitted once every 7 days.

Thanks for all the support you provided us with during these difficult days, either it was sharing the info to warn others, reporting the hackers, reporting the page or sending us kind words. That really means a lot to us and keeps us going!

Let’s hope we won’t face anything similar again in the future and we can continue bringing the latest news from the Roxette world to you without any hiccups.

Thanks for your great support once again! Much appreciated!

RXB Team

Update on 21st July 2021: Unfortunately, after 1 month of trying to get our name back, Facebook now has changed it to this one: S?n Hàng Hi?u+ … It seems that it was still a pending request from the Vietnamese hackers that got through almost in a month to change the name in 2 steps for something without RoxetteBlog. We won’t give up! Thanks for your patience!

 

RoxetteBlog on Facebook got hacked

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UPDATE at 18:30 on 28th, June: It seems we got back the admin rights, so you can stop reporting the page. Thanks for your support! 🙂 Checking all other settings now and hopefully, we can set back the page’s original name very soon. Will let you all know when it works normally again.

 

 

 

 

June 25th, 2021: Unfortunately, our Facebook page, RoxetteBlog got hacked and we are currently not able to post on it, only to add comments under posts already published. In case you get a private message from us, please don’t open it and don’t reply to it! We are trying to sort things out asap. We have reported the issue to Facebook, but it might take a longer time until we get help from them.

We will let you know once the page is working fine again.

UPDATE at 0:01 on 28th June, 2021: Unfortunately, Facebook Help Center was useless, we tried everything during the past 3 days to get the page back, but we have lost this case… Can’t tell you how disappointed and upset we are. The page got in the hands of some Vietnamese hackers. No chance to get it back so PLEASE report the RoxetteBlog Facebook page, not to hand this community of more than 50,000 people over to them. We will create a new page of course, but until the original one is up, we are afraid our profiles would be hacked and then the new page could be hacked too. So once again, please, report the RoxetteBlog Facebook page via THIS post.

Twitter and this website will still work until a new Facebook page is created. We will let you know here once it’s up. Thanks for your support!

UPDATE at 7:03 on 28th June, 2021: The Facebook page name has now been changed to this one by the hackers: San Hang Hieu RoxetteBlog. Please, report the page before you unfollow it! Thanks for your support!

 

Contest: win a copy of Per’s and Roxette’s Record Store Day special vinyls!

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KIMB_LC_Per_GessleRoxetteBlog is turning five years old today and we are happy to run a special competition to celebrate this!

In cooperation with Per’s and Roxette’s management D&D, we are giving away one copy of Per’s “The Per Gessle Archives” 7″ single and one copy of Roxette’s “The Look” special 25th anniversary 7″. Both singles were released on April 26th for the Swedish Record Store Day and are very limited editions (500 and 1000 copies each).

In order to participate simply answer the following questions:

– When and where did Per and Marie celebrate the 25th anniversary of “The Look” reaching #1 at USA charts?
– The “Per Gessle Archives” 7″ is an advance of an exclusive box-set that will be released in Septethelookmber 2014. The release focuses on three parts of Per’s career, which ones?

Send an email with your name, home address (so we can send the single) and the answer to the questions to [deleted] until May 6th 23:59 CET. The 2 lucky winners will be announced a few days later.

Good luck!

And thanks D&D for this!

Update May 14th: winners are Travis W. from Australia and Kelly M. from Canada.


And here is the small letter, contest terms and conditions
– In order to participate, you have to send an email to rxbcontests@gmail.com with name, address and answer to the 2 questions. We will consider all emails we receive until the 6th of May 2014, 23:59 CET time.
– 2 winners will be picked up randomly among those who have participated and sent the correct answer, prize (either the Per Gessle or Roxette 7″ vinyl) will also be chosen randomly.
– As it is usual, you can only participate once, any attempt to participate twice will lead to your disqualification.
– Prizes won’t be paid out in cash. Prizes will be sent by standard mail only once (so basically, if the envelope gets lost.. we won’t be able to send a replacement)!
– Winners will be announced on this website and will also be notified per email. You’ll be required to answer to the email confirming your address.
– Roxetteblog.com will not enter into any correspondence regarding the result of the contest and is not liable for any damages, loss or expenses that may result in connection to the prize.
– All submitted data will only be used for the purpose of the contest and, in case you are one of the lucky winners, to send you the prize.

RoxetteBlog turns 5!

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Yes, I cannot believe it myself. In a way, it feels like yesterday. On the other hand, it feels more like 25. OK, maybe not 25 but 10?

A lot has happened since that April 2009 when we were in the middle of a Per tour across Europe and the rumours of Roxette (!!) joining NOTP started to show up. The idea was to write about that tour and anything around Roxette, make a kind of archive of all news, probably back then we thought it would be more of the ‘around Roxette’ than Roxette itself, but I think somewhere in our hearts we believed that there would be lots of Roxette to write about. And it turned out to be more than that, we just finished reporting about Marie touring solo across Sweden! And right after the end of the tour we are again reporting about a new Roxette tour… as many say, a neverending tour, or it all begins where it ends.

Surely, we didn’t expect to have so many things to write about and that this project would take up so much time and that it would be so much fun. And I will not lie, there have been some downs as well, times of ‘let’s close it down’ – but then something always happens, a few nice words or some other tiny detail that turn it all it around and brings us back to the reason and magic of why we are doing this.

So thank you everyone reading, following us on FB, sending (nice) feedback, supporting us in a way or another. And, of course, to the great team!

To the next [whatever period of time you wish us to stick around]! (where is Per’s champagne when we need it?)

Ah! And don’t miss out our RXB5 birthday contest!

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L to R: Judith, Kirsten, Patrícia, Tomasz at one of Marie’s concerts. Sascha is missing. Target for 2014/2015: a picture of all 5 together.

Some facts and figures:

Articles written since we started: 1.735, busiest month: March 2012 with 64 articles (!)
Over 3 million views, highest again March 2012
Most written about category: Roxette, followed by tour.