Per Gessle – On Top of Billboard

Only 18 people have ever, as the sole songwriter, had more than two No. 1 hits on Billboard’s Hot 100 list. This was announced by Billboard where they also listed all of the 18 people who have succeeded with the achievement, since ‘Billboard Hot 100’ was launched in 1958.

As Billboard writes, the majority of hit songs in recent years have been written by committee. But prior to 2000, many songs were the work of just one songwriter – a talented scribe who, all by him or herself, came up with both music and lyrics (imagine that!).

With three number one hits, Per Gessle takes a place on this list, as the sole songwriter for Roxette’s songs “The Look” (1989), “It Must Have Been Love” (1990) and “Joyride” (1991).

Per says:

Wow! Amazing to be in such great company. Being number one on Billboard’s Hot 100 is every songwriter’s big dream. My most humble and sincere thanks.

The 18 songwriters on the list are (alphabetical order, number of No. 1 songs): Lionel Richie (8), Diane Warren (8), Michael Jackson (7), George Michael (7), Paul McCartney (7), Stevie Wonder (7), Prince (6), Phil Collins (4), Neil Diamond (4), Paul Simon (4), John Denver (3), John Farrar (3), Per Gessle (3), Billy Joel (3), R. Kelly (3), Richard Marx (3), Maurice Starr (3), Sly Stone (3).

Ten of these 18 songwriters have been inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. Per Gessle has not yet been inducted, but we think he would also well deserve it!

Roxette has 4 Billboard No. 1 songs. Besides the above mentioned 3, “Listen To Your Heart” was also No. 1 (1989). Per Gessle wrote it together with Mats MP Persson.

Huge congratulations, Per!

Photo by Anton Corbijn

Per Gessle – “En vacker dag” entered the charts!

In April, 1 week after its release date, ”En vacker natt” entered the Swedish album charts at No. 1. Now ”En vacker dag”, the second Nashville album has entered the album charts at No. 2 and it’s No. 1 on the vinyl charts! The album was No. 1 on iTunes in Sweden already on release day and it stayed there for some days and switched places with other artists’ new albums in the Top3 for days.

Congrats to Mr. G!!!

You can listen to the album or get your copy here: , , , , , , .

Per Gessle’s Mazarin is No. 1 again!

When Per Gessle announced the release of Mazarin on vinyl in the interview we did with him in May, we all got excited. The fans always wanted Mazarin on vinyl, but it never happened. Until 7th July 2017! 1 week after its release date, the vinyl is No. 1 on the Swedish vinyl charts and it brought Mazarin back on the album charts as well! Woohoo! How cool is that!

Mazarin was released on 16th June 2003 and it became gold already on its release day. 2 days later it became platinum and platinum it is 5x! A little history:

  • Gold 2003-06-16
  • Platinum 2003-06-18
  • Platinum x2 2003-08-04
  • Platinum x3 2003-08-19
  • Platinum x4 2003-11-21
  • Platinum x5 2004-02-02

The album entered the charts at No. 1 on 26th June 2003 and kept its No. 1 position for 11 weeks. I mean 11 weeks!!! Mazarin was on the charts for 66 weeks and came back as No. 1 on 23rd January 2004 for 2 weeks. Now for the 67th time it’s on the album charts again at No. 15!

En vacker natt is at No. 21 now on the album charts and No. 9 on the vinyl charts.

Big congrats to Mr. G! And thanks for this release from the bottom of our hearts!

You can order your copy of the Mazarin vinyl here: Bengans, Ginza or buy it at the merch stand during Per’s summer tour or get yourself a signed copy at Hotel Tylösand. 😉

 

RoXXXette On The Road entered the charts

RoXXXette On The Road, Roxette’s extremely beautiful tour photo book photographed by Anders Roos was published on 16th June. The book that includes 41 reflections by Per Gessle has 2 editions, a normal and a limited edition version in 300 copies called The Roxers Edition. The latter one is presented in a very cool hard case and includes 16 additional pages vs. the normal edition, plus a print from the book signed by Anders Roos and the book itself is signed by Per in silver.

The book entered the charts and it’s not even a week ago since it’s out. The positions show high interest in both editions, even if The Roxers Edition is not listed at too many selling points. Let’s see the actual chart positions!

Bokus

On the daily sales charts we could already see that the limited edition book topped the list (actually, it’s now already out of stock), but now the weekly chart is also available and we can see the normal edition is in the Top5 as well. Woohoo!

RoXXXette On The Road – The Roxers Edition: No. 1 in Culture category
RoXXXette On The Road (normal edition): No. 5 in Culture category

Ginza

RoXXXette On The Road (normal edition): No. 2 among all books!!!

 

Congrats for reaching such nice positions on the charts! Keep it up!

RoXXXette On The Road entered the charts

 

Update on 27th June: both editions of the book kept their positions (No. 1 and No. 5) at Bokus, while at Ginza, the normal edition became No. 1.

Marie Fredriksson’s biography entered the charts

ktl_3dKärleken till livet, Marie’s biography was published on 7th October. At least this is the date most sites promoted and this is the date till which we could see the countdown on Marie’s Facebook page. However, the publishing company, Piratförlaget still has 14th October on their website. It seems that most shops and webshops already got the book and shipped them to those who ordered it even from abroad. If you ordered it, but haven’t found it in your mailbox yet, keep calm, it will surely reach you one of these days.

The book entered several charts and it’s not even a week ago since it’s out. The positions show high interest in Ms. Fredriksson’s biography. Not only in Sweden, but also around the world. Look at Ginza! Imagine the sales figures if the book is translated into English and other languages! 😉

 

Ginza book audio book

No. 1 among all books!!!
The audio book is No. 8 on the list of best selling books, however, here it’s released on 16th October.

Adlibris book e-book audio book

No. 7 among all books!
Here you could order a limited number of signed copies if you live in Sweden or ordered the book to a Swedish address where you could pick it up. The book is nicely signed by Marie and Helena.

CDON book audio book

No. 16 among newly published books
No. 12 in non-fiction category

Bokus book e-book audio book

No. 20 among biographies

Bokon e-book

No. 31 among all e-books
(You can also read a short part of the book here.)

 

Congrats to Marie and Helena for reaching such nice positions on the charts! Looking forward to next week’s results!