Charts

A cover of Roxette’s ”Listen To Your Heart” on the US charts

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Mainstream Rock is Billboard magazine’s music chart that ranks the most played songs on mainstream rock radio stations in the US. Listen To Your Heart has now entered the charts at No. 40 in the interpretation of an American hard rock band, Through Fire. The band was founded in 2015 and released their 2nd album, All Animals – on which their Listen To Your Heart cover can be found – on 19th July 2019. It’s not the first time the band appears on the charts. Their debut single Stronger reached number 29 and 3 other songs were also charting. Their highest peak position was 13 with their 2016 single, Breathe. Listen To Your Heart was released as a single and an official video to it was published on 9th December 2019, before anyone knew what happened in the Roxette World that day. The single features an acoustic version too.

Listen To Your Heart was written by Per Gessle and Mats MP Persson on 3-4 May 1988 and was released as the second single from Roxette’s second studio album, Look Sharp! in September the same year. This is what Per told about it earlier:

I co-wrote this with MP Persson in May of 1988 and it immediately felt very special. The lyrics came from an all night conversation I’d had with a friend who was going through a heartbreaking divorce. In the studio with Roxette it sounded awesome, with Marie taking the lead role and Clarence creating that beautiful piano intro.

Our ambition was to make it sound really ”American”. I guess we succeeded…

It has become our most popular song all over the world and was our second No. 1 in the US.

Roxette reached their 2nd No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 with the song on 4th November 1989.

A Belgian dance group, DHT did a trance cover of LTYH and it became a hit in the US and in some other countries. This way in 2005 Listen To Your Heart returned to the top 10 on the Billboard (reaching No. 8) as DHT’s remake.

American radios played Listen To Your Heart more than 5 million times. In 1998 Roxette received an award from BMI for this song being played over 2 million times on American radio. Phil Graham of BMI said it was very unusual for a song to get over the 2 million mark in such a short space of time. In October 2006, helped by DHT’s cover, Roxette were awarded again by BMI for the song’s 3 millionth broadcast on American radio. Per and MP got the Million-Air Award for 4 million plays in 2008 and for 5 million plays in 2014.

Let’s see how high the cover of Through Fire climbs. And hey, looking forward to the 6 million plays ceremony anytime!

Update
28/03/2020 – No. 39
04/04/2020 – No. 35
11/04/2020 – No. 33
18/04/2020 – No. 36
25/04/2020 – No. 33
02/05/2020 – No. 35
09/05/2020 – No. 36
16/05/2020 – No. 36
23/05/2020 – No. 35
30/05/2020 – No. 32
06/06/2020 – No. 32
13/06/2020 – No. 33
20/06/2020 – No. 33
27/06/2020 – No. 34
04/07/2020 – No. 37

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

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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!

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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

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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.

Good Karma entered the Swedish charts at No. 1 and No. 2!

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Roxette’s new album, Good Karma was released on 3rd June and so it’s the first week we can see it on the Swedish charts. The record entered at No. 2 on the album charts and at No. 1 on the vinyl charts! Yay! Fantastic news!

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Let’s have a look back on Roxette’s studio albums, at which position they entered the Swedish charts. Except for Pearls Of Passion, Charm School and Travelling, all other albums popped up on the album charts at No. 1, all 6 of them keeping the position for several weeks.

Pearls Of Passion
Entered the charts at No. 4 on 19th November 1986. Highest position was No. 2.

Look Sharp!
Entered the charts at No. 1 on 2nd November 1988.

Joyride
Entered the charts at No. 1 on 10th April 1991.

Tourism
Entered the charts at No. 1 on 16th September 1992.

Crash! Boom Bang!
Entered the charts at No. 1 on 15th April 1994.

Have A Nice Day
Entered the charts at No. 1 on 4th March 1999.

Room Service
Entered the charts at No. 1 on 12th April 2001.

Charm School
Entered the charts at No. 2 on 18th February 2011. Highest position was No. 2.

Travelling
Entered the charts at No. 8 on 30th March 2012. Highest position was No. 7.

 

Now Good Karma put Roxette back on track and who knows, maybe next week it’s at No. 1 not only on the vinyl, but on the album charts as well! Wishing as many top position weeks as possible!

Get the album at a record shop near you or at the following places: Bengans, Ginza, CDON, Amazon,  iTunes, Spotify, Deezer.

 

Update on 17th June 2016: 2nd week on the Swedish album charts: #12; vinyl charts: #5.