Fritzon’s company develops audiobook machine for libraries

HALMSTAD - SweMD, the Halmstad-based company owned by Gyllene Tider's Göran Fritzon and MP Persson among others, started their web-based audiobook store in October last year. Read the full story...

Dancin’ DJs’ single out in July

Dancin' DJs v. Roxette's single "Fading Like a Flower" will be released July 25 and TDR can show you pictures from the video and the single sleeve. Read the full story...

Totta Näslund, 60, dies after long illness

Swedish blues and folk singer Totta Näslund, 60, passed away Sunday morning after a long illness.  Read the full story...

Roxette-song on Billboard Hot 100

(UPDATED) - After a long, long time a Roxette song enters the Billboard Hot 100 Singles Chart. Read the full story...

Frida re-releasing “Something’s Going On”

Frida, the brunette of ABBA, will re-release her 1982 album "Something's Going On" June 20, at least in the UK. Read the full story...

Minor record label in Halmstad revolts

HALMSTAD - The record label Westcoast Studios in Halmstad wants to show the politicians and record company moguls that you can get a big hit without marketing budgets in the million krona range. Read the full story...

Aftonbladet: “Gessle gets 20 million kronor”

Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet reports today about Gyllene Tider's "secret deal;" the income resulting from last year's tour, summarizing that Per Gessle earned 20 million Swedish kronor (€2.2 million), while the rest of the band got a mere two million kronor (€220,000) each. Read the full story...

New book about Halland out

There's a new Roxette track out there. This time it's not played by Roxette, but by Ginestrakvartetten (The Ginestra Quartet) and it's a beautiful seven and a half minute long medley of "Vulnerable", "It Must Have Been Love", "Dressed for Success" and "The Look". Read the full story...

Per Gessle inspired Brainpool to release greatest hits album

"It was actually your beloved Per Gessle who initiated the compilation," said Brainpool's David Birde in an exclusive interview with The Daily Roxette regarding their forthcoming greatest hits album.   "Apparently he was at home, listening to our albums and was once again struck by how good we were," David tells TDR. Read the full story...

Brainpool releases greatest hits album, “lost” single

CDON lists a Brainpool greatest hits album due out on June 1. The album, titled "We Aimed To Please," contains various unrelased songs and single b-sides as well as a bonus DVD. Read the full story...

iTunes enter Sweden finally

Today Apple's very successful legal downloading service iTunes opened its gates in Sweden. Read the full story...

Hotel Tylösand makes big profit

HALMSTAD - Hotel Tylösand (Tylöhus to the locals) made a nice profit of 20 million kronor (€2.2 million) last year. Read the full story...

New Marie Fredriksson single out in May

STOCKHOLM (UPDATED) - According to Capitol Sweden, the third single from Marie Fredriksson's "The Change" will be "A Table in the Sun", which will hit the stores on May 18.   Previously released singles from "The Change" are "2nd Chance" (October 6, 2004) and "All About You" (December 1, 2004). Read the full story...

“I’m gonna run to you…”

HELSINKI - Finally it has happened! Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of The Daily Roxette, Visa Kopu, has finally gotten his Tia! Read the full story...

Gessle receives Liseberg award in front of 5,500 people

GOTHENBURG - Per Gessle received the Lisbergsapplåd award yesterday in front of the first visitors to Gothenburg's amusement park, which had just opened its doors for this year's season.   "It is a honor to receive this award. Read the full story...

Lundquist’s Junk Musik abandons the CD

MALMÖ - While some Swedish artists sign an open letter to stop the downloading of their work, others find Internet a fast, easy and simple way to release music. Read the full story...

Ifpi Sweden fights online piracy with an open letter

STOCKHOLM (UPDATED) - Ifpi (International Federation of the Phonographic Industry) issued today an open letter that has been published in several Swedish newspapers. Read the full story...

New Roxette-inspired Single in the UK?

LONDON - A hospital radio station in the UK has a tentative release date for the dance single by Dancing DJs. Read the full story...

Per Gessle to receive “Lisebergsapplåd” award

GOTHENBURG (UPDATED) - This year's "Lisebergsapplåden" [Liseberg's Applause] award will go to Per Gessle "because he has made Sweden a happier place in the past 25 years with his sparkling pop-pearls" says Liseberg's marketing manager Pelle Johannisson in a note published on the amusement park's website today. Read the full story...

Per releases remix album of “Mazarin” songs

STOCKHOLM (UPDATED) - Per has said earlier that he's working on a new album and now he has revealed parts of the new material. Read the full story...

“Listen To Your Heart” breaks onto US dance radio chart

European group "DHT" and their cover of Roxette's "Listen To Your Heart" has entered at number 9 on the Billboard Dance Radio Airplay charts for the week of March 19, 2005.   This is the first Roxette-related track to feature in any American chart at any position since "Wish I Could Fly" in 2000. Read the full story...

Det är över nu…

HALMSTAD - GylleneTider.se will be shut down April 1. There's really nothing more to say. Read the full story...

Gessle-penned song on Wadling’s new album

STOCKHOLM (UPDATED) - Swedish musician Freddie Wadling (The Flesh Quartet, among others) will release a new album March 30. Read the full story...

Interview with Per tomorrow on Swedish TV

STOCKHOLM (UPDATED) - As reported previously, Per will be featured on a TV series in which Swedish artists tell about the influences the 60s have had on their music. Read the full story...

MP’s song fifth in the Finnish Eurovision finals

HELSINKI - The song "Everything But Still Nothing," co-written by Mats "MP" Persson and performed by Christian Forss, didn't quite make it to the international semifinals in the Eurovision Song Contest 2005. Read the full story...

Per taxed 1 million Euros in 2003

GOTHENBURG - According to Expressen, Per paid 9,563,784 SEK (1,049,800 Euros) of taxes in 2003. Read the full story...

Gessle rests into shape?

STOCKHOLM (UPDATED) - Last night Per Gessle and his band Mazarinerna played at fashion house Vero Moda's secret company gig in Nacka Strand, Stockholm. Read the full story...

Gyllene Tider enters singles chart at #24

"Jag borde förstås vetat bättre", the third single off Gyllene Tider's "Finn 5 Fel!" Read the full story...

D.H.T. covers “Listen to Your Heart” in the USA

NEW YORK - The band D.H.T. has covered Roxette's #1 single "Listen to Your Heart" and it has been released to North American radio stations via Robbins Entertainment Records. Read the full story...

Two Grammis awards for Gyllene Tider

STOCKHOLM - Gyllene Tider, nominated for four Grammis awards, received two awards tonight at The Grand Hotel in Stockholm. Read the full story...

The Grammis show moves to another venue

STOCKHOLM (UPDATED) - The Grammis gala is to be held on February 7 at the China Theater in Stockholm, but the theater has been booked a long time ago for the Ted Gärdestad musical "Sol, vind & vatten". Read the full story...

Per tells about his 60s influences on TV

STOCKHOLM (UPDATED) - According to TT Spektra, Per Gessle will be one of the interviewees in Swedish national television's new series "Sixties." Read the full story...