“Listen to Your Heart” 3 x “million-air”

Written by roxeteer on October 6, 2006 to Roxette.

LONDON (UPDATED) - BMI is once again giving awards to Per Gessle and Mats “MP” Persson as their song “Listen to Your Heart” has now reached its 3 millionth broadcast on American radio. It took nine years to reach two million – and eight years more to reach three million (total playing time non-stop: 27 years.) Recently, the pace was increased as D.H.T. released a succesful dance cover of the song. Per Gessle comments to Aftonbladet “This award means a lot to me as it clearly shows what an impact this song has had!”

Per also mentions that the Americans were “duly impressed” by the video as they thought Roxette had built Borgholm’s Castle ruin just for the video.

Update Oct. 6: “Listen to Your Heart,” written by Per Gessle and Mats “MP” Persson, and published by Jimmy Fun Music (all STIM), was named Song of the Year and received one of the organization’s [BMI] highest accolades; the Robert S. Musel Award. “I’ve never heard of this Robert dude. The sculpture was very big and very ugly!” comments Per. He also tells TDR that he thinks this is an amazing award, “…the last and the best of the night!”

Recorded by Belgium-based duo D.H.T., the song was originally a #1 hit for Roxette in 1989 and received the BMI Dance Award at last year’s ceremony.

Dan Kroll contributed to this article.

BMI
Aftonbladet (In Swedish)

37 comments

Nox1983 said on October 3, 2006 18:00:

I wonder how many time has The Look or Joyride been played in US radios...
Cool news;)

rox-kuryliw said on October 3, 2006 18:14:

is this new news, wasn this done at an awards ceromory with marie there aswell already ? im confused.

Mari said on October 3, 2006 18:26:

rox-kuryliw, yep new news :) Marie was with Per on London, when they get award of It Must Have Been Love.

GT_85 said on October 3, 2006 18:31:

Listen to your heart also got an award that time. For best dance track of the year or something. (DHT)

whateveriam said on October 3, 2006 18:57:

Blimey, congrats I think are in order...

Max-Tob said on October 3, 2006 19:11:

nice. the celebration seems to be today. in london. you guys should wait mp and gessle at the airport tomorrow with flowers. lol

speedo85_90 said on October 3, 2006 19:20:

Great song, oh yes it is...

“Nox1983” - yeah I wonder too, specially The Look since it actually was the big breakthrough (does it spells like that??) in the US.
You can hear both of them aired on the swedish radio from time to time.

Gosh, my english is not very good today..

Pop on & ha det gött!/ speedo

whateveriam said on October 3, 2006 19:25:

Yeah, spellings right...

crashroxer said on October 3, 2006 19:35:

That’s fantastic!!!

Roxette Rules

striker1700 said on October 3, 2006 19:59:

erm..some of these numbers don’t seem to be correct...particulary the 11 years and 4 months. That article was dated 12/98 which would put LTYH starting 8/87? Am I wrong?

Nox1983 said on October 3, 2006 21:44:

speedo85_90: same here, the radios still play many rox songs, but i guess in places like the US or UK, Roxette is well known for their ballads... that´s not good...

AURYTE said on October 3, 2006 22:18:

Keep on playing Roxette songs :)

avahogree said on October 4, 2006 01:39:

Yeah, I think the figures are wrong. 11 years 4 months + 8 years = almost 20 years. Listen To Your Heart was not released in late 1986.

But congratulations anyway! 3 million spins = a lot of moolah!!

eBay said on October 4, 2006 08:47:

@above
Confusing, I know. Click on the link and it might make more sense. ;-) There was an article 8 years ago about LTYH

ncurran said on October 4, 2006 09:07:

So this was what Per was coming to the UK for? No promo for the GH then I take it

tevensso (moderator) said on October 4, 2006 09:45:

Ha ha, check out Per’s belt buckle!

tevensso (moderator) said on October 4, 2006 10:06:

By the way, the “11 years and 4 months” (see the linked article), that’s from Expressen and they are wrong. LTYH hadn’t been out 11 years and 4 months in the US in 1998.

Remco said on October 4, 2006 15:05:

Who’s the other guy with the medal? There are five names but six faces? Was he awarded for something written for EEC?

sille-rox said on October 4, 2006 15:35:

Have Roxette not last year the same Award for the same Song become?

Superbullie said on October 4, 2006 16:16:

MP looks funny beside eagle eye cherry :-D

by the way: why do per and mp do not write songs together anymore?

abysmo said on October 4, 2006 17:09:

@Superbullie: Last one was She Doesn´t Live Here Anymore. Not only Roxette, whole Finn 5 fel has been written only by Per. It´s sad, because this songwriters duo made pearls like Listen To Your Heart, Spending My Time or Queen Of Rain.

Jasiotoja said on October 4, 2006 17:59:

Where is Marie??? What’s up? :-(

abysmo said on October 4, 2006 18:05:

Marie is not an author, PHG and MMPP are.

Superbullie said on October 4, 2006 19:28:

@abysmo: i now. i also think that their co-productions are among the best roxsongs

abba said on October 4, 2006 19:47:

In this story I miss a fact that Listen is the Song of the year and got Robert Musel Award too. It should be mentioned I think.

GT_85 said on October 4, 2006 22:22:

It’s quite amazing how Save Tonight with Eagle Eye Cherry also have been playes 3 million times. Since 1998.

Tonito123 said on October 5, 2006 03:58:

Haha, check out Per’s belt buckle...