Another #1 for Per
Written by animalkingdom on October 31, 2008 to Per Gessle and Sales & Charts. Source: Hitlistan.
Bookmark or Share(Updated) - "Silly Really" enters the official Swedish singles chart at #1 this week. "Unusual and unexpectedly strong if you ask me!" comments Per to The Daily Roxette.
Another teaser for the video has been uploaded to Gessle.com. It seems to be karaoke inspired…
Per has revealed the different album bonus tracks:
iTunes bonus:
"I'm Glad You Called"
Telia bonus:
"Theme from 'Roberta Right'"
Other articles with the same topic
- "Per Gessle - Kung av Tylösand" (July 31, 2010)
- New lifestyle magazine (July 13, 2010)
- New song from Per? (June 18, 2010)
- Roxette.se publishes new Per-interview (April 30, 2010)
- Top 50 songs of the past decades presented by Per Gessle (January 23, 2010)
40 comments
abysmo said on October 31, 2008 14:14:
After first not so well impression it looks really promising and looks like that the video will be party oriented and will be really funny.
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carbon_boy said on October 31, 2008 14:27:
Congrats MrG!!!
And the vid seems like its gonna be AWESOME!!! As per usual, real MrG tongue-in-cheek humour. LOVE IT!
pardek said on October 31, 2008 14:33:
Yeah! Congrats Per!
The Video is so funny, laughed a lot!!!
=> so how many #1s has Per had in Sweden / in- and exkluding Roxette???
Perekopsky said on October 31, 2008 14:40:
pardek: it’s for you
http://www.dailyroxette.com/node/18266
cslaci said on October 31, 2008 16:18:
Gratulerer!
Thanx for the perfect song Mr. Gessle, I hope the album will the same... or better!
mareo said on October 31, 2008 18:40:
Great news!!!! Let’s hope Per continues with the promotion and the album is sold (in millions) in different countries. I still haven’t heard the song though... I’ll have to wait until the album arrives at my postbox!
daniel_alv said on October 31, 2008 23:01:
The video looks great I think.
It’s really nice that it’s number 1, as far as I know that list only is sales until tuesday, or have they changed it again? So it has to be only downloads for 5 days, and as far as I know you can only buy it as a download at musikbutiken.telia.se and telenor so far, atleast not on Åhlens, CDON.com, i-tunes or poplife, which I think is strange. Maybe some CD-single sales has been counted? Or has it been downloaded that much? It’s number one on telia :D
EDIT: By the way: I just love “I didn’t mean to turn you on”
Room_service said on November 1, 2008 00:50:
I don’t think it’s gonna sell millions. By the way, it’s strange that the single was released in October 29... but the promotional video won’t be premiered until late December. Weird marketing strategy, I think. They have to promote the song now, no two months later.
PiterPam said on November 1, 2008 05:27:
Maybe sweden is just the beginning and a “testcenter” for other possible releasecountries, It´s a good sign that the single hits the charts at no.1. Maybe the recordcompany think twice about an international release with that facts. In my eyes the last chance for Per to get back internationally. He tried something totally different. If thats not the key, than nothing could bring him back, except of roxette ;)
tevensso (moderator) said on November 1, 2008 14:07:
Per comments Silly Really’s success:
’Silly really’ had only been available in the old fashioned record store for 3 days (was released last Monday) when it became #1. Unusual and unexpectedly strong if you ask me! The number of digital downloads were also limited since most of the downloading sites (iTunes & Co) will add the song on Monday (Nov 3). The single release date was moved
forward due to my current trip in jolly America (no, I can’t vote on Tuesday, wish I could…). For reasons unknown to mankind iTunes needs an astonishing 6 weeks to be able to deliver songs to their digital audience. That’s longer than it took for me to RECORD AND MIX the new album!!!
PS. Check out the lyrics to “Breathe Life Into Me” at gessle.com
tomos85 said on November 1, 2008 16:47:
I suppose Per thought about the 3rd of November, am I right?
tevensso (moderator) said on November 1, 2008 16:51:
Ha ha, Per even wrote November, I accidentally changed it when I translated it...
RobS said on November 1, 2008 22:41:
tevensso said: Check out the lyrics to “Breathe Life Into Me”
Nice lyrics. Can’t wait to hear it. I’m guessing a ballad?
CRIZ said on November 2, 2008 15:37:
I feel really sorry for this guy on stage in the video.... *ROFL*
I got my single yesterday....yippieh....I love it!!!
Congratulation for this quick No. 1!!! Well deserved!
heyoka said on November 2, 2008 20:14:
Yep, As I said “Silly Really” can be an international hit, success is in your hands Mr. Gessle! “make it happen
you can make it happen” ;)
Btw. The lyric of “Breathe Life Into Me” has a very melodic rhyme. I’m curious what it can be a real point of this song: this melodic rhyme, sound or the message inside? ;)
Room_service said on November 2, 2008 22:31:
The lyrics of “Breathe Life Into Me” are really bad, I think. But it depends of the music too, I don’t know how it sounds like as a whole. Let’s hope the other songs are not five-minute-scribbles but something more substantial. Just my point of view.
It seems Per didn’t want to keep the “Theme from Roberta Right” in the drawer for long. For some reason “theme” smells of instrumental to me. I wonder if Gabriel will be credited or not, haha.
Steffen78 said on November 3, 2008 07:40:
Sorry folks, have I missed something? Am I the only one asking what these bonus songs are about? And where can I get them? What is Telia?
iTunes bonus:
“I’m Glad You Called”
Telia bonus:
“Theme from ’Roberta Right’”
Thanks,
Steffen
snape said on November 3, 2008 07:51:
Why not offering both Songs on both platforms? So it gets unnessesary complicated (and potentially illegal) to get both songs in most countries.
tevensso (moderator) said on November 3, 2008 07:58:
Telia is a Swedish phone company that also has a (fairly crappy) download site. The reason for having different album bonuses is probably to increase sales, plus I’m sure both companies want to be “exclusive.”
tridy said on November 3, 2008 09:14:
heyoka: Btw. The lyric of “Breathe Life Into Me” has a very melodic rhyme.
Oh, come on. Give me a break.
I hope they are going bottom up with the lyrics (meaning less good to really good). BLIM has 6 lines of *LYRICS*. The rest is just a filler. The song is going to be something like 2.13 min. It depends on the melody, of course but probably not the best track on the album. I know PG can write good songs but not in this case, not even close. Would you say this song has some sort of inspiration?
tevensso (moderator) said on November 3, 2008 09:35:
“Breathe” is 3:41 according to the notes I’ve seen.
DEFAULT_GREEN said on November 3, 2008 11:28:
I don’t think the lyrics to breath life into me are that bad. It is quite ok
some places the lyrics seems forced but other than that it seems ok
tridy said on November 3, 2008 11:43:
Well, I am not saying it is BAD. I am pretty sure it will turn out to be quite OK for the fans. What I mean is that the lyrics are quite short and there is not so much in it. To make a good song you need more than that. I know that the world knows examples of the songs with really simple lyrics and a good melody (or even instrumental ones) that became big hits. . However to say at this point that this is a good song judging from the lyrics is quite ... what do I say ... tricky? I guess it is just me who likes some short emotional stories behind the lyrics. To me it seems dry now. Lets see what the music will bring.
bigbigbig_love said on November 3, 2008 12:04:
Per is like Madonna, they write stupid lyrics but make them sound ok.
What happened to 2 verses and then chorus then the verse then chorus and some Dumb end bit. Seems he is like George Lucas, who cares about the story as long as it looks and sounds ok!
Steffen78 said on October 31, 2008 13:12:
HAVE FUN...looks very cool and fresh to me. Looking forward for the whole song and video...:-)
Steffen
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