Bonus tracks on same CD in Japan
Written by roxeteer on October 31, 2002 to Releases.
“The Ballad Hits” album’s Japanese version will be similar to the German one: it will have 15 tracks and 2 bonus tracks on one CD. Just like in Germany, the bonus tracks will be “The Weight Of The World” and “It Hurts”.
It’s unusual that EMI Electrola in Germany releases a Roxette album that differs from the European edition, but in Japan it’s not. Toshiba-EMI often adds bonus tracks to the Japanese editions to boost the sales. The Japanese editions can be more expensive than imported ones, because the record company has to print special covers for the localized Japanese editions.
“The Ballad Hits” will be released in Japan on November 7th.
Stefan Schönhacker contributed to this story.
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8 comments
Mfan28179-Jason said on November 1, 2002 05:32:
I added the time lengths of the tracks and I find no reason why they cannot include “Every Day” on the CD to in fact include 18 tracks. It’s a shame “Every Day” will be left out.
alchemiste said on November 1, 2002 10:16:
IMHO the German version WILL have 18 tracks, and I´ve told TDR about that for many times but they don´t believe it ...
Why should they, I´ve only been in the Roxette community for about 11 years now ...
roxeteer (moderator) said on November 1, 2002 14:54:
I’m sorry if your message hasn’t been heard, but you haven’t sent one through our feedback form at http://www.dailyroxette.com/feedback/
We can’t go through every message sent here or to SmallTalk.
alchemiste said on November 1, 2002 15:45:
I had some private e-Mail correspondence with LEO about this topic.
We´ll see who´s right on Monday latest...
alchemiste said on November 2, 2002 14:23:
The German edition has 17 tracks.
EMI Germany´s website was wrong.
EMI Austria´s website was wrong.
I WAS WRONG.
TDR WAS RIGHT.
Sorry guys! :-)
alchemiste said on November 2, 2002 15:17:
Also, the CD playing software that´s on the CD states “The Ballad Hits (DE & JP)” as the album title.
Obviously you´re right that the CDs are perfectly the same...
royalball said on November 6, 2002 07:30:
Somehow I get the feeling LEO is jumping up and down screeming, “Ha, ha I’m right!”
alchemiste said on November 1, 2002 01:20:
And still EMI Germany´s Website says “18 tracks” ...
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