25 years ago this week *, Roxette scored its second number one hit in the United States as "Listen To Your Heart" jumped into the top spot on Billboard's Hot 100. Read the full story...
Roxette has received the Government’s Honorary Award for Swedish Music Exports.
Different variants of the Honorary Award for Swedish music exports have since 2006 been awarded to someone in the music industry who have made longstanding efforts to promote and spread Swedish music abroad and helped to spread a positive image of Sweden, says the Swedish government’s site. Read the full story...
Years in the making, Christoffer Lundquist’s solo album set for release in early May
Christoffer Lundquist’s solo album, Through the Window, that took him about 12 years to complete, will be released by Warner Music Sweden on May 4, just two days after Christoffer is set to receive the Sir George Martin Award at a gala event in Malmö. Read the full story...
Christoffer Lundquist to be honored with first ever Sir George Martin Award
Christoffer Lundquist, a multi-talented musician, composer, producer and lead guitarist for Roxette, will receive the Sir George Martin Award when it is presented for the first time ever at a gala event on May 2 in Malmö, Sweden. Read the full story...
(Updated) - Yesterday, the Czech website Musicserver.cz published the tracklist of the new Roxette album "Charm School", which was then confirmed by Per Gessle on Facebook shortly afterwards. Read the full story...
Gyllene Tider/Roxette fan becomes a Swedish knight
NEW YORK - Few Gyllene Tider/Roxette fans have been in a position to share their love of Per's music with others as much as Scott Greenstein, who as the Chief Content Officer of Sirius XM, is the one who approached Per with the idea for the program that was later named Nordic Rox. Read the full story...
Marie Fredriksson was yesterday awarded the SKAP (Society of Swedish Popular Music Composers) grant from the Fred Winters Memorial Fund, valued at 40,000 SEK. Read the full story...
STOCKHOLM - Per Håkan Gessle has been nominated for a Grammis in the category "Live Act of the Year" together with the following:
BENNY ANDERSSONS ORKESTERJENS LEKMANLARS WINNERBÄCKLENA PH & ORUPPARKSOMMARPER GESSLEPETER JÖBACKTAKIDATHE HIVESTIMBUKTU Read the full story...
STOCKHOLM - According to EMI Sweden Roxette's "Hits!" has now reached gold in Sweden, which means 30,000 delivered copies, as per usual. Read the full story...
STOCKHOLM (Updated) - Roxette was once again nominated for a Rockbjörnen award in Aftonbladet's annual ceremony, in the Swedish Group of the Year category. Read the full story...
STOCKHOLM - Roxette's 20th anniversary release, "The RoxBox/Roxette 86-06", has been nominated for a Grammis award in the open category. Read the full story...
STOCKHOLM - Aftonbladet's prestigious award Rockbjörnen is back for the 28th year. Once again you can vote for your favorite artists. Read the full story...