Watch “Ballad Hits” TV spot online

Capitol Records has started to promote the new "Ballad Hits" album online. At least Aftonbladet.se Read the full story...

Swedish press picks up on US release news

STOCKHOLM - Tobias Lindner, a reporter from the Swedish tabloid newspaper Aftonbladet, was at yesterday's press conference in Spain and heard TDR's reporter, Peter Mills, ask about the US release of "The Ballad Hits" in February. Read the full story...

Per visits Spain on promotion tour

MADRID - As part of the promotion surrounding the release of "The Ballad Hits," Per Gessle is visiting Spain this week. Read the full story...

Interview with Per to be broadcast today

MADRID - As part of his promotion tour, Per Gessle is visiting Spain this week. Read the full story...

ATAY goes on climbing the charts

TDR's 'Small Talk' section is – as always when a new Roxette single is released – full of messages from our subscribers talking about the success of the single on the charts. Read the full story...

Per takes on PR campaign for new album while Marie continues to recover

STOCKHOLM - The promotional effort to support the launch of "The Ballad Hits" is in full swing now, with radio interviews in Sweden last week and a two-week promotional tour beginning this Friday. Read the full story...

Per about Marie: She’s up and feeling fine

STOCKHOLM - For one of the first times since Marie's operation, Per talked about his friend and partner on a Swedish radio program. Read the full story...

Publicity photos show Per and Marie at video shoot

STOCKHOLM - With any new album, Per and Marie's schedule has included time with with a professional photographer for the prerequisite publicity photos to be taken. Read the full story...

Interview with Per to be broadcast tomorrow

Per will be interviewed by the Swedish radio station Rix FM tomorrow (Friday). Read the full story...

Looking Back: Roxette in the US two years ago this week

NEW YORK - It was exactly two years ago that Roxette, having signed a record deal with Edel America Records (EAR), were here in the United States on a two-week promotional tour that took them across the country. Read the full story...

Tracklisting announced for “Love Peas: The Ballad Hits”

STOCKHOLM - The tracklisting for the new compilation album, which will be titled "Love Peas: The Ballad Hits," was released by EMI today and published on Roxette's own website. Read the full story...

Roxette sounds in an Iranian film

TEHRAN - Roxette track "Crash! Boom! Bang!" has been used as a background sound in an Iranian film "Shokaran" (English title "Hemlock"). Read the full story...

“It Must Have Been Love” voted best song ever

STOCKHOLM - One of Sweden's biggest radio stations conducted a poll amongst their listeners, to decide the Top 500 best songs ever. Read the full story...

New marketing action for DBUGTTC ’95 in Brazil

RIO DE JANEIRO - "Don't Bore Us, Get to the Chorus" sold more than 500.000 copies in Brazil since its release. Read the full story...

Stuttgarter Newspaper has big article about Roxette

STUTTGART - The weekly newspaper Stuttgarter Stadtanzeiger has a big story about Roxette's appereance at Nokia 'Night of the Proms' in this week's edition (based on the organizer's press release). Read the full story...

Joyride #1 in US 11 years ago this week

Eleven years ago this week, Roxette's "Joyride" ascended to the top of the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Read the full story...

Roxette to release a Greatest Hits album?

News story in Hallandsposten, later confirmed to Official Fanclub's roxettenews.com by Roxette's management, reveals that the band is working on a Greatest Hits album with a couple of new tracks. Read the full story...

Per and Marie attend friend’s special birthday party

STOCKHOLM - Fashion model turned jewelery designer Efva Attling celebrated her 50th birthday party yesterday evening, and among the 250 or so guests were Per and his wife Åsa. Read the full story...

Roxette awarded special export prize at Grammis gala

STOCKHOLM - Roxette won a special award at the Swedish Grammis gala this evening… a governmental export prize. Read the full story...

2002 Swedish travel brochure features Roxette

NEW YORK - One of the arguments used in the campaign to save the T&A studio from demolition, was that the Halmstad/Halland area needed to understand that Roxette fans from around the world help boost the economy there by visiting the various "Roxsites." Read the full story...

“Rockbjörn” award goes to Lambretta; not Roxette

STOCKHOLM - While Roxette was nominated in the Swedish Group-of-the-Year category, the golden "Rockbjörn" (Rock Bear) statuette was awarded to Lambretta, a group that has done very well on the dance/pop charts this past year, in ceremonies at the Cirkus theatre in Skansen. Read the full story...

New “Greatest Hits” album to be released in June

STOCKHOLM - Roxette will release another 'Greatest Hits' album in June… or maybe even two. Read the full story...

“And the winner is… Roxette!”

STOCKHOLM (UPDATED) - Per and Marie were called onto the stage at the NRJ Nordic Radio Awards three times tonight to be presented with trophies. Read the full story...

“MATAH” selected as ‘Song of the Year’ in Russia

ST. PETERSBURG - "Milk and Toast and Honey" was selected as the as the best song of the year by Europa Plus Radio in Russia. Read the full story...

Court to decide if SIMC is plagiarism

STOCKHOLM (UPDATED) - The British High Court of Justice will decide whether or not Roxette's 1994 hit "Sleeping In My Car" is plagiarism. Read the full story...

ABBA documentary includes comments from Roxette

LONDON - Commentary by Per and Marie is included in a documentary about the members of ABBA produced for BBC radio in the U.K. Read the full story...

Roxette makes the finals of this year’s Rock Bear awards

STOCKHOLM - After counting more than 86,600 votes, the Swedish tabloid Aftonbladet has announced that Roxette are finalists in the category "Year's Swedish Group." Read the full story...

Roxette makes US year-end list

NEW YORK - Billboard columnist Fred Bronson has placed Roxette on his year-ending Best of the Year Top Ten list. Read the full story...

New song by Roxette – and Gyllene Tider?!

In an exclusive interview by roxettenews.com, published by the Official Roxette Fanclub, Per reveals that Roxette is going to re-record "Stupid" for a forthcoming movie, directed by Jonas Åkerlund. Read the full story...

Per chatted with fans Friday on Aftonbladet’s site

STOCKHOLM - As previousy reported here on TDR, Per chatted with fans this Friday on Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet's website. Read the full story...

Argentinean fans caught by police

KARLSTAD - According to Hallandsposten, three Argentinean Roxette fans were caught by the police after walking on a motorway in the middle of the night, outside Karlstad, Sweden. Read the full story...

“Milk And Toast And Honey” huge radio hit in Germany

Following the success of "The Centre Of The Heart" and also the somewhat constant radio airplay of "Real Sugar" in most countries in Europe, "Milk And Toast And Honey" is getting fantastic airplay on some German radio stations. Read the full story...