The Daily Roxette

UPDATED - On September 14 Roxette will play the Masonic Center in San Francisco. The Masonic seats 3165 people. With a ticket price of $112 the pre-sale starts April 10. 

The North American/Canadian tour schedule so far:

Aug. 29 Ottawa
Aug. 30 Toronto
Aug. 31 Montréal
Sept. 2 New York City
Sept. 3 Boston
Sept. 7 Winnipeg
Sept. 9 Calgary
Sept. 10 Edmonton
Sept. 12 Vancouver
Sept 14. San Francisco
Sept. 15 Los Angeles

Get your US tickets here! Canadian here and here. Read the press release.

Travelling will be released in the US, digitally only, June 5.

Update: Canadian dates have been added to the article. Tickets go on sale April 21, with an American Express pre-sale from April 17.

Head over to roxette.se and take a gander at the brand new playlist Per has made. Rick Springfield is a given of course!

It probably does not count as great news, but there is a promotional TV advert happening in the UK for the upcoming Roxette tour. Seems it might be a regional advert, as this one promoted the Manchester concert on 4th July, which still seems to have a lot of tickets to sell!

Roxette is the highest climber in this week's UK Radio Airplay chart, which is compiled by Nielsen.

The figures released on Monday 2nd April show that Roxette climbed a respectable 32 places from 65 to 33 with the new single "It's Possible."

The latest top 10 is as follows:

NIELSEN UK RADIO AIRPLAY CHART (26/03/2012 to 01/04/2012)

1 Tulisa – Young (AATW/Island)
2 Chris Brown – turn Up The Music (Sony/RCA)
3 Flo-rida feat. Sia – Wild Ones (Atlantic)
4 Katy Perry – Part Of Me (Virgin)
5 Labrinth – Last Time (Syco)
6 Beyonce – End Of Time (Columbia/Parkwood Ent.)
7 David Guetta feat. Nicki Minaj – Turn Me On (Positiva/Virgin)
8 Emeli Sande – Next To Me (Virgin)
9 David Guetta feat. Sia – Titanium (Positiva/Virgin)
10 Alexandra Burke featuring Eric Morillo – Elephant (RCA)
33 Roxette – It's Possible. (Capitol)

SYDNEY - More "promotion" continues with one of the largest radio stations in Sydney, MIX 106.5, the same network that sponsored Roxette's recent Australian tour, featuring the Travelling EPK on the front page of their site promoting the album. And Max TV are doing the same thing as in Germany the other week - you may pre-listen Travelling in its entirety. It only works with Internet Explorer though.

This is very big news for this country... although still no iTunes availability.

Brad contributed to this article.

Roxette's brand new album Travelling, released digitally yesterday, is already charting on the iTunes album charts:

Sweden #3
Finland #6
Germany #9

"No One Makes It On Her Own" was featured in the soundtrack of this evening's episode of the popular Brazilian soap opera Aquele Beijo (That Kiss).  The song was played twice. The first time was when one of the main female characters was arriving at a restaurant and the song can be clearly heard. The second time was a continuation of that scene when her ex-husband calls her over to his table. 

The last time this happened, "Milk and Toast and Honey" was featured on a soap opera (called a "novela" in Portuguese) named Um Anjo Caiu do Céu (The Angel That Fell From Heaven) in 2001.  Prior to that, "Spending My Time" was included on one in 1992 and "Listen To Your Heart" in 1989.

In Brazil, these novelas are extremely popular, and the effect that a sync license for a particular song can have to both record sales and general promotion for a musical act or group can not be overstated.

Aquele Beijo has been on the air for quite some time now.  It began on October 17, 2011 and will end on April 13. A selection of soundtrack songs has already been released via online outlets, but as that release was digital, there is small chance that "No One Makes It On Her Own" could be added.  EMI Brasil (and Brazilian Roxette fans) would certainly like that to happen. 

Clip (on Vimeo) showing the first time the song was played. Clip (on TV Globo) showing the continuation of that scene (you might need to click on the right arrow on the strip of clips below the default video and then advance to the clip showing the ex-husband with his hand in the air).

Additional reporting by Bruno Ribeiro

Friday at noon (CET) the new Travelling Electronic Press Kit (EPK) was released, containing new live, backstage, studio and interview footage, in 720 HD no less! Click here to view!

The price is 105 SEK (11 €) in Sweden. The price includes an unnamed bonus track, but Per has since revealed that it's the T&A demo of "Lover Lover Lover." The vinyl album will contain two bonus tracks as well; the demos of "Me & You & Terry & Julie" and "Charm School."

Snippets available on Amazon UK.

LONDON - After being contacted by lots of fans based in the UK about the delayed release of the "It's Possible" single on the usual retail download sites, The Daily Roxette contacted EMI in the UK to see what the plan was for releasing the new material in the UK.  Today we heard from Head of Marketing, for both EMI UK and EMI Svenska:

There have been several factors contributing to the delay in the UK release of "It's Possible", one of them being some 'fine-tuning' to the music by Roxette.  EMI UK has also used a brand new release solution which unfortunately required more work than first thought.  However, EMI confirmed that the song has now been sent to the UK arms of iTunes, Amazon, Play etc and should be available for download in the next 2/3 days.  

The communication ended with EMI confirming their commitment to Roxette and the release of their forthcoming album Travelling.