“I think that’s one of the tricks: You have to find people who make you stand on your toes,” Gessle mused. 8 on the Hot 100 in 2005.Ĭhart Beat Podcast: The Hot 100's Top 20 This Week in 1990 – 'U Can't Touch This,' 'Vogue' & More… It also found a new audience, and a second chart life, when D.H.T.’s cover rose to No. 1 not released on 7-inch vinyl, but only as a cassette single. Reflecting the era, the song made history as the first Hot 100 No. Feelgood song) would lead the Hot 100 again in November 1989 with ballad “Listen to Your Heart,” driven by Fredriksson’s soaring lead vocal. “I’ve been a Billboard subscriber since ’81, so I know that going in at 50 is quite high.” 50,” Gessle recalled to Fred Bronson in the Billboard Book of Number One Hits. “ told us ‘The Look’ had entered the Billboard chart at No. 11, 1989, and, eight weeks later, hit No. 50, impressive for a new act, on the Billboard Hot 100 dated Feb. charts in 1989, famously after an American exchange student traveling in Europe brought back Roxette’s music and gave it to his hometown top 40 Minneapolis radio station KDWB, which began playing “The Look.” The song launched at No. The Swedish twosome, comprising Fredriksson and male counterpart Per Gessle, blasted onto Billboard‘s U.S. As previously reported, Marie Fredriksson, half of powerhouse, power-pop duo Roxette, has passed away at age 61.
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