Listen to Your Heart

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"Listen to Your Heart"
Single by Roxette
from the album Look Sharp!
Released Sweden: September 15, 1988, worldwide: August 1989
Genre Pop
Length 05:27
Label EMI
Writer(s) Per Gessle, Mats Persson
Certification Gold (Austria, Sweden))
Roxette singles chronology
"Dressed for Success"
(1989)		 "Listen to Your Heart"
(1989)		 "Dangerous"
(1989)
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"Listen to Your Heart" was the third single issued in the United States from Swedish pop duo Roxette's 1988 album Look Sharp! It was written by Per Gessle and Mats M.P. Persson. It reached number-one on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart on November 4, 1989, their second chart-topper of the year. They rose to #1 the same week the dominant New Kids on the Block rose to #2 with their song Cover Girl, thus preventing the group from taking the top spot. The song was released in the UK in October 1989 and reached a lowly #62, but was re-issued in August 1990 as a Double A-Side with Dangerous after the success of their previous single It Must Have Been Love, and reached #6.

According to Per Gessle the song was conceived as :-

The Big Bad Ballad. This is us trying to recreate that overblown American FM-rock sound to the point where it almost becomes absurd. We really wanted to see how far we could take it.

—Per Gessle, Don't Bore Us, Get to the Chorus! liner notes.[1]

There are two different versions of the song available; the original, and slightly modified version that was included on Don't Bore Us, Get to the Chorus.

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[edit] Music video

Roxette recorded the video for "Listen to Your Heart" in the Borgholm Castle ruin on the Swedish Baltic Sea island of Öland.

[edit] Accolades

On October 3, 2006, the song had reached its 3 millionth broadcast on American radio. It took nine years to reach two million and eight further years to reach three million. The total playing time non-stop was 17 years. The D.H.T. dance cover is included.

The song has been voted The Best Roxette Song ever by readers of fan-site The Daily Roxette[1].

[edit] In the media

  • The Roxette version of this song was featured on the TV show Reunion in 2005.
  • "Listen to Your Heart" was used by the dissident political party Civic Forum in its television advertisements for the 1989 Czechoslovakian elections, one of the first elections in Eastern Europe that came with collapse of communism.
  • The song can be sung in the Xbox 360 video game, Lips.

[edit] Live versions

At the Wembley Arena gig on their 1991-92 Join The Joyride / The Summer Joyride World Tour, before playing this song as part of the encore, Per said "We can't leave you tonight without playing you this absolutely true story."

[edit] Track listings

7" single
  1. "Listen to Your Heart" — 5:12
  2. "(I Could Never) Give You Up" — 3:59
CD maxi
  1. "Listen to Your Heart" (Swedish single version)
  2. "Dangerous" (LP version)
  3. "Listen to Your Heart" (U.S. remix)
  4. "Dangerous" (U.S. club edit)

[edit] Certifications

Country Certification Date Sales certified
Austria[2] Gold March 7, 1990 15,000
Sweden[3] Gold February 6, 1989 10,000

[edit] Charts

Chart (1989) Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Hot 100[4] 1
U.S. Billboard Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks[4] 2
Australian ARIA Singles Chart[5] 10
Austrian Singles Chart[5] 2
Canadian Singles Chart 1
German Singles Chart[6] 7
Irish Singles Chart[7] 5
Swedish Singles Chart[5] 3
Swiss Singles Chart[5] 8
UK Singles Chart[8] 62
Chart (1990) Peak
position
UK Singles Chart 1 [9] 6

1 "Listen to Your Heart" / "Dangerous"

Preceded by
"Miss You Much" by Janet Jackson		 Billboard Hot 100 number one single
November 4, 1989 (1 week)		 Succeeded by
"When I See You Smile" by Bad English

[edit] D.H.T. cover

"Listen to Your Heart"
Single by D.H.T. featuring Edmée
Released August 2005
Format CD single
CD maxi
Genre Trance/Ballad
Label Ministry Of Sound
Writer(s) Per Gessle
Mats P. Persson
Producer Flor Theeuwes
Jeffrey Vissers
Thunder Deejay
D.H.T. featuring Edmée singles chronology
"Listen to Your Heart"
(2005)		 "I Go Crazy"
(2006)

In 2005, Belgian dance group D.H.T.'s trance-cover of "Listen to Your Heart" became a worldwide club hit. Originally released in Belgium in 2003, the various mixes of the song reached U.S. clubs in late 2004. The song was released in the U.S. in late 2005 or early 2006. By June 2005, the song reached number one on Billboard's Hot Dance Airplay chart and the Top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100 chart, peaking at #8 in August. The same year, the group also released an acoustic ballad version of the song, which also received substantial airplay.

[edit] Versions

CD single
  1. "Listen to Your Heart" — 4:32
  2. "My Dream" — 3:55
CD maxi
  1. "Listen to Your Heart" (Edmée's unplugged vocal edit) — 3:45
  2. "Listen to Your Heart" (furious F.EZ radio edit) — 3:11
  3. "Listen to Your Heart" (uniting nations remix) — 7:11
  4. "Listen to Your Heart" (furious F.EZ extended mix) — 4:54
  5. "Listen to Your Heart" (hixxy remix) — 7:11
  6. "Listen to Your Heart" (Friday night posse remix) — 7:29
Digital download
  1. "Listen to Your Heart" — 4:32

[edit] Certifications

Country Certification Date Sales certified
U.S.[10] Gold October 5, 2005 500,000

[edit] Charts

Chart (2005-2006) Peak
position
Australian ARIA Singles Chart[11] 11
Belgian (Flanders) Singles Chart[11] 15
Belgian (Wallonia) Singles Chart[11] 12
Danish Singles Chart[11] 13
Dutch Singles Chart[11] 10
French SNEP Singles Chart[11] 7
German Singles Chart[12] 81
Irish Singles Chart[13] 12
Norwegian Singles Chart[11] 19
Swiss Singles Chart[11] 100
UK Singles Chart[14] 7
U.S. Billboard Hot 100[4] 8
U.S. Billboard Pop 100[4] 5
U.S. Billboard Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks[4] 6
U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Airplay[4] 1
U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Singles Sales[4] 3
U.S. Billboard Top 40 Mainstream[15] 1
U.S. Billboard Hot Adult Top 40 Tracks[16] 13
End of year chart (2005) Position
Belgian (Wallonia) Singles Chart[17] 78
French Singles Chart[18] 34
Preceded by
"One Word" by Kelly Osbourne		 Billboard Hot Dance Airplay number one single
July 9-30, 2005		 Succeeded by
"Don't Cha" by Pussycat Dolls featuring Busta Rhymes

[edit] Other cover versions

  • "Habla El Corazón", the Spanish version of the song, was released in March 2007 by Mexican artist Yuridia, who covered the track for her second album Habla El Corazón. The song quickly gained both airplay and digital sales, debuting at #89 in the Mexican Top 100, that week's highest debut. To this date, the song has peaked at #58. On the week of April 28, 2007, "Habla El Corazon" debuted in the U.S. Hot Latin Songs at #50. It is the first time her second single appears on a U.S. chart, as "Maldita Primavera", the second single off of her debut album, only charted in the Mexican Top 100.
  • Brazilian ska-core band Randal Grave recorded a cover of the song.
  • Covers of the song have been recorded by various indie artists including Amethyste Fisher, and DQ Treats.
  • Finnish Gothic metal band Reflexion recorded a cover version of the song as a bonus track on their 2008 EP "Twilight Child", later relased as a bonus track on their 2008 album Dead to the Past, Blind for Tomorrow.

[edit] Extra Links

[edit] References

  1. ^ http://www.dailyroxette.com/node/17823 The Daily Roxette: And The Best Roxette Song Ever IS...
  2. ^ Austrian certifications ifpi.at (Retrieved August 23, 2008)
  3. ^ Swedish certifications Ifpi.se (Retrieved September 11, 2008)
  4. ^ a b c d e f g Billboard allmusic.com (Retrieved August 23, 2008)
  5. ^ a b c d "Listen to Your Heart", in various singles charts Lescharts.com (Retrieved August 23, 2008)
  6. ^ German Singles Chart Charts-surfer.de (Retrieved August 1, 2008)
  7. ^ Irish Single Chart Irishcharts.ie (Retrieved August 1, 2008)
  8. ^ UK Singles Chart Chartstats.com (Retrieved August, 2008)
  9. ^ UK Singles Chart (1990 release) Chartstats.com (Retrieved August, 2008)
  10. ^ U.S. certifications riaa.com (Retrieved August 23, 2008)
  11. ^ a b c d e f g h "Listen to Your Heart", in various singles charts Lescharts.com (Retrieved April 7, 2008)
  12. ^ German Singles Chart Charts-surfer.de (Retrieved April 7, 2008)
  13. ^ Irish Single Chart Irishcharts.ie (Retrieved April 7, 2008)
  14. ^ UK Singles Chart Chartstats.com (Retrieved April 7, 2008)
  15. ^ Top 40 Mainstream Chart Listing For The Week Of Sep 10 2005, Billboard.com, (Retrieved June 16, 2008)
  16. ^ Hot Adult Top 40 Tracks Chart Listing For The Week Of Oct 08 2005, Billboard.com, (Retrieved June 16, 2008)
  17. ^ 2005 Belgian (Wallonia) Singles Chart Ultratop.be (Retrieved August 23, 2008)
  18. ^ 2005 French Singles Chart Ifop.com (Retrieved August 23, 2008)
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