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"Listen to Your Heart"
Song

"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.

Roxette version

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]

Music video

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

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].

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.

Live

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."

Track listing

  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)

Charts

D.H.T. cover

"Listen to Your Heart"
Song

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 mid 2005, the song reached the Top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at #8 in August. The same year, the group also released an acoustic ballad version of the song, which also received substantial airplay.

Versions

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)

Charts

Chart (2005-2006)[2] [3] [4] [5] [6] Peak
position
Australian Singles Chart 11
Belgian (Flanders) Singles Chart 15
Belgian (Wallonia) Singles Chart 12
Danish Singles Chart 13
Dutch Singles Chart 10
French Singles Chart 7
German Singles Chart 81
Irish Singles Chart 12
Norwegian Singles Chart 19
Swiss Singles Chart 100
UK Singles Chart 7
US Billboard Hot Adult Contemporary Recurrents 4
US Billboard Hot Dance Singles Sales 3
US Billboard Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks 16
US Billboard Pop 100 5
US Billboard Top 40 Mainstream 37
US Billboard Hot Adult Top 40 Tracks 13

Habla El Corazón

"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.


Footnotes

  1. ^ http://www.dailyroxette.com/node/17823 The Daily Roxette: And The Best Roxette Song Ever IS...
  2. ^ "Listen to Your Heart", in various Singles Chart Lescharts.com (Retrieved April 7, 2008)
  3. ^ German Singles Chart Charts-surfer.de (Retrieved April 7, 2008)
  4. ^ Irish Single Chart Irishcharts.ie (Retrieved April 7, 2008)
  5. ^ UK Singles Chart Chartstats.com (Retrieved April 7, 2008)
  6. ^ Billboard Billboard.com (Retrieved April 7, 2008)
Preceded by Billboard Hot 100 number one single
November 4, 1989 		Succeeded by

References

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