Listen to Your Heart

Infobox Single
Name = Listen to Your Heart


Artist = Roxette
from Album = Look Sharp!
Released = Sweden: September 15, 1988, worldwide: August 1989
Format =
[Recorded =] 1988
Genre = Ballad
Length = 05:27
Label = EMI
Writer = Per Gessle, Mats Persson
Producer =
Certification = Gold (Austria)
Last single = "Dressed for Success"
(1989)
This single = "Listen to Your Heart"
(1989)
Next single = "Dangerous"
(1989)
Misc =Audiosample
Upper caption = Audio sample
Name = "Listen to Your Heart" by Roxette
Audio file= Roxette - Listen to Your Heart.ogg

"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. [http://www.pergessle.net/pearls/roxette/bdbugttc.html]

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 [http://www.dailyroxette.com/node/17823 The Daily Roxette: And The Best Roxette Song Ever IS...] .

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 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."

Track listings

; 7" single
# "Listen to Your Heart" — 5:12
# "(I Could Never) Give You Up" — 3:59

; CD maxi
#"Listen to Your Heart" (Swedish single version)
#"Dangerous" (LP version)
#"Listen to Your Heart" (U.S. remix)
#"Dangerous" (U.S. club edit)

Certifications

Charts

{| class="wikitable sortable"!align="left"|End of year chart (2005)!align="center"|Position
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align="left"|Belgian (Wallonia) Singles Chart [2005 Belgian (Wallonia) Singles Chart [http://www.ultratop.be/fr/annual.asp?year=2005 Ultratop.be] (Retrieved August 23, 2008)]
align="center"|78
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align="left"|French Singles Chart [2005 French Singles Chart [http://www.ifop.com/europe/sondages/DISCANNU/single05.STM Ifop.com] (Retrieved August 23, 2008)]
align="center"|34
-

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."

Extra Links

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