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Roxette

Roxette
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About

Roxette is a Swedish pop-rock duo founded in Halmstad in 1986 by Per Gessle and Marie Fredriksson. Four of their singles topped the US Billboard Hot 100 - 'The Look', 'Listen to Your Heart', 'It Must Have Been Love' and 'Joyride' - and the band has sold between 75 and 80 million records worldwide, making them Sweden's best-selling act after ABBA. Fredriksson died in December 2019 after a long illness; since 2025, Gessle has continued touring under the Roxette name with Swedish singer Lena Philipsson on lead vocals.

~80M
Records sold worldwide
16.8M
Spotify monthly listeners (May 2025)
1B+
Spotify streams for 'It Must Have Been Love'
4
US Billboard Hot 100 #1 singles

What's new

  • 2026-05

    Roxette announced a 14-city North American fall 2026 leg of the 40th Anniversary Tour, kicking off September 10 in Clarkston, Michigan.

  • 2026-01

    'It Must Have Been Love' surpassed one billion streams on Spotify, making Roxette - alongside ABBA - the only Swedish act with a pre-2000 song in Spotify's Billions Club.

  • 2025-05

    Roxette's Spotify monthly listener count grew from 10.5 million at the start of 2024 to 16.8 million, and the act broke into the platform's global top 500 for the first time.

  • 2025-02

    The 2025 world tour launched with a sold-out show in Cape Town, South Africa - the same venue where Roxette played their last concert with Marie Fredriksson in 2016.

  • 2024-09

    A 3-CD remix box set titled ROX RMX (Remixes from the Roxette Vaults) was released, and the musical Joyride the Musical opened at Malmö Opera, running until April 2025.

Tour

HannoverOlpeEmmenFuldaSönderborgCoburgGothenburgLocarnoKielViennaLiberecNeu-UlmBremenSchwetzingenRingstedTammisaari

Tracks

The Look1989 US Billboard Hot 100 #1, the breakthrough hit that launched Roxette internationally
It Must Have Been Love1990 US #1 from the Pretty Woman soundtrack; surpassed 1 billion Spotify streams in 2026
Joyride1991 US #1 and title track of their best-selling album, 11 million copies sold worldwide
Listen to Your Heart1989 US Billboard Hot 100 #1; over 496 million Spotify streams
Fading Like a Flower (Every Time You Leave)1991 European hit, one of the band's signature ballads

Recent shows

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