A look back at Roxette's biggest hits on the billboardcharts, including 'It Must Have Been Love,' 'The Look' & more
The Swedish twosome, comprising Fredriksson and male counterpart Per Gessle, blasted onto's U.S. 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.
, in June 1990. Gessle had originally written it as a Christmas song. It first became a holiday hit in Sweden, but once the lyric "it's a hard Christmas Day" was changed to "it's a hardRoxette notched its fourth Hot 100 topper, "Joyride," in May 1991 and the tandem remains the Swedish recording act with the most No. 1s in the chart's history.on its history, and Fredriksson's vocal prowess.
"I think that's one of the tricks: You have to find people who make you stand on your toes," Gessle mused. "Marie's capability of singing triggered me to write even better songs, because suddenly I had someone who could sing them. A song like 'It Must Have Been Love' … it was just one take by Marie in the studio, this amazing vocal. We made some great records. I'm really proud of that era.", ranking the act's nine top 40 Hot 100 entries.
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