Tourism

Tourism
Studio album by Roxette
Publication (s)	August 28, 1992
Label (s)	EMI
Genre (s)	Pop rock
Title (number)	16
running time	70:39
production	Clarence Öfwerman
chronology Joyride (1991) Tourism Crash! Boom! Bang! (1994)

Tourism is Roxette's fourth album . It's a compilation that contains live pieces and older material as well as new songs. The album is also subtitled Songs From Studios, Stages, Hotelrooms & Other Strange Places . The record was released on August 28, 1992 by EMI . Tourism reached number one in Germany and Switzerland , the first single How Do You Do! made it to second place in each of the German-speaking countries.

useful information

The album contains four live recordings, namely the songs "The Look", "It Must Have Been Love", "Things Will Never be the Same" and "Joyride". While “It Must Have Been Love” before the greatest hits album Don't Bore Us, Get to the Chorus! was not released on a Roxette album, the other three appeared on the Look Sharp! and Joyride .

Another three songs were also released earlier: "So Far Away" was included on the 1986 debut album Pearls of Passion , "Come Back (Before You Leave)" was originally the B-side of the "Joyride" single, while "Silver Blue" originally appeared as a demo version on the B-side of the single from "The Look". "Here Comes the Weekend", the eleventh song on the album, contains improvisation. The song was recorded in a hotel room using a Samsonite case instead of a drum kit.

reception

Tourism had little success in the US charts - it only reached number 117 on the Billboard 200 album chart, although around 273,000 copies were sold there. It was far more successful elsewhere, especially in Europe, where it was the best-selling album for four weeks in September 1992. When it was released, it immediately rose to number two on the British charts, stayed on the list for 17 weeks and finally received gold status from the BPI in September 1992 for over 100,000 copies sold. It also entered the charts in Sweden and reached many higher chart positions worldwide. Although its success did not match that of the previous album, Tourism sold more than six million copies worldwide.

Bryan Buss of Allmusic wrote that there were very few filler pieces on the album, it offered a good introduction to Roxette's work. The rating was three out of five stars.

Track list

1. How do you do! (Studio: Halmstad & Stockholm, Sweden) - 3:10
2. Fingertips (Studio: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) - 3:34
3. The Look (Live: Sydney, Australia) - 5:33
4. The Heart Shaped Sea (Studio: Los Angeles, USA) - 4:32
5. The Rain (Studio: Stockholm, Sweden) - 4:49
6. Keep Me Waiting (Studio: Stockholm, Sweden) - 3:15
7. It Must Have Been Love (Live: Santiago, Chile / Studio: Los Angeles, USA) - 7:05
8. Cinnamon Street (Studio: Stockholm, Sweden, Copenhagen, Denmark) - 5:01
9. Never is a Long Time (Nightclub: São Paulo, Brazil) 3:46
10. Silver Blue (Studio: Stockholm, Sweden) - 4:07
11. Here Comes the Weekend (Hotelroom: Buenos Aires, Argentina) - 4:11
12. So Far Away (Hotelroom: Buenos Aires, Argentina) - 4:03
13. Come Back (Before You Leave) (Studio, Stockholm, Sweden) - 4:28
14. Things Will Never Be the Same (Live: Zürich, Switzerland) - 3:12
15. Joyride (Live: Sydney, Australia) - 4:48
16. Queen of Rain (Studio: Stockholm, Sweden) - 4:51

Chart placements

Albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)						Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US	SE
1992	Tourism	DE1 (36 weeks) DE	AT2 (16 weeks) AT	CH1 (24 weeks) CH	UK2 (17 weeks) UK	US117 (8 weeks) US	SE1 (10 weeks) SE

Singles

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)						Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US	SE
1992	How do you do! Tourism	DE2 (27 weeks) DE	AT2 (17 weeks) AT	CH2 (28 weeks) CH	UK13 (7 weeks) UK	US58 (8 weeks) US	SE2 (7 weeks) SE
	Queen of Rain Tourism	DE19 (17 weeks) DE	-	CH27 (7 weeks) CH	UK28 (4 weeks) UK	-	SE12 (5 weeks) SE
1993	Fingertips '93 Tourism	DE45 (11 weeks) DE	-	-	-	-	SE39 (2 weeks) SE

Sales figures and awards

Country / Region	Award	Sales
Awards for music sales (country / region, Award, Sales)
Germany (BVMI)	3 × gold	750,000
Finland (IFPI)	gold	43,423
Canada (MC)	platinum	100,000
Netherlands (NVPI)	gold	50,000
Austria (IFPI)	platinum	50,000
Sweden (IFPI)	platinum	100,000
Switzerland (IFPI)	platinum	50,000
Spain (Promusicae)	platinum	100,000
United Kingdom (BPI)	gold	100,000
All in all	4 × gold 6 × platinum	1,344,423

Main article: Roxette / Music Sales Awards

Web links

• Tourism at Allmusic (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ask Billboard section on billboard.com (2005) ( Memento of July 22, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
2. ^ BPI certifications . www.bpi.co.uk. Retrieved March 4, 2011.
3. ↑ Expresson's article on Roxette's history (part 3) ( Swedish ) www.archive.org. Archived from the original on June 5, 2001. Retrieved September 28, 2009.
4. ↑ www.allmusic.com: Tourism review by Bryan Buss
5. ↑ Chart sources, albums:
   • Tourism in the German album charts on OfficialCharts.de
   • Tourism in the Austrian hit parade on AustrianCharts.at
   • Tourism in the Swiss charts on Hitparade.ch
   • Tourism in the Official UK Charts (English)
   • Tourism on the US Billboard 200
   • Tourism in Sverigetopplistan on Swedishcharts.com
6. ↑ Chart sources, singles:
   • Roxette in the German single charts on OfficialCharts.de
   • Roxette in the Austrian charts on AustrianCharts.at
   • Roxette in the Swiss charts on Hitparade.ch
   • Roxette in the Official UK Charts (English)
   • Roxette on the US Billboard Hot 100
   • Roxette in the Sverigetopplistan on Swedishcharts.com