Traveling

Traveling
Studio album by Roxette
Publication (s)	March 23, 2012
Label (s)	EMI Music
Format (s)	CD , download, vinyl
Genre (s)	Pop rock
Title (number)	15th
running time	54:45
production	Clarence Öfwerman, Christoffer Lundquist, Per Gessle
chronology Charm School (2011) Traveling Good Karma (2016)
Single release March 16, 2012 It's possible

Traveling is the ninth studio album by the Swedish pop duo Roxette . It was released on March 23, 2012 by EMI Music . The first single It’s Possible was released on March 16, 2012.

It is the second album since their comeback in 2009 and was made parallel to their last world tour, which lasted from February 2011 to September 2012. It is based on their 1992 album Tourism and has the same subtitle Songs from Studios, Stages, Hotelrooms and Other Strange Places .

background

Emergence

The fact that Roxette was working on a new album was first announced in July 2011 in the Swedish tabloid Expressen . The working title was called 2rism and should make it clear that it was a continuation of tourism . The titles Tourism 2 or simply T2 had previously been considered; However, EMI Music insisted that tracks with numbers were not good, which is why the album was later renamed Traveling . At the beginning of 2012, Per Gessle announced on the Internet platform Twitter that the recordings had ended. In interviews around the time of publication, he was very positive about the work on the album:

“When work on Charm School started, I was tense and nervous because it was the first time in so many years that we were doing something again. But this time we were like a very closely welded unit and that made the work on "Traveling" a lot easier, I really enjoyed it. "

- Per Gessle

The intention of the work was to depict the positive energy and creative mood of a band during a world tour. During the period in which Traveling was made, Roxette gave 79 concerts to an intercontinental audience of over 800,000 people.

Songs

Similar to the concept of Tourism , Traveling includes new songs written during the tour and recorded in various studios around the world as well as reinterpretations of older, partly previously unreleased material. The piece See Me , 1994 for the album Chrash! Boom! Bang! originated and published as a bonus track on the single Salvation , is included on the album in a completely new version, for which only the original recordings of Marie Fredriksson's voice were retained. Turn of the Tide was written for the album Have a Nice Day in 1998 and was first recorded in 2011 at the luxury resort Sun City in South Africa . Touched By the Hand of God was originally planned as the theme song from Roxette's previous album Charm School . The album also includes a "Vocal Up Mix" of the ballad The Weight of the World , released in 2002 as part of the single A Thing About You , and a new version of the song Perfect Excuse sung by Fredriksson from Gessle's solo album Party Crasher by 2008. The latter piece is also the first Roxette song in which Gessle is not at least heard as a background singer.

The album also features three live recordings of the world tour: She's Got Nothing On (But the Radio) from a concert on April 16, 2011 in Rio de Janeiro , a performance by stars as a sound check on May 20, 2011 in Dubai and a demonstration of the hit It Must Have Been Love with symphony orchestra as part of the Night of the Proms 2009 concert series in Rotterdam , the instrumental accompaniment of which was recorded and synchronized for Traveling with later studio recordings of the vocal part and percussion interludes. At the said event, Roxette celebrated their comeback in 2009 after several years of absence.

Track list

All the songs were written by Per Gessle, with the exception of See Me , whose music was written by Marie Fredriksson .

#	title	length
1.	Me & You & Terry & Julie	3:46
2.	Lover lover lover	4:00
3.	Turn of the tide	4:11
4th	Touched by the Hand of God	3:48
5.	Easy way out	3:38
6th	It's Possible (Version One)	2:38
7th	Perfect excuse	3:41
8th.	Excuse Me, Sir, Do You Want Me to Check on Your Wife?	4:15
9.	Angel Passing	2:47
10.	Stars ( Soundcheck , Dubai , May 20 2011)	3:36
11.	The Weight of the Worlds (Vocal Up Mix)	2:52
12.	She's Got Nothing On (But the Radio) (Live in Rio de Janeiro , April 16 2011)	4:41
13.	See Me (New Version)	3:49
14th	It's Possible (Version Two)	2:45
15th	It Must Have Been Love ( Night of the Proms , Rotterdam 2009)	4:18

Bonus tracks

iTunes

#	title	length
16.	Lover Lover Lover (Tits & Ass Demo, Aug 10 2011)	3:00

vinyl record

#	title
16.	Me & You & Terry & Julie (Tits & Ass Demo, June 9 2011)
17th	Charm School (Tits & Ass Demo, 10 September 2009)

criticism

After the album was first released, numerous reviews were published in the media, with the positive ones clearly predominating. Above all, the fact that it corresponds to the typical Roxette style and that the band remains true to itself was praised.

“Roxette also make harmless, catchy, wonderful pop songs on Traveling, the ninth album of their career. […] Roxette present songs that now sound mature, but have teenage years in their hearts. Songs that let off steam between the many reference points in the lexicon of pop music, and yet are unmistakably Roxette. Songs that never sound flat or one-dimensional, but which you can still sing along with the third time at the latest. "

- Michael Kraft : News.de

“The songs from the album Traveling sound like Roxette has never been away. [...] Without exception, they invite you to sing along immediately. In 2012, Roxette with their melodic "Bravo" rock fit between other Swedish pop stars such as Abba and Robyn, Cardigans and Lykke Li - absolutely independent and yet connected to the tradition of Scandinavian hit production. "

- Paula Fuchs : T-Online

" Traveling is again one of those few albums that land in the CD player and can be listened to without having to skip a song - a real rarity in the times of Lady Gaga and other artificial pop stars and countless casting show ephemera."

- Thomas Badtke : N-tv .de

The editors of the German review site MonstersAndCritics.de were critical of the fact that some of the songs were adapted to modern habits. For example, the first version of It's Possible would have used "rock guitars, synth sounds, drum computers and gessles chased vocals", which sounds like "an old-fashioned erasure song". The second version, on the other hand, was "with an acoustic guitar and normal drums [...] a beautiful and timeless pop number". This would reveal two sides of the same band on the album, with the side represented by the latter example being preferred.

On the websites of radio stations HR1 and 105'5 Spree Radio was Traveling presented as the respective album the week of March 26 to April 1, 2012th

Chart placements

In the Czech Republic , Traveling was able to place itself in the national album charts just two days after it was released, where it reached number 7. The single It's Possible entered the German single charts at number 64. In Sweden, the album was awarded the gold record on March 28th for over 20,000 copies sold to date .

album

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)						Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US	SE
2012	Traveling	DE7 (7 weeks) DE	AT15 (3 weeks) AT	CH12 (9 weeks) CH	-	-	SE7th gold (11 weeks)SE	First published: March 23, 2012

Singles

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)						Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US	SE
2012	It's possible traveling	DE64 (1 week) DE	-	-	-	-	-	First published: March 16, 2012 Video: David Nord

Sales figures and awards

Country / Region	Award	Sales
Awards for music sales (country / region, Award, Sales)
Sweden (IFPI)	gold	20,000
All in all	1 × gold	20,000

Main article: Roxette / Music Sales Awards

Individual evidence

1. ^ Roxette - Traveling . The Daily Roxette. January 31, 2012. Retrieved February 1, 2012.
2. ^ The new single is "It's Possible" . The Daily Roxette. February 29, 2012. Archived from the original on March 3, 2012. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved March 5, 2012. 
3. ↑ Titles with numbers aren't good . The Daily Roxette. February 22, 2012. Archived from the original on February 28, 2014. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved March 5, 2012. 
4. ↑ Thomas Evensson: Roxette is working on new album. (No longer available online.) In: The Daily Roxette. July 3, 2011, archived from the original on May 3, 2012 ; accessed on March 29, 2012 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
5. ^ "Titles with numbers aren't good" - Per chats with The Daily Roxette. (No longer available online.) In: The Daily Roxette. February 22, 2012, archived from the original on April 14, 2012 ; accessed on March 31, 2012 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
6. ↑ Per Gessle: Gessle's official Twitter account . Retrieved February 1, 2012.
7. ^ ^{A b} Stefan Weber: Roxette: Traveling - On a successful journey. (No longer available online.) In: MonstersAndCritics.de. March 21, 2012, archived from the original on March 22, 2012 ; Retrieved March 28, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
8. ^ "Traveling" - the press release. (No longer available online.) In: The Daily Roxette. March 1, 2012, archived from the original on March 4, 2012 ; accessed on March 31, 2012 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
9. ↑ Thomas Evensson: Roxette returns to South America in 2012 , The Daily Roxette. December 9th, 2011. Archived from the original on January 25th, 2012 Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved December 12, 2011.  
10. ↑ Traveling tracklist revealed . The Daily Roxette. February 27, 2012. Retrieved June 2, 2012.
11. ↑ ^{a b} TRAVELING: 54 minutes, 45 seconds . RoxetteBlog. March 5, 2012. Retrieved March 5, 2012.
12. ↑ Traveling (2LP) (Vinyl LP) . In: CDON . Retrieved March 12, 2012.
13. ↑ Media reviews for the “Traveling” album. In: RoxetteBlog.com. March 28, 2012, accessed March 28, 2012 . 
14. ↑ Michael Kraft: Roxette are in full swing again. (Not available online.) In: News.de . March 27, 2012, archived from the original on March 30, 2012 ; Retrieved March 28, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
15. ↑ Paula Fuchs: Roxette are very old. In: T-Online . March 21, 2012. Retrieved March 28, 2012 . 
16. ↑ Thomas Badtke: Roxette popping through space and time. In: N-tv .de. March 26, 2012. Retrieved March 28, 2012 . 
17. ↑ Werner Laibusch: CD of the week March 26th . - April 1, 2012: Roxette "Traveling". In: hr1 . March 23, 2012. Retrieved March 28, 2012 . 
18. ↑ Album of the week March 26th. - 04/01/2012: Roxette "Traveling". (No longer available online.) In: 105'5 Spreeradio . Formerly in the original ; Retrieved March 28, 2012 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.    
19. ^ Traveling charting. In: RoxetteBlog.com. March 27, 2012, accessed March 29, 2012 . 
20. ^ Roxette sells gold in Sweden. In: RoxetteBlog.com. March 28, 2012, accessed March 29, 2012 . 
21. ↑ Chart sources, album:
    • Traveling in the German album charts on OfficialCharts.de
    • Traveling in the Austrian charts on AustrianCharts.at
22. ↑ Chart sources, single:
    • It's Possible in the German single charts on OfficialCharts.de