Top 100 Roxette songs

Several years ago I conducted a survey on various mailing lists and message boards, looking to create an overall list of the most popular (and least popular) Roxette songs.  There were several surprises in the results:

First, not only were there six ballads in the top 10, but the top 3 songs were ballads.  The highest pop song features at #4 (Sleeping In My Car).  This just further strengthens my earlier point on how I believe that Roxette's talent very much lies in their ballads.  Their pop songs are fun, and catchy, but their ballads are where the real talent is.  They are more melodic, and while some of them may take longer to get used to, I believe they are ultimately more listenable.

The next surprise was how high some of the non-singles featured, as well as how comparatively low some of the actual singles did.  The highest non-single (Things Will Never Be The Same) comes in at #10, but The Big L, which was a single and sizable hit in many countries, reaches only #62.  Other non-singles to do remarkably well were Silver Blue, Paint, Breathe, and The Sweet Hello The Sad Goodbye..  This just goes to show I believe that Roxette is just one of the bands for which there is much more to them than their singles.  For some bands, they always choose their best songs to be their singles, but for Roxette, many of their best songs were not singles and not heard of by many.  This is also something I believe Roxette had in common with ABBA.

Another surprise was how well some of their later songs (1999 and after) performed.  While Roxette were most popular in the late eighties and early nineties, this survey showed that many of their much-loved songs were performed well after their heydey.  There are six songs from Have A Nice Day and five songs from Room Service in the top 50.

This survey was complied from 182 top 10 lists submitted on various Roxette-related sites.  Members submitted their top 10 Roxette song lists, and then I compiled an overall top 100 from all of these lists.  Note that this survey was conducted before 2006, and therefore does not include the two songs released in 2006 and 2007, or anything from the Charm School album:

POSITION, SONG TITLE

1 Listen To Your Heart
2 Fading Like A Flower (Every Time You Leave)
3 It Must Have Been Love
4 Sleeping In My Car
5 Dangerous
6 The Look
7 Spending My Time
8 Joyride
9 Wish I Could Fly
10 Things Will Never Be The Same
11 How Do You Do!
12 A Thing About You
13 She Doesn't Live Here Anymore
14 Run To You
15 Silver Blue
16 Crash! Boom! Bang!
17 The Centre Of The Heart
18 Almost Unreal
19 Milk And Toast And Honey
20 Paint
21 Opportunity Nox
22 Fireworks
23 Real Sugar
24 Breathe
25 The Sweet Hello, The Sad Goodbye
26 Queen Of Rain
27 The Rain
28 Stars
29 Salvation
30 Little Miss Sorrow
31 Dressed For Success
32 June Afternoon
33 Perfect Day
34 Anyone
35 Crush On You
36 So Far Away
37 Watercolours In The Rain
38 Church Of Your Heart
39 (Do You Get) Excited?
40 Fingertips (incl. Fingertips '93)
41 My World, My Love, My Life
42 Hotblooded
43 7Twenty7
44 (I Could Never) Give You Up
45 It Hurts
46 What's She Like?
47 Vulnerable
48 Fool
49 Never Is A Long Time
50 Neverending Love
51 I Don't Want To Get Hurt
52 Surrender
53 Soul Deep
54 I'm Sorry
55 I Remember You
56 Lies
57 Jefferson
58 You Don't Understand Me
59 The First Girl On The Moon
60 It Takes You No Time To Get Here
61 Looking For Jane
62 The Big L
63 Entering Your Heart
64 Knockin' On Every Door
65 Crazy About You
66 The Heart Shaped Sea
67 Make My Head Go Pop
68 Bla Bla Bla Bla (You Broke My Heart)
69 Keep Me Waiting
70 Chances
71 Call Of The Wild
72 Here Comes The Weekend
73 Harleys And Indians (Riders In The Sky)
74 Cinnamon Street
75 Happy Together
76 Dance Away
77 Like Lovers Do
78 The Weight Of The World
79 See Me
80 Come Back (Before You Leave)
81 Small Talk
82 Staring At The Ground
83 Go To Sleep
84 From One Heart To Another
85 Cry
86 I Was So Lucky
87 I Love The Sound Of Crashing Guitars
88 Beautiful Things
89 Sleeping Single
90 Waiting For The Rain
91 Do You Wanna Go The Whole Way?
92 Every Day
93 Love Is All (Shine Your Light On Me)
94 The Voice
95 You Can't Put Your Arms Around What's Already Gone
96 Better Off On Her Own
97 Secrets That She Keeps
98 Shadow Of A Doubt
99 Physical Fascination
100 It Will Take A Long Long Time