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Chart Rewind: In 1989, Roxette’s ‘Listen to Your Heart’ Led the Hot 100
Roxette's "Listen to Your Heart" scored the duo its second of its four Hot 100 No. 1s. Here's the chart rewind to 1989.
After Sweden’s Roxette broke through in the U.S. with “The Look,” which topped the Billboard Hot 100 for a week in April 1989, “Listen to Your Heart,” the third single from the pair’s album Look Sharp!, ascended to No. Gessle wrote the latter with Mats Persson “about a good friend of mine who went through a difficult divorce,” he mused in Fred Bronson’s The Billboard Book of Number One Hits. To date, the enduring ballad has totaled 2.3 billion in radio airplay audience in the U.S., according to Luminate, along with 189 million official streams and 406,000 downloads sold.
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