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Listen To Your Heart

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Listen to Your Heart
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
 
"Listen to Your Heart" was the third single issued in the United States from Swedish pop duo Roxette's 1988 album Look Sharp! It was written by Per Gessle and Mats M.P. Persson. It reached number-one on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart on November 4, 1989; their second chart-topper of the year.

About the song

Music video

Roxette recorded the video for "Listen to Your Heart" in the Borgholm Castle ruin on the Swedish Baltic Sea island of Öland.


Accolades

On October 3, 2006, the song had reached its 3 millionth broadcast on American radio. It took nine years to reach two million and eight further years to reach three million. The total playing time non-stop was 17 years. The D.H.T. dance cover is included.


In the media

The Roxette version of this song was featured on the TV show Reunion in 2005.
"Listen to Your Heart" was used by the dissident political party Civic Forum in its television advertisements for the 1989 Czechoslovakian elections, one of the first elections in Eastern Europe that came with collapse of communism.

Track listing

"Listen to Your Heart" (Swedish Single Version)
"Dangerous" (LP Version)
"Listen to Your Heart" (U.S. Remix)
"Dangerous" (U.S. Club Edit)

D.H.T. cover

In 2005, Belgian dance group D.H.T.'s trance-cover of "Listen to Your Heart" became a worldwide club hit. Originally released in Belgium in 2003, the various mixes of the song reached U.S. clubs in late 2004. By mid 2005, the song reached the Top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at #8 in August. The same year, the group also released an acoustic ballad version of the song, which also received substantial airplay.


Habla El Corazón

"Habla El Corazón", the Spanish version of the song, was released in March 2007 by Mexican artist Yuridia, who covered the track for her second album Habla El Corazón. The song quickly gained both airplay and digital sales, debuting at #89 in the Mexican Top 100, that week's highest debut. To this date, the song has peaked at #58.

On the week of April 28, 2007, "Habla El Corazon" debuted in the U.S. Hot Latin Songs at #50. It is the first time her second single appears on a U.S. chart, as "Maldita Primavera", the second single off of her debut album, only charted in the Mexican Top 100.
 

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