| "Fading Like a Flower (Every Time You Leave)" | ||||
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| Single by Roxette | ||||
| from the album Joyride | ||||
| Released | 1991 | |||
| Genre | Pop | |||
| Length | 03:51 | |||
| Label | EMI | |||
| Writer(s) | Per Gessle | |||
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"Fading Like a Flower (Every Time You Leave)", written by Per Gessle, was the second single released from Swedish pop duo Roxette's 1991 album Joyride. In July 1991, the song spent a week at No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States.
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The music video was shot mostly in Gamla stan, Stockholm, Sweden and features images of Stockholm City Hall. It was written in 1989 ("in Canada" according to Gessle), but eventually released in 1991.
"I Remember You" was the B-side for this single in the U.S. The single was available as a 7" and 12" format as well as a cassette single.
"Fading Like a Flower" (CDM)
Released: 1991-04-29 // EMI / 1364047
The song reached the top 5 most everywhere in Europe and also reached the top 3 in the USA and Canada. The track entered and peaked at #12 in the UK Singles Chart in May 1991 and #7 in Australia on June 2nd 1991.
| End of year chart (1991) | Position |
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| U.S. Billboard Hot 100[1] | 2 |
The song was remixed by the Dancing DJs in 2005 and charted at #18 in the UK.
Produced in 2005, credited as Dancing DJ's vs Roxette - "Fading Like A Flower".
Piano based rock ballad, in the key of F.
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