Salvation (Roxette song)

"Salvation" is a song by Swedish pop music duo Roxette, released on 22 November 1999 as the fourth and final single from their sixth studio album, Have a Nice Day.

"Salvation"
Single by Roxette
from the album Have a Nice Day
B-side	"See Me" and "Crazy About You"
Released	22 November 1999
Recorded	January–April 1998
Studio	El Cortijo Studios, Marbella
Genre	Pop
Length	4:04
Label	Roxette Recordings EMI
Songwriter(s)	Per Gessle
Producer(s)	Marie Fredriksson Gessle Clarence Öfwerman Michael Ilbert
Roxette singles chronology
"Stars" (1999) "Salvation" (1999) "The Centre of the Heart" (2001)
Music video
"Salvation" on YouTube

Release and promotion

The song was released on CD as the album's fourth and final single on 22 November 1999, and was backed by two b-sides "See Me" and "Crazy About You"—both outtakes from the duo's 1994 studio album, Crash! Boom! Bang!. "Crazy About You" had previously been released in a slightly remixed form as a b-side to the duo's 1995 single "You Don't Understand Me". This is the first release of the Marie Fredriksson-composed "See Me", a song that would go on to feature on a number of releases: it appeared as a bonus track on deluxe editions of their 2002 compilation The Ballad Hits, and on both Roxette box sets The Rox Box/Roxette 86–06 (2006) and The RoxBox!: A Collection of Roxette's Greatest Songs (2014). A newly recorded version of the song was also released on their ninth studio album, Travelling (2012). The single also includes the music video of preceding single "Stars".^[1]

The video for "Salvation" was directed by Dutch director Anton Corbijn, and was shot in both Naples and Amalfi in Italy in October 1999.^[2] The song became a top 20 hit in Finland,^[3] but failed to replicate the success of preceding singles elsewhere: charting at number 46 in the duo's native Sweden,^[4] and at number eighty in Germany.^[5] A Spanish-version of the track, titled "Lo siento", achieved minor airplay in Spanish-speaking regions.^[1]

Formats and track listings

All lyrics and music by Per Gessle, except "See Me" music by Marie Fredriksson.

• CD single (8879200)

1. "Salvation" (Single Version) – 4:04
2. "See Me" – 3:46
3. "Crazy About You" (Crash! Boom! Bang! Version) – 4:04
4. "Stars" (Enhanced Video) – 3:55

Personnel

Credits adapted from the liner notes of The Ballad Hits.^[6]

• Recorded at El Cortijo Studios, Marbella, Spain between January and April 1998
• Mixed by Marie Fredriksson, Per Gessle, Michael Ilbert and Clarence Öfwerman at Mono Music, Stockholm.

Musicians

• Marie Fredriksson – lead and background vocals, keyboards and production
• Per Gessle – background vocals, acoustic guitar, programming and production
• Michael Ilbert – engineering, programming and production
• Jonas Isacsson – electric guitar
• Christoffer Lundquist – background vocals and bass guitar
• Clarence Öfwerman – synthesizer, tubular bells, programming and production

Charts

Weekly charts

Weekly chart performance for "Salvation"

Chart (1999)	Peak position
Finland (Suomen virallinen lista)[3]	18
Germany (GfK)[5]	80
Sweden (Sverigetopplistan)[4]	46

Year-end charts

Year-end chart performance for "Salvation"

Chart (1999)	Position
Europe Border Breakers (Eurochart Hot 100)[7]	93