Joyride (Roxette song)

"Joyride"
Single by Roxette
from the album Joyride
B-side	"Come Back (Before You Leave)"
Released	27 February 1991
Format	CD maxi 7" single
Recorded	1990 at EMI Studios in Stockholm, Sweden
Genre	Pop rock dance-rock
Length	4:22
Label	EMI
Writer(s)	Per Gessle
Producer(s)	Clarence Öfwerman
Certification	Gold (Austria, Canada, Germany, NZ) Platinum (Sweden)
Roxette singles chronology
"It Must Have Been Love" (1990) "Joyride" (1991) "Fading Like a Flower (Every Time You Leave)" (1991)
Music video "Joyride" on YouTube

"Joyride" is a song by the Swedish rock duo Roxette. Written by Per Gessle, the song was released as the lead single from their third studio album, Joyride (1991), the follow-up to the duo's highly successful second studio album, Look Sharp! (1988). The single topped the charts across Europe and in Australia, Canada, and the United States, where it spent one week at number one on the Billboard Hot 100, their last to do so, in May 1991. In the UK, "Joyride" peaked at #4.

In interviews, Gessle states he got the idea for the opening line of this song from his girlfriend (now wife) who left a note on his piano that stated, "Hello, you fool, I love you."^[1]

In the opening section of the song, a man is heard saying "Come on, join the joyride everybody, get your tickets here, step right this way"; the man who says this is Roxette's old tour manager and long-time friend Dave Edwards. This is an homage to The Beatles' song "Magical Mystery Tour", on which, during the opening section, Paul McCartney is heard saying "Roll up, roll up for the Magical Mystery Tour! Step right this way!" In the liner notes of Don't Bore Us, Get to the Chorus!, Gessle calls "Joyride" Roxette's "Magical Mystery Tour", and says he took the title from an interview in which Paul McCartney called writing songs with John Lennon a "long joyride".^[2]

In 1991, Alvin and the Chipmunks and The Chipettes covered the song for their album The Chipmunks Rock the House.

During the 1994 Stanley Cup playoffs this became the intro anthem to the Vancouver Canucks as they took the ice before each game.

Formats and track listings

CD maxi

1. "Joyride" (7" version) – 4:01
2. "Come Back (Before You Leave)" – 4:36
3. "Joyride" (12" magicfriendmix) – 6:11
4. "Joyride" (U.S. remix) – 4:05

7" single

1. "Joyride" – 3:58
2. "Come Back (Before You Leave)" – 4:34

Charts and sales

Peak positions Chart (1991) Peak position Australian ARIA Singles Chart[3] 1 Austrian Singles Chart[3] 1 Belgium Singles Chart 1 Canadian Singles Chart 1 Dutch Top 40[4] 1 European Hot 100 Singles 1 French SNEP Singles Chart[3] 39 German Singles Chart[5] 1 Irish Singles Chart[6] 9 Italian Singles Chart[7] 4 New Zealand RIANZ Singles Chart[3] 3 Norwegian Singles Chart[3] 1 Polish Singles Chart[8] 3 Swedish Singles Chart[3] 1 Swiss Singles Chart[3] 1 UK Singles Chart[9] 4 U.S. Billboard Hot 100[10] 1 U.S. Billboard Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks 21

End-of-year charts End-of-year chart (1991) Position Australian Singles Chart[11] 9 Austrian Singles Chart[12] 6 Dutch Top 40[4] 11 Swiss Singles Chart[13] 2 U.S. Billboard Hot 100[14] 23 Certifications Region Certification Sales/shipments Austria (IFPI Austria)[15] Gold 25,000^x Canada (Music Canada)[16] Gold 5,000^^ Germany (BVMI)[17] Gold 250,000^^ Sweden (GLF)[18] Platinum 50,000^x ^^shipments figures based on certification alone ^xunspecified figures based on certification alone

Chart successions

External links

• Joyrider (CD maxi) at MusicBrainz (list of releases)
• Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics

References

1. "Don't Bore Us, Get to the Chorus! album liner notes.". www.pergessle.net.
2. Don't Bore Us, Get to the Chorus! liner notes. EMI, 1995.
3. "Joyride", in various singles charts Lescharts.com (Retrieved April 7, 2008)
4. "Single top 100 over 1991" (pdf) (in Dutch). Top40. Retrieved 13 April 2010.
5. German Singles Chart Charts-surfer.de (Retrieved April 7, 2008)
6. Irish Single Chart Irishcharts.ie (Retrieved April 7, 2008)
7. Italian Single Chart Hit parade Italia (Retrieved May 31, 2008)
8. "Polish Singles Chart |".
9. UK Singles Chart Chartstats.com (Retrieved April 7, 2008)
10. Billboard Allmusic.com (Retrieved August 15, 2008)
11. 1992 Australian Singles Chart aria.com (Retrieved August 15, 2008)
12. 1991 Austrian Singles Chart Austriancharts.at (Retrieved August 15, 2008)
13. 1991 Swiss Singles Chart Hitparade.ch (Retrieved August 15, 2008)
14. "Billboard Top 100 - 1991". Retrieved 2009-09-15.
15. "Austrian single certifications – Roxette – Joyride" (in German). IFPI Austria. Enter Roxette in the field Interpret. Enter Joyride in the field Titel. Select single in the field Format. Click Suchen
16. "Canadian single certifications – Roxette – Joyride". Music Canada.
17. "Gold-/Platin-Datenbank (Roxette; 'Joyride')" (in German). Bundesverband Musikindustrie.
18. "Guld- och Platinacertifikat − År 1987−1998" (PDF) (in Swedish). IFPI Sweden.