The Centre of the Heart

"The Centre of the Heart"
"The Centre of the Heart"
Single by Roxette
from the album Room Service
B-side	"Entering Your Heart"
Released	19 March 2001
Recorded	January 1998; November 2000;
Studio	El Cortijo (Marbella, Spain); Atlantis, Polar (Stockholm, Sweden);
Genre	Pop
Length	3:22
Label	Roxette Recordings; EMI;
Songwriter(s)	Per Gessle
Producer(s)	Clarence Öfwerman; Gessle; Marie Fredriksson; Michael Ilbert (co-producer);
Roxette singles chronology
Music video
	"The Centre of the Heart" on YouTube

"The Centre of the Heart" is a song by Swedish pop music duo Roxette, released on 19 March 2001 as the lead single from their seventh studio album, Room Service. An uptempo pop song, it was written by Per Gessle and originally demoed in January 1998 during sessions for their previous album Have a Nice Day (1999). The single was backed by an exclusive B-side, "Entering Your Heart", along with several remixes by StoneBridge.

The track became one of the duo's biggest hits in their home country, spending four weeks on top of the Swedish Singles Chart. It also entered the top 10 in Romania and Spain and charted moderately in several other European territories. Longtime collaborator Jonas Åkerlund directed the song's music video, which was Roxette's most expensive and was criticised for negatively portraying women.^[1]

^ ^a ^b "Sweden's hot music talent for 2001" (PDF). Music & Media. Vol. 18, no. 21. 19 May 2001. p. 12. Retrieved 28 September 2020.

[spotlight-1] "Sweden's hot music talent for 2001" (PDF). Music & Media. Vol. 18, no. 21. 19 May 2001. p. 12. Retrieved 28 September 2020.

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