"One Wish" is a song by

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pop music duo

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, released on 9 October 2006 as the lead single from the duo's fourth greatest hits

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, '' A Collection of Roxette Hits: Their 20 Greatest Songs!'' It was recorded in June 2006, and was one of the first songs recorded by the duo since vocalist

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in 2002. Longtime collaborator

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directed the song's

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. The single performed well in several territories, particularly in

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. It ended 2006 as one of the twenty best-selling singles in Sweden.

Background and recording

Written by

Per Gessle Per Håkan Gessle (; born 12 January 1959) is a Swedish singer, songwriter and guitarist. He is best known as the male half and primary songwriter of the Swedish pop rock duo Roxette, which he formed with Marie Fredriksson in 1986 and which was d ...

and

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by him with frequent collaborators

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and

Christoffer Lundquist Carl Christoffer Lundquist (born 1970) is a Swedish musician and producer. He was once in the band Brainpool, where he started as a bass player and backing vocalist, but moved to play both the bass and the guitar. Brainpool won a Swedish Gram ...

, the song was recorded in June 2006 at The Aerosol Grey Machine in

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. It was one of the first songs recorded by the duo since vocalist

in 2002. Gessle described the song as an uptempo

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Release and promotion

The single is backed by several

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s, including a megamix of several previously released singles. "The Rox Medley" was arranged, produced and mixed by Lundquist, Öfwerman and Jimmy Monell, and is made up of portions of "

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", " Joyride", " Listen To Your Heart", "

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", "

It Must Have Been Love "It Must Have Been Love", originally "It Must Have Been Love (Christmas for the Broken Hearted)", is a song written by Per Gessle and performed by the Swedish pop duo Roxette. The power ballad became the duo's third number one hit in the United ...

" and "

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". It had been released earlier in 2006 through digital retailers such as

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. Also included on the maxi single was the original 1987 single " It Must Have Been Love (Christmas for the Broken Hearted)", along with its original b-side, the Fredriksson-composed "Turn to Me".

directed the song's

. It was a mixture of new and old images, taken from numerous other music videos created by Roxette over the years. The single performed well in

n territories. On the Swedish airplay chart Svensktoppen, it peaked at number three, and reached number two on the national

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sales chart. It ended 2006 as the 18th best-selling single in the country. It also peaked within the top five on the Finnish Singles Chart, and at number three in Spain. It charted moderately in several European territories, reaching number 50 in Germany, and number 56 in both Austria and Switzerland.

Formats and track listings

All lyrics by Per Gessle; all music by Gessle, except "Turn to Me" by Marie Fredriksson. * CD Single (Europe 3718902) # "One Wish" – 3:04 # "The Rox Medley" – 4:40 * CD Maxi # "One Wish" – 3:04 # "The Rox Medley" – 4:40 # " It Must Have Been Love (Christmas for the Broken Hearted)" – 4:48 # "Turn to Me" – 2:58

Personnel

Credits adapted from the liner notes of '' A Collection of Roxette Hits: Their 20 Greatest Songs!''. * Recorded at The Aerosol Grey Machine,

, Sweden in June 2006 * Mixed by

Musicians *

—

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and background vocals *

— lead and background vocals, production * Jens Jansson —

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* Christoffer Lundquist — background vocals, electric and

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, programming,

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, production *

— synthesizer, programming, production

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:One Wish (Roxette Song) 2006 songs 2006 singles Roxette songs Music videos directed by Jonas Åkerlund Songs written by Per Gessle