Dangerous (Roxette song)

"Dangerous"
Single by Roxette
from the album Look Sharp!
Released	Version 1: December 1989 Version 2: 1990
Format	7", 12", CD
Recorded	1988
Genre	Pop
Length	3:48
Label	EMI
Writer(s)	Per Gessle
Roxette singles chronology
"Listen to Your Heart" (1989) "Dangerous" (1989 & 1990) "It Must Have Been Love" (1990)

"Dangerous", written by Per Gessle, is the fourth single released from Roxette's album Look Sharp!. Gessle penned it just before Roxette's first tour in 1987.^[1] Released at the end of 1989, it was the group's third top 10 showing on the Billboard Hot 100, spending two weeks at #2 in February 1990. It was held out from the #1 spot by the Paula Abdul track "Opposites Attract". The music video was performed in the ruins of Borgholm Castle. It was released as a double A-side in the UK, alongside "Listen to Your Heart".

The version on the single features a different introduction, omitting the instruments in favour of the duo singing the first line of the chorus.

Music video

Track listing

Released: 1989-05-02 // EMI / 1363412

• CDM

1. "Dangerous" (7" version)
2. "Dangerous" (waste of vinyl 12" -mix)
3. "Surrender" (live)
4. "Neverending Love" (live)
5. "Joy of a Toy" (live)
6. "Sleeping Single" (live)

Charts

Peak positions Chart (1989) Peak position Polish Singles Chart 3 UK Singles Chart 6 Australian Singles Chart 9 U.S. Billboard Hot 100[2] 2 Chart (1990) Peak position U.S. Billboard Adult Contemporary[2] 21

End of year charts End of year chart (1990) Position Australia ARIA[3] 39 U.S. Billboard Hot 100[4] 34

References

1. ^ Dangerous Songfacts
2. ^ ^{a b} Allmusic. Roxette | Billboard Singles. Retrieved 2011-08-08.
3. ^ http://www.aria.com.au/pages/aria-charts-end-of-year-charts-top-50-singles-1990.htm
4. ^ "Billboard Top 100 - 1990". http://longboredsurfer.com/charts.php?year=1990. Retrieved 2009-09-15.