Room Service (Roxette album)

Room Service
Studio album by Roxette
Released	2 April 2001
Recorded	January 2000 – January 2001
Studio	Atlantis and Polar Studios, Stockholm, Sweden
Genre	Pop rock
Length	43:20
Label	Roxette Recordings EMI
Producer	Clarence Öfwerman Per Gessle Marie Fredriksson
Roxette chronology
Have a Nice Day (1999) Room Service (2001) The Ballad Hits (2002)
Singles from Room Service
"The Centre of the Heart" Released: 19 March 2001 "Real Sugar" Released: 18 June 2001 "Milk and Toast and Honey" Released: 16 September 2001

Room Service is the seventh studio album by Swedish pop duo Roxette, released worldwide from 2 April 2001. A planned release in the United States failed to materialise, as the duo's label there, Edel Records America, had been disbanded the previous month due to financial difficulties. Marie Fredriksson was not as involved in the album's production as she had been on previous records, taking part in the composition of just two songs. The album was remastered and reissued with bonus tracks in 2009.

Three singles were released from the record: lead single "The Centre of the Heart" was a hit throughout Europe, and was Roxette's third number one single in their home country. "Real Sugar" underperformed; it remains the lowest-peaking of all their charting singles in both Germany and Switzerland. Conversely, "Milk and Toast and Honey" performed well, and was the album's longest-charting hit in Sweden and Switzerland. The latter was also the only single from the album to be released in the United Kingdom.

The album received mixed reviews upon release. AllMusic called it an "exciting, immediate, high-gloss pop gem that contains very little filler indeed",^[1] although other publications were critical of Per Gessle's lyrics, particularly to album track "Jefferson". The record performed well commercially throughout mainland Europe, and was one of the best-selling albums of the year in several territories, but was largely ignored in the United Kingdom, where it peaked at number 120.