Editing Roxette (section)

==== "It Must Have Been Love"&nbsp;– ''Pretty Woman'' soundtrack ====
It was around this time that [[Touchstone Pictures]] approached EMI and Roxette about contributing a song to the soundtrack of an upcoming film, ''[[Pretty Woman]],'' starring [[Richard Gere]] and [[Julia Roberts]].<ref name=roxbook>Lundgren & Wikström: (1992) p.?</ref> Gessle maintained that "[[It Must Have Been Love]]", by then a two-year-old recording, was chosen because Roxette had no time to compose and record a new song.<ref name=roxbook/> The film's producers turned it down, asking for another song, but Gessle declined to produce another song.<ref name=roxbook/> Some weeks later after re-editing the film before release, the producers re-requested "It Must Have Been Love", but Roxette had to remove the Christmas lyrics.<ref name=roxbook/> Gessle and producer [[Clarence Öfwerman]] then took the old recording, had Fredriksson replace a single Christmas-reference line in the song and added some instrumentation and background vocal overlays.

Though it was not the first single released from the soundtrack, "It Must Have Been Love" would prove to be Roxette's most successful single release. The song spent two weeks at No.&nbsp;1 on the Hot 100 in June 1990, three months after the film's release, and stayed for two additional weeks at No.&nbsp;2, spending a total of seventeen weeks in the top 40. ''[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]'' named the song the No.&nbsp;2 Hot 100 single of the year, behind [[Wilson Phillips]]'s "[[Hold On (Wilson Phillips song)|Hold On]]".<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.billboard.com/bbcom/charts/yearend_chart_display.jsp?f=The+Billboard+Hot+100&g=Year-end+Singles&year=1990 |title=Billboard's 1990 year end chart |magazine=Billboard |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061020154216/http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/charts/yearend_chart_display.jsp?f=The+Billboard+Hot+100&g=Year-end+Singles&year=1990 |archive-date=20 October 2006}}</ref> The single also topped the charts in more than 20 other countries (including Australia<ref name=Auscharts/>) around the world. In Germany the single spent 9 months in the top 75, and peaked at No.&nbsp;3 in the UK, the duo's highest singles chart position there.<ref name="OCC"/><ref name=Gercharts/> The soundtrack went on to be certified three times platinum by the [[Recording Industry Association of America|RIAA]].<ref>{{cite certification |title=Pretty Woman |region=United States |access-date=1 February 2012}}</ref>