1. Critical reception

2. Commercial performance

3. Music video

4. Formats and track listings

5. Personnel

6. Charts
    Weekly charts  Year-end charts 

7. "Un día sin ti" (1996)
    Music video  Formats and track listings  Charts 

8. References

9. External links

"Spending My Time" is a song by Swedish duo Roxette, released as the fourth single from their third studio album, Joyride (1991). It was written by Per Gessle and Mats Persson, and produced by Clarence Öfwerman. The single attained moderate success, reaching the top ten in Germany and Italy, and the top twenty in Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Finland, Sweden and Switzerland, while peaking at number twenty-two on the UK Singles Chart and thirty-two on the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States.

A remix was created by MC King Carli and Dr Renault (pseudonyms used by Öfwerman & Anders) at EMI Studios in Stockholm, Sweden, in July 1991, and was included on the single. A Spanish version of the song, titled "Un día sin ti" ("A Day Without You"), was released in 1996 as the lead single from the duo's Spanish-language compilation album Baladas en español.

Critical reception

Dave Sholin from the Gavin Report wrote about the song: "In a Top 40 world starved for Pop music, Per and Marie can be considered a delicacy. No matter what the tempo, all their songs contain melodies that win listeners over immediately. Hearing this latest release makes it easy to understand why they've established such a large and loyal international following."^[1]

Commercial performance

The song was not as commercially successful as the duo's preceding singles. It peaked at number thirty-two on the Billboard Hot 100 in the US, ending a run of five consecutive top two singles on the chart. In the liner notes of their 1995 greatest hits compilation Don't Bore Us, Get to the Chorus!, Per Gessle said he believed that "Spending My Time" was "going to be our biggest hit ever, which might have happened if not our American record company had fired a lot of... ah, never mind."^[2] At the end of 1991, EMI merged with other record companies to form EMI Records Group North America. The merger resulted in the new company firing over a hundred members of staff, and saw Roxette receiving little support from the new label.^[3] The song also peaked at number nine in Canada.

Music video

The music video for "Spending My Time" was directed by Wayne Isham and depicts lead singer Marie Fredriksson at multiple places in a house, such as sitting by a window, lying in bed, sitting on a couch and at a table. Gessle also appears occasionally playing the guitar.^[4]

Formats and track listings

All songs written by Per Gessle and Mats Persson, except "The Sweet Hello, The Sad Goodbye" by Gessle.

• Cassette and 7" single^[5][6][7][8]
  1. "Spending My Time" – 4:39
  2. "The Sweet Hello, The Sad Goodbye" – 4:49

• UK 7" single^[9]
  1. "Spending My Time" – 4:39
  2. "Listen to Your Heart" (Swedish Single Version) – 5:10

• 12" single^[10]
  1. "Spending My Time" (Electric Dance Remix) – 5:27
  2. "Spending My Time" – 4:39
  3. "The Sweet Hello, The Sad Goodbye" – 4:49

• CD single^[11]
  1. "Spending My Time" – 4:39
  2. "The Sweet Hello, The Sad Goodbye" – 4:49
  3. "Spending My Time" (Electric Dance Remix) – 5:27
  4. "Spending My Time" (Electric Dance Remix/Instrumental) – 5:27

• UK CD single^[12]
  1. "Spending My Time" – 4:39
  2. "The Sweet Hello, The Sad Goodbye" – 4:49
  3. "Spending My Time" (Electric Dance Remix) – 5:27
  4. "Listen to Your Heart" (7" Edit) – 4:06

Personnel

Credits adapted from the liner notes of The Ballad Hits.^[13]

• Recorded at EMI Studios in Stockholm, Sweden in July 1990.
• Mixed by Alar Suurna, Per Gessle and Clarence Öfwerman at EMI Studios in Stockholm.

• Marie Fredriksson – lead and background vocals
• Per Gessle – background vocals
• Anders Herrlin – programming and engineering
• Jonas Isaacson – acoustic and electric guitars
• Clarence Öfwerman – keyboards, programming, production
• Alar Suurna – engineering

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

"Un día sin ti" (1996)

Roxette released a Spanish-language compilation album, Baladas en español, in 1996. It consisted of twelve of their down-tempo singles and album tracks, which were translated by Spanish songwriter Luis Gomez-Escolar. This album was only released in Spanish and Portuguese-speaking territories. A translated version of "Spending My Time", titled "Un día sin ti" ("A Day Without You"), was released in November 1996 as the album's lead single.

Music video

A new music video was filmed for this version of the song. It was created by Jonas Åkerlund, who would go on to direct a total of twelve music videos for the duo. It features close-up shots of Marie singing and Per playing guitar, interspersed with clips of a woman descending into alcoholism, and suggestively sniffing a table counter.^[4]

Formats and track listings

Music by Per Gessle and Mats Persson. Original lyrics by Gessle. Spanish lyrics by Luis G. Escolar.

• CD single (EU 8652672)
  1. "Un día sin ti" ("Spending My Time") – 4:39
  2. "Tímida" ("Vulnerable") – 4:44

Charts

References

External links

• {{MetroLyrics song|roxette|spending-my-time}}

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