There was good news and bad news about Roxette s enduring popularity this week. The good news was, the group's 1987 single  It Must Have Been Love  was announced as having officially joined YouTube's Billion Views Club. The bad news is, the audience that wants to hear that track performed live may not have been as great as anticipated, at least in North America.

Roxette's 40th anniversary tour had all of its U.S. and Canada dates canceled on Friday, with ticketholders receiving notices that their money was being refunded for the shows - despite the group itself issuing a statement that the tour was merely being  postponed.  The shows had been booked into amphitheaters in North America, with the Swedish act headlining a triple bill that also included fellow '80s favorites Taylor Dayne and Nick Lowe.

A statement on Roxette's social media read:  Due to logistics and hugely increased touring costs, Live Nation US has decided to postpone the Northamerican (sic) tour. Hope to see you some other time down the road.  The announcement was signed  Team Rox. 

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Later on Saturday, founder founder/co-frontman Per Gessle added a personal note, saying the decision was strictly Live Nation's.  Lena (Philipsson, the new singer), I and the band are of course disappointed. We were really looking forward to this northamerican tour and US is by far our biggest streaming market.

This decision was made by Live Nation USA, which they probably based on their own calculations.

I hope we can play for our fab fans in the USA and Canada at some point in the near future. 

The North American tour was to have begun Sept. 10 at Pine Knob Music Theatre in Clarkston, Michigan, and was scheduled to hit the Greek Theatre in Los Angeles on Oct. 5 before concluding Oct. 9 at White River Amphitheatre in Washington.

Some fans expressed disappointment in the cancellation after having paid for nonrefundable flights to come into the U.S. from overseas to see the shows. But the number of foreign tourists who'd planned to see concerts in North America may speak to the common belief that Roxette had always bee

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