"Listen to Your Heart" was the third single issued in the United States from Swedish pop duo Roxette's 1988 album Look Sharp!It was written by Per Gessle and Mats M.P. Persson. It reached #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart on November 4, 1989, their second chart-topper of the year. They rose to #1 the same week the dominant New Kids on the Block rose to #2 with their song "Cover Girl", thus preventing the group from taking the top spot. The song was released in the UK in October 1989 and reached a lowly #62, but was re-issued in August 1990 as a Double A-Side with "Dangerous" after the success of their previous single "It Must Have Been Love", and reached #6.

According to Gessle the song was conceived as :-

" The Big Bad Ballad. This is us trying to recreate that overblown American FM-rock sound to the point where it almost becomes absurd. We really wanted to see how far we could take it."

Two different versions of the song are available: the original, a and slightly modified version that was included on Don't Bore Us, Get to the Chorus.

Roxette recorded the video for "Listen to Your Heart" in the Borgholm Castle ruin on the Swedish Baltic Sea island of Öland.

In 2008, the song had reached it four million American radio plays. The D.H.T. dance cover is included in the total of plays. The song has been voted The Best Roxette Song ever by readers of fan-site The Daily Roxette.

At the Wembley Arena gig on their 1991-92 Join The Joyride/ The Summer JoyrideWorld Tour, before playing this song as part of the encore, Per said "We can't leave you tonight without playing you this absolutely true story."

"Listen to Your Heart" / "Dangerous"

In 2005, Belgian dance group D.H.T.'s trance-cover of "Listen to Your Heart" became a worldwide club hit. Originally released in Belgium in 2003, the various mixes of the song reached U.S. clubs in late 2004. The song was released in the U.S. in late 2005 or early 2006. By June 2005, the song reached number one on Hot Dance Airplay chart and the Top 10 of the Hot 100 chart, peaking at #8 in August. The same year, the group also released an acoustic ballad version of the song, which also received substantial airplay.