"
Joyride" is a song by the Swedish
rock duo
Roxette. Written by
Per Gessle, the song was released as the
lead single from their third
studio album,
Joyride (1991), the follow-up to the duo's highly successful second studio album,
Look Sharp! (1988). The single topped the charts across
Europe and in
Australia,
Canada, and the
United States, where it spent one week at number one on the
Billboard Hot 100, their last to do so, in May 1991. In the
UK, "Joyride" peaked at #4.