PAT BENATAR (US)

Born: 10 January 1953
Real name: Patricia Mae Andrzejewski

Benatar was born in Brooklyn in New York. Her father was of Polish descent. She began singing while still at school and planned to go to the famous Juilliard music school but ended up at Stony Brook University in New York. However, she dropped out to marry a guy called Dennis Benatar and she became a bank teller. But she would eventually quit this job to concentrate on her singing, initially working in a nightclub in Richmond, Virginia called The Roaring Twenties. She came to the notice of the record companies and was signed to Chrysalis records. Her first album, called ‘In The Heat Of The Night’ was produced by Mike Chapman and Chapman, along with his song writing partner Nicky Chinn, would write 3 tracks for the album. The album would slowly climb the US album charts, taking 22 weeks to get to its ultimate peak of 12. She would go on see 17 US Hot 100 hits with  ‘Love Is A Battlefield’ and ‘We Belong’ sharing honours for best peak as both songs reached number 5. She was not as popular in the UK where she has only managed 9 hits with a best peak of 17 by ‘Love Is A Battlefield’.

Date of entry	Song	Peak (weeks at 1)	Weeks
25-Jan-1985	We Belong	5	20
10-Nov-1988	All Fired Up	12	16
		Total hits	2
		Total weeks	36

Biggest climber awards	4
Star rater climbs	6
Biggest fallers	2
Weeks with oldest in the charts	0
Longest run in the charts (weeks)	20
Weeks with more than 1 in the charts	0
Biggest gap between hits (weeks)	178
Top 30 points ranking	=289
Top 20 points ranking	=408
Top 30 points	535
Top 20 points	211