Chart performance:
| Week | Position | Movement | Comments |
| 24-Sep-87 | 20 | New | Peak |
| 01-Oct-87 | 24 | -4 | |
| 15-Oct-87 | 26 | RE | |
| 22-Oct-87 | 26 | 0 | |
| 29-Oct-87 | 27 | -1 | |
| 05-Nov-87 | 30 | -3 |
Written by: Martin Fry & Mark White
Produced by: Martin Fry, Mark White & Bernard Edwards
South African record label (unless otherwise stated): Vertigo
| Hit number for artist | 1 |
| Peak position | 20 |
| Weeks | 6 |
| Biggest climber awards | 0 |
| Star rater climbs | 0 |
| Biggest faller awards | 0 |
| Top 20 points | 1 |
| Overall Top 20 points ranking | =2351 |
| Top 20 points ranking for the artist | 1 |
| Top 30 Points | 33 |
| Overall Top 30 points ranking | =2284 |
| Top 30 points ranking for the artist | 1 |
Annual ranking:
| 1987 | 105 |
Other chart success:
| Australia | 25 |
| Belgium | 12 |
| Canada | 5 |
| Germany | 52 |
| Ireland | 11 |
| Netherlands | 13 |
| New Zealand | 9 |
| UK | 11 |
| US | 5 |
SA Radio charts:
| Capital 604 | 2 |
| Radio 5 | 5 |
The song was a tribute to Smokey Robinson and would spend a week in the top 10 in the US alongside Robinson’s ‘One Heartbeat’. It would top the US Dance/Disco Club Play charts. It would the 10th song to enter the top 30 at 20 or higher and would be the 4th song in the top 30 era to spend just 1 week in the top 20 and spend that week at 20. It was the 8th of 9 hits that would note Chic’s Bernard Edwards as a producer but would be the lowest ranked of the 9 for top 30 points (scoring just 1 point less than Sheila B. Devotion’s ‘Spacer’.
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Artist link: ABC
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