Chart performance:
Week | Position | Movement | Comments |
26-Nov-87 | 30 | New | |
03-Dec-87 | 30 | 0 | |
10-Dec-87 | 28 | +2 | |
17-Dec-87 | 29 | -1 | |
24-Dec-87 | 19 | +10 | Biggest climber/Star rater |
31-Dec-87 | 16 | +3 | Biggest climber |
07-Jan-88 | 20 | -4 | |
14-Jan-88 | 27 | -7 | |
21-Jan-88 | 16 | +11* | Biggest climber/Star rater |
28-Jan-88 | 16 | 0 | |
04-Feb-88 | 24 | -8 | Biggest faller** |
11-Feb-88 | 19 | +5 | Star rater |
18-Feb-88 | 19 | 0 | |
25-Feb-88 | 23 | -4 | |
03-Mar-88 | 24 | -1 | |
10-Mar-88 | 29 | -5 |
* This was the 2nd of only 3 songs to see a climb of 10 or more twice. Previously The Commodores’ ‘Three Times A Lady’ had managed it. The only other song to do this would be Bruce Hornsby & The Range’s ‘The Valley Road’.
** All time record (60 weeks) in the charts before seeing a first biggest faller. This was 1 week more than Cyndi Lauper who had the all time record longest chart career of 59 weeks without ever seeing a faller of the week.
Written by: Chris Lowe, Neil Tennant & Allee Willis
Produced by: Stephen Hague
South African record label (unless otherwise stated): EMI
Hit number for artist | 1 |
Peak position | 16 |
Weeks | 16 |
Biggest climber awards | 0 |
Star rater climbs | 0 |
Biggest faller awards | 0 |
Top 20 points | 22 |
Overall Top 20 points ranking | =1973 |
Top 20 points ranking for the artist | 1/6 |
Top 30 Points | 127 |
Overall Top 30 points ranking | =1635 |
Top 30 points ranking for the artist | 1/6 |
Annual ranking:
1987 | 104 |
1988 | 80 |
Other chart success:
Australia | 22 |
Austria | 11 |
Belgium | 5 |
Canada | 3 |
Finland | 2 |
Iceland | 2 |
Germany | 4 |
Ireland | 1 |
Italy | 7 |
Netherlands | 2 |
New Zealand | 6 |
Norway | 9 |
Spain | 5 |
Sweden | 2 |
Switzerland | 5 |
UK | 2 |
US | 2 |
Zimbabwe | 8 |
SA Radio charts:
Capital 604 | 1 |
Radio 5 | 1 |
Radio 702 | 1 |
Apparently, the band’s record label wase not keen on Springfield doing the duet with them as she had not had a hit for ages. They suggested Barbra Streisand or Tina Turner, but Neil Tennant (the band’s lead singer) insisted on Springfield. However, she initially was not interested in doing the duet, but eventually came round to it. The song would be the 11th and final song to chart which would see a peak of 2 on both the UK and US charts. In the US it was denied the top spot by ‘Season Change’ by Expose for 1 week and then by George Michael’s ‘Father Figure’ for a second week while in the UK it spent 2 weeks at 2 stuck behind Rick Astley’s ‘Never Gonna Give You Up’. It was the 59th of 72 songs to chart which would top all 3 of the local radio charts noted above.
Video:
Artist link: Pet Shop Boys & Dusty Springfield