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You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)

"You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)"
Single by Dead or Alive
from the album Youthquake
B-side"Misty Circles"
Released5 November 1984 (1984-11-05)[1]
RecordedMarch to October 1984
Genre
Length
  • 3:19 (album version)
  • 3:16 (7"/single version)
  • 8:01 (Murder mix)
  • 7:28 (Performance mix)
LabelEpic
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)Stock Aitken Waterman
Dead or Alive singles chronology
"That's the Way (I Like It)"
(1984) 		"You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)"
(1984) 		"Lover Come Back to Me"
(1985)
Music video
"You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)" on YouTube
Audio sample

"You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)" is a song by the English pop band Dead or Alive, featured on their second studio album, Youthquake (1985). Released as a single in November 1984, it reached No. 1 in the UK in March 1985, taking 17 weeks to get there. It was the first UK number one hit by the Stock Aitken Waterman production trio.[11] On the US Billboard Hot 100, it peaked at No. 11 on 17 August of that year, becoming their highest-charting single there.[12] The song also reached No. 1 in Ireland[13] and in Canada,[14] while in Australia it peaked at No. 3[15] and it charted highly in numerous European countries.

In 2003, Q ranked the song at number 981 in their list of the "1001 Best Songs Ever", Blender listed it at number 289 on its ranking of "Greatest Songs Since You Were Born" in 2005, and in 2015 it was voted by the British public as the nation's 17th-favourite 1980s number one in a poll for ITV.

  1. ^ "New Singles". Music Week. 3 November 1984. p. 28.
  2. ^ Barron, Lee (2010). "Camp Transitions: Genre Adaptation and the Hi-NRG/Dance Cover Version". In Plasketes, George (ed.). Play it Again: Cover Songs in Popular Music. Ashgate Publishing. p. 214. ISBN 978-0-7546-6809-1.
  3. ^ Ankeny, Jason. "Dead or Alive – Artist Biography". AllMusic. Retrieved 24 June 2013.
  4. ^ "Dead or Alive". Apple Music.
  5. ^ "Dead or Alive". Encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 6 June 2022.
  6. ^ Chin, Brian (11 May 1985). "Dance Trax". Billboard. Retrieved 3 August 2023. The A-side, produced by the team behind Divine's European successes (also unreleased here), is proof positive that disco is commercial, whether on major or indie label, especially when combined with enough raunch to put it in the "rock" category...
  7. ^ Schiller, Rebecca (26 March 2017). "100 Best Songs Of The 1980s". NME.
  8. ^ Weisbard, Eric; Marks, Craig (1996). Spin Alternative Record Guide. Vintage Books. ISBN 978-0-6797-5574-6. Stock-Aitken-Waterman, the British schlock-disco maestros who took the trance-like beats of '80s synth-pop to their dancefloor extreme, most famously on Dead or Alive's drag opus "You Spin Me Round (Like A Record)."
  9. ^ Beaumont-Thomas, Ben (1 June 2020). "The 100 greatest UK No 1s, No 5: Dead or Alive – You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077.
  10. ^ Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "80's New Wave: New Wave Dance - Album Reviews, Songs & More | AllMusic" – via AllMusic.
  11. ^ "Ep 3: You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)". Podcasts. 30 May 2021. Retrieved 22 August 2021.
  12. ^ "The Hot 100". Billboard. 17 August 1985. Retrieved 15 August 2015.
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  14. ^ Cite error: The named reference CAN was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
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