When was tainted love number 1

Gloria and Marc also had a child in Sadly, early in the morning of September 16, , she was driving the car that crashed and killed Marc Bolan. It was ruled an accidental death. Suffice it to say, it was NOT their last record. The U. Less than a month in, it started losing steam, and by the end of February , it fell from a peak of No. Well, after staying at No. Two months after debuting on the Hot , it was back to its debut position of No.

By the end of March , it had climbed back up to its peak position of No. And it continued to climb. By mid-April , it had reached No. But, as it had seemed to peaked for a second time, it kept climbing, and by late May , in its 19th week on the Hot , it finally debuted in the Top To make a comparison, the No. But, for another incredible seven weeks or nearly two months , it continued to hang on in the lower region of the Hot , spending its last five weeks on the chart all at No.

Phonogram Records chose to release "Tainted Love" in as Soft Cell's second single their first was "Memorabilia", which did not chart. Buoyed by the then-dominant new wave sound of the time, "Tainted Love" became a major hit in the US during the Second British Invasion , with the song spending a then-record breaking [12] 43 weeks on the US Billboard Hot It appeared to peak at number 64 and fell to number on February After spending a second week at number , it started climbing again.

It took 19 weeks to crack the American Top 40 and reached number 8 during the summer of A re-recorded version of the song was issued in , seven years after Soft Cell's dissolution in , as a tie-in to the compilation album Memorabilia — The Singles which reached number 8 in the UK albums chart in June The video for the version, directed by Peter Christopherson , features a man pacing at night and dancing with starry apparitions, while Almond sings amongst the stars.

It also peaked within the top ten of the charts throughout the rest of Europe, including Austria, Denmark, Germany, Italy and Norway. It was nominated for the Kerrang! Award for Best Single in , [41] and won the Kerrang! Award for Best Video. It uses material from the Wikipedia article " Tainted Love ". Fan Feed. Universal Conquest Wiki. Northern soul [3 ]. Champion distributed by Vee-Jay. Ed Cobb. Synthpop , [8 ] new wave [9 ].

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