"
Take My Breath Away" is the name of a
love songA love song is about falling in love and the happiness it brings. By contrast, a heartbreak song is about a relationship breaking down, or the sadness of a love that has died. Anthologies of love songs often contain a mixture of both of these types of song...
from the film
Top GunTop Gun is a 1986 movie that was directed by Tony Scott, and produced by Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer, in association with the Paramount Pictures company...
(1986). The song was written by
Giorgio MoroderGiorgio Moroder is a three-time Oscar winning Italian record producer, songwriter and performer. His work with synthesizers during the 1970s and 1980s had a significant influence on new wave, house, techno and electronic music in general...
and
Tom WhitlockThomas Ross Whitlock is a songwriter and lyricist best known for his Academy Award and Golden Globe winning song "Take My Breath Away" from the movie Top Gun, which he co-wrote with Giorgio Moroder. The duo produced four other Top Gun songs . Whitlock was Moroder's mechanic, fixing his Ferraris,...
, performed by the band
BerlinBerlin is an American new wave musical band, featuring female lead singer Terri Nunn.-History:Berlin was formed in Orange County, California in the late 1970s. Their first single, "A Matter of Time," was released in 1980 on I.R.S...
. It won the
Academy Award for Best Original SongThe Academy Award for Best Original Song is one of the awards given annually to people working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences . It is presented to the songwriters who have composed the best original song written specifically for a film...
as well as the
Golden Globe Award for Best Original SongGolden Globe Award for Best Original Song was awarded for the first time in 1962 and has been awarded annually since 1965 by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.-1960s:...
in 1987.
"Take My Breath Away" was the first single from the
Top Gun soundtrack albumTop Gun is the soundtrack from the movie of the same name, released in 1986 by Columbia Records. In 1999, it was reissued in a Special Expanded Edition with additional songs. The album reached number one in the charts for several weeks in 1986....
and was released in 1986 as a
split singleA split album is a music album which includes tracks by two or more separate artists. There have been singles and EPs released in the same nature, which can be referred to as split singles and split EPs respectively...
alongside the song "Radar Radio":
- "Take My Breath Away (Love Theme from Top Gun)" (performed by Berlin)
- "Radar Radio
"Radar Radio" is a single performed by Giorgio Moroder featuring Joe Pizzulo and written by Giorgio Moroder and Tom Whitlock. It was featured in the film Top Gun...
" (performed by Giorgio MoroderGiorgio Moroder is a three-time Oscar winning Italian record producer, songwriter and performer. His work with synthesizers during the 1970s and 1980s had a significant influence on new wave, house, techno and electronic music in general...
featuring Joe PizzuloJoe Pizzulo is best known as one of the lead singers for Sérgio Mendes in the 1980s. He had hit singles with "Never Gonna Let You Go" and "Alibis"...
, written by Giorgio Moroder and Tom WhitlockThomas Ross Whitlock is a songwriter and lyricist best known for his Academy Award and Golden Globe winning song "Take My Breath Away" from the movie Top Gun, which he co-wrote with Giorgio Moroder. The duo produced four other Top Gun songs . Whitlock was Moroder's mechanic, fixing his Ferraris,...
)
The song reached number one on the
Billboard Hot 100The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on radio play and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday; while the radio play tracking-week runs from Wednesday...
on
September 13, 1986This is a list of the U.S. Billboard magazine Hot 100 number-one singles of 1986.-See also:*1986 in music*List of number-one hits *Cashbox Top 100 number-one singles of 1986 by Cash Box...
and became
number 1 in the UK for four weeks in November 1986.
"Take My Breath Away" is available on both the original
Top Gun soundtrack album and the expanded edition.
"
Take My Breath Away" is the name of a
love songA love song is about falling in love and the happiness it brings. By contrast, a heartbreak song is about a relationship breaking down, or the sadness of a love that has died. Anthologies of love songs often contain a mixture of both of these types of song...
from the film
Top GunTop Gun is a 1986 movie that was directed by Tony Scott, and produced by Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer, in association with the Paramount Pictures company...
(1986). The song was written by
Giorgio MoroderGiorgio Moroder is a three-time Oscar winning Italian record producer, songwriter and performer. His work with synthesizers during the 1970s and 1980s had a significant influence on new wave, house, techno and electronic music in general...
and
Tom WhitlockThomas Ross Whitlock is a songwriter and lyricist best known for his Academy Award and Golden Globe winning song "Take My Breath Away" from the movie Top Gun, which he co-wrote with Giorgio Moroder. The duo produced four other Top Gun songs . Whitlock was Moroder's mechanic, fixing his Ferraris,...
, performed by the band
BerlinBerlin is an American new wave musical band, featuring female lead singer Terri Nunn.-History:Berlin was formed in Orange County, California in the late 1970s. Their first single, "A Matter of Time," was released in 1980 on I.R.S...
. It won the
Academy Award for Best Original SongThe Academy Award for Best Original Song is one of the awards given annually to people working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences . It is presented to the songwriters who have composed the best original song written specifically for a film...
as well as the
Golden Globe Award for Best Original SongGolden Globe Award for Best Original Song was awarded for the first time in 1962 and has been awarded annually since 1965 by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.-1960s:...
in 1987.
Releases and performances
"Take My Breath Away" was the first single from the
Top Gun soundtrack albumTop Gun is the soundtrack from the movie of the same name, released in 1986 by Columbia Records. In 1999, it was reissued in a Special Expanded Edition with additional songs. The album reached number one in the charts for several weeks in 1986....
and was released in 1986 as a
split singleA split album is a music album which includes tracks by two or more separate artists. There have been singles and EPs released in the same nature, which can be referred to as split singles and split EPs respectively...
alongside the song "Radar Radio":
- "Take My Breath Away (Love Theme from Top Gun)" (performed by Berlin)
- "Radar Radio
"Radar Radio" is a single performed by Giorgio Moroder featuring Joe Pizzulo and written by Giorgio Moroder and Tom Whitlock. It was featured in the film Top Gun...
" (performed by Giorgio MoroderGiorgio Moroder is a three-time Oscar winning Italian record producer, songwriter and performer. His work with synthesizers during the 1970s and 1980s had a significant influence on new wave, house, techno and electronic music in general...
featuring Joe PizzuloJoe Pizzulo is best known as one of the lead singers for Sérgio Mendes in the 1980s. He had hit singles with "Never Gonna Let You Go" and "Alibis"...
, written by Giorgio Moroder and Tom WhitlockThomas Ross Whitlock is a songwriter and lyricist best known for his Academy Award and Golden Globe winning song "Take My Breath Away" from the movie Top Gun, which he co-wrote with Giorgio Moroder. The duo produced four other Top Gun songs . Whitlock was Moroder's mechanic, fixing his Ferraris,...
)
The song reached number one on the
Billboard Hot 100The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on radio play and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday; while the radio play tracking-week runs from Wednesday...
on
September 13, 1986This is a list of the U.S. Billboard magazine Hot 100 number-one singles of 1986.-See also:*1986 in music*List of number-one hits *Cashbox Top 100 number-one singles of 1986 by Cash Box...
and became
number 1 in the UK for four weeks in November 1986.
"Take My Breath Away" is available on both the original
Top Gun soundtrack album and the expanded edition. The song was also featured in several of the band's best-of and
remixA remix is an alternative version of a song, different from the original version. This name is also used for any alterations of medias other than a song ....
albums:
Best of Berlin 1979-1988,
Master Series,
Greatest Hits Remixed (which includes a "Mission UK Remix" version),
Live: Sacred & Profane and
Metro Greatest Hits. "Take My Breath Away" was one of the only songs not written by Berlin's John Crawford that they had performed on any album up to that point.
"Take My Breath Away" was re-released in October 1990 to coincide with the first television showing of
Top GunTop Gun is a 1986 movie that was directed by Tony Scott, and produced by Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer, in association with the Paramount Pictures company...
(by ITV, on the evening of October 6) as well as Peugeot's new television advertising campaign for the
405The Peugeot 405 is a large family car released by the French automaker Peugeot in July 1987 and which continues to be manufactured under license outside France. The 405 was voted European Car of the Year for 1988.-Design and styling:...
model range. The re-release reached number three in the UK singles charts.
Music video
The
music videoA music video is a short film or video that accompanies a complete piece of music/song. Modern music videos are primarily made and used as a marketing device intended to promote the sale of music recordings. Although the origins of music videos go back much further, they came into their own in the...
features scenes from the movie
Top Gun intermingled with Berlin's singer
Terri NunnTerri Nunn is an American singer and actress.Nunn joined the New Wave, techno-pop band Berlin in 1979, but temporarily left the band the following year to pursue an acting career. In 1981, Nunn rejoined the group as the lead vocalist and would soon forge her recording career with the band...
performing the song in blue coveralls walking between pieces of planes in a windy
aircraft boneyardAircraft boneyard is an American term for a storage area for aircraft that are retired service. Most aircraft at boneyards are either kept for storage or turned into scrap metal...
(part of the Mojave Air & Space Port) at night. Bandmates
John CrawfordJohn Crawford is a singer/songwriter whose efforts with the band Berlin were an essential part of their rise to fame in the early 1980s. Crawford's career as a musician began in junior high after breaking his leg during a basketball game...
and Rob Brill are shown relaxing in the yard and then following Terri. This video clip can be seen occasionally in
VH1VH1 is an American cable television network based in New York City...
Europe's Top 10 Movie Soundtracks program. This video was re-released within the 2004
Top GunTop Gun is a 1986 movie that was directed by Tony Scott, and produced by Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer, in association with the Paramount Pictures company...
DVD Collector's Edition.
Uses in the media
- This song is best known for its use in the movie Top Gun (1986).
- This song was used by Ford Motor Company
The Ford Motor Company is an American multinational corporation based in Dearborn, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit. The automaker was founded by Henry Ford and incorporated on June 16, 1903. In addition to the Ford, Lincoln, and Mercury brands, Ford also owns Volvo Cars of Sweden, and a small stake...
in advertisements for the Mercury CougarThe Mercury Cougar is an automobile sold under the Mercury brand of the Ford Motor Company's Lincoln-Mercury Division. The name was first used in 1967 and was carried by a diverse series of cars over the next three decades. As is common with Mercury vehicles, the Cougar shared basic platforms with...
in 1989.
- This song was used on a Peugeot 405
The Peugeot 405 is a large family car released by the French automaker Peugeot in July 1987 and which continues to be manufactured under license outside France. The 405 was voted European Car of the Year for 1988.-Design and styling:...
advertisement for United Kingdom market at the end of eighties. The adverts opening sequence (featuring an unknown man dousing a corn field with petrol, prior to it being 'ignited' by the car driving past) was cut due to concerns arsonists would be tempted to 'copycat' the advert.
- This song was used by GE Transportation Systems
GE Transportation, formerly known as GE Rail, is a division of General Electric. Included are GE Technology Infrastructure and GE Aircraft Engines. The organization manufactures equipment for the railroad industry as well as other industries requiring large propulsion systems. It is based in Erie,...
in an advertisement for the GE Evolution SeriesThe Evolution Series is a line of diesel locomotives built by GE Transportation Systems, designed to meet the U.S. EPA's Tier 2 locomotive emissions standards that took effect in 2005. The first pre-production units were built in 2003. Evolution Series locomotives are equipped with either AC or DC...
diesel locomotive.
- The song was used on a Daewoo Espero
The Daewoo Espero is a mid-size car produced by the South Korean company Daewoo Motors from 1990 to 1997. It was technically based on the GM J platform and had the distinction of a body designed by Bertone. It bore more than a passing resemblance to the Citroen Xantia, that Bertone had also designed...
advertisement in early nineties for the Korean market.
- The song was used in a video called "NBA Superstars" released by NBA
- The song was also played in an episode of The King of Queens
The King of Queens is an American sitcom that ran for nine seasons, from 1998 to 2007, on CBS.The show was produced by Hanley Productions and CBS Productions , CBS Paramount Television in association with Columbia TriStar Television , and Sony Pictures Television...
.
- A little fragment of the song was performed in a scene of Ocean's Eleven
Ocean's Eleven is a 2001 remake of the 1960 Rat Pack caper film of the same name. The 2001 film was directed by Steven Soderbergh and features an ensemble cast. The film was a success at the box office and with critics. Soderbergh directed two sequels, Ocean's Twelve in 2004 and Ocean's Thirteen in...
.
- The song plays during a clip from Baywatch
Baywatch is an American television series about the Los Angeles County Lifeguards who patrol the beaches of Los Angeles County, California starring David Hasselhoff. The show ran from 1989 to 1999...
watched by BoratBorat Sagdiyev is a fictional character created and portrayed by Sacha Baron Cohen. He is the eponymous protagonist of the movie Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan...
in the 2006 film of the same name.
- The popular Canadian teen drama Degrassi: The Next Generation
Degrassi: The Next Generation is a Canadian teen drama television series, set in the Degrassi fictional universe created by Linda Schuyler and Kit Hood in 1980. Degrassi: The Next Generation is the fourth fictional series in the Degrassi franchise, following The Kids of Degrassi Street, Degrassi...
named an episode after this song.
- The song is featured prominently in Wong Kar-Wai
Wong Kar-wai BBS is an award-winning Hong Kong filmmaker, internationally renowned as an auteur for his visually unique, highly stylized films...
's 1988 Movie As Tears Go By
- This song was used in the Season 3 finale of It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia is an American television sitcom, which premiered on FX on August 4, 2005. The series was created and developed by Rob McElhenney, Glenn Howerton, and Charlie Day, who also star in the show...
as Charlie's winning dance song against Dennis in a dance competition.
- The song appears in the video game Karaoke Revolution Volume 3.
- This song was featured in a 2009 Gain (laundry detergent
Laundry detergent, or washing powder, is a substance which is a type of detergent that is added when one is washing laundry to aid in getting the laundry cleaner.-Format:...
) television commercial. The chorus is heard once at the very end of the commercial.
Track listings
12"
- "Take My Breath Away" — 4:13
- "Radar Radio" by Giorgio Moroder featuring Joe Pizzulo — 3:40
Certifications
| Country |
Certification |
Date |
Sales certified |
| Canada |
Gold |
October 31, 1986 |
50,000 |
| France |
Gold |
1987 |
500,000 |
| UK |
Gold |
November 1, 1986 |
400,000 |
| U.S. |
Gold |
May 5, 1992 |
500,000 |
Charts
| Chart (1986) |
Peak
position |
| Austrian Singles Chart |
4 |
| Dutch Top 40 The Dutch Top 40 is a weekly music chart, which started as the "Veronica Top 40", because the pirate radio channel Radio Veronica was the first to introduce it. It remained "The Veronica Top 40" until 1974, when the pirate radio channel was forced to stop. Joost den Draaijer was the initiator of...
|
1 |
| French SNEP Singles Chart |
5 |
| German Singles Chart |
3 |
| Irish Singles Chart |
1 |
| Italian Singles Chart |
5 |
| Norwegian Singles Chart |
4 |
| Swedish Singles Chart |
2 |
| Swiss Singles Chart |
2 |
| UK Singles Chart The UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official Charts Company on behalf of the British record industry. The full chart contains the top 200 singles based upon combined record sales and download numbers, though some media outlets only list the Top 40 or the Top 75 of this list...
|
1 |
| U.S. Billboard Hot 100 The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on radio play and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday; while the radio play tracking-week runs from Wednesday...
|
1 |
| U.S. Billboard Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks The Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks chart is a weekly chart published in Billboard magazine that lists the most popular songs on adult contemporary and "lite-pop" radio stations in the United States...
|
3 |
| U.S. ARC Weekly Top 40 The ARC Weekly Top 40 is an American mainstream music chart. The chart was founded in 1980 and measures popular songs based on radio airplay and singles sales. The chart lists the most popular songs in ranking from number one to number forty....
|
1 |
| Chart (1988) |
Peak
position |
| UK Singles Chart |
52 |
| Chart (1990) |
Peak
position |
| Irish Singles Chart |
7 |
| UK Singles Chart |
3 |
Jessica Simpson cover
American
popPop music is a music genre that developed from the mid-1950s as a softer alternative to rock 'n' roll and later to rock music. It has a focus on commercial recording, often orientated towards a youth market, usually through the medium of relatively short and simple love songs...
singer
Jessica SimpsonJessica Ann Simpson is an American singer, actress, and television personality who rose to fame in the late 1990s. She has achieved seven Billboard Top 40 hits, and has three gold and two multi-platinum RIAA-certified albums. Simpson starred with her then-husband Nick Lachey in the MTV reality...
covered "Take My Breath Away" and released it as the third
singleIn music, a single is a short recording of one or more separate tracks. This can be released for sale to the public in a variety of different formats.-History:...
from the album
In This SkinIn This Skin is the third studio album by American pop singer Jessica Simpson, released on August 19, 2003. A version of the album with bonus tracks and a DVD was released on March 2, 2004 to build on the success of the album...
in 2004. Her version was produced by Billy Mann. Simpson chose to cover this song because she felt that it was the theme song of her relationship with her then husband, Nick LacheyNicholas Scott "Nick" Lachey is an American pop singer, actor, producer, television host, and television personality who rose to fame in the late 1990s as a member of the boy band 98 Degrees....
. Simpson's version was also included on the compilation albumA compilation album is an album featuring tracks from multiple recording artists, often culled from a variety of sources The tracks are usually collected according to a common characteristic, such as popularity, source or subject matter...
Now That's What I Call Music! 16Now That's What I Call Music! is a long-running series of various artists compilation albums released in the United Kingdom by Polygram /EMI/Sony Music/Virgin Records; spinoff series were later started in the United States and elsewhere...
(from the U.S. Now!
series). The remix is seen on Much Dance 2005. It also received heavy airplay on
Mainstream UrbanMainstream urban is a term used to describe a radio format similar to an urban contemporary format. The format differentiates itself due to two factors: playlist composition and target demographic...
stations.
Music video
The
videoA music video is a short film or video that accompanies a complete piece of music/song. Modern music videos are primarily made and used as a marketing device intended to promote the sale of music recordings. Although the origins of music videos go back much further, they came into their own in the...
shows her driving through a southwestern
desertA desert is a landscape or region that receives almost no precipitation. Deserts are defined as areas with an average annual precipitation of less than per year, or as areas where more water is lost by evapotranspiration than falls as precipitation. In the Köppen climate classification system,...
. She stops to fill up with
gasThis page is about the physical properties of gas as a state of matter. For the uses of gases, and other meanings, see Gas .A gas is one of four states of matter. Near absolute zero, a substance exists as a solid...
, and then arrives at a
dinerA diner is a prefabricated restaurant building characteristic of North America, especially on Long Island, in New York City, in New Jersey, and in other areas of the Northeastern United States, although examples can be found throughout the US and in Canada...
where she watches lovers in motion.
The music video peaked at #5 on MTV's TRL and spent a total of 12 days on the countdown.
Australian CD-Single
- "Take My Breath Away"
- "With You" [Acoustic Version]
- "Take My Breath Away" [Eddie Baez Late Night Club Mix]
- "Take My Breath Away" [Passengerz Hourglass Mix]
Brazilian Promo CD-Single
- "Take My Breath Away"
- "Take My Breath Away" [Eddie Baez Late Night Club Mix]
- "Take My Breath Away" [Eddie Baez Late Night Dub Mix]
- "Take My Breath Away" [Passengerz Hourglass Mix]
Remixes and other versions
- "Take My Breath Away" [Album Version] - 3:12
- "Take My Breath Away" [Eddie Baez Night Dub Mix] - 7:08
- "Take My Breath Away" [Orangefuzzz Club Mix] - 7:35
- "Take My Breath Away" [Passengerz Hourglass Mix] - 6:17
- "Take My Breath Away" [Eddie Baez Late Night Club Mix] - 6:30
Chart performances
"Take My Breath Away" became a number-twenty hit on the
Billboard Hot 100The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on radio play and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday; while the radio play tracking-week runs from Wednesday...
, as well as a top ten hit on the
Top 40 TracksTop 40 Tracks is a defunct airplay chart from Billboard Magazine. It was created in 1998, when Billboard Magazine changed the airplay profile of The Hot 100 Airplay to include more R&B, Country, and Rock stations to its profile . To preserve the notion of the former chart, Top 40 Tracks was...
and the
Top 40 MainstreamPop Songs is an airplay chart from Billboard magazine. It was often mistaken for and confused with the now discontinued Pop 100 Airplay charts...
charts. The song also became another number-one hit for Simpson on the
Hot 100 Singles SalesThe Hot 100 Singles Sales is a chart released weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States. It measures sales of commercial singles and is one of three component charts, along with the Hot 100 Airplay and the Hot Digital Songs, that determine the chart positions of singles on the Billboard...
. Although the song did not break records of any sorts, it performed decently on the other tracks it charted on: the Adult Top 40, the
Adult ContemporaryThe Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks chart is a weekly chart published in Billboard magazine that lists the most popular songs on adult contemporary and "lite-pop" radio stations in the United States...
, the Hot 100 Airplay, the
Hot Dance Club PlayBillboard's Hot Dance Club Songs chart is a weekly national survey of the songs that are most popular in U.S. dance clubs...
, and the
Hot Digital TracksThe Hot Digital Tracks is a song popularity chart that ranks the best selling digital tracks in the United States according to Billboard magazine...
. In late 2005 it received a gold certification by the
RIAAThe Recording Industry Association of America is a group which represents the recording industry distributors in the United States. Its members consist of record labels and distributors, which the RIAA say "create, manufacture and/or distribute approximately 85% of all legitimate sound recordings...
.
Charts
| Chart (2004) |
Peak
position |
| Australian ARIA Singles Chart The ARIA charts are the main Australian music sales charts, issued weekly by the Australian Recording Industry Association. The charts are a record of the highest selling singles and albums in various genres in Australia. ARIA commenced compiling its own charts in-house from the week ending 26 June...
|
15 |
| Belgian Ultratop 40 Ultratop 40 is the chart of best selling singles in Wallonia, Belgium. Its Flanders equivalent is Ultratop 50. Like the UK Singles Chart, Ultratop creates charts based on retail record sales of around 500 retail outlets and legal digital downloads. Currently GfK is the market observer of the...
Singles (Wallonia) |
7 |
| Belgian Ultratop 50 Ultratop 50 is the chart of best selling singles in Flanders. The charts have existed since March 31, 1995.There are 10 different charts under the name "Ultratop":* Ultratop 50 Singles * Ultratop 50 Albums...
Singles (Flanders) |
12 |
| Canadian Singles Chart The Canadian Singles Chart is currently compiled by the U.S.-based music sales tracking company, Nielsen SoundScan . The chart is compiled every Wednesday, and is published by Jam! Canoe on Thursdays....
|
10 |
| French Singles Chart |
18 |
| Swedish Singles Chart Sverigetopplistan, earlier known as Topplistan and Hitlistan and other names, is since October 2007 the Swedish national record chart, based on sales data from Grammofonleverantörernas förening. Since late 2006 the chart has included legal downloads.-The radio show:1976-2006 the sales chart was...
|
43 |
| UK Singles Chart The UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official Charts Company on behalf of the British record industry. The full chart contains the top 200 singles based upon combined record sales and download numbers, though some media outlets only list the Top 40 or the Top 75 of this list...
|
159 |
| U.S. Billboard Hot 100 The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on radio play and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday; while the radio play tracking-week runs from Wednesday...
|
20 |
| U.S. Top 40 Mainstream Pop Songs is an airplay chart from Billboard magazine. It was often mistaken for and confused with the now discontinued Pop 100 Airplay charts...
|
8 |
| U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Club Play Billboard's Hot Dance Club Songs chart is a weekly national survey of the songs that are most popular in U.S. dance clubs...
|
10 |
| U.S. Billboard Adult Contemporary The Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks chart is a weekly chart published in Billboard magazine that lists the most popular songs on adult contemporary and "lite-pop" radio stations in the United States...
|
23 |
| U.S. Adult Top 40 |
29 |
Other cover versions
The song has been performed by other artists; the band
CopelandCopeland is an American Pop/alternative band, originally formed in 2000 by singer Aaron Marsh with his friend, bassist and backup singer James Likeness, in the city of Lakeland, Florida...
performed it on their album of cover songs, Know Nothing Stays the Same
, and it was translated into Cantonese and covered by Sandy LamSandy Lam, also known as Lam Yik Lin is a Cantopop singer who sings in Cantonese, Mandarin, English, and Japanese.Sandy Lam whose ancestral hometown is Ningbo, was born in Hong Kong and began her career at the age of sixteen, getting a job as a D.J. for Commercial Radio Hong Kong. She began her...
.
The Christian rockChristian rock is a form of rock music played by bands whose members are Christians and who often focus the lyrics on matters concerned with the Christian faith. The extent to which their lyrics are explicitly Christian varies between bands. Much Christian rock has ties to the contemporary...
band Relient KRelient K is an American rock band formed in Canton, Ohio in 1998 by Matt Thiessen on vocals, guitar and piano, Brian Pittman on bass, and Matt Hoopes on guitar between the band's junior year in high school and their time at Malone College in Canton...
also covered it as part of their "Top Gun Medley" on a few of their tours.
Originally Martha DavisMartha Davis may refer to:*Martha Davis , lead singer of the new wave band The Motels*Martha Davis , vocalist and pianist who performed as "Martha Davis and Spouse"*Martha Davis , who wrote "Brutal Need"...
of The MotelsThe Motels were a New Wave music band from the Los Angeles area best known for "Only the Lonely" and "Suddenly, Last Summer", each of which peaked at #9 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1982 and 1983, respectively. Their song "Total Control" reached number 7 on the Australian charts in 1979...
was asked by Giorgio MoroderGiorgio Moroder is a three-time Oscar winning Italian record producer, songwriter and performer. His work with synthesizers during the 1970s and 1980s had a significant influence on new wave, house, techno and electronic music in general...
to make a demo of the song. Her demo version is available on The Motels' Anthologyland
CD.
Also to be found on YouTubeYouTube is a video sharing website on which users can upload and share videos. Three former PayPal employees created YouTube in February 2005. In November 2006, YouTube, LLC was bought by Google Inc. for $1.65 billion, and is now operated as a subsidiary of Google...
under the listing for a RomaniaRomania is a country located in Southeastern and Central Europe, North of the Balkan Peninsula, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea. Almost all of the Danube Delta is located within its territory...
n band by the name of ActivActiv is a Romanian disco band. Nowadays its trance, techno music band. The members of this band are from Arad and Timişoara.-Success:The albums Motive and Superstar were quite successful...
, but unsure as to its validity due to not finding it on their website Activmusic.ro.
Diana Ross Diana Ross is an American singer and actress. During the 1960s, she helped shape the Motown Sound as lead singer of The Supremes, before leaving the group for a solo career on January 14, 1970...
covered the song in 2007 for her album I Love YouI Love You is Diana Ross' latest album, released in the United Kingdom and some parts of Europe on October 2nd 2006. Diana was inspired to release an album of love songs after she had been looking through a family photo album and wanted to base her next project around the greatest factor in her...
(US only; the song does not appear on the European edition).
X Factor 2008The fifth UK series of The X Factor was broadcast on ITV in 2008. The series premiered on 16 August and was won by Alexandra Burke on 13 December, with Cheryl Cole emerging as the winning mentor. Auditions in front of producers were held in April/May, with callbacks in front of the judges in June...
finalist
Ruth LorenzoRuth Lorenzo is a Spanish singer notable for coming fifth in the fifth series of the British version of TV talent show The X Factor in 2008. Ruth is from Murcia, South East Spain, but is now living in Ashtead, Surrey in south-east England.- Early life :Ruth Lorenzo was born on 10 November 1982 in...
covered the song for the first live shows, and secured a place in the second round.
Though not strictly a cover, Swedish electro-pop band
The KnifeThe Knife are an electro pop duo from Sweden. They consist of siblings Karin Dreijer Andersson and Olof Dreijer, who together also run their own record company, Rabid Records.-History:...
released a song called "You Take My Breath Away", a song that contains some melodic allusions to the Take My Breath Away, and a direct lyrical reference in the line "I wanted to get laid to 'Take my breath away'
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My Morning JacketMy Morning Jacket is a Grammy-nominated American rock band.The band comprises Jim James , Tom "Two-Tone Tommy" Blankenship , Patrick Hallahan , Carl Broemel , and Bo Koster .-History:My Morning Jacket formed in 1998 in Louisville, Kentucky,...
has a rendition on one of its Early RecordingsEarly Recordings is a compilation album series by Louisville, Kentucky rock band My Morning Jacket. It was released in 2004 on Darla Records. The two constituent albums, called chapters, are called The Sandworm Cometh and Learning respectively. Danny Cash created the graphic design to both albums...
discs. It ends with a clip from the film Top GunTop Gun may refer to:* The United States Navy Fighter Weapons School, commonly referred to as TOPGUN* Top Gun , a 1986 movie starring Tom Cruise set at the school**Top Gun , soundtrack to the movie...
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