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1981 compilation album by Cliff Richard

Love Songs
Compilation album by Cliff Richard
Released15 June 1981
GenreSoft rock
LabelEMI
ProducerVarious
Cliff Richard chronology
I'm No Hero
(1980) 		Love Songs
(1981) 		Wired for Sound
(1981)

Love Songs is a compilation album of ballads by Cliff Richard released by EMI in 1981. The album spent five weeks at the top of the UK album charts in 1981 and two weeks at the top of the Australian album charts in 1982.

The compilation spans a 20-year period, from "Theme for a Dream" (1960) through to "A Little in Love" (1980).

Track listing

  1. "Miss You Nights"
  2. "Constantly"
  3. "Up in the World"
  4. "Carrie"
  5. "A Voice in the Wilderness"
  6. "The Twelfth of Never"
  7. "I Could Easily Fall (In Love with You)"
  8. "The Day I Met Marie"
  9. "Can't Take the Hurt Anymore"
  10. "A Little in Love"
  11. "The Minute You're Gone"
  12. "Visions"
  13. "When Two Worlds Drift Apart"
  14. "The Next Time"
  15. "It's All in the Game"
  16. "Don't Talk to Him"
  17. "When the Girl in Your Arms Is the Girl in Your Heart"
  18. "Theme for a Dream"
  19. "Fall in Love with You"
  20. "We Don't Talk Anymore"

Charts

Charts

Chart (1981/82) Peak
position
UK Albums (OCC) 1
Australian Albums (Kent Music Report) 1
New Zealand Albums (RMNZ) 2

Year-end charts

Chart (1981/1982) Position
United Kingdom 1981 (OCC) 7
Australia 1982 (Kent Music Report) 28

Certifications

Region Certification Certified units/sales
Australia (ARIA) 3× Platinum 150,000
New Zealand (RMNZ) Platinum 15,000
United Kingdom (BPI) Platinum 300,000

Shipments figures based on certification alone.

Note: Although the New Zealand reference only shows the certification of Love Songs to be Gold, it was later certified Platinum.

References

  1. ^ "British album certifications – Cliff Richard – Love Songs". British Phonographic Industry.
  2. "Cliff Richard | Artist | Official Charts". UK Albums Chart.
  3. Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992. Australian Chart Book, St Ives, N.S.W. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.
  4. "Charts.nz – Cliff Richard – Love Songs". Hung Medien.
  5. UK 1981 Best Selling Albums
  6. "Top 100 National Albums 1982 - Australia". Retrieved 27 December 2016.
  7. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. (12 June 1982). Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. pp. A/NZ–4. ISSN 0006-2510. {{cite book}}: |author= has generic name (help)
  8. "New Zealand album certifications – Cliff Richard – Love Songs". Recorded Music NZ. Retrieved 20 November 2024.
  9. Scapolo, Dean (2007). The Complete New Zealand Music Charts 1966-2006. Maurienne House. ISBN 978-1-877443-00-8.
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