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Sports (album) |
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| Studio album by Huey Lewis and the News | |||||
| Released | October 1, 1983 | ||||
| Recorded | Fantasy Studios, Berkeley, California; The Plant Studios, Sausalito, California |
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| Genre | Rock | ||||
| Length | 37:46 | ||||
| Label | Chrysalis | ||||
| Producer | Huey Lewis and the News | ||||
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| Huey Lewis and the News chronology | |||||
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Sports is the third album by American rock band Huey Lewis and the News, released in 1983 (see 1983 in music). This was the album that truly made the band famous, going to #1 on the Billboard 200 on June 30, 1984, and making the band internationally known. The album has been certified 7x Platinum by the RIAA. Sports was the second biggest selling album of 1984, next only to Michael Jackson's Thriller, and spawned four top 10 hits on the Billboard Hot 100 and a fifth that went top 20. It also did very well internationally, with most of its singles reaching chart peaks in various countries.
The album's biggest hit, "I Want a New Drug", was certified gold with sales of a million copies and was also the center of a law suit against artist Ray Parker Jr. who was accused of plagiarizing the song for his 1984 hit "Ghostbusters". The case was eventually settled out of court for an undisclosed sum.citation needed
Another single, "The Heart of Rock & Roll", was ranked at #6 in Blender magazine's list of the "50 Worst Songs Ever", with its worst moment coming in "the second verse, when that cheeky Huey almost uses the word 'ass'".1
During the band's 1984-1985 Sports tour, Huey Lewis & The News were the highest grossing touring act in America.
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A remastered "Expanded Edition" of Sports was released on June 29, 1999, and included the following session takes and live versions of their hit singles as bonus tracks.
Album - Billboard (United States)
| Year | Chart | Position |
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| 1984 | The Billboard 200 | 1 |
Singles - Billboard (United States)
| Year | Single | Chart | Position |
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| 1983 | "Heart and Soul" | Mainstream Rock Tracks | 1 |
| 1983 | "Heart and Soul" | The Billboard Hot 100 | 8 |
| 1983 | "I Want a New Drug" | Mainstream Rock Tracks | 7 |
| 1984 | "I Want a New Drug" | The Billboard Hot 100 | 6 |
| 1984 | "The Heart of Rock & Roll" | The Billboard Hot 100 | 6 |
| 1984 | "If This Is It" | Adult Contemporary | 5 |
| 1984 | "If This Is It" | Mainstream Rock Tracks | 19 |
| 1984 | "If This Is It" | The Billboard Hot 100 | 6 |
| 1984 | "Walking on a Thin Line" | Mainstream Rock Tracks | 16 |
| 1984 | "Walking on a Thin Line" | The Billboard Hot 100 | 18 |
| Preceded by Footloose (soundtrack) by Various artists |
Billboard 200 number-one album June 30, 1984 - July 6, 1984 |
Succeeded by Born in the U.S.A. by Bruce Springsteen |
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