| "Even the Nights Are Better" | ||||
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| Single by Air Supply | ||||
| from the album Now and Forever | ||||
| B-side | "One Step Closer" | |||
| Released | June 7, 1982 | |||
| Recorded | 1981 | |||
| Genre | Soft rock[1] | |||
| Length | 4:01 | |||
| Label | Arista | |||
| Songwriter(s) | J. L. Wallace · Kenneth Bell · Terry Skinner | |||
| Producer(s) | Harry Maslin | |||
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| "Even the Nights Are Better" on YouTube | ||||
"Even the Nights Are Better" is a 1982 song by the British/Australian soft rock duo Air Supply, released on their seventh studio album Now and Forever (1982) as the album's first single. It first charted in the United States on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart, where it spent four weeks at No. 1 in July and August. This was Air Supply's third song to reach the summit on this chart.[2] It also reached No. 1 on the Canadian AC chart.[3]
In September 1982, the song reached its peak position of No. 5 on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming the group's seventh consecutive top five hit on the US pop chart. However the song is in the record books for how quickly it fell off the top 40. The song slipped to six. Then on the issue dated September 25, 1982, the song fell to 42. It held the record for highest drop from the top 40 for thirty years.[4]
In the United Kingdom, where the group did not enjoy the same amount of success as they did in Australia and the US, the song missed the top 40 by four places, reaching No. 44 on the UK Singles Chart. It is their second highest charting single in the UK, after their No. 11 hit with "All Out of Love" in 1980.
- ^ "Regina Belle, Air Supply coming for jazz". The Jamaica Observer. 12 January 2011. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 15 September 2017.
- ^ Hyatt, Wesley (1999). The Billboard Book of No. 1 Adult Contemporary Hits (Billboard Publications)
- ^ Canada, Library and Archives (17 July 2013). "Image : RPM Weekly". Library and Archives Canada.
- ^ Whitburn, Joel (1996). The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits, 6th Edition (Billboard Publications)