| "Run to Paradise" | ||||
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| Single by The Choirboys | ||||
| from the album Big Bad Noise | ||||
| B-side | "Struck by Lightning" | |||
| Released | 31 August 1987[1] | |||
| Genre | Hard rock, pub rock | |||
| Length | 4:08 | |||
| Label | Mushroom | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Mark Gable, Brad Carr | |||
| Producer(s) | Peter Blyton, Brian McGee, Choirboys | |||
| The Choirboys singles chronology | ||||
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"Run to Paradise" is a song by Australian hard rock group The Choirboys which reached No. 3 on the Australian Kent Music Report Singles Chart in December 1987.[2] The related Big Bad Noise album peaked at No. 5,[3] and was the twenty-first highest-selling album of 1988 in Australia.[4] In New Zealand, "Run to Paradise" attained No. 13 on the RIANZ Singles Chart. Released in the United States in 1989, it appeared on the Billboard Hot 100 and Mainstream Rock charts.[5] The song was re-worked for a 2004 release credited to Nick Skitz vs. Choirboys and reached No. 16 on the ARIA Singles Chart. In January 2018, as part of Triple M's "Ozzest 100", the 'most Australian' songs of all time, "Run to Paradise" was ranked number 24.[6]
- ^ "Australian Music Report No 684 – 31 August 1987 > Singles: New Releases". Australian Music Report. Retrieved 11 December 2019.
- ^ "Australian ARIA Top 50 Singles – 20th December 1987". ARIA, via Imgur.com. Retrieved 11 December 2019.
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Kentwas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ "1988 ARIA Albums Chart". ARIA. Retrieved 11 December 2019.
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Billboard searchwas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ "Here Are The Songs That Made Triple M's 'Ozzest 100'". Musicfeeds. 27 January 2018. Retrieved 4 January 2020.