Faster Than the Speed of Night

Faster Than the Speed of Night
Studio album by
Bonnie Tyler
Released8 April 1983 (United Kingdom)[1]
September 1983 (United States)
Recorded1982
Studio
  • Power Station, New York City
  • Greene Street, New York City
  • Right Track Studios, New York City
GenreRock
Length43:14
LabelColumbia
Producer
Bonnie Tyler chronology
Goodbye to the Island
(1981) 		Faster Than the Speed of Night
(1983) 		Secret Dreams and Forbidden Fire
(1986)
Singles from Faster Than the Speed of Night
  1. "Total Eclipse of the Heart"
    Released: 11 February 1983 (UK)
  2. "Faster Than the Speed of Night"
    Released: April 1983 (UK)
  3. "Have You Ever Seen the Rain?"
    Released: 17 June 1983
  4. "It's a Jungle Out There"
    Released: July 1983 (Japan)[2]
  5. "Straight from the Heart"
    Released: 11 August 1983
  6. "Take Me Back"
    Released: November 1983 (US)
  7. "Getting So Excited"
    Released: 27 February 1984 (UK)
  8. "Tears"
    Released: 1984 (Netherlands)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[3]

Faster Than the Speed of Night is the fifth studio album by Welsh singer Bonnie Tyler. It was released in Europe on 8 April 1983 and later that year in the US through Columbia Records.

After releasing four albums on RCA, Tyler signed with CBS Records and changed musical direction. Soon after, she began working with Jim Steinman who produced the album and wrote its most successful single "Total Eclipse of the Heart".

Faster Than the Speed of Night entered the UK Albums Chart at no. 1, and was certified Silver in the UK, Platinum in the US, and Double Platinum in Canada. British Hit Singles & Albums lists Tyler as the first women to have her first album debut at no. 1.[4]

  1. ^ "Certified Awards". Archived from the original on 21 September 2013. Retrieved 1 March 2014.
  2. ^ "Bonnie Tyler singles".
  3. ^ AllMusic review
  4. ^ Roberts, David (2004). British hit singles & albums (17th ed.). London: Guinness world records. p. 165. ISBN 0851121993. Bonnie Tyler, the first woman to bag a UK album chart-topper with her first hit album straight in at No.1