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| Single by Bonnie Tyler | ||||
| from the album Natural Force | ||||
| B-side | "Got So Used to Lovin' You" | |||
| Released | 4 November 1977[1] | |||
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| Length | 3:31 | |||
| Label | RCA Records | |||
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"'It's a Heartache'" is a song recorded by Welsh singer Bonnie Tyler. Written by Ronnie Scott and Steve Wolfe, and co-produced with David Mackay, the single was released in November 1977 by RCA Records. The song topped the charts in Australia, Canada, and numerous European countries, and reached No. 3 in the US and No. 4 in the UK. Worldwide, "It's a Heartache" sold around six million copies.[5]
In the United States, Tyler's version was released in 1978 around the same time as versions of it were released by Juice Newton and Ronnie Spector.
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A year later, she had a global hit with the hardbitten, country-ish ballad "It's A Heartache," which made it to #3 in the US.
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