Starfish (album)

Starfish
Studio album by
The Church
Released16 February 1988
Recorded1987
Genre
Length46:07
LabelMushroom/Arista
Producer
The Church chronology
Heyday
(1985) 		Starfish
(1988) 		Gold Afternoon Fix
(1990)
Singles from Starfish
  1. "Under the Milky Way"
    Released: February 1988
  2. "Reptile"
    Released: April 1988
  3. "Destination"
    Released: July 1988
  4. "Antenna"
    Released: October 1988

Starfish is the fifth album by the Australian rock band The Church, released in February 1988 by Mushroom Records in Australia and by Arista Records internationally.[1] The band's international breakthrough album, Starfish went gold in America and has remained their most commercially successful release. The album sold 600,000 copies in the United States alone.[2] The first single, "Under the Milky Way", charted on the US Billboard Hot 100, peaking at #24,[3] and at #2 on the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart,[4] leading to significant exposure of the then relatively underground Australian act. In Australia "Under the Milky Way" climbed to #22,[5] and Starfish reached #11 on the album charts.[6]

  1. ^ "shadowcabi.net". 1 April 2021.
  2. ^ Robert Dean Lurie. No Certainty Attached: Steve Kilbey and the Church. Portland OR: Verse Chorus Press, 2009, p. 197.
  3. ^ "Billboard > The Church Chart History > Hot 100". Billboard. Retrieved 11 January 2020.
  4. ^ "Billboard > The Church Chart History > Mainstream Rock Songs". Billboard. Retrieved 11 January 2020.
  5. ^ "Australian ARIA Top 50 Singles Chart – Week Ending 15th May, 1988". ARIA. Retrieved 11 January 2020 – via Imgur.com. N.B. The Kent Music Report chart was licensed by ARIA between mid-1983 and 12 June 1988.
  6. ^ Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (Illustrated ed.). St. Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 64. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.