| "Twist of Fate" | ||||
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| Single by Olivia Newton-John | ||||
| from the album Two of a Kind | ||||
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| Released | 21 October 1983 | |||
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| Length | 3:44 | |||
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| Producer(s) | David Foster[1] | |||
| Olivia Newton-John singles chronology | ||||
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"Twist of Fate" is a song recorded by British-Australian singer Olivia Newton-John for the soundtrack to the 1983 film Two of a Kind. Written by Peter Beckett and Steve Kipner,[2] and produced by David Foster, the song was released as the first single from the album on 21 October 1983, and reached number four in Australia and Canada. It reached its peak position of number five on the US Billboard Hot 100 in January 1984, becoming Newton-John's 15th and last top 10 single on the chart. Billboard magazine ranked "Twist of Fate" as the 42nd most popular single of 1984.
The b-side "Take a Chance", a duet with John Travolta, also garnered sufficient radio play to hit the top three of the Adult Contemporary chart in the U.S. [3] In Canada, it hit number one on the Adult Contemporary chart.[4]
"Twist of Fate"'s accompanying music video was nominated for Best Video, Short Form at the 27th Annual Grammy Awards, but lost to David Bowie's Jazzin' for Blue Jean.
In 2017, the song was featured in the second season of the Netflix series Stranger Things and included on the soundtrack album, Stranger Things: Music from the Netflix Original Series. The album was nominated for Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media at the 61st Annual Grammy Awards.
- ^ "Two of a Kind (1983) - Soundtracks - IMDb". Retrieved 4 May 2010.
- ^ Joel Whitburn (1995). Top Pop Annual. Record Research, Menomonee Falls, Wis.
- ^ https://www.billboard.com/artist/olivia-newton-john/chart-history/asi/
- ^ "Item: 7433 - Library and Archives Canada". Bac-lac.gc.ca. 17 July 2013. Retrieved 7 October 2022.