Air Supply chart with Greatest Hits

8/20/1983:

First posted 9/10/2020.

Greatest Hits Air Supply

Recorded: 1980-1983 Charted: August 20, 1983 Peak: 7 US, -- UK, -- CN, 11 AU Sales (in millions): 5.0 US, -- UK, 5.0 world (includes US and UK) Genre: adult contemporary

Tracks: Song Title (date of single release, chart peaks) Click for codes to singles charts. Lost in Love (2/9/80, 3 US, 1 AC, 13 AU, airplay: 2 million) Even the Nights Are Better (6/12/82, 5 US, 44 UK, 1 AC, 35 AU, airplay: 1 million) The One That You Love (5/16/81, 1 US, 2 AC, 10 AU, sales: 1 million, airplay: 1 million) Every Woman in the World (10/25/80, 5 US, 2 AC, 8 AU, sales: 2 million) Chances Making Love Out of Nothing at All (July 1983, 2 US, 2 AC, 80 UK, 3 CN, 45 AU) All Out of Love (6/14/80, 2 US, 11 UK, 5 AC, 9 AU, sales: 1 million, airplay: 2 million) Here I Am (Just When I Thought I Was Over You) (9/19/81, 5 US, 1 AC, 43 AU, airplay: 1 million) Sweet Dreams (12/12/81, 5 US, 4 AC, airplay: 1 million) Total Running Time: 37:27

Rating: 3.550 out of 5.00 (average of 4 ratings)

About the Album: Air Supply released four albums in their native Australia before finding success in the United States, thanks to signing a deal with Arista Records. From 1980 to 1983, the group released three albums which produced seven consecutive top-five hits on the Billboard Hot 100. The 1980 album Lost in Love produced the title cut, All Out of Love, and Every Woman in the World. The title song to their 1981 album The One That You Love was the group’s only U.S. #1. It was followed by Here I Am and Sweet Dreams. They landed another top-five hit with Even the Nights Are Better from their 1982 Now and Forever album. They landed their eight and final top-ten hit with Making Love Out of Nothing at All, the one new song featured on their 1983 Greatest Hits compilation. The song was penned by Jim Steinman, who’d most famously worked with Meat Loaf on his Bat Out of Hell album. He also wrote Bonnie Tyler’s “Total Eclipse of the Heart,” the song which kept “Making Love” from reaching the top spot in America. Unfortunately, this was Air Supply’s last trip to the top ten in the states. They only managed one more top 40 hit, the 1985 song “Just As I Am,” which peaked at #19. That makes this collection a pretty good sampling of the band, certainly during their heyday in the early ‘80s. At only nine songs, though, the collection feels a little light. They did have two minor hits (“Two Less Lonely People in the World” and “Young Love”) during this era which could have easily been added. Instead, the set features “Chances,” a non-single album cut from the band’s Lost in Love album.

Resources and Related Links: Air Supply’s DMDB Encyclopedia entry WK Wikipedia

Air Supply’s Now and Forever charted in the U.S.

First posted 1/18/2009; updated 9/10/2020.

Now and Forever Air Supply

Charted: June 19, 1982 Peak: 25 US, -- UK, -- CN, 27 AU Sales (in millions): 1.0 US, -- UK, 1.0 world (includes US and UK) Genre: adult contemporary

Tracks: Song Title (date of single release, chart peaks) Click for codes to singles charts. Now and Forever Even the Nights Are Better (6/12/82, 5 US, 44 UK, 1 AC, 35 AU, airplay: 1 million) Young Love (9/18/82, 38 US, 13 AC) Two Less Lonely People in the World (11/13/82, 38 US, 4 AC, 46 AU) Taking the Chance Come What May One Step Closer Don’t Be Afraid She Never Heard Me Call What Kind of Girl The Players: Russell Hitchcock (vocals) Graham Russell (vocals, rhythm guitar) Rex Goh, David Moyse (guitars) Dave Green (bass) Frank Esler-Smith (keyboards) Ralph Cooper (drums)

Rating: 2.626 out of 5.00 (average of 5 ratings)

About the Album: Now and Forever sort of marked the end of an era for Air Supply. After their fifth album, Lost in Love, finally broke them in America in 1980, the soft-rock group went on a streak of seven top-five hits, three each from Lost in Love and follow-up album The One That You Love and then one more (Even the Nights Are Better) from Now and Forever. The group followed up that single with two more top 40 hits – Two Less Lonely People in the World and Young Love – from Now and Forever. However, it was their last studio album to go platinum. The next year, the band would find success with their Greatest Hits collection, a multi-platinum, top 10 album which featured all seven of the aforementioned top-ten hits plus their eighth and final top-ten, “Making Love Out of Nothing at All.” After that, the band didn’t go platinum again, didn’t hit the top ten again, and only made one more trip into the top 40 (“Just As I Am,” #19 in 1985). A five-year run isn’t bad in the pop world, but Air Supply might have fared better with, well, better fare. “Like all…[Air Supply] albums, [Now and Forever] has an uneven selection of material; the best songs were the singles…Even when the group performs weak material, they sound fine, but the lack of first-rate songs became disheartening after a while.” AMG.

Resources and Related Links: Air Supply’s DMDB Encyclopedia entry Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide WK Wikipedia

Air Supply’s The One That You Love hit the U.S. charts

First posted 1/18/2009; updated 9/20/2020.

The One That You Love Air Supply

Charted: June 13, 1981 Peak: 10 US, -- UK, 21 CN, 10 AU Sales (in millions): 1.0 US, -- UK, 1.0 world (includes US and UK) Genre: adult contemporary

Tracks: Song Title (date of single release, chart peaks) Click for codes to singles charts. Don’t Turn Me Away Here I Am (Just When I Thought I Was Over You) (9/19/81, 5 US, 1 AC, 43 AU, airplay: 1 million) Keeping the Love Alive The One That You Love (5/16/81, 1 US, 2 AC, 10 AU, sales: 1 million, airplay: 1 million) This Heart Belongs to Me Sweet Dreams (12/12/81, 5 US, 4 AC, airplay: 1 million) I Want to Give It All I’ll Never Get Enough of You Tonite I’ve Got Your Love Total Running Time: 39:59 The Players: Russell Hitchcock (vocals) Graham Russell (vocals, rhythm guitar) Rex Goh, David Moyse (guitars) Dave Green (bass) Frank Esler-Smith (keyboards) Ralph Cooper (drums)

Rating: 3.573 out of 5.00 (average of 4 ratings) Awards:

About the Album: “The One That You Love was Air Supply’s second international release and perhaps their finest all-around studio outing.” AMG Like its predecessor, Lost in Love, the album was produced by future-Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Clive Davis. Both albums also spawned three top-five Billboard Hot 100 hits. the lead single, “the heart-wrenching title track,” AMG became Air Supply’s first and only chart-topper. “The sheer drama of Here I Am and the swooping orchestration of Sweet Dreams complete this smash-hit trilogy.” AMG The former was “closely related to the style of Barry Manilow, one of the band’s influences” WK while the latter came closer than anything the group had done to a foray into rock. The song also lent itself to a more bombastic, orchestral treatment, as demonstrated in the video below. “As suggested by their name, a sense of air and space pervades other pop-tastic ballads such as This Heart Belongs to Me and Keeping the Love Alive.” AMG I’ll Never Get Enough of You was the main theme of a Japanese TV novel, leading it to become the group’s first entry on any Asian chart. WK Notes: --

Resources and Related Links: Air Supply’s DMDB Encyclopedia entry AMG Ed Rivadavia, All Music Guide WK Wikipedia

Air Supply’s Lost in Love released

Lost in Love Air Supply

Released: March 3, 1980 Peak: 22 US, -- UK, -- CN, 21 AU Sales (in millions): 2.0 US, -- UK, 3.0 world (includes US and UK) Genre: adult contemporary

Tracks: Song Title (date of single release, chart peaks) Click for codes to singles charts. Lost in Love (2/9/80, 3 US, 1 AC, 13 AU, airplay: 2 million) All Out of Love (6/14/80, 2 US, 11 UK, 5 AC, 9 AU, sales: 1 million, airplay: 2 million) Every Woman in the World (10/25/80, 5 US, 2 AC, 8 AU, sales: 2 million) Just Another Woman Having You Near Me American Hearts Chances Old Habits Die Hard I Can’t Get Excited My Best Friend Total Running Time: 36:37 The Players: Russell Hitchcock (vocals) Graham Russell (vocals, rhythm guitar) David Moyse (guitars) Dave Green (bass) Frank Esler-Smith (keyboards) Ralph Cooper (drums)

Rating: 3.388 out of 5.00 (average of 5 ratings) Awards: (Click on award to learn more).

About the Album: Air Supply had released four albums from 1976 to 1979 without much impact. Even in their native Australia, they’d really only found success with one top-ten hit, 1976’s “Love and Other Bruises.” The group’s fate changed, however, when they signed a new contract with Arista Records. Producer Clive Davis, a future Rock and Roll Hall of Famer, helped Air Supply finally break into the U.S. market. During the early ‘80s, they had “a successful run of soft pop love songs” AMG yielding ten top 40 hits over the next three albums. “Graham Russell’s overly poetic, overly romantic lyrics were usually accompanied by the fragile plucking of an acoustic guitar or the soft tinkling of piano.” AMG “Throughout every album their insipid musical style never strayed” AMG from their “faithful allegiance to their sentimentally flavored tastes.” AMG The title song hit #3 in the U.S. and is often considered the group’s signature song and Russell Hitchcock has said it is his favorite. WK An earlier version was released in Australia in 1979 on their Life Support album. The rerecorded version, however, is what gave the band its first taste of international fame. The second single, All Out of Love, is “regarded as their most famous song,” WK reaching #2 on the Billboard Hot 100. It was followed by Every Woman in the World, giving the band its third top-five hit from the album. “The rest of the tracks on Lost in Love are carbon copies of the hits.” AMG While never released as a single, Chances became one of the group’s better-known songs, thanks to its inclusion on multiple compilations of the group’s hits. Also of note – Just Another Woman was first recorded – as a disco song – for the Life Support album. It was a hit in Malaysia. WK

Resources and Related Links: DMDB Encyclopedia entry for Air Supply AMG Mike DeGagne, All Music Guide WK Wikipedia Other Related DMDB Pages: First posted 1/18/2009; last updated 9/3/2021.

Air Supply “American Hearts” released on Lost in Love album

(album cover for Lost in Love)

American Hearts Air Supply

Writer(s): Graham Russell, Dominic Bugatti, Frank Musker, Clive Davis (see lyrics here) Released: March 3, 1980 (as an album cut) First Charted: -- Peak: 1 DF (Click for codes to singles charts.) Sales (in millions): -- Airplay/Streaming (in millions): -- radio, 0.54 video, -- streaming

Awards: Click on award for more details.

About the Song: Air Supply formed in Australia in 1975. While their have been multiple members of this soft-rock group over the years, they’ve come to be known more as the duo of Graham Russell, an English-born singer/songwriter, and Russell Hitchcock, an Australian-born singer. They met in 1975 as part of the chorus for an Australian production of the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical “Jesus Christ Superstar. They released four albums in Australia from 1976 to 1979 before achieving their international breakthrough with 1980’s Lost in Love. The album went double-platinum in the United States on the strength of three top-5 hits – “Lost in Love,” “All Out of Love,” and “Every Woman in the World.” That newfound success had much to do with Clive Davis. He became the founder and president of Arista Records in 1974. Lost in Love was the first album by Air Supply after they signed to Arista. Davis even served as a co-songwriter on the songs “All Out of Love” and “American Hearts.” The latter wasn’t a single, but became a personal favorite. In my early teen years, many of my favorites fell into the soft-rock category, including Neil Diamond, Barry Manilow, and John Denver. However, Air Supply may have been the most embarrassing of the lot for a teenage boy. No matter. I’ve long believed that when it comes to music you like what you like and don’t have to offer any apologies. The song about a couple’s idyllic romantic dream-gone-wrong ranked in the top-10 on my first personal chart on September 18, 1982. As a response to a local radio station’s countdown of the best songs of all time, I compiled my own list. I intended to make it a one-time list of favorites, but it turned into a weekly personal chart which I maintained for a little more than a decade. Resources: DMDB encyclopedia entry for Air Supply WK Wikipedia page for Lost in Love album Related Links: First posted 9/9/2022.

Air Supply's “Lost in Love” charted in the U.S.

Lost in Love Air Supply

Writer(s): Graham Russell (see lyrics here) First Charted: February 9, 1980 Peak: 3 US, 2 CB, 3 GR, 3 HR, 2 RR, 16 AC, 4 CN, 13 AU, 1 DF (Click for codes to singles charts.) Sales (in millions): -- Airplay/Streaming (in millions): -- radio, 44.28 video, -- streaming

Awards: Click on award for more details.

About the Song: In the early ‘80s, the band Air Supply personified the term “soft rock.” They landed ten top-five hits from 1980 to 1983, all of which achieved the same lofty status on the adult contemporary chart. The band formed in 1975 after Russell Hitchcock and Graham Russell met while performing in an Australian production of Jesus Christ Superstar. They released four albums in Australia, the last being an album called Life Support in 1979. The album featured the song “Lost in Love,” which reached #13 in Australia. That album didn’t gain them an audience outside Australia, but “Lost in Love” became an international hit when Air Supply re-recorded it for their 1980 album of the same name. Legendary record executive Clive Davis bought the rights to the song for Arista Records. Air Supply’s Graham Russell said he was broke at the time and couldn’t believe it when he read a review in Cash Box saying the song was “destined to go all the way to top 5.” SF It got to #3 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 and was followed by “All Out of Love” (#2) and “Every Woman in the World” (#5). Cash Box described the song as “soft rock with elegant acoustic guitar work, glistening harmonies, light rhythm and electric piano touches.” WK Russell wrote it in about fifteen minutes. He said, “when that inspiration comes, it comes very quickly...When a song is coming I get a weird feeling, and then I kind of drift somewhere on my own to think about it. But when I actually play the piano or pick the guitar up, it’ll come really quickly.” SF He also explained, “My songs, too, are very simple….My songs are really straight ahead, real simple chords, the simpler the better. So a song like ‘Lost in Love’ with four chords, there’s only two parts to it. There’s really no chorus. There’s just a verse and a bridge. So something like that shouldn’t take longer than 15 minutes to write, you know.” SF On a personal note, the song appeared on my first personal chart (September 18, 1982), which was initially intended to be a list of my favorite all-time songs, but blossomed into a weekly a chart which I maintained for roughly ten years. Resources: DMDB encyclopedia entry for Air Supply SF Songfacts WK Wikipedia Related Links: First posted 6/30/2022; last updated 12/6/2022.