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

Dave’s Faves: The Columbia House Record Club

First posted 8/12/2020.

Dave’s Faves: Columbia House

September 25, 1982. I was 15 years old and had just started my sophomore year in high school. Arguably, there is no more significant time for musical discovery. I was very much a slave to whatever was popular at the time, but my tastes were starting to shift from more middle-of-the-road artists like John Denver, Neil Diamond, and Barry Manilow to more rock-oriented fare like Journey, Queen, and Styx. A week before, I’d put together my very first personal song chart. I’d listened to a local radio station’s countdown of the hits of the summer and decided to create my own list of all-time favorites. However, within the week I revamped it and I was on my way to more than a decade’s worth of creating weekly personal song charts. By that second week, I was hit by an influx of “new” music. Actually, it would be more appropriate to call it “newly acquired music” as the six new albums in my collection were all at least nine months old: Air Supply The One That You Love (1981) Foreigner 4 (1981) Journey Escape (1981) The Police Ghost in the Machine (1981) Queen Greatest Hits (compilation: 1973-81, released 1981) Styx Paradise Theater (1981) To what did I owe this new treasure trove? Columbia House’s Record and Tape Club. Anyone from my generation should remember the omnipresent ads in magazines to buy 13 albums for a dollar, sometimes a penny, under the agreement that you bought X number more albums over the next few years. The catch was they would automatically send an album each month if you didn’t specifically refuse it, sticking some people with albums they didn’t want. My friend Nic and I decided to jump into the venture together, each getting half the albums and therefore only spending half as much money. I believe Nic took on the responsibility of mailing in the cards and I think he only got stuck once with the automatically mailed album. I’d started my music collection three years earlier with the K-Tel compilation High Energy (1979) on eight track. Now I was beginning my transition from eight track to cassette. I’d already bought Styx Cornerstone (1979) and the Xanadu soundtrack (1980) on tape and now, with six new titles in my collection, I was well on my way toward this newer medium surpassing the old. Before year’s end, I would also have John Cougar’s American Fool (1982), J. Geils Band Freeze Frame (1981), and Olivia Newton-John’s Olivia’s Greatest Hits Vol. 2 (1982). In December of that year, I also hit the jackpot when my local rock station played a Beatles’ album every day at midnight for a week. I recorded the Beatles’ 1962-1966 and 1967-1970 collections as well as Magical Mystery Tour (1967), Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967), and Hey Jude (1968). The impact on my personal chart was immediately apparent. Songs from the above tapes which showed up on my charts in the next few weeks included: Air Supply “The One That You Love,” “Here I Am,” “Sweet Dreams” Foreigner “Urgent,” “Juke Box Hero,” “Waiting for a Girl Like You” Journey “Who’s Crying Now,” “Don’t Stop Believin’,” “Open Arms” The Police “Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic” Queen “You’re My Best Friend,” “Flash,” “Another One Bites the Dust” Styx “The Best of Times,” “Too Much Time on My Hands,” “Rockin’ the Paradise,” “Nothing Ever Goes As Planned” Some of the songs from those tapes still rank on my top 100 songs of all-time list (Foreigner “Waiting for a Girl Like You,” Journey “Open Arms,” Queen “Bohemian Rhapsody,” Queen “We Will Rock You/We Are the Champions,” and Styx’s “The Best of Times”). Styx Paradise Theater and Journey Escape rank amongst my top 100 albums of all time. Perhaps no other week in my life has had more impact on me musically. Resources and Related Links: Dave’s Music Database (9/18/1982). “My First Personal Song Chart” Dave’s Music Database (1/3/2020). “Dave’s Faves: My Top 100 Albums” Dave’s Music Database (3/2/2020). “Dave’s Faves: My Top 100 Songs”

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