30/06/2025
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On this day in 1984, the Huey Lewis & the News LP “Sports” went to #1 on the US Billboard 200 Albums Chart (June 29)
This classic 80s LP spent a total of 160 weeks on the US charts, and delivered four US Top 10 hits: "Heart and Soul”, I Want a New Drug", “The Heart of Rock & Roll", and “If This Is It".
Huey Lewis reflected on “Sports”:
“Back in the day you wanted your albums to have a theme, and Sports' theme was really a collection of singles ... It was really a record for its time.
In the 80s, the way radio was programmed, if you didn't have a hit record you weren't going to be able to make any more records.
That was it, period.
So our priority was to come up with hit singles. Every tune we aimed for radio 'cause we didn't know which one was going to be a hit.
We just knew we needed a frickin' hit, period. And fortunately we got 'em…”
“Sports” went on to become the second biggest selling album on Billboard's 1984 end-of-year sales chart, after Michael Jackson's “Thriller”.
It was also a Top 10 album in Canada and Norway, and made it to #19 in New Zealand, #22 in Australia, and #23 in the UK.
Click on the link below to watch “ If This Is It”:
https://youtu.be/AaTQAaJWW54
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