Cry for Help

Cry for Help
"Cry for Help"
Single by Rick Astley
from the album Free
Released January 1991
Format 7", 12", CD maxi
Recorded 1990
Genre Pop, Soul
Length 4:17
Label RCA Records
Writer(s) Rick Astley, Rob Fisher
Producer

Gary Stevenson, Rick Astley

Artwork = Mike Orr and Broughton Design
Rick Astley singles chronology
"Ain't Too Proud to Beg"
(1988)
"Cry for Help"
(1991)
"Move Right Out"
(1991)
Music video
"Cry for Help" on YouTube

"Cry for Help" is the title of the first single taken from British dance-pop singer Rick Astley's third studio album, Free. It was written by Rick Astley and Rob Fisher.

Released as a single in 1991, "Cry for Help" reached the Top 10 on both the UK Singles Chart in the United Kingdom as well as the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart, where the song peaked at #7 on both sides of the Atlantic.[1][2] It reached #3 in Canada, and it was a #1 hit on the U.S. adult contemporary chart.[3] The song's #7 UK chart placing meant that Astley became the first male solo artist to have his first eight singles reach the British Top 10.

The song is a moving soul ballad, unlike many of Astley's other more famous dance-oriented hit singles ("Never Gonna Give You Up"). It was co-written by British singer-songwriter Rob Fisher, formerly one half of the 1980s pop group Naked Eyes and Climie Fisher. To date, the song was Astley's last appearance in the Top 10 in either the U.S. or U.K.

The song has been sung by Rick Astley in duet with Soren Sko and covered by Thomas Anders (ex-Modern Talking).

Contents

Chart performance

Peak positions

Chart (1991) Peak
position
Australian ARIA Charts 13
Austrian Singles Chart 22
Canadian Singles Chart 4
German Singles Charts 14
Irish Singles Chart 9
Swedish Singles Chart 17
UK Singles Chart 7
U.S. Billboard Hot 100 7
U.S. Billboard Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks 1

End of year charts

End of year chart (1991) Position
U.S. Billboard Hot 100[4] 70
U.S. Billboard Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks[5] 4
Dutch Top 40[6] 76

References

  1. ^ UK Singles Chart info from chartstats.com
  2. ^ Whitburn, Joel (1996). The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits, 6th Edition (Billboard Publications)
  3. ^ Hyatt, Wesley (1999). The Billboard Book of #1 Adult Contemporary Hits (Billboard Publications)
  4. ^ "Billboard Top 100 - 1991". http://longboredsurfer.com/charts.php?year=1991. Retrieved 2009-09-15. 
  5. ^ "TOP ADULT CONTEMPORARY SINGLES 1991". http://www.billboard.biz/bbbiz/charts/archivesearch/article_display/854606. Retrieved 2011-11-08. 
  6. ^ "Dutch Single Top 100 - 1991". http://www.top40.nl/pdf/Top%20100/top%20100%20-%201991.pdf. Retrieved 2009-09-15. 

External links

Preceded by
"You're in Love" by Wilson Phillips
Billboard Adult Contemporary number-one single
April 27, 1991
Succeeded by
"Baby Baby" by Amy Grant

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