Can't Slow Down (Lionel Richie album)

Infobox Album |
Name = Can't Slow Down
Type = Studio album
Artist = Lionel Richie


Released = October 11 1983
Recorded = Mar 14, 1983-Sep 1983
Genre = Pop
Length = 40:56
Label = Motown
Producer = Lionel Richie, James Anthony Carmichael
Reviews =
* Allmusic Rating|4.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:23320r6ac48p link]
*"Rolling Stone" Rating|4|5 [http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/lionelrichie/albums/album/241791/review/6067987/cant_slow_down link]
Last album = "Lionel Richie"
(1982)
This album = "Can't Slow Down"
(1983)
Next album = "Dancing on the Ceiling"
(1986)

"Can't Slow Down" is Lionel Richie's second album which was released on October 11, 1983. The album reached #1 on the Billboard album chart on December 3, 1983 where it stayed for three weeks. It also spent 59 consecutive weeks inside the Top 10 (including the whole year of 1984) and a total of 160 weeks (over three years) on the Billboard 200. After being the third best-selling album of 1984, it went on to win a Grammy Award for "Album of the Year" in 1985 and sold over 20 million copies worldwide, and sold approximately $79,800,000 in worldwide sales.

"Hello" was covered by Me First and the Gimme Gimmes on their album "Take a Break". It has also been covered by Paul Anka on his album "Rock Swings". This album was a rare instance of every single released going Top 10. Two songs, "Hello" and "All Night Long (All Night)" went to #1. Other hits include "Stuck On You" (US #3), "Running With the Night" (US #7), and "Penny Lover" (US #8).

Track listing

#"Can't Slow Down" (David Cochrane, Richie) – 4:43
#"All Night Long (All Night)" (Richie) – 6:25
#"Penny Lover" (Brenda Harvey Ritchie, Richie) – 5:35
#"Stuck on You" (Richie) – 3:15
#"Love Will Find A Way" (Greg Phillinganes, Richie) – 6:16
#"The Only One" (David Foster, Richie) – 4:24
#"Running with the Night" (Richie, Cynthia Weil) – 6:02
#"Hello" (Richie) – 4:11

Chart positions

succession box
before = "Metal Health" by Quiet Riot
title = "Billboard" 200 number-one album
years = December 3 – December 23 1983
after = "Footloose (soundtrack)" by Various artistssuccession box
before = "Colour by Numbers" by Culture Club
"Human's Lib" by Howard Jones
title = UK number one album
years = November 12 1983 – November 18 1983
March 31 1984 – April 13 1984
after = "Colour by Numbers" by Culture Club
"Now That's What I Call Music II" by Various Artistssuccession box
before = "Throbbin' '84" by Various artists
title = Australian Kent Music Report number-one album
years = June 18 – July 8 1984
after = "Breaking Hearts" by Elton John