1989 was the first year since 1969 not to have any records peak at 40, so here we go straight into the 90s which starts with this record.
The singles career of Belinda Carlisle is a bit up and down and as a member of the Go-Go's prior to her solo career she had no Top 40 hits at all. Her debut Top 40 hit "Heaven Is A Place On Earth" topped the charts and she made the Top 10 with her following 2 singles. She enjoyed similar success in her native America with those 3 singles.
Her next single "World Without You" only made 34 and wasn't released in America. Then came "Love Never Dies" which was a UK only release and didn't even make the Top 40.
She returned to the Top 10 with "Leave A Light On" which was the lead single from her "Runaway Horses" album but just missed out on the Top 10 in America. Follow up "La Luna" was another single not released in America and only managed 38 here.
Then came this single "Runaway Horses" which was yet another single not to be released in America. Around the same time "Summer Rain" was released over there which is her last American Top 40 hit to date. We would get that single over here until the end of 1990.
The failure of this record to get any higher than 40 would appear to be because more effort was being made to promote "Summer Rain" in America. It would also appear that if a single wasn't released in America then little effort was made to promote it.
However next single "Vision Of You" failed to chart in America and only made 41 in the UK. Then "(We Want) The Same Thing" wasn't released in America but made the Top 10 here.
Her Top 40 hit career lasted until 1997 which over that time was a further mixture of Top 10s and singles in the lower reaches of the charts. She also scored her only Top 40 hit to date with a reunited Go-Go's in 1995 with "The Whole World Lost Its Head" which made number 29.
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