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Love Songs (Cliff Richard album)

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Love Songs
Compilation album by
Released15 June 1981[1]
GenreSoft rock
LabelEMI
ProducerVarious
Cliff Richard chronology
I'm No Hero
(1980)
Love Songs
(1981)
Wired for Sound
(1981)

Love Songs is a compilation album of ballads by Cliff Richard released by EMI in 1981. The album spent five weeks at the top of the UK album charts in 1981 and two weeks at the top of the Australian album charts in 1982.

The compilation spans a 20-year period, from "Theme for a Dream" (1960) through to "A Little in Love" (1980).

Track listing

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  1. "Miss You Nights"
  2. "Constantly"
  3. "Up in the World"
  4. "Carrie"
  5. "A Voice in the Wilderness"
  6. "The Twelfth of Never"
  7. "I Could Easily Fall (In Love with You)"
  8. "The Day I Met Marie"
  9. "Can't Take the Hurt Anymore"
  10. "A Little in Love"
  11. "The Minute You're Gone"
  12. "Visions"
  13. "When Two Worlds Drift Apart"
  14. "The Next Time"
  15. "It's All in the Game"
  16. "Don't Talk to Him"
  17. "When the Girl in Your Arms Is the Girl in Your Heart"
  18. "Theme for a Dream"
  19. "Fall in Love with You"
  20. "We Don't Talk Anymore"

Charts

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Certifications

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Region Certification Certified units/sales
Australia (ARIA)[7] 3× Platinum 150,000^
New Zealand (RMNZ)[8] Platinum 15,000^
United Kingdom (BPI)[1] Platinum 300,000^

^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

Note: Although the New Zealand reference only shows the certification of Love Songs to be Gold, it was later certified Platinum.[9]

References

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  1. ^ a b "British album certifications – Cliff Richard – Love Songs". British Phonographic Industry.
  2. ^ "Cliff Richard | Artist | Official Charts". UK Albums Chart.
  3. ^ Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992. Australian Chart Book, St Ives, N.S.W. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.
  4. ^ "Charts.nz – Cliff Richard – Love Songs". Hung Medien.
  5. ^ UK 1981 Best Selling Albums
  6. ^ "Top 100 National Albums 1982 - Australia". Retrieved 27 December 2016.
  7. ^ Nielsen Business Media, Inc. (12 June 1982). Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. pp. A/NZ–4. ISSN 0006-2510. {{cite book}}: |author= has generic name (help)
  8. ^ "New Zealand album certifications – Cliff Richard – Love Songs". Recorded Music NZ.[dead link]
  9. ^ Scapolo, Dean (2007). The Complete New Zealand Music Charts 1966-2006. Maurienne House. ISBN 978-1-877443-00-8.