Total Eclipse of the Heart
1983 single by Bonnie Tyler
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- " Total Eclipse of the Heart " is the lead single by Welsh singer Bonnie Tyler from her fifth studio album, Faster Than the Speed of Night (1983) written and produced by Jim Steinman and recorded in 1982, released as a single by CBS/Columbia in 1983.
- In the United States, the single spent four weeks at the top of the charts, keeping another Steinman penned song "Making Love Out of Nothing at All" by Air Supply from reaching the top spot (a song Tyler would later cover in 1995), and it was Billboard 's number-six song of the year for 1983.
- Its accompanying music video was directed by Russell Mulcahy and filmed in Surrey, England.
- Following Tyler's death in July 2026, "Total Eclipse of the Heart" re-entered the UK Singles Chart, peaking at number 29.
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Wikipedia"Total Eclipse of the Heart" is the lead single by Welsh singer Bonnie Tyler from her fifth studio album, Faster Than the Speed of Night (1983) written and produced by Jim Steinman and recorded in 1982, released as a single by CBS/Columbia in 1983.
The song became Tyler's biggest career hit, topping the UK Singles Chart, and becoming the fifth-best-selling single in 1983 in the United Kingdom. In the United States, the single spent four weeks at the top of the charts, keeping another Steinman penned song "Making Love Out of Nothing at All" by Air Supply from reaching the top spot (a song Tyler would later cover in 1995), and it was Billboard's number-six song of the year for 1983. The song was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance. Its accompanying music video was directed by Russell Mulcahy and filmed in Surrey, England.
The single has sold over 13 million copies worldwide, becoming one of the best-selling singles of all time, and was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America for sales of over one million copies after its release, updated to platinum in 2001 when the certification threshold changed. In 2015, the song was voted by the British public as the nation's third favourite 1980s number one in a poll for ITV.
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