Keep Your Distance Explained

Keep Your Distance
Type:	studio
Artist:	Curiosity Killed the Cat
Cover:	Keep Your Distance - Curiosity Killed the Cat.jpg
Released:	27 April 1987 3 August 1987 (US)^[1]
Recorded:	1986–1987
Genre:	Sophisti-pop^[2]
Length:	37:25 63:58 (with original bonus tracks)
Label:	Mercury
Next Title:	Getahead
Next Year:	1989

Keep Your Distance is the debut album by the British band Curiosity Killed the Cat, released in April 1987. It debuted at #1 on the UK Albums Chart, and is their only album to chart on the Billboard 200, reaching #55.

Charts

Weekly charts

Chart (1987)	Peak position
Australian Albums (Kent Music Report)^[3]	47
Icelandic Albums (Tónlist)^[4]	7
Italian Albums (FIMI)^[5]	8

Year-end charts

Chart (1987)	Peak position
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100)^[6]	63
Italian Albums (FIMI)^[7]	26
UK Albums (OCC)^[8]	24

Notes and References

1. . 1 August 1987. Billboard. 99. 31. 82.
2. Web site: Thomas . Inskeep . Alfred . Soto . The Bluffer's Guide – Sophisti-Pop . . 28 April 2016 . 14 March 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160314172451/http://www.stylusmagazine.com/articles/bluffer/sophisti-pop.htm . dead .
3. Book: Kent, David. David Kent (historian). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992. illustrated. Australian Chart Book. St Ives, N.S.W.. 1993. 0-646-11917-6. 80.
4. Web site: Tonlist Top 40 . DV . 2017-02-09.
5. Web site: Hit Parade Italia – Gli album più venduti del 1987 . Italian . hitparadeitalia.it . 11 June 2020.
6. Web site: Dutch Charts - dutchcharts.nl.
7. Web site: Hit Parade Italia - ALBUM 1987.
8. Gallup Year End Charts 1987: Albums . Record Mirror . Spotlight Publications . London, England . 37 . 23 January 1988.