Who Listens to the Radio | |
Cover: | Who_Listens_to_the_Radio_by_The_Sports.jpg |
Caption: | North American cover |
Type: | single |
Artist: | The Sports |
Album: | Don't Throw Stones |
Released: | October 1978 |
Recorded: | T.C.S. Studios, Melbourne. |
Length: | 3:17 |
Label: | Mushroom Records |
Producer: | Pete Solley |
Prev Title: | When You Walk in the Room |
Prev Year: | 1978 |
Next Title: | Don't Throw Stones |
Next Year: | 1979 |
"Who Listens to the Radio" is a song recorded by Australian rock band The Sports. The song was written by band members Stephen Cummings and Andrew Pendlebury. The original single version was released in October 1978. In 1979, it was reworked and re-recorded as a new lead single from the band's second studio album, Don't Throw Stones (1979), the song peaked at number 35 on the Australian Kent Music Report.
The song was released in the United States and peaked at number 45 on the Billboard Hot 100 in November 1979 and appeared in an episode of WKRP in Cincinnati.[1]
Chart (1978/79) | peak position |
---|---|
Australian Kent Music Report[2] | 35 |
US Billboard Hot 100[3] | 45 |
. Australian Chart Book 1970 - 1992. David Kent (historian). Australian Chart Book. St Ives, NSW. 1993. 288. 0-646-11917-6. NOTE: Used for Australian singles and albums charting from 1970 until ARIA created their own charts in mid-1988.