Who Listens to the Radio explained

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]

Track listing

Australian 7" single (K 7300)
North American 7" single (Arista – AS 0468)
United Kingdom 12" single (Stiff – LAST 5)

Charts

Chart (1978/79)peak
position
Australian Kent Music Report[2] 35
US Billboard Hot 100[3] 45

Notes and References

  1. Web site: The Sports To Reform. noise11. 5 February 2015. 15 October 2017.
  2. Book: Kent, David. David Kent (historian)

    . 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.

  3. The Sports - Billboard search. Billboard. 15 October 2017.