Fading Away

"Fading Away"
Single by Will to Power
from the album Will to Power
Released 1989
Format 7" single
12" single
Recorded 1987–1988
Genre Dance-pop, Freestyle music
Length 4:00 (album version)
Label Epic
Writer(s) Bob Rosenberg
Producer(s) Bob Rosenberg
Will to Power singles chronology
"Baby, I Love Your Way/Freebird Medley"
(1988)
"Fading Away"
(1989)
"I'm Not in Love"
(1990)

"Fading Away" is a song by the Florida-based dance-pop group Will to Power. It appears on their 1988 self-titled debut album and was released as a single in early 1989.

The song reached #65 on the US pop chart chart in February 1989[1] and #84 on the UK pop chart in March of that year.[2] The song was more successful on dance charts in the US, reaching #2 on the Billboard Hot Dance Singles Sales chart[3] and spending two weeks at top the Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart.[4] This was the group's second Hot Dance Club Play chart-topper, following "Say It's Gonna Rain" from 1988.[4] Remixes for the track were done by Shep Pettibone.[5]

Track listing

U.S.A. 12 "Single
No. Title Length
1. "Fading Away" (Power House Mix) 8:42
2. "Fading Away" (Power House Dub) 6:43
3. "Fading Away" (Big Beat Mix) 8:35
4. "Fading Away" (The Rhythm Dub) 6:12
UK 12 "Single
No. Title Length
1. "Fading Away" (Big Beat Mix) 8:34
2. "Fading Away" (The Rhythm Dub) 6:12
3. "Somebody Told Me"   3:30
The Netherlands 7 "Single
No. Title Length
1. "Fading Away" (Radio Version I) 3:59
2. "Fading Away" (Radio Version II) 3:56

Charts

Chart (1989) Peak
Position
US Billboard Hot 100[6] 65
US Hot Dance Music/Club Play[6] 1
US Hot Dance Music/Maxi-Singles Sales[6] 2
UK Singles Chart[7] 84

See also

References

  1. Hot 100 chart info Billboard.com. Retrieved 14 May 2009.
  2. UK Singles Chart info Chartstats.com. Retrieved 14 May 2009. Archived October 10, 2012, at the Wayback Machine.
  3. 12" Sales info Billboard.com. Retrieved 14 May 2009.
  4. 1 2 Whitburn, Joel (2004). Hot Dance/Disco 1974–2003, (Record Research Inc.), page 281.
  5. 12" single info Discogs.com. Retrieved 14 May 2009.
  6. 1 2 3 http://www.allmusic.com/album/will-to-power-mw0000196516/awards
  7. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on October 4, 2013. Retrieved September 21, 2013.
Preceded by
"All She Wants Is" by Duran Duran
Billboard Hot Dance Club Play number-one single
February 25, 1989 – March 10, 1989
Succeeded by
"That's the Way Love Is" by Ten City


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