Global Charts
National Charts
 

Global Single Chart
40 years ago
the most popular tracks worldwide
according to the national single charts
dated to March 5, 1983
compiled and provided by

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week 15
Do You Really Want To Hurt Me - Culture Club
Epic / Virgin - 4 weeks at No.1
6 / -
week 2
Billie Jean - Michael Jackson
Epic
3 / 3
week 9
You Can't Hurry Love - Phil Collins
Atlantic
4 / 4
week 15
Pass The Dutchie - Musical Youth
MCA
7 / 8
week 4
Baby Come To Me - Patti Austin & James Ingram
Qwest
5 / 6
week 5
Africa - Toto
CBS / Columbia
2 / 1
week 8
Down Under - Men At Work
CBS / Columbia
9 / 10
week 4
Shame On The Moon - Bob Seger
Capitol
8 / 5
week 11
Sexual Healing - Marvin Gaye
CBS / Columbia
new.JPG (991 bytes) Stray Cat Strut - Stray Cats
EMI America
 

"Do You Really Want To Hurt Me" was released on September 6, 1982 as the third lift-off from the bands debut album Kissing To Be Clever (1982). The fantastic reggae tune rose rapidly in the charts after the group's first appearance on the British TV show Top Of The Pops, which resulted in band leader Boy George's androgynous style of dress and sexual ambiguity making newspaper headlines. In 2007, Boy George said that the song was "not just about Culture Club's drummer Jon Moss, my boyfriend at the time. It was about all the guys i dated at that time in my life." "Do You Really Want To Hurt Me" went to the summit in United Kingdom, Germany, France, Canada, Australia, Belgium, Sweden, Switzerland, Austria, Denmark, and Ireland.

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