Love Hurts (Cher album)

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Love Hurts

Studio album by Cher
Released	June 11, 1991
Recorded	1990-1991
Genre	Pop/Rock
Length	43:54
Label	Geffen Records
Producer(s)	John Kalodner
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Cher chronology
Heart of Stone (1989)	Love Hurts (1991)	Greatest Hits: 1965-1992 (1992)


Cover of the European album

Love Hurts, released in 1991, was the third and last album Cher released for Geffen Records.

1 Album information
2 Track listing
3 Singles
4 Charts
- 4.1 Chart positions
- 4.2 Chart trajectories

[edit] Album information

Love Hurts was the third album released by Cher for Geffen records. Unlike the Heart of Stone and Cher albums, Love Hurts received less attention in the United States. In the U.S. Love Hurts was certified Gold while in European countries the album was certified multi-platinum. Specially in the U.K where debuted at #1 and had that position for 6 weeks, been certified Platinum x3. [3]

The European cover of the album was different from the American release, it featured Cher laying on a white backgroung wearing a red wig.

The European release also included the world wide hit, The Shoop Shoop Song (It's in His Kiss) which reached number 1 in over 10 countries and has sold over six million copies. In the United States, The Shoop Shoop Song was available only through the original soundtrack for the film, Mermaids. For a limited time the Love Hurts box set was available for buying, it included tarot cards with the lyrics of every song on the album.

The track "Love Hurts" featured on the album is a remake of the 1975 version which Cher had previously recorded for her album, Stars. This time the song was more pop/rock rather than a ballad.

[edit] Track listing

#	Song	Composers	Duration
1	Save Up All Your Tears	Warren; Child	4:01
2	Love Hurts	Bryant	4:21
3	Love and Understanding	Warren	4:44
4	Fires of Eden	Goldenberg; Hain	3:43
5	I'll Never Stop Loving You	Sfrin; Cassidy; Wetton	3:58
6	One Small Step	Mann; Waldman; Parker	3:27
7	A World Without Heroes	Stanley; Simmons; Reed; Ezrin	3:10
8	Could've Been You	Roman; Helligan Jr.	3:31
9	When Love Calls Your Name	Scott; Snow	3:34
10	When Lovers Become Strangers	Warren	4:46
11	Who You Gonna Believe?	Fontano; Marquez	4:46
	Europe only
12	The Shoop Shoop Song (It's in His Kiss)	Clark	2:53

[edit] Singles

Year	Title	Chart positions													Sales
Year	Title	UWC	U.S. ^Hot100	U.S. ^Sales	U.S. ^AC	CAN	UK	GER	NOR	SWE	IRE	POL	EU	AUS	Sales
1990	"The Shoop Shoop Song (It's in His Kiss)"	1	33	23	7	21	1	3	1	10	1	1	1	2	6.20m
1991	"Love and Understanding"	-	17	38	3	8	10	20	4	29	7	5	-	24	2.00m
1991	"Save Up All Your Tears"	-	37	40	16	-	37	56	-	-	30	26	-	-	0.50m
1991	"Love Hurts"	-	-	-	-	-	43	-	2	-	-	21	-	-	0.50m
1992	"Could've Been You"	-	-	-	-	-	31	72	-	-	-	40	-	-	0.30m
1992	"When Lovers Become Strangers"	-	-	-	15	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	unknown

[edit] Charts

[edit] Chart positions

Chart (1991)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard 200	48
Austrian Albums Chart	1
German Albums Chart	6
Irish Albums Chart	1
Norwegian Albums Chart	1
Swiss Albums Chart	3
UK Albums Chart	1
world wide sales	11,000,000

[edit] Chart trajectories

U.S. Billboard 200
Week	01	02	03	04	05	06	07	08	09	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30
Position	81	52	52	49	48	52	53	52	55	64	76	81	84	93	112	153	178	169	173	154	154	148	143	132	103	103	111	142	119	119
Week	31	32	33	34	35
Position	128	152	167	183	OUT

Norwegian Albums Chart
Week	01	02	03	04	05	06	07	08	09	10	11	12	13	14	15	16
Position	8	3	1	1	1	1	1	1	2	3	3	3	7	11	13	OUT

Austrian Albums Chart
Week	01	02	03	04	05	06	07	08	09	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30
Position	28	23	7	1	5	1	4	4	3	2	2	3	6	6	7	11	15	14	10	13	18	16	13	23	19	18	14	12	15	14
Week	31	32	33	34	35	36	37	38	39	40	41
Position	13	15	10	17	15	17	16	18	25	22	OUT