Before (song)

"Before"
Single by Pet Shop Boys
from the album Bilingual
Released	22 April 1996
Format	CD single
Recorded	1995
Genre	Electronic music
Length	4:32 (album version) 4:05 (edit)
Label	Parlophone (UK) EMI / Atlantic (US)
Writer(s)	Neil Tennant, Chris Lowe
Producer	Pet Shop Boys, Danny Tenaglia
Pet Shop Boys singles chronology
"Paninaro '95" (1995) "Before" (1996) "Se a vida é (That's the Way Life Is)" (1996)

"Before" is a single by UK electronic music group Pet Shop Boys released as the first single from the group's 1996 album Bilingual. The single, upon its release, peaked at #7 on the UK Singles Chart. In the US, it reached #1 on the U.S. Hot Dance Club Play and reached #7 on the US Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles chart, equalling #107 on the main U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart.

Contents 1 Track listing 1.1 UK CD1: Parlophone 1.2 UK CD2: Parlophone 1.3 UK 3x12": Parlophone 1.4 US 5" CD maxi-single: EMI 1.5 US enhanced CD single: Atlantic 2 Charts 3 References

Track listing

UK CD1: Parlophone

1. "Before" – 4:05
2. "The truck driver and his mate" – 3:33
3. "Hit and miss" – 4:05
4. "In the night '95" – 4:17

UK CD2: Parlophone

1. "Before" (Classic Paradise mix) – 7:56
2. "Before" (Aphrodisiac mix) – 7:27
3. "Before" (Hed Boys mix) – 7:33
4. "Before" (extended mix) – 8:47
5. "Before" (Danny Tenaglia mix) – 7:15

UK 3x12": Parlophone

1. "Before" (Underground mix) – 7:15
2. "Before" (bonus dub) – 3:59
3. "Before" (Underground instrumental) – 7:15
4. "Before" (bonus beats) – 3:59
5. "Before" (Classic Paradise mix) – 7:56
6. "Before" (Aphrodisiac mix) – 7:27
7. "Before" (Hed Boys mix) – 7:33
8. "Before" (dub) – 4:53
9. "Before" (extended mix) – 8:47

US 5" CD maxi-single: EMI

1. "Before" (Album version) – 4:05
2. "Before" (D.T.'s after mix) – 8:46
3. "Before" (Classic Paradise mix Love to Infinity) – 7:56
4. "Before" (Joey Negro's Hed Boys mix) – 7:35
5. "Before" (Joey Negro's Before dub) – 4:55
6. "Before" (Tenagilia's underground mix) – 7:17
7. "Before" (Tenaglia's bonus beats) – 4:03
8. "Before" (D.T.'s twilo dub) – 8:57
9. "Before" (Tenglia's bonus dub) – 4:03

US enhanced CD single: Atlantic

1. "Before" (Album version)
2. "The truck driver and his mate"
3. "Hit and miss"

• including "Before" video

Charts

Chart (1996)	Peak position
UK Singles Chart	7[1]
Austria	38[2]
Finland	4
Germany	45[3]
Sweden	10
Switzerland	31
U.S. Hot Dance Club Play	1
U.S. Billboard Hot 100	107
U.S. Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles	7

References

Preceded by "Wrong" by Everything but the Girl

Billboard Hot Dance Club Play number-one single 13 July 1996 – 20 July 1996

Succeeded by "Professional Widow" by Tori Amos

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