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
Length 4:00 (album version)
Label Epic
Producer 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 atop 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]

Contents

Track listing

US 12" single

A1 - "Fading Away" Power House Mix (8:42)
A2 - "Fading Away" Power House Dub (6:43)
B1 - "Fading Away" Big Beat Mix (8:35)
B2 - "Fading Away" The Rhythm Dub (6:12)

Charts

Chart Peak
Position
U.S. Billboard Hot 100 65
U.S. Dance Music/Club Play 1
U.S. Hot Dance Music/Maxi-Singles Sales 2
UK Singles Chart 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.
  3. ^ 12" Sales info Billboard.com. Retrieved 14 May 2009.
  4. ^ a b Whitburn, Joel (2004). Hot Dance/Disco 1974-2003, (Record Research Inc.), page 281.
  5. ^ 12" single info Discogs.com. Retrieved 14 May 2009.
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