"Move Closer" | ||||
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Single by Phyllis Nelson | ||||
Released | February 9, 1985 | |||
Recorded | 1984 | |||
Genre | Pop | |||
Length | 5:54 (album version) 4:35 (single re-recording) 4:01 (radio version) |
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Label | Carrere Records | |||
Writer(s) | Phyllis Nelson | |||
Phyllis Nelson singles chronology | ||||
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Move Closer is a song by Phyllis Nelson, which reached the #1 spot in United Kingdom during 1985.
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Phyllis Nelson wrote the self-written ballad 1984, It was a complete departure from the type of music she had been recording. The lyrics of "Move Closer" were based on a long-term love affair she had with a much younger man in Philadelphia, who was struggling to start his own computer business
Move Closer reached the #1 spot in United Kingdom, making her the first black woman top the UK charts with her own composition.[1] The song was originally released in April 1984 but failed to chart, but was re-released in February 1985 after BBC Radio London started to play it, the song began to climb the charts, taking 12 weeks to climb to #1.[2] Move Closer remained on the charts for just over five months during 1985, ended up as the seventh biggest song of 1985[3] and the eighty-second highest selling single of the 1980s.[4] In 1994 it was reissued and returned to the UK Singles Chart, this time reaching #34, on the back of it being featured in an anti-persperant commercial.[5]
The song failed to make any impact on the American charts, but did chart in Europe and New Zealand during 1984 and 1985.
Chart (1984)/(1985) | Peak position |
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Singles Chart | End of year | End of decade | |
Austrian Singles Chart | |||
Canadian RPM Top Singles | |||
France Singles Chart | |||
German Singles Chart | |||
Irish Singles Chart | |||
Italian Singles Chart | |||
Dutch Top 40 | 47[6] | ||
New Zealand RIANZ Singles Chart | 23[6] | ||
Norwegian Singles Chart | |||
Swedish Singles Chart | |||
Swiss Singles Chart | |||
UK Singles Chart | 1 | 7 | 82 |
Preceded by "We Are the World" by USA for Africa |
UK number one single 4 May 1985 |
Succeeded by "19" by Paul Hardcastle |