| "Take My Breath Away" | ||||
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| Single by Berlin | ||||
| from the album Top Gun soundtrack and Count Three & Pray | ||||
| B-side | "Radar Radio" | |||
| Released | June 15, 1986 | |||
| Format | 7", 12" | |||
| Recorded | 1986 | |||
| Genre | Pop rock, power ballad | |||
| Length | 4:15 | |||
| Label | Columbia, Geffen | |||
| Writer(s) | Giorgio Moroder, Tom Whitlock[1] | |||
| Producer | Giorgio Moroder | |||
| Certification | Gold(US) | |||
| Berlin singles chronology | ||||
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"Take My Breath Away" is the name of a love song from the film Top Gun (1986). The song was written by Giorgio Moroder and Tom Whitlock, performed by the band Berlin.[1] It won the Academy Award for Best Original Song,[1] as well as the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song in 1986.
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"Take My Breath Away" was the first single from the Top Gun soundtrack album and was released in 1986 as a split single alongside the song "Radar Radio":
The song reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 on September 13, 1986 and became number 1 in the UK for four weeks in November 1986.[1]
"Take My Breath Away" is available on both the original Top Gun soundtrack album and the expanded edition. The song was also featured in several of the band's best-of and remix albums: Best of Berlin 1979-1988, Master Series, Greatest Hits Remixed (which includes a "Mission UK Remix" version), Live: Sacred & Profane and Metro Greatest Hits. "Take My Breath Away" was one of the only songs not written by Berlin's John Crawford that they had performed on any album up to that point.
"Take My Breath Away" was re-released in October 1990 to coincide with the first television showing of Top Gun (by ITV, on the evening of October 6) as well as Peugeot's new television advertising campaign for the 405 model range. The re-release reached number three in the UK singles charts.[2]
The music video features scenes from the film Top Gun intermingled with Berlin's singer Terri Nunn performing the song in blue coveralls walking between pieces of planes in a windy aircraft boneyard (part of the Mojave Air & Space Port) at night. Bandmates John Crawford and Rob Brill are shown relaxing in the yard and then following Terri.[3] This video clip can be seen occasionally in VH1 Europe's Top 10 Movie Soundtracks program. This video was re-released within the 2004 Top Gun DVD Collector's Edition.
| Country | Certification | Date | Sales certified |
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| Canada[4] | Gold | October 31, 1986 | 50,000 |
| France[5] | Gold | 1987 | 500,000 |
| UK[6] | Gold | November 1, 1986 | 400,000 |
| U.S.[7] | Gold | May 5, 1992 | 500,000 |
| Chart (1986) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| Austrian Singles Chart[8] | 4 |
| Dutch Top 40[9] | 1 |
| French SNEP Singles Chart[8] | 2 |
| German Singles Chart[10] | 3 |
| Irish Singles Chart[11] | 1 |
| Italian Singles Chart[12] | 5 |
| Norwegian Singles Chart[8] | 4 |
| Swedish Singles Chart[8] | 2 |
| Swiss Singles Chart[8] | 2 |
| UK Singles Chart[13] | 1 |
| U.S. Billboard Hot 100[14] | 1 |
| U.S. Billboard Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks[14] | 3 |
| Chart (1988) | Peak position |
| UK Singles Chart[15] | 52 |
| Chart (1990) | Peak position |
| Irish Singles Chart[11] | 7 |
| UK Singles Chart[16] | 3 |
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| Single by Jessica Simpson | |||||||||
| from the album In This Skin | |||||||||
| Released | US March 25, 2004 UK September 27, 2004 |
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| Format | CD single | ||||||||
| Recorded | 2004 | ||||||||
| Genre | Pop, R&B | ||||||||
| Length | 3:15 | ||||||||
| Label | Columbia | ||||||||
| Producer | billymann | ||||||||
| Certification | Platinum | ||||||||
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American pop singer Jessica Simpson covered "Take My Breath Away" and released it as the third single from the album In This Skin in 2004. Her version was produced by Billy Mann. Simpson chose to cover this song because she felt that it was the theme song of her relationship with her then husband, Nick Lachey. Simpson's version was also included on the compilation album Now That's What I Call Music! 16 (from the U.S. Now! series). The remix is seen on Much Dance 2005. It also received heavy airplay on Mainstream Urban stations.
The video shows Simpson driving through a southwestern desert. She stops to fill up with fuel, and then arrives at a diner where she watches lovers in motion. The music video peaked at number five on MTV's TRL and spent a total of 12 days on the countdown.
"Take My Breath Away" became a number-twenty hit on the Billboard Hot 100, as well as a top ten hit on the Top 40 Tracks and the Top 40 Mainstream charts. The song also became another number-one hit for Simpson on the Hot 100 Singles Sales. Although the song did not break records of any sorts, it performed decently on the other tracks it charted on: the Adult Top 40, the Adult Contemporary, the Hot 100 Airplay, the Hot Dance Club Play, and the Hot Digital Tracks. In late 2005 it received a gold certification by the RIAA.
| Chart (2004) | Peak position |
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| Australian ARIA Singles Chart | 15 |
| Belgian Ultratop 40 Singles (Wallonia)[17] | 7 |
| Belgian Ultratop 50 Singles (Flanders)[18] | 12 |
| Canadian Singles Chart[19] | 10 |
| European Hot 100 Singles | 74 |
| French Singles Chart[20] | 18 |
| Mexico Top Singles | 9 |
| Swedish Singles Chart | 43 |
| UK Singles Chart[21] | 159 |
| US Billboard Hot 100 | 20 |
| US Billboard Top 40 Mainstream | 8 |
| US Billboard Hot Dance Club Play | 10 |
| US Billboard Adult Contemporary | 23 |
| US Billboard Adult Top 40 | 29 |
| Country | Position |
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| Australian Singles Chart[22] | 99 |
| Belgium Ultratop Singles[23] | 58 |
| Country | Certification | Sales |
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| U.S. | Gold | 500,000 |
| Australia[24] | Gold | 35,000 |
Originally Martha Davis of The Motels was asked by Giorgio Moroder to make a demo of the song. Her demo version is available on The Motels' Anthologyland CD.
The Shadows covered the song as an instrumental in 1987 on Simply Shadows. The band Copeland performed it on their album of cover songs, Know Nothing Stays the Same. It was translated into Cantonese and covered by Sandy Lam. Diana Ross covered the song in 2007 on the US release of her album I Love You.
Soda Club featuring Hannah Alethea's cover of the song reached #16 in the UK Singles Chart in 2002.[1]
The pipes and drums of the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards covered the song for their 2007 album, Spirit of the Glen.
My Morning Jacket has a rendition on one of its Early Recordings discs. It ends with a clip from the film Top Gun.[25]
Scottish singer, Sharleen Spiteri covered the song for her 2010 album, "The Movie Songbook"
It was also covered by Eva Cassidy on her "American Tune" albumn
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