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Fading Away

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"Fading Away"
Single by Will to Power
from the album Will to Power
Released1989
Recorded1987–1988
GenreDance-pop, freestyle
Length4:00 (album version)
LabelEpic
Songwriter(s)Bob Rosenberg
Producer(s)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 in February 1989[1] and #84 on the UK Singles 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 at top 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]

Track listing

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U.S.A. 12 "Single
No.TitleLength
1."Fading Away" (Power House Mix)8:42
2."Fading Away" (Power House Dub)6:43
3."Fading Away" (Big Beat Mix)8:35
4."Fading Away" (The Rhythm Dub)6:12
UK 12 "Single
No.TitleLength
1."Fading Away" (Big Beat Mix)8:34
2."Fading Away" (The Rhythm Dub)6:12
3."Somebody Told Me"3:30
The Netherlands 7 "Single
No.TitleLength
1."Fading Away" (Radio Version I)3:59
2."Fading Away" (Radio Version II)3:56

Charts

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Chart (1989) Peak
Position
Australia (ARIA)[6] 153
US Billboard Hot 100[7] 65
US Hot Dance Music/Club Play[7] 1
US Hot Dance Music/Maxi-Singles Sales[7] 2
UK Singles Chart[8] 84

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Hot 100 chart info Billboard.com. Retrieved 14 May 2009.
  2. ^ Official Charts Company info OfficialCharts.com. Retrieved 14 May 2009. Archived 16 August 2018 at the Wayback Machine
  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.
  6. ^ "Will to Power ARIA chart history complete to 2024". ARIA. Retrieved July 20, 2024 – via Imgur.com. N.B. The High Point number in the NAT column represents the release's peak on the national chart.
  7. ^ a b c "Album Search for "will to power"". AllMusic.
  8. ^ "Will to Power: Artist Chart History". Official Charts History. Retrieved 4 May 2020.