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Yesterday's Songs

"Yesterday's Songs"
Single by Neil Diamond
from the album On the Way to the Sky
B-side"Guitar Heaven"
ReleasedNovember 1981
GenrePop
Length2:51
LabelColumbia
Songwriter(s)Neil Diamond
Neil Diamond singles chronology
"America"
(1981)
"Yesterday's Songs"
(1981)
"On the Way to the Sky"
(1982)

"Yesterday's Songs" is a 1981 single by Neil Diamond from his album On the Way to the Sky. The song was a major adult contemporary radio hit, spending six weeks at #1 on the U.S. Billboard chart and four weeks atop the Canadian Adult Contemporary chart.[1] On the Billboard Hot 100, it peaked at #11.[2] On the Canadian pop charts, the song reached #15.[3] "Yesterday's Songs" is ranked as the 77th biggest American hit of 1982.[4]

Record World said that "If the intriguing keyboard melody or snappy beat doesn't grab you, Diamond's spirited vocal romanticism will."[5]

Chart history

See also

References

  1. ^ "Image : RPM Weekly - Library and Archives Canada". Bac-lac.gc.ca. July 17, 2013. Retrieved October 25, 2016.
  2. ^ Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits, 8th Edition (Billboard Publications)
  3. ^ Canada RPM Top Singles, December 26, 1981
  4. ^ "Top 100 Hits of 1982/Top 100 Songs of 1982". Musicoutfitters.com. Retrieved October 25, 2016.
  5. ^ "Hits of the Week" (PDF). Record World. October 31, 1981. p. 1. Retrieved 2023-03-01.
  6. ^ "Item Display - RPM - Library and Archives Canada". December 19, 1981. Retrieved June 24, 2018.
  7. ^ Canada RPM Top Singles, December 26, 1981
  8. ^ Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles 1955-1990 - ISBN 0-89820-089-X
  9. ^ Cash Box Top 100 Singles, January 23, 1982
  10. ^ Musicoutfitters.com
  11. ^ "Adult Contemporary Songs – Year-End 1982". Billboard. Retrieved April 19, 2021.