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| - The Police:Every Breath You Take
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| - Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles
- Black-and-white music videos
- Irish Singles Chart number-one singles
- RPM Top Singles number-one singles
- A&M Records singles
- Songs written by Sting (musician)
- 1983 singles
- 1983 songs
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- Grammy Award for Song of the Year
- New wave ballads
- Rock ballads
- UK Singles Chart number-one singles
- Music videos directed by Godley and Creme
- The Police songs
- Song recordings produced by Hugh Padgham
- Mason Dixon (band) songs
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| - %22Every Breath You Take%22 is a song by English rock band The Police on the band's 1983 album Synchronicity. Written by Sting, the single was the biggest hit of 1983, topping the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart for eight weeks (the band's only No. 1 hit on that chart), and the UK Singles Chart for four weeks. It also topped the Billboard Top Tracks chart for nine weeks.At the 26th Annual Grammy Awards the song was nominated for three Grammy Awards including Song of the Year, Record of the Year, and Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals. Sting won Song of the Year while The Police won Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals; however, it did not win Record of the Year. Songwriter Sting received the 1983 British Academy's Ivor Novello award for Best Song Musically and Lyrically.The song ranked No. 84 on the Rolling Stone list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time, the highest position of any new wave rock song. It also ranked No. 25 on Billboard's Hot 100 All-Time Top Songs. The song is considered to be both The Police's and Sting's signature song, and in 2010 was estimated to generate between a quarter and a third of Sting's music publishing income. In the 1983 Rolling Stone critics and readers poll, it was voted %22Song of the Year%22. In the US, it was the best-selling single of 1983 and fifth best-selling single of the decade. Billboard ranked it as the No. 1 song for 1983. In 2015 the song was voted by the British public as the nation's favourite 1980s number one in a poll for ITV.
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| - December 1982 at AIR Studios, Montserrat for basic tracks, then January–February 1983 at Le Studio, Quebec, Canada for overdubs and mixing
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| - The Police:Every Breath You Take
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