"86.0"^^ . "Singles certified silver by the Syndicat National de l'\u00C9dition Phonographique" . "413" . "GBAMS8500203" . . "eng" . "912548" . "Elton John songs" . "12"^^ . "Elton John" . . "343000.0"^^ . "Silver" . . . "2008-01-28"^^ . "1985" . "Songs with lyrics by Bernie Taupin" . . . "ad6aa0fa-5d1e-462e-bdaf-5f946751248b" . "false"^^ . "%22Nikita%22 is a song by English singer Elton John about the Cold War from his 1985 album Ice on Fire. Released late in the year, the song was successful in many countries and was a top ten hit in almost all of them. The song may have inspired a sudden increase in the popularity of the name for newborn girls in the United States, where it spiked to the 250th most popular name in 1986, rising from rank 800 to 900 in years prior. Ironically, 'Nikita' was and still is an exclusively male name in its country of origin, Russia." . "Gramophone record" . . "Songs with music by Elton John" . "Nikita" . "english" . "-0.16335"^^ . "-0.0946336"^^ . "CD single" . "Number-one singles in Switzerland" . "Geffen Records" . "1985 singles" . . "-14.3"^^ . "Number-one singles in Germany" . "false"^^ . "Bernie Taupin" . "Soft rock songs" . . "European Hot 100 Singles number-one singles" . "false"^^ . . . "1985-10-29"^^ . "2"^^ . "Dutch Top 40 number-one singles" . "Plagiarism controversies" . "Gus Dudgeon" . "The Rocket Record Company" . "5714dece25ac0d8aee40db44" . "606128"^^ . "Irish Singles Chart number-one singles" . "Number-one singles in New Zealand" . "Berlin Wall" . "Nikita" . . .