![]() Into The Light by Chris de Burgh Label: A&M Catalog Number: A&M CD 5121 Year Released: 1986 Total Playing Time: 50:36 reviewed by Steven Lynch |
Comments: The single, "The Lady In Red" was Chris'
biggest hit in the USA, as well as around the globe so it is no surprise it is from this
smash hit album. Into The Light was his second to last album to be released in the states.
As if to prove wrong all the doubters who say he is only popular BECAUSE of TLIR, the
album was in the charts a long time before TLIR became a UK number 1 hit(August 1986), and
the single was falling in the chart by the time this album made the UK number 1 spot.
"The Leader", "The Vision", and "What About Me?" were all
written separately, but when Chris was laying down tracks for "Into The Light"
he noticed that they all seemed to go together. Thus, on the album, they're all sung
together as three parts of the same song.
| Date | Position | Comment |
|---|---|---|
| 7th June 1986 | 39 | New Entry |
| 14th June | 8 | A Massive Rise |
| 21st June | 8 | |
| 28th June | 12 | |
| 5th July | 18 | Fan Purchases Waning |
| 12th July | 14 | |
| 19th July | 13 | deBurgh's Albums never go up again surely... |
| 26th July | 11 | Slowly But Surely, folks are catching on |
| 2nd August | 3 | Looking Promising |
| 9th August | 2 | Only Madonna is in the way.... |
| 16th August | 2 | and she's still in the way with True Blue |
| 23rd August | 1 | He made it! |
| 30th August | 4 | Removed by Now That's What I Call Music 7 |
| 6th September | 5 | |
| 13th September | 6 | |
| 20th September | 13 | |
| 27th September | 12 | |
| 4th October | 16 | |
| 11th October | 13 | |
| 18th October | 15 | |
| 25th October | 18 | |
| 1st November | 24 | |
| 8th November | 48 | A total of 23 weeks in the chart, 9 of those in the top 10, 1 week at number 1 |