Stuck On You – Lionel Richie

This track by Lionel Richie spent ten weeks in the UK top 40 in 1984.

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Thirty years ago this week, Stuck on you by Lionel Richie reached its highest position of number 12 in the UK singles chart, having entered the top 40 two weeks previously at number 34. After one week at its peak position, the song spent another seven weeks in the top 40 and then left the chart.

Stuck on you was released on the Motown record label and was the sixth of twenty top 40 hits for Lionel Richie in the UK. It was taken from the triple-platinum-selling album Can’t slow down, which spent three weeks at the top of the UK album chart and was a US number 1.

A second version of the song also entered the UK chart in 1984. Trevor Walters’ cover version peaked at number 9.

More music from Lionel Richie

 

UK singles chart for the week ending 7 July 1984

1. Two tribes – Frankie Goes To Hollywood

2. Relax – Frankie Goes To Hollywood

3. I won’t let the sun go down on me – Nik Kershaw

4. Time after time – Cyndi Lauper

5. Breakin’… there’s no stopping us – Ollie and Jerry

6. Jump (for my love) – Pointer Sisters

7. Smalltown boy – Bronski Beat

8. Farewell my summer love – Michael Jackson

9. Wake me up before you go go – Wham!

10. White lines (don’t don’t do it) – Grandmaster Flash and Melle Mel

 

12. Stuck on you – Lionel Richie