Simply Irresistible (song)

"Simply Irresistible"
UK 7-inch vinyl variant of the standard artwork
Single by Robert Palmer
from the album Heavy Nova
B-side"Nova"
Released31 May 1988 (1988-05-31)[1]
StudioLugano, Switzerland
GenreRock[2]
Length4:14
LabelEMI
Songwriter(s)Robert Palmer
Producer(s)Robert Palmer
Robert Palmer singles chronology
"Sweet Lies"
(1988) 		"Simply Irresistible"
(1988) 		"She Makes My Day"
(1988)
Music video
"Simply Irresistible" on YouTube

"Simply Irresistible" is a song by English rock singer Robert Palmer, released as the lead single from his ninth studio album, Heavy Nova in May 1988. The song reached No. 2 on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart and topped the Billboard Album Rock Tracks chart for three weeks. It earned Palmer his second Grammy Award the following year, and the song was nominated for the Brit Award for Best British Single.[3] Cash Box called the song a "hard charging power-guitar fueled rocker".[4]

Music video

The music video was directed by British fashion photographer Terence Donovan and shows Palmer surrounded by numerous women, all with the same heavy makeup and sweptback hair style. The video features women that Palmer met while visiting the Kentucky Derby (Karen Aubrey McElfresh, Kim Jones, Cheryl Day and Betty-Jo Cox).

Charts

Weekly charts

Chart (1988) Peak
position
Australia (ARIA)[5] 1
Canada Top Singles (RPM)[6] 2
Canada Dance/Urban (RPM)[7] 17
New Zealand (Recorded Music NZ)[8] 6
UK Singles (OCC)[9] 44
US Billboard Hot 100[10] 2
US Mainstream Rock (Billboard)[11] 1
West Germany (GfK)[12] 57

Year-end charts

Chart (1988) Position
Australia (ARIA)[13] 2
Canada Top Singles (RPM)[14] 12
US Billboard Hot 100[15][16] 23
US Album Rock Tracks (Billboard)[17] 19

References

  1. ^ "New Singles" (PDF). Music Week. 28 May 1988. p. 31.
  2. ^ Breihan, Tom (4 December 2020). "The Number Ones: Robert Palmer's 'Addicted to Love'". Stereogum. Retrieved 24 September 2023. In 1988, Palmer again reached #2 with his sleek rocker 'Simply Irresistible'.
  3. ^ BRITs Profile: Robert Palmer Archived 23 June 2014 at the Wayback Machine. Brits.co.uk. Retrieved 14 April 2012
  4. ^ "Single Releases" (PDF). Cash Box. 25 June 1988. p. 9. Retrieved 21 December 2022.
  5. ^ "Robert Palmer – Simply Irresistible". ARIA Top 50 Singles.
  6. ^ "Top RPM Singles: Issue 5338." RPM. Library and Archives Canada.
  7. ^ "Top RPM Dance/Urban: Issue 8733." RPM. Library and Archives Canada.
  8. ^ "Robert Palmer – Simply Irresistible". Top 40 Singles.
  9. ^ "Official Singles Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company.
  10. ^ "Robert Palmer Chart History (Hot 100)". Billboard.
  11. ^ "Robert Palmer Chart History (Mainstream Rock)". Billboard. Retrieved 19 August 2025.
  12. ^ "Offiziellecharts.de – Robert Palmer – Simply Irresistible" (in German). GfK Entertainment charts.
  13. ^ "ARIA Top 50 Singles for 1988". Australian Recording Industry Association. Retrieved 9 June 2022.
  14. ^ "Top 100 Singles of '88" (PDF). RPM. p. 9. Retrieved 6 March 2025 – via 3345.ca.
  15. ^ "No. 1 Awards: Top Pop Singles". Billboard. Vol. 100, no. 52. 24 December 1988. p. Y-20.
  16. ^ "Billboard Top 100 – 1988". Retrieved 3 October 2016.
  17. ^ "No. 1 Awards: Top Album Rock Tracks". Billboard. Vol. 100, no. 52. 24 December 1988. p. Y-22.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.