Love Is a Battlefield

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"Love Is a Battlefield"
Pat Benatar Love is a Battlefield.jpg
US 7-inch picture sleeve
Single by Pat Benatar
from the album Live from Earth
B-side "Hell Is for Children" (live version) [1]
ReleasedSeptember 12, 1983
Recorded1983
Studio MCA Whitney (Glendale, California)
Genre Dance-rock [2]
Length5:23 (album version)
4:11 (single edit)
Label Chrysalis
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)
Pat Benatar singles chronology
"Looking for a Stranger"
(1983)
"Love Is a Battlefield"
(1983)
"We Belong"
(1984)
Audio sample

Certifications

Certifications for "Love Is a Battlefield"
RegionCertification Certified units/sales
Canada (Music Canada) [10] Gold50,000^
United Kingdom (BPI) [40] Silver200,000
United States (RIAA) [41] Gold500,000^

^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.
Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

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