Queen of the Broken Hearts

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"Queen of the Broken Hearts"
Single by Loverboy
from the album Keep It Up
Released1983 (1983)
Length3:48
Label Columbia
Songwriter(s) Paul Dean, Mike Reno
Producer(s) Bruce Fairbairn
Loverboy singles chronology
"Hot Girls in Love"
(1983)
"Queen of the Broken Hearts"
(1983)
"Lovin' Every Minute of It"
(1985)

"Queen of the Broken Hearts" is a song featured on the 1983 album Keep It Up by the Canadian rock band Loverboy. The song was released as a single later that year, reaching #34 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #11 on the Mainstream Rock Chart. Despite being a relatively successful hit for the band, the song has not been included on the two main compilation albums released by the band; Big Ones (1989) and Loverboy Classics (1994).

<i>Keep It Up</i> 1983 studio album by Loverboy

Keep it Up was the third album released by the rock band Loverboy in late June 1983. With new hit tracks like "Hot Girls in Love", the album became an instant hit, and reached #7 on the charts, as did the previous album released by the band.

Loverboy Canadian rock group

Loverboy is a Canadian rock band formed in 1979 in Calgary, Alberta. Loverboy's hit singles, particularly "Turn Me Loose" and "Working for the Weekend", have become arena rock staples and are still heard on many classic rock and classic hits radio stations across Canada and the United States. The band is based in Vancouver, British Columbia.

<i>Big Ones</i> (Loverboy album) 1989 greatest hits album by Loverboy

Big Ones was a compilation album released in 1989 by the Canadian rock band Loverboy. The album was the band's first compilation, including hit tracks such as "Working for the Weekend" and "Lovin' Every Minute of it". It was also released in the same year that the band decided to break up a second time, and another compilation would not be released until five years later.

The video for "Queen of the Broken Hearts" was the subject of an MTV contest in the summer of 1983, in which an MTV viewer won the chance to "star" in Loverboy's next video. The contest was won by a woman named Bridget Magnesi, who appeared very briefly in two shots, behind a bank of computer monitors about 15 seconds into the video.

MTV American pay television channel

MTV is an American pay television channel launched on August 1, 1981 based in New York City that serves as the flagship property of the Viacom Media Networks division of Viacom headquartered in New York City.

The video was shot at Bronson Canyon in Los Angeles, where the desert, rock formations, and caves were utilized extensively for a number of popular science fiction television series and many B-movies dating from the early 1950s.

Charts

Chart (1983)Peak
position
US Billboard Hot 100 [1] 34
US Mainstream Rock ( Billboard ) [2] 11

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