"Simply Irresistible" | ||||
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![]() UK 7-inch vinyl variant of the standard artwork | ||||
Single by Robert Palmer | ||||
from the album Heavy Nova | ||||
B-side | "Nova" | |||
Released | 31 May 1988 [1] | |||
Studio | Lugano, Switzerland | |||
Genre | Rock [2] | |||
Length | 4:14 | |||
Label | EMI | |||
Songwriter(s) | Robert Palmer | |||
Producer(s) | Robert Palmer | |||
Robert Palmer singles chronology | ||||
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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]
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).[ citation needed ]
Chart (1988) | Peak position |
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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 |
Chart (1988) | Position |
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Australia (ARIA) [13] | 2 |
Canada Top Singles (RPM) [14] | 12 |
US Billboard Hot 100 [15] [16] | 23 |
US Album Rock Tracks (Billboard) [17] | 19 |
In 1988, Palmer again reached #2 with his sleek rocker 'Simply Irresistible'.