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It's a Miracle (Culture Club song)

"It's a Miracle" is the fifth and final single from new wave band Culture Club's 1983 Colour by Numbers album. The song became the group's sixth hit on the UK Singles Chart, peaking at number 4. It reached number 13 on the US Billboard Hot 100, and number 5 in Canada.

"It's a Miracle"
Single by Culture Club
from the album Colour by Numbers
B-side
  • "Love Twist (live)" (7-inch)
    "Melting Pot (live)" (12-inch)
Released16 March 1984 (UK)
May 12, 1984 (US)
Recorded1983
GenreNew wave
Length3:25
LabelVirgin Records
Epic Records (US)
Songwriter(s)Boy George, Roy Hay, Mikey Craig, Jon Moss, Phil Pickett
Producer(s)Steve Levine
Culture Club singles chronology
"Miss Me Blind"
(1984)
"It's a Miracle"
(1984)
"The War Song"
(1984)

The B-side of the 7-inch single is a live rendition of "Love Twist", a song from the group's first album. It was recorded in December 1983. An additional live track, "Melting Pot" (a cover of the song by the group Blue Mink), from the same show was available on the 12-inch single.

Reception edit

Cash Box called the song "a perfect example of British adopted American R&B."[1]

Music video edit

The music video features the band playing around on a circular board with various Monopoly spaces placed around the edges. Interspersed with these are clips from previous Culture Club music videos.

Track listing edit

Released at least in UK, Canada, USA, Australia, France, Germany, Spain

A. "It's a Miracle"
B. "Love Twist (Live)"

Released in Peru and Ecuador

A. "It's a Miracle"
B. "Miss Me Blind"

12-inch edit

Released at least in UK, Australia, Japan, Germany, Portugal, Spain, El Salvador

A1. "It's a Miracle/Miss Me Blind (Multimix)"
B1. "Love Twist (Live)"
B2. "Melting Pot (Live)"

Chart performance edit

The song became the group's sixth top-five hit on the UK Singles Chart, peaking at number four.[2] It reached number thirteen on the US Billboard Hot 100.[3] and number 16 on the Canadian RPM chart.[4] It also reached number eight on the U.S. Adult Contemporary chart[5] and number two on the Canadian Adult Contemporary chart.[6]

Weekly charts edit

Chart (1984) Peak
position
Australia (Kent Music Report)[7] 14
Canada 5
United Kingdom[2] 4
United States (Billboard 200) 13

Year-end charts edit

Chart (1984) Position
Australia (Kent Music Report)[7] 95

Appearances edit

The song was first called "It's America", relating to Culture Club's first trip to the United States. It was later changed.[8]

The song appears as a cover in Dance Dance Revolution Extreme as "Miracle."

References edit

  1. ^ "Reviews" (PDF). Cash Box. 12 May 1984. p. 12. Retrieved 23 July 2022.
  2. ^ a b Official Charts Company
  3. ^ . Billboard. Archived from the original on 14 October 2018. Retrieved 2 May 2017.
  4. ^ "Image : RPM Weekly". www.bac-lac.gc.ca. 17 July 2013. Retrieved 18 July 2022.
  5. ^ Whitburn, Joel (1993). Top Adult Contemporary: 1961–1993. Record Research. p. 62.
  6. ^ "Item Display - RPM - Library and Archives Canada". Collectionscanada.gc.ca. 14 July 1984. Retrieved 15 April 2019.
  7. ^ a b "Kent Music Report No 548 – 31 December 1984 > National Top 100 Singles for 1984". Kent Music Report. Retrieved 23 January 2023 – via Imgur.com.
  8. ^ "It's America" (Early 1983 Live performance) on YouTube


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