"Time"
Single by The Alan Parsons Project
from the album The Turn of a Friendly Card
B-side"The Gold Bug"
ReleasedApril 1981 (U.S.)
August 1981 (UK)
GenreSoft rock
Length5:04
4:11 (single version)
LabelArista
Songwriter(s)Alan Parsons, Eric Woolfson
Producer(s)Alan Parsons, Eric Woolfson
The Alan Parsons Project singles chronology
"Games People Play"
(1980) 		"Time"
(1981) 		"Snake Eyes"
(1981)
Music video
"Time" on YouTube

"Time" is a song released in 1981 as a single by the Alan Parsons Project. It was from their 1980 album The Turn of a Friendly Card. In the U.S., the song peaked at No. 15 on the Billboard Hot 100.[1] On the U.S. Adult Contemporary chart, "Time" peaked at #10.[2] In addition, "Time" spent two weeks at #14 on Cash Box, making it the group's second most successful single ("Don't Answer Me" from 1984 also reached No. 15 on the Hot 100, but reached No. 17 on Cash Box).[3] Cash Box ranked it as the 94th biggest hit of 1981.[4] Outside the US, the song peaked at #30 in Canada.[5]

The song was the first Alan Parsons Project song (and single) to feature Eric Woolfson as lead vocalist, and one of the group's few songs in which Alan Parsons's own voice can be heard singing (background/counterpoint vocals).

Chart history

References

  1. ^ "Music: Top 100 Songs". Billboard. Retrieved 11 July 2016.
  2. ^ Whitburn, Joel (2002). Top Adult Contemporary: 1961-2001. Record Research. p. 190.
  3. ^ "Top 100 1981-08-15". Cashbox Magazine. Archived from the original on 22 February 2020. Retrieved 2016-07-11.
  4. ^ "Top 100 Year End Charts: 1981". Cashbox Magazine. Archived from the original on 18 September 2012. Retrieved 2016-07-19.
  5. ^ "RPM Top 100 Singles - September 18, 1981" (PDF).
  6. ^ "RPM Top 100 Singles - September 18, 1981" (PDF).
  7. ^ Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles 1955–1990 - ISBN 0-89820-089-X
  8. ^ Whitburn, Joel (1993). Top Adult Contemporary: 1961–1993. Record Research. p. 184.
  9. ^ Cash Box Top 100 Singles, August 15, 1981
  10. ^ "Number One Awards – Billboard's 1981 Year-End Charts : Pop Singles". Billboard. Vol. 93, no. 51. 26 December 1981. p. YE-9. Retrieved 5 April 2020.
  11. ^ Cash Box Year-End Charts: Top 100 Pop Singles, December 26, 1981

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