Karma Chameleon
"Karma Chameleon" is a song by English band Culture Club, featured on the group's 1983 album Colour by Numbers. The single was released in the United Kingdom in September 1983 and became the second Culture Club single to reach the top of the UK Singles Chart, after "Do You Really Want to Hurt Me". The record stayed at number one for six weeks and became the UK's biggest-selling single of the year 1983, selling 1.39 million copies (according to Official chart by Gallup 1983 and according to BPI UK platinum certificate October 1983).To date, it is the 38th-biggest-selling single of all time in the UK, selling over 1.52 million copies.
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| Single by Culture Club | ||||
| from the album Colour by Numbers | ||||
| B-side | "That's the Way (I'm Only Trying to Help You)" | |||
| Released | 5 September 1983 | |||
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| Label | Virgin | |||
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| Producer(s) | Steve Levine | |||
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It also spent three weeks at number one on the US Billboard Hot 100 in early 1984, becoming the group's biggest hit and only US number-one single among their many top-10 hits. The single sold over 7 million copies globally. In 2015, the song was voted by the British public as the nation's ninth favourite 1980s number one in a poll for ITV.