"Don't Stop Believin" is the title track from
the 1976 album by
Olivia Newton-John
Dame Olivia Newton-John (26 September 1948 – 8 August 2022) was a British-Australian singer, actress and activist. She was a four-time Grammy Award winner whose music career included 15 top-ten singles, including 5 number-one singles on the ...
. Written and composed specifically for Newton-John by
John Farrar
John Clifford Farrar ( ; born 8 November 1946) is an Australian music producer, songwriter, arranger, singer, and guitarist. As a musician, Farrar is a former member of several rock and roll groups including The Mustangs (1963–64), The Stra ...
. It was released in August 1976 as the album's lead single. It peaked at number thirty-three on the
''Billboard'' Hot 100. It was her seventh number one on the
Easy Listening
Easy listening (including mood music) is a popular music genre and radio format that was most popular during the 1950s to 1970s. It is related to middle-of-the-road (MOR) music and encompasses instrumental recordings of standards, hit songs, n ...
chart, spending one week at the top of the chart in September 1976. The single also went to number fourteen on the country chart.
Newton-John re-recorded the track for her 2005 album ''
Stronger Than Before''. She also titled her 2019 memoir after the song.
Juliana Hatfield
Juliana Hatfield (born July 27, 1967) is an American musician and singer-songwriter from the Boston area, formerly of the indie rock bands Blake Babies, Some Girls, and The Lemonheads. She also fronted her own band, The Juliana Hatfield Three, ...
covered the song on her album ''
Juliana Hatfield Sings Olivia Newton-John
''Juliana Hatfield Sings Olivia Newton-John'' is the sixteenth studio album by American singer-songwriter Juliana Hatfield. It was released on April 13, 2018, by American Laundromat Records. It's a tribute album to Australian singer Olivia Newto ...
''.
Track listing
# "Don't Stop Believin'" – 3:39
# "Greensleeves" – 3:42
Charts
See also
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List of number-one adult contemporary singles of 1976 (U.S.)
Adult Contemporary is a chart published by ''Billboard'' ranking the top-performing songs in the United States in the adult contemporary music (AC) market. In 1976, 40 singles topped the chart, then published under the title Easy Listening. Th ...
References
External links
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1976 songs
1976 singles
Olivia Newton-John songs
Songs written by John Farrar
Song recordings produced by John Farrar
MCA Records singles
EMI Records singles
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