Total Eclipse of the Heart

"Total Eclipse of the Heart" is a song recorded by Welsh singer Bonnie Tyler. It was written and produced by Jim Steinman, and released on Tyler's fifth studio album, Faster Than the Speed of Night (1983). The song was released as a single by CBS/Columbia in 1983.

"Total Eclipse of the Heart"
Picture sleeve of UK and some European releases
Single by Bonnie Tyler
from the album Faster Than the Speed of Night
B-side
Released11 February 1983 (UK)
12 June 1983 (US)
Recorded1982
StudioPower Station, New York City
GenrePop rock
Length
  • 6:58 (album version)
  • 4:30 (single version)
Label
Songwriter(s)Jim Steinman
Producer(s)Jim Steinman
Bonnie Tyler singles chronology
"Sayonara Tokyo"
(1981)
"Total Eclipse of the Heart"
(1983)
"Take Me Back"
(1983)
Music video
"Total Eclipse of the Heart" on YouTube

The song became Tyler's biggest career hit, topping the UK Singles Chart, and becoming the fifth-best-selling single in 1983 in the United Kingdom. In the United States, the single spent four weeks at the top of the charts, keeping another Steinman penned song "Making Love Out of Nothing at All" by Air Supply from reaching the top spot (a song Tyler would later cover in 1995), and it was Billboard's number-six song of the year for 1983. The song was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance.

Worldwide, the single has sales in excess of six million copies and was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for sales of over one million copies after its release, updated to platinum in 2001 when the certification threshold changed. In 2015, the song was voted by the British public as the nation's third favourite 1980s number one in a poll for ITV.

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