Friday, August 16, 2019

Set your hopes up way too high

The Living Daylights - UK cinema poster.jpg
Quad poster for The Living Daylights
Long before the proliferation of suburban multiplexes, and when film piracy was less of a problem, major studios often staggered their biggest film releases around the world. Summer blockbusters released during the northern hemisphere summer were released in the southern hemisphere until the southern hemisphere summer.

The Living Daylights was Timothy Dalton's debut appearance as James Bond. The theme song to the James Bond movie of the same name, performed by Norwegian pop trio A-ha, in Australia it was released months before the movie, which wasn't released there until November 1987. Arguably, this is one of the reasons why it wasn't much of a hit in the Australian singles charts, peaking at number 29 later that same month. It would have made more sense to release the movie and the song simultaneously. It was a bigger hit in the UK, where this was done,  it peaked at number 5.

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https://rateyourmusic.com/list/jwjstone/australian_top_50_singles___aria_chart___week_ending_16_august_1987/

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