Album · Erasure
Wild! by Erasure
Wild! is an album by Erasure, released in 1989. 4 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 15 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Star”, on 6 lists with a best position of #37.
Wild!, Erasure's fourth album, came out on Mute in October 1989, with Sire handling America, and it caught Andy Bell and Vince Clarke on a roll: Best British Group at the Brit Awards that year, and a number-one album already behind them in The Innocents. Singer and songwriter Bell and Clarke, the keyboard man who had co-founded Depeche Mode and Yazoo, produced it themselves with Gareth Jones and Mark Saunders.
Clarke's synths glitter and bounce, Bell reaches for the big, heart-on-sleeve moments, and the singles cover the whole spread: the jittery "Drama!", the balmy sway of "Blue Savannah" and the euphoric rush of "Star". Wild! went to number one in the UK too, the second in a run of five straight chart-topping albums there.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Wild! on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Star | 6 | #37 | – | 1990–2003 | |
| 2 | Drama | 4 | #23 | – | 1989–1991 | |
| 3 | Blue Savannah | 4 | #45 | – | 1990–1991 | |
| 4 | Brother and Sister | 1 | #84 | – | 1989 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.