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Hot in the Shade by Kiss
Hot in the Shade is an album by Kiss, released in 1989. 3 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 3 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Forever”, on 1 list with a best position of #610.
Hot in the Shade, the 15th studio album from Kiss, hit the racks on Mercury in October 1989, deep in the band's unmasked years, with Paul Stanley in the producer's chair. After the keyboard gloss of 1987's Crazy Nights, the synths get shoved to the back and the riffs do the talking: Stanley and Gene Simmons trading lead vocals, Bruce Kulick on guitar, Eric Carr pounding the kit.
Carr steps up to the mic himself on "Little Caesar", the first time since 1981's Music From "The Elder" that a Kiss album let somebody other than Stanley or Simmons sing lead. It turned out to be the last full Kiss record with Carr, who died in November 1991 while the band was at work on Revenge. The big one was "Forever", a power ballad Stanley wrote with Michael Bolton, which climbed to number 8 on the Billboard Hot 100 in April 1990, the biggest US hit of the band's makeup-free era.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Hot in the Shade on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Forever | 1 | #610 | – | 1990 | |
| 2 | Hide Your Heart | 1 | #759 | – | 1990 | |
| 3 | Rise to It | 1 | #811 | – | 1990 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.