Album · Scorpions
Blackout by Scorpions
Blackout is an album by Scorpions, released in 1982. 6 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 104 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “No One Like You”, on 87 lists with a best position of #13.
Blackout, the Scorpions' eighth studio album, came out on Harvest and EMI in 1982, with Dieter Dierks producing, and it's the German band at full throttle. This is the classic lineup, Klaus Meine singing, Rudolf Schenker and Matthias Jabs on guitars, Francis Buchholz on bass and Herman Rarebell on drums, and they'd been sharpening their hard rock toward something sleeker and more melodic since Lovedrive.
The guitars come in hard and gleaming, Meine hits the high notes like a man with something to prove, and "No One Like You" shows how well they could marry muscle to a hook big enough for American radio. It paid off: the album went gold in the US in June 1982 and platinum by March 1984, and a 2017 ranking of the greatest metal albums put it at number 73. Love at First Sting was next.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Blackout on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No One Like You#206 of all time | 87 | #13 | – | 1990–2026 | |
| 2 | Blackout | 7 | #97 | – | 1990–2002 | |
| 3 | Chinawhite | 6 | #490 | – | 1990–1999 | |
| 4 | Can't Live Without You | 2 | #360 | – | 1990–2010 | |
| 5 | You Give Me All I Need | 1 | #725 | – | 1990 | |
| 6 | Dynamite | 1 | #939 | – | 1990 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.