Album · Sting
…Nothing Like the Sun by Sting
…Nothing Like the Sun is an album by Sting, released in 1987. 4 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 20 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “We'll Be Together”, on 11 lists with a best position of #24.
...Nothing Like the Sun, Sting's second solo album, arrived on A&M in 1987 as a double LP, the work of a man who had left the Police behind and now wanted to try everything at once. He produced it himself, with Bryan Loren and Neil Dorfsman lending a hand, cutting the songs between March and August at AIR Studios on Montserrat, and he called in a heavyweight guitar bench: old Police partner Andy Summers, Eric Clapton, Mark Knopfler and Hiram Bullock.
What comes out is sleek, grown-up and restless, with jazz, reggae, funk and world music folded into smooth pop rock, the polish of his early solo years at its most complete. "We'll Be Together" struts, "Fragile" hushes the room and "Englishman in New York" saunters, and all three went out as singles along with "Be Still My Beating Heart" and "They Dance Alone". It was named Best British Album at the 1988 Brits, and the next year it drew an Album of the Year nomination at the Grammys.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from …Nothing Like the Sun on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | We'll Be Together | 11 | #24 | – | 1987–2004 | |
| 2 | Fragile | 4 | #23 | – | 1988–2020 | |
| 3 | Englishman in New York | 3 | #308 | – | 2001–2023 | |
| 4 | Be Still My Beating Heart | 1 | #82 | – | 1988 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.