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“Turn Up the Radio” by Autograph
From the album Sign in Please (1984)
“Turn Up the Radio” by Autograph appears on 35 radio countdowns from 20 stations between 1990 and 2026. It was first released in 1984 on the album Sign in Please. Its best result is #79 on the KSLX Arizona 500 (2022). In the combined RockLists rankings it is #733 classic rock song of all time.
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"Turn Up the Radio" was the lead single from Sign in Please, Autograph's 1984 debut on RCA, a glam-metal anthem whose title doubles as its whole manifesto. Neil Kernon produced it, and Steve Plunkett, Steve Lynch, Randy Rand, Steven Isham and Keni Richards share the writing credit.
MTV played the video hard, and that exposure pushed the single to 29 on the Billboard Hot 100 in early 1985 and helped the album go gold. It proved to be the band's one real brush with the mainstream, which has left Autograph filed among the one-hit wonders, but the song keeps its place in the hair-metal pantheon: Louder's Sleazegrinder counted it among the 20 greatest hair metal anthems.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
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Also listed as: Turn Up The Radio; Turn up the Radio.
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