Song · Duran Duran
“New Moon On Monday” by Duran Duran
From the album Seven and the Ragged Tiger (1983)
“New Moon On Monday” by Duran Duran appears on 3 radio countdowns from 3 stations between 1984 and 2021. It was first released in 1983 on the album Seven and the Ragged Tiger. Its best result is #67 on the KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 1984. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #129 alternative song of 1984 and #4,914 alternative song of all time.
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"New Moon on Monday" was the second single lifted from Seven and the Ragged Tiger, Duran Duran's third album, and all five members share the writing credit: Simon Le Bon, Nick Rhodes, Andy Taylor, John Taylor and Roger Taylor. The band produced it with Alex Sadkin and Ian Little, with Pete Schwier and Phil Thornalley engineering.
It's glossy, restless and oddly lonely underneath all that sparkle, a mood Cash Box picked up on at the time, and it kept the hit machine humming, going to number nine in Britain and ten on the Billboard Hot 100 early in 1984. Brian Grant filmed the video in Noyers, a village in France, early on 7 December 1983.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
Indie & Adult Alternative
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1984 | 67 | KROQ Los Angeles, CA | KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 1984 | 106 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 365 | Q101 | Q101 Top 1,011 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) | 1017 |
| 2021 | 457 | 90.9 The Bridge | 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the '80s | 909 |
Also listed as: New Moon on Monday.
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