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“Love is a Stranger” by Eurythmics

From the album Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) (1983)

“Love is a Stranger” by Eurythmics appears on 18 radio countdowns from 8 stations between 1983 and 2026. It was first released in 1983 on the album Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This). Its best result is #62 on the KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 1983. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #112 alternative song of 1983 and #1,437 alternative song of all time.

18countdowns

8stations

#62best position

0#1 finishes

0top 10 finishes

1983–2026years charted

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Eurythmics, Annie Lennox, Dave Stewart - Love Is a Stranger (Official Video)

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"Love Is a Stranger" opens Eurythmics' 1983 album Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This), though it first slipped out as a single in October 1982 and stalled outside the UK top 50. Second time round, in 1983, it went top 20 in several countries and reached number six in Britain.

Annie Lennox and Dave Stewart wrote it together, and Stewart produced it with Adam Williams, the pair engineering alongside Robert Crash. It's synth-pop with ice in its veins, a cool, pulsing machine groove under a vocal that sounds seductive and aloof at the same time, and it hasn't lost its chill. It was reissued once more in 1991 to promote the duo's Greatest Hits.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.

RockLists rankings

Alternative & Modern Rock

Indie & Adult Alternative

#3,619 of all time

All Rock Formats

Year-end countdowns

Year	#	Station	Countdown	of
1983	62	KROQ Los Angeles, CA	KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 1983	107

All-time and decade countdowns

Year	#	Station	Countdown	of
1989	419	WOXY 97X	WOXY Modern Rock 500 (1989)	500
1990	258	Live 105	Live 105 Top 300 Songs of All-Time (Memorial Day 1990)	299
1991	83	Live 105	Live 105 Top 300 Songs of All-Time (Memorial Day 1991)	302
1991	127	WOXY 97X	WOXY Modern Rock 500 (1991)	500
1992	122	Live 105	Live 105 Top 300 Songs of All-Time (Memorial Day 1992)	299
1994	259	WOXY 97X	WOXY Modern Rock 500 (1994)	500
1996	360	Q101	Q101 Top 500 Songs of All-Time (1996)	500
1996	242	WOXY 97X	WOXY Modern Rock 500 (1996)	498
1999	385	WOXY 97X	WOXY Modern Rock 500 (1999)	500
1999	708	CFNY 102.1 The Edge	CFNY Top 1002 Songs of All-Time (November 1999)	1002
2001	263	Virgin Radio	Virgin Radio Top 500 Songs of All-Time (December 2001)	500
2002	723	Fred (XM 44)	Fred XM Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (July 2002)	2002
2003	984	Fred (XM 44)	Fred XM Top 2044 Songs of All-Time (July 2003)	2044
2005	354	Virgin Radio	Virgin Radio Top 500 Songs of All-Time (December 2005)	500
2006	289	Virgin Radio	Virgin Radio Top 500 Songs of All-Time (December 2006)	500
2024	778	WYEP	WYEP Best Songs of the Past 50 Years	1049
2026	607	WYEP	WYEP Greatest Songs of All Time	1180

Also listed as: Love Is A Stranger; Love Is a Stranger.

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