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“Always on My Mind” by Pet Shop Boys

From the EP In Depth (1989)

“Always on My Mind” by Pet Shop Boys appears on 17 radio countdowns from 7 stations between 1988 and 2024. It was first released in 1989 on the EP In Depth. Its best result is #7 on the Live 105 Top 105.3 Songs of 1988. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #36 alternative song of 1988, #1,908 alternative song of all time and #179 of the '80s.

17countdowns

7stations

#7best position

0#1 finishes

1top 10 finishes

1988–2024years charted

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Pet Shop Boys took "Always on My Mind", a ballad by Wayne Carson, Johnny Christopher and Mark James that had already been a hit for Elvis Presley and Willie Nelson, and wired it straight into the disco mains. Their hi-NRG synth-pop reading trades the slow-dance tenderness of those versions for sequencers pumping at full tilt, turning a country weeper into a floor-filler without losing the ache in the melody.

It went to number one in the UK and into the US top ten. AllMusic tallies over 300 releases of this song by all comers, and few sound anything like this one.

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

RockLists rankings

Alternative & Modern Rock

Indie & Adult Alternative

#470 of the '80s

All Rock Formats

Year-end countdowns

Year	#	Station	Countdown	of
1988	18	KROQ Los Angeles, CA	KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 1988	107
1988	7	Live 105 San Francisco, CA	Live 105 Top 105.3 Songs of 1988	106

All-time and decade countdowns

Year	#	Station	Countdown	of
–	126	WLIR / WDRE	WLIR Top 200 Songs of the 1980s	200
1988	75	Live 105	Live 105 Top 500 Songs of All-Time (Memorial Day 1988)	501
1988	80	WLIR / WDRE	WLIR Top 200 Songs of All-Time (1988)	200
1989	365	KROQ	KROQ Flashback 500 (Memorial Day 1989)	495
1990	46	Live 105	Live 105 Top 300 Songs of All-Time (Memorial Day 1990)	299
1991	418	CFNY 102.1 The Edge	CFNY Top 1002 Songs of All-Time (1991 Edition)	1002
1992	212	Live 105	Live 105 Top 300 Songs of All-Time (Memorial Day 1992)	299
1995	146	Live 105	Live 105 Revolutionary 300 (July 1995)	300
1996	448	KROQ	KROQ Flashback 500 (Memorial Day 1996)	500
1999	242	WLIR / WDRE	WLIR Top 300 Songs of All-Time (December 1999)	300
2002	1665	Fred (XM 44)	Fred XM Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (July 2002)	2002
2003	1391	Fred (XM 44)	Fred XM Top 2044 Songs of All-Time (July 2003)	2044
2021	522	90.9 The Bridge	90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the '80s	909
2023	471	The Colorado Sound	The Colorado Sound Top 850 Songs of the 1980s	850
2024	65	The Colorado Sound	The Colorado Sound Top 850 Cover Songs	850

Also listed as: Always On My Mind; Always on my mind.

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