Victims (song)

"Victims"
Single by Culture Club
from the album Colour by Numbers
B-side
  • "Colour by Numbers"
  • "Romance Revisited"
Released28 November 1983
Recorded1983
GenreSoft rock
Length4:56
LabelVirgin
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)Steve Levine
Culture Club singles chronology
"Karma Chameleon"
(1983) 		"Victims"
(1983) 		"Miss Me Blind"
(1984)

"Victims" is a song by English band Culture Club, released as a single in 1983 and taken from the album Colour by Numbers. As with most early Culture Club singles, the song is about lead singer Boy George's then publicly unknown and rather turbulent relationship with drummer Jon Moss. Although the group's previous single "Karma Chameleon" had been a massive hit throughout the world, "Victims" was only issued in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Germany, and Australia. The piano ballad[1] peaked at #3 on the UK Singles Chart. In Ireland, it peaked at #2, and in Australia, at #4. The single was not released in the United States, Canada or Japan, where they released "Miss Me Blind" instead.

Its B-side was the then unreleased track "Colour by Numbers", which is the title of the album but not included on it. An instrumental version was also issued on the 12″, renamed "Romance Revisited". Both extra tracks are now available on the 2003 remastered version of Colour by Numbers. Boy George re-recorded the song himself as a solo artist, as a folk arrangement with piano and an orchestra, in 2002. That version can be found on the Culture Club box set that was released the same year.

Charts

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Weekly charts

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Chart (1983–1984) Peak
position
Australia (Kent Music Report)[2][3] 4
Belgium (Ultratop 50 Flanders)[4] 11
Germany (GfK)[5] 39
Ireland (IRMA)[6] 2
Netherlands (Single Top 100)[7] 17
New Zealand (Recorded Music NZ)[8] 7
Paraguay (UPI)[9] 9
Switzerland (Schweizer Hitparade)[10] 18
UK Singles (OCC)[11] 3

Year-end charts

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Chart (1984) Position
Australia (Kent Music Report)[2] 38

References

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  1. ^ "'80s Music Icon Boy George Led English Band Culture Club to Legend Status".
  2. ^ a b "Kent Music Report No 548 – 31 December 1984 > National Top 100 Singles for 1984". Kent Music Report. Retrieved 23 January 2023 – via Imgur.com.
  3. ^ Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992. St Ives, NSW: Australian Chart Book. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.
  4. ^ "Culture Club – Victims" (in Dutch). Ultratop 50. Retrieved 6 July 2024.
  5. ^ "Culture Club – Victims" (in German). GfK Entertainment charts. Retrieved 6 July 2024.
  6. ^ "The Irish Charts – Search Results – Victims". Irish Singles Chart. Retrieved 6 July 2024.
  7. ^ "Culture Club – Victims" (in Dutch). Single Top 100. Retrieved 6 July 2024.
  8. ^ "Culture Club – Victims". Top 40 Singles. Retrieved 6 July 2024.
  9. ^ "Canciones más populares de Latinoamérica". La Opinión. 21 July 1984. Retrieved 1 October 2024.
  10. ^ "Culture Club – Victims". Swiss Singles Chart. Retrieved 6 July 2024.
  11. ^ "Official Singles Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 6 July 2024.
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