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Things Can Only Get Better (Howard Jones song)

Index Things Can Only Get Better (Howard Jones song)

"Things Can Only Get Better" was released as the first single from Howard Jones' 1985 album Dream Into Action, reaching #6 in the UK Singles Chart and #5 in the United States on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. [1]

34 relations: A-side and B-side, Afrodiziak, Australian Recording Industry Association, Bar stool, Billboard (magazine), Billboard Hot 100, Cedric Gervais, Dance Club Songs, Dream into Action, EA Trax, Elektra Records, Eric Prydz, Everybody Hates Chris, Fade (audio engineering), GLOW (TV series), Howard Jones (English musician), John Leland (journalist), Kent Music Report, Like to Get to Know You Well, Look Mama, Mainstream Rock (chart), New wave music, Phonograph record, Picture disc, Rupert Hine, Silhouette, Single (music), Spin (magazine), Synth-pop, The Sims 2: Open for Business, UK Singles Chart, United States, Warner Music Group, 2006 FIFA World Cup (video game).

A-side and B-side

The terms A-side and B-side refer to the two sides of 78, 45, and 33 1/3 rpm phonograph records, or cassettes, whether singles, extended plays (EPs), or long-playing (LP) records.

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Afrodiziak

Afrodiziak was a British singing group composed of Caron Wheeler, Claudia Fontaine, and later Naomi Thompson, that was active in the 1980s.

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Australian Recording Industry Association

The Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) is a trade group representing the Australian recording industry which was established in 1983 by six major record companies, EMI, Festival, CBS, RCA, WEA and Universal replacing the Association of Australian Record Manufacturers (AARM) which was formed in 1956.

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Bar stool

Bar stools are a type of tall chair, often with a foot rest to support the feet.

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Billboard (magazine)

Billboard (styled as billboard) is an American entertainment media brand owned by the Billboard-Hollywood Reporter Media Group, a division of Eldridge Industries.

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Billboard Hot 100

The Billboard Hot 100 is the music industry standard record chart in the United States for songs, published weekly by Billboard magazine.

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Cedric Gervais

Cedric Gervais (born Cédric DePasquale; 7 June 1979) is a French DJ, producer of house music and actor living in Miami Beach, Florida.

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Dance Club Songs

The Dance Club Songs chart is a weekly chart published exclusively by Billboard in the United States.

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Dream into Action

Dream into Action is the second studio album by the British pop musician Howard Jones.

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EA Trax

EA Trax is the title of the in-game soundtracks on some of EA Games' video games featuring up and coming artists, as well as mainstream artists.

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Elektra Records

Elektra Records is an American major record label owned by Warner Music Group, founded in 1950 by Jac Holzman and Paul Rickolt.

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Eric Prydz

Eric Sheridan Prydz (born 19 July 1976), also known by his aliases Pryda and Cirez D (among a number of others), is a Swedish DJ, record producer, and musician.

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Everybody Hates Chris

Everybody Hates Chris is an American period sitcom that is based on the troubled teenage experiences of comedian Chris Rock during the 1980s.

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Fade (audio engineering)

In audio engineering, a fade is a gradual increase or decrease in the level of an audio signal.

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GLOW (TV series)

GLOW is an American comedy web television series created by Liz Flahive and Carly Mensch.

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Howard Jones (English musician)

John Howard Jones (born 23 February 1955) is a British singer, musician and songwriter.

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John Leland (journalist)

John Leland (born 1959) is an author and has been a New York Times journalist since 2000.

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Kent Music Report

The Kent Music Report was a weekly record chart of Australian music singles and albums which was compiled by music enthusiast David Kent from May 1974 through to 1988.

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Like to Get to Know You Well

"Like to Get to Know You Well" is a song by the English musician Howard Jones released as a single in 1984.

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Look Mama

Released as the second single from Howard Jones' 1985 album Dream Into Action, "Look Mama" reached #10 in the UK Singles Chart.

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Mainstream Rock (chart)

Mainstream Rock is a music chart in Billboard magazine which ranks the most-played songs on mainstream rock radio stations, a category that combines the formats of active rock and heritage rock.

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New wave music

New wave is a genre of rock music popular in the late 1970s and the 1980s with ties to mid-1970s punk rock.

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Phonograph record

A phonograph record (also known as a gramophone record, especially in British English, or record) is an analog sound storage medium in the form of a flat disc with an inscribed, modulated spiral groove.

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Picture disc

Picture discs are gramophone (phonograph) records that show images on their playing surface, rather than being of plain black or colored vinyl.

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Rupert Hine

Rupert Neville Hine (born 21 September 1947, Wimbledon) is an English musician, songwriter and record producer, having produced albums for artists including Kevin Ayers, Tina Turner, Howard Jones, Saga, The Fixx, Bob Geldof, Thompson Twins, Stevie Nicks, Chris de Burgh, Suzanne Vega, Rush, Underworld, Duncan Sheik, Formula and Eleanor McEvoy.

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Silhouette

A silhouette is the image of a person, animal, object or scene represented as a solid shape of a single color, usually black, with its edges matching the outline of the subject.

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Single (music)

In music, a single, record single or music single is a type of release, typically a song recording of fewer tracks than an LP record, an album or an EP record.

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Spin (magazine)

Spin is an American music magazine founded in 1985 by publisher Bob Guccione, Jr. The magazine stopped running in print in 2012 and currently runs as a webzine.

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Synth-pop

Synth-pop (short for synthesizer pop; also called techno-pop) is a subgenre of new wave music that first became prominent in the late 1970s and features the synthesizer as the dominant musical instrument.

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The Sims 2: Open for Business

The Sims 2: Open for Business is the third expansion pack for The Sims 2, released on March 3, 2006, which allows Sims to run a home or community lot based business.

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UK Singles Chart

The UK Singles Chart (currently entitled Official Singles Chart) is compiled by the Official Charts Company (OCC), on behalf of the British record industry, listing the top-selling singles in the United Kingdom, based upon physical sales, paid-for downloads and streaming.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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Warner Music Group

Warner Music Group (WMG, also referred to as Warner Music or WEA International) is an American multinational entertainment and record label conglomerate headquartered in New York City.

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2006 FIFA World Cup (video game)

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Things_Can_Only_Get_Better_(Howard_Jones_song)

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