Keep Your Distance
studio
ArtistCuriosity Killed the Cat
CoverKeep Your Distance - Curiosity Killed the Cat.jpg
Released27 April 1987
3 August 1987 (US)[1]
Recorded1986–1987
GenreSophisti-pop[2][3]
Length37:25
63:58 (with original bonus tracks)
LabelMercury
ProducerStewart Levine (tracks 1, 2, 4, 7-9) · Sly & Robbie (track 3) · Pete Smith (track 5) · Paul Staveley O'Duffy (track 6)
Next year1989

Keep Your Distance is the debut album by the British band Curiosity Killed the Cat, released in April 1987. It debuted at #1 on the UK Albums Chart, and is their only album to chart on the Billboard 200, reaching #55.[4][5]

Charts

Weekly charts

Chart (1987)Peak
position
Australian Albums (Kent Music Report)[6]47
Icelandic Albums (Tónlist)[7]7
Italian Albums (FIMI)[8]8

Year-end charts

Chart (1987)Peak
position
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100)[9]63
Italian Albums (FIMI)[10]26
UK Albums (OCC)[11]24

References

  1. ^ "Billboard". Vol. 99, no. 31. 1 August 1987. p. 82.
  2. ^ Inskeep, Thomas & Soto, Alfred. "The Bluffer's Guide – Sophisti-Pop". Stylus. Archived from the original on 14 March 2016. Retrieved 28 April 2016.
  3. ^ "Top 15 Sophisti-Pop Albums". Classic Pop. 2021-08-25. Archived 30 May 2024 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 2024-10-14.
  4. ^ UK
  5. ^ Billboard
  6. ^ Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992. illustrated ed. St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 80. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.
  7. ^ "Tonlist Top 40". DV. Retrieved 2017-02-09.
  8. ^ "Hit Parade Italia – Gli album più venduti del 1987" (in Italian). hitparadeitalia.it. Retrieved 11 June 2020.
  9. ^ "Dutch Charts - dutchcharts.nl"
  10. ^ "Hit Parade Italia - ALBUM 1987"
  11. ^ "Gallup Year End Charts 1987: Albums". Record Mirror. London, England: Spotlight Publications. 23 January 1988.