Song title 232 - Tainted Love

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Tainted Love Region Profile

This page lists the chart runs for songs called "Tainted Love" in order of success. This list combines cover versions and distinct songs that happen to share the same title.

# Artist Song Title Year Chart Entries
1 Soft Cell Tainted Love 1981 UK 1 - Aug 1981 (30 weeks), Canada 1 - Nov 1981 (18 weeks), France 1 - Aug 1981 (4 weeks), Belgium 1 - Oct 1981 (9 weeks), ODK Germany 1 - Oct 1981 (26 weeks) (2 weeks at number 1) (16 weeks in top 10), Canada RPM 1 for 3 weeks - Feb 1982, Australia 1 for 3 weeks - Feb 1982, Springbok 1 - Dec 1981 (19 weeks), Germany 1 for 2 weeks - Nov 1981, Brit best song 1982, Austria 2 - Dec 1981 (3 months), Switzerland 2 - Nov 1981 (15 weeks), Germany 2 - Jan 1982 (5 months), Scrobulate 2 of 80s, Australia 3 of 1982, Sweden (alt) 4 - Oct 1981 (24 weeks), France (SNEP) 4 - Dec 1981 (3 months), UK Gold (certified by BPI in Sep 1981), Holland 5 - Oct 1981 (9 weeks), South Africa 5 of 1982, Canada 7 of 1982, US Billboard 8 - Jan 1982 (43 weeks), Holland free40 9 of 1981, US BB 11 of 1982, POP 18 of 1982, nuTsie 19 of 1980s, ARC 29 of 1982 (peak 5 20 weeks), Germany 37 of the 1980s (peak 1 18 weeks), KROQ 38 of 1982, Virgin 41, US CashBox 50 of 1982, US Radio 59 of 1982 (peak 8 9 weeks), UKMIX 95, Acclaimed 163 (1981), Belgium 242 of all time, France (InfoDisc) 255 of the 1980s (peak 4, 27 weeks, 431k sales estimated, 1981), OzNet 451, WXPN 745, RYM 4 of 1981, Guardian Pop 57, Party 142 of 2007
2 Marilyn Manson Tainted Love 2002 Switzerland 2 - Apr 2002 (19 weeks), ODK Germany 3 - Apr 2002 (16 weeks) (8 weeks in top 10), Austria 4 - Apr 2002 (5 months), Germany 4 - Apr 2002 (3 months), UK 5 - Mar 2002 (11 weeks), Norway 7 - Jun 2002 (17 weeks), Scrobulate 9 of covers, Sweden 11 - Mar 2002 (7 weeks), Switzerland 19 of 2002, Italy 19 of 2002, Poland 20 - Feb 2002 (25 weeks), Japan (Tokyo) 55 - Dec 2001 (2 weeks), Germany 165 of the 2000s (peak 3 9 weeks), RYM 105 of 2002
3 Soft Cell & Marc Almond Tainted Love 1991 UK 5 - May 1991 (8 weeks), ODK Germany 22 - Jun 1991 (12 weeks)
4 Richard Grey Tainted Love 2007 UK 52 - Jun 2007 (1 week)
5 Icon & Juliette Jaimes Tainted Love 1996 UK 51 - Jun 1996 (1 week)
6 Impedance Tainted Love 1989 UK 54 - Nov 1989 (10 weeks)
7 Dave Phillips & Hot Rod Gang Tainted Love 1983 UK 98 - Mar 1983 (3 weeks)
8 Coil Tainted Love 1985 RYM 73 of 1985
9 The Living End Tainted Love unknown Scrobulate 20 of rockabilly
10 Gloria Jones Tainted Love unknown Scrobulate 65 of soul

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