Who Listens to the Radio

1978 single by The Sports

"Who Listens to the Radio"

North American cover

Single by The Sports

from the album Don't Throw Stones

Released

October 1978

Recorded

T.C.S. Studios, Melbourne.

Genre

Pop rock
new wave

Length

3:17

Label

Mushroom Records

Songwriter(s)

Stephen Cummings
Andrew Pendlebury

Producer(s)

Pete Solley

The Sports singles chronology

"When You Walk in the Room"
(1978)

"Who Listens to the Radio"
(1978)

"Don't Throw Stones"
(1979)

"Who Listens to the Radio" is a song recorded by Australian rock band The Sports. The song was written by band members Stephen Cummings and Andrew Pendlebury. The original single version was released in October 1978. In 1979, it was reworked and re-recorded as a new lead single from the band's second studio album, Don't Throw Stones (1979), the song peaked at number 35 on the Australian Kent Music Report.

The song was released in the United States and peaked at number 45 on the Billboard Hot 100 in November 1979 and appeared in an episode of WKRP in Cincinnati.^[1]

Track listing

Australian 7" single (K 7300)

Side A "Who Listens to the Radio" - 3:17
Side B "So Obvious" - 2:53

North American 7" single (Arista – AS 0468)

Side A "Who Listens to the Radio" - 3:17
Side B "Hit Single" - 3:14

United Kingdom 12" single (Stiff – LAST 5)

Side A1 "Who Listens to the Radio" - 3:17
Side A2 "Step By Step"
Side B1 "So Obvious" - 2:53
Side B2 "Suspicious Minds"

Charts

Chart (1978/79)	peak position
Australian Kent Music Report^[2]	35
US Billboard Hot 100^[3]	45

References

^ "The Sports To Reform". noise11. 5 February 2015. Retrieved 15 October 2017.
^ Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992. St Ives, NSW: Australian Chart Book. p. 288. ISBN 0-646-11917-6. NOTE: Used for Australian singles and albums charting from 1970 until ARIA created their own charts in mid-1988.
^ "The Sports - Billboard search". Billboard. Retrieved 15 October 2017.