Relatively primitive music videos for upcoming singles " Planet Earth" and " Careless Memories" were also filmed in December. " Planet Earth" was then released on 2 February 1981 and reached #12 on the UK charts on 21 February. The band followed up with the release of " Careless Memories" on 20 April 1981, but it only reached UK #37 (on 9 May). The third single was to become the most successful from this album. " Girls on Film", released 13 July, went to #5 in the charts thanks to its notoriously "sexy" music video. Re-release in 1983 Duran Duran (1983 re-release)ĭuran Duran was re-released in the US on 25 April 1983, after the wild success of their second album Rio in America gave the band another chance to market their first album there. The then-new single " Is There Something I Should Know?" was added to the album to promote it, as the song was previously a stand-alone single. The album's cover was also updated to look more like the cover of " Is There Something I Should Know?", adopting the 3D double-D logo that the band used at the time.īecause of the time limitations of vinyl records, the inclusion of " Is There Something I Should Know?" required the omission of the album track " To the Shore" on the reissue, like the Harvest Records release before it. " To The Shore" was reinstated on later CD re-issues. The 1983 reissue reached #10 on the US charts, and remained on that chart for 87 weeks (although it was overshadowed by the ongoing American success of the Rio album from 1982). Duran Duran was certified platinum (a shipment of one million units) by the RIAA on 4 June, 1985, a huge step-up from the performance of the previous 1981 release.
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