Take My Breath Away
Berlin
Score: 229
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Played: 1947

Album:
Take My Breath Away
Released: 10 Mar 2009
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Female vocalists
80s
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Released in June of 1986, "Take My Breath Away" was the love theme and second single taken from the soundtrack to the film Top Gun. It was also included in Berlin's fourth studio album, Count Three & Pray. The single reached #1 on the UK Official Charts, #1 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100, #3 in Germany, and #2 in Australia, Canada, France, Spain, and Sweden. "Take My Breath Away" won the Academy Award for Best Original Song and the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song in 1986, beating both Peter Cetera's "Glory of Love" (from The Karate Kid) and Linda Ronstadt & James Ingram's "Somewhere Out There" (from An American Tail).