Billboard #1 Hits: #575: ‘Shout’- Tears For Fears. August 3, 1985. #1 for 3 weeks in Billboard Hot 100.

• Single : ‘Shout’- Tears For Fears
• Record Company- PolyGram
• Genre: Synth-Pop
• Written by Roland Orzabal and Ian Stanley
• Time: 3:59
• B-side:’ The Big Chair’
• Album-Songs From The Big Chair
• Grade: A+
• Peaked at #1 3 weeks in Billboard Hot 100. #4 in UK Singles Chart, #1 in Australia, Belgium, Canada, Germany, Netherlands, New Zealand, Switzerland.

The second #1 hit from Tears For Fears in the summer of 1985- both from their Songs From The Big Chair album.

The song was written in my front room on just a small synthesizer and a drum machine. Initially I only had the chorus, which was very repetitive, like a mantra. I played it to Ian Stanley, our keyboardist, and Chris Hughes, the producer. I saw it as a good album track, but they were convinced it would be a hit around the world.— Roland Orzabal