Hungry Like the Wolf chart. Les Garland, senior executive vice president of MTV, said: "I remember our director of talent and artist relations came running in and said, 'You have got to see this video that’s come in.' Duran Duran were getting zero radio airplay at the time, and MTV wanted to try to break new music. 'Hungry Like the Wolf' was the greatest video I'd ever seen." MTV named "Hungry Like the Wolf" the 15th most-played video of the network, and was 11th on the century-end MTV "100 Greatest Videos Ever Made". "Hungry Like the Wolf" won the Grammy Award for Best Short
Hungry Like the Wolf began playing the accompanying music video in heavy rotation, the exposure pushed "Hungry Like the Wolf" onto AOR playlists. The song entered "Billboard"'s Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart in August 1982 and reached the top of the chart in January 1983. Following the release of the "Carnival" EP in September and the David Kershenbaum remaster of "Rio" in November, the Kershenbaum remix of "Hungry Like the Wolf" was released as a single on 3 December 1982. "Hungry Like the Wolf" entered the "Billboard" Hot 100 on 25 December 1982 at number 77, peaking at number 3 on 26 March 1983,