Hungry Like the Wolf the door in America for the New Romantic/synth rock crossover." Stewart Mason, also from Allmusic, called "Hungry Like the Wolf" a "spectacular pop single", and "the finest song Duran Duran ever wrote", adding that it was a "much more kinetic and exciting song than earlier flop singles like 'Planet Earth'." In 1982, music video director Russell Mulcahy, who had directed the band's first video "Planet Earth," was brought back to make the music video for "Hungry Like the Wolf" and two other songs for the band's 1983 video album. The band had a vision of jungles and exotic women, and
UK Singles Chart records and statistics release was Coldplay's "Viva la Vida" in June 2008. As of 2012, very few songs are given a physical release, and almost the entire chart is released solely on digital download. On 22 June 2008, both songs in the top two were there on downloads alone: On 31 August 2008, the top three were download-only at the time: On 1 March 2009, the top four were all download-only: By 13 February 2010, the whole top 9 consisted of download-only songs: UK Singles Chart records and statistics The UK Singles Chart was first compiled in 1969. However the records and statistics