Continuing the rock direction recently taken on "Sparkle in the Rain", but also reflecting their melodic synthpop past, the song caught the band at their commercial peak, and propelled by the success of "The Breakfast Club", became a number-one hit in the US and Canada. It is also the band's only number-one hit on the US Top Rock Tracks chart, staying atop that chart for three weeks. While only reaching number seven in the UK, it stayed on the charts from 1985 to 1987, one of the longest timespans for any single in the history of the chart.