Sting later said he was disconcerted by how many people think the song is more positive than it is. I think I was thinking of Big Brother, surveillance and control. I didn't realise at the time how sinister it is. The tune itself is generic, an aggregate of hundreds of others, but the words are interesting. I woke up in the middle of the night with that line in my head, sat down at the piano and had written it in half an hour. The lyrics are the words of a possessive lover who is watching "every breath you take every move you make". He started writing the song at Ian Fleming's writing desk on the Goldeneye estate in Oracabessa, Jamaica. To escape the public eye, Sting retreated to the Caribbean. Sting and Frances lived next door to Trudie in Bayswater, West London, for several years before the two of them became lovers. As The Independent reported in 2006, "The problem was, he was already married – to actress Frances Tomelty, who just happened to be Trudie's best friend. Sting wrote the song in 1982 in the aftermath of his separation from Frances Tomelty and the beginning of his relationship with Trudie Styler. In 2015, the song was voted by the British public as The Nation's Favourite 1980s number one in a UK-wide poll for ITV. In 2008, Q magazine named it among the top 10 British Songs of the 1980s. It also ranked number 25 on Billboard 's Hot 100 All-Time Top Songs. The song ranked No. 84 on the Rolling Stone list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time and is included in The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll. Billboard ranked it as the No. 1 song for 1983. In the US, it was the best-selling single of 1983 and fifth-best-selling single of the decade. In the 1983 Rolling Stone critics' and readers' poll, it was voted "Song of the Year". BMI President and CEO Mike O'Neill stated: "For the first time in 22 years, BMI has a new top song in our repertoire with Sting's timeless hit 'Every Breath You Take,' a remarkable achievement that solidifies its place in songwriting history." With nearly 15 million radio plays, Sting received a BMI Award at a ceremony held at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills to mark it being the Most Performed Song in BMI's catalogue, a distinction previously held since 1999 by Mann and Weill's " You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin' ". In May 2019, it was recognised by BMI as being the most played song in radio history. "Every Breath You Take" is the Police's and Sting's signature song, and in 2010 was estimated to generate between a quarter and a third of Sting's music publishing income.
For the song, Sting received the 1983 Ivor Novello Award for Best Song Musically and Lyrically from the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors.
The song also reached the Top 10 in numerous other countries.Īt the 26th Annual Grammy Awards, the song was nominated for three Grammy Awards, including Song of the Year, Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals, and Record of the Year, winning in the first two categories. 1, it topped the UK Singles Chart for four weeks. Written by Sting, the single was the biggest US and Canadian hit of 1983, topping the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart for eight weeks (the band's only No. 1 hit on that chart), and the Canadian RPM Chart for four weeks. " Every Breath You Take" is a song by the English rock band The Police from their album Synchronicity (1983).
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