 # 3
Singles Artist of the Year
  Culture Club hit the Top 40 with
"Do You Really Want To
Hurt Me."
from the LP Kissing
To Be Clever
ARC chart run: 37 - 30 - 24 - 18 - 16 - 8 - 5 - 4 - 3 - 2 - 2 - 6 - 13 - 22 - 23 - 34 - off
Year-End Chart
Position: # 17
Culture Club hit the Top 10 with "Do You Really Want To
Hurt Me."
 Culture Club hit the Top 40 with
"Time (Clock Of The
Heart)."
from the LP Kissing
To Be Clever
ARC chart run: 30 - 20 - 16 - 9 - 9 - 4 - 2 - 2 - 2 - 8 - 9 - 17 - 30 - off
Year-End Chart
Position: # 36
Culture Club hit the Top 10 with "Time (Clock Of The
Heart)."
 Culture Club hit the Top 40 with
"I'll Tumble 4 Ya."
from the LP Kissing
To Be Clever
ARC chart run: 40 - 33 - 29 - 26 - 20 - 15 - 10 - 9 - 8 - 21 - 31 - 34 - off
Year-End Chart
Position: # 91
Culture Club hit the Top 10 with "I'll Tumble 4 Ya."
 Culture Club hit the Top 40 with
"Church Of The Poison
Mind."
from the LP Colour
By Numbers
ARC chart run: 36 - 24 - 20 - 15 - 11 - 9 - 7 - 5 - 15 - 23 - 28 - 35 - off
Year-End Chart
Position: # 70
Culture Club hit the Top 10 with "Church Of The Poison
Mind."
 Culture Club hit the Top 40 with
"Karma Chameleon."
ARC chart run: 32 - 26 - 16 - 11 - 10 - 7 - 2 - 1 - 1 - 1 - 1 - 4 - 8 - 12 - 28 - 39 - off
Year-End Chart
Position: # 3
available for download at iTunes and Amazon.mp3
December 31: Culture Club topped
the Billboard 1983
Year-End Chart Toppers as the Top Pop New
Artist.
December 31: Culture Club had the
Top Single of the Year ("Karma Chameleon").
 # 4
Singles Artist of the Year (# 1
Group/Duo of the Year)
Culture Club hit the Top 10 and #1 for 4 weeks with "Karma Chameleon."
 Culture Club hit the Top 40 and Top 10 with "Miss Me Blind."
from the LP Colour
By Numbers
ARC chart run: 38 - 24 - 17 - 14 - 9 - 6 - 3 - 2 - 4 - 16 - 23 - 35 - off
Year-End Chart
Position: # 49
available for download at iTunes and Amazon.mp3
Culture Club hit the Top 40 with
"It's A Miracle."
from the LP Colour
By Numbers
 ARC chart run: 30 - 20 - 15 - 12 - 11 - 9 - 13 - 35 - off
Year-End Chart
Position: # 112
available for download at iTunes and Amazon.mp3
Culture Club hit the Top 10 with "It's A Miracle."
 Culture Club hit the Top 40 with
"The War Song."
from the LP Waking
Up With The House On Fire
ARC chart run: 29 - 25 - 20 - 16 - 13 - 11 - 26 - off
Year-End Chart
Position: # 141
available for download at iTunes and Amazon.mp3
 January 5: Culture Club hit the ARC Weekly Top 40 with "Mistake No. 3."
from the LP Waking
Up With The House On Fire
ARC chart run: 39 - 34 - 30 - 26 - 23 - 36 - off
available for download at iTunes and Amazon.mp3
January 28: Culture Club were
nominated for an American Music
Award for Favorite Pop/Rock
Band/Duo/Group Video Artist.
The video for "It's A Miracle" was nominated
for 2 MTV Video Music
Awards for Best Special Effects and Best Art Direction.
Culture Club were nominated for
an American Music
Award for Favorite
Pop/Rock Band/Duo/Group Video Artist.
 Boy
George: # 80
Singles Artist of the Year
 Boy George hit the Top 40 with
"The Crying Game."
Boy George hit the Top 10 with "The Crying Game."
Boy George was nominated for a MTV Video Music Award for Best Video from a Film ("The Crying Game").
 Boy George was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal
Performance ("The Crying Game").
Rock
'N Roll Hall Of Fame's 500
Songs That Shaped Rock And Roll includes
"includes "Time (Clock Of The
Heart)."
 Culture Club temporarily
reunited for a small tour and television
appearances including VH1 Storytellers
which resulted in the release: VH1
Storytellers Greatest Hits.
Out magazine
named the top gay newsmakers of the year and
included Boy George.
 Boy George had a close
call in London when a large disco ball fell
and grazed George before a performance. He
went on to perform the show and later said of
the incident: "It would have been both
ironic and glamorous to be finished off by a
4-foot glitter ball... But I have survived
and I'm still here, although my back is
aching like anything. It caught my ear, which
is really sore as well."
 Boy George was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Dance Recording ("When
Will You Learn").
Boy George was nominated for a
Gay/Lesbian American Music Award for Dance
Music Artist of the Year.
Rolling Stone
& MTV: 100 Greatest Pop Songs includes "Do You
Really Want To Hurt Me" at # 73.
 Boy George released Essential
Mix.
VH1: 100
Greatest Videos includes:
# 86
- "Do You Really
Want To Hurt Me."
Boy George joined the production
of Taboo in London - a play based on
Boy George and with music written by the
singer. The play along with Boy George later
made it to the US with funding by Rosie
O'Donnell.
 The box set Culture
Club was released.
VH1: 100 Best
Songs of the Past 25 Years includes "Do You
Really Want To Hurt Me" at # 70.
# 91 on the Top Pop Artists
of the Past 25 Years chart.
 Boy George was arrested in New
York on drug charges.
VH1: 100
Greatest Songs of the 80's included "Do You
Really Want To Hurt Me" at # 58.
Boy George was found guilty of
falsely imprisoning a male escort in April of
2008. He spent 4 months in jail in 2009.
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