"You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)" is a song by British band Dead or Alive on their 1985 album Youthquake. Released as a single in 1984, it reached No. 1 in the UK in March 1985, taking 17 weeks to get there. It was the first UK number-one hit by the Stock Aitken Waterman production trio.[5] On the U.S. Billboard Hot 100, it peaked at No. 11 on 17 August of that year.[6] In 2003, Q ranked the song at number 981 in their list of the "1001 Best Songs Ever",[7] Blender listed it at number 289 on its ranking of "Greatest Songs Since You Were Born" in 2005[8] and in 2015, it was voted by the British public as the nation's 17th favourite 1980s number one in a poll for ITV.[9] Musician and actor Gary Kemp described the song as "one of the best white dance records of all time."[10] The video, which features a disco ball, waving gold flags and an evocation of the six-armed Vishnu, was directed by Vaughan Arnell and Anthea Benton.