Your birth year
2006
Every Breath You Take
1983The Police
Every Breath You Take is 23 years older than you
It's from 1983, before you were born.
- Artist
- The Police
- Genre
- Rock / pop
- Released
- 1983
- Note
- biggest hit of 1983
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About
As of 2026, it's 43 years old.
Every Breath You Take is the most romantic-sounding song that absolutely is not romantic — Sting wrote The Police's biggest hit as an ode to surveillance, obsession, and jealous control ('every move you make, I'll be watching you'), and the world promptly adopted it as a wedding-first-dance song anyway. He's been gently correcting people for forty years.
Its hypnotic guitar riff and lush production made it one of the defining songs of 1983 and the band's signature track.
Beautiful, sinister, and widely misunderstood, Every Breath You Take is the stalker anthem that an entire planet decided to play at weddings.
