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7 Personnel  



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8 Charts  



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"Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now"
SinglebyStarship
from the album No Protection
B-side"Layin' It on the Line"
ReleasedDecember 19, 1986[1]
RecordedSeptember 1986
Genre
Length4:29
Label
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)Narada Michael Walden
Starship singles chronology
"Before I Go"
(1986)
"Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now"
(1986)
"It's Not Over Til It's Over"
(1987)
Music video
"Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now"onYouTube

"Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now" is a song co-written by Diane Warren and Albert Hammond[4] and recorded by American rock band Starship for their second studio album, No Protection (1987). It is a power ballad[5] duet featuring vocalists Grace Slick and Mickey Thomas and is the theme to the romantic-comedy film Mannequin.[6][7]

The song reached number one on the US Billboard Hot 100, Warren's first single to do so. Elsewhere, "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now" topped the charts in Canada, the Republic of Ireland and the United Kingdom, where it became the second-best-selling song of 1987. "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now" received a nomination for Best Original Song at the 60th Academy Awards.

Background

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In a radio interview, Hammond said that the idea for the song came from his impending marriage to his live-in girlfriend of seven years after his divorce from his previous wife was finalized. He had said to Warren, "It's almost like they've stopped me from marrying this woman for seven years, and they haven't succeeded. They're not gonna stop me doing it."[8] The song has been considered "feel good" propelled by a strong synthesizer beat.[9]

Reception

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Cash Box called the song "an emotional duet by Mickie [sic] Thomas and Grace Slick" and "a blustery, expansive production."[10]

Commercial performance

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The song topped the Billboard Hot 100 on April 4, 1987. In the United Kingdom, the song peaked at the top of the UK Singles Chart for four weeks and became the UK's second-best-selling song of 1987 behind "Never Gonna Give You Up" by Rick Astley. The song also reached the top 10 in six other European countries. It became the first chart-topping song to be written by Warren.[11] Grace Slick, at age 47, became the oldest woman to attain a number-one single in the United States,[12] surpassed only by Cher, who was 52 when her song "Believe" reached number one in early 1999.[13]

Music video

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The music video for "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now" was released in 1987. It features clips from the film Mannequin, starring Andrew McCarthy and Kim Cattrall, intercut with a parallel narrative of Mickey Thomas falling in love with a mannequin who comes to life, played by Grace Slick. Meshach Taylor makes a cameo reprising his film role of window dresser Hollywood Montrose, as does Narada Michael Walden, the producer of the song, who appears with the band.

Towards the end of the video, viewers are shown that the band's members are also mannequins.

In media

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The song is featured in Season 1 Episode 8 of the American sitcom The Goldbergs.[14]

InThe Skeleton Twins, the stars lip-sync to the song.[15]

The song is played in the episode called "Oh Mylanta!" of the fourth season of the ABC revival of the American game show Press Your Luck, when the winning contestant of that episode, Clifford of Onalaska, Wisconsin, completes the bonus round with no Whammies and wins over $300,000 in cash and prizes, including a game room, a Hawaiian honeymoon for his parents and tickets to watch the Green Bay Packers play the Chicago Bears at both Lambeau Field and Soldier Field with his wife for the next 10 seasons. The song plays as the show's announcer, Neil Ross, summarizes all of his winnings amidst the thunderous applause from the crowd before cutting to highlights from Clifford's time on the show.[16]

Track listings

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A. "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now" – 4:29
B. "Layin' It on the Line" (live at Stopher Gym, Nicholls State University)[a] – 4:15
A1. "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now" – 4:29
A2. "Layin' It on the Line" – 4:15
B1. "We Built This City" (special club mix) – 7:00
B2. "Tomorrow Doesn't Matter Tonight" – 3:41

Personnel

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Additional personnel

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Charts

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Certifications

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Certifications and sales for "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now"
Region Certification Certified units/sales
Canada (Music Canada)[58] Gold 50,000^
Denmark (IFPI Danmark)[59] Gold 45,000
Sweden (GLF)[60] Gold 25,000^
United Kingdom (BPI)[62] Platinum 957,336[61]
United States (RIAA)[63] Gold 500,000^

^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.
Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

See also

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Notes

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  1. ^ The liner notes incorrectly list Louisiana State University as the location of Stopher Gym.

References

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