“Don’t You Want Me” is a song by the English synth-pop band the Human League (credited on the cover as the Human League 100). It was released on 27 November 1981 by Virgin Records as the fourth single from their third studio album, Dare (1981). The band’s best known and most commercially successful song, it was the best selling UK single of 1981, that year’s Christmas number one, and has since sold over 1,560,000 copies in the UK, making it the 23rd-most successful single in UK singles chart history. It topped the Billboard Hot 100 in the US on 3 July 1982, where it stayed for three weeks.
In November 1983, Rolling Stone named it the “breakthrough song” of the Second British Invasion of the US. In 2015, the song was voted by the British public as the nation’s seventh-favourite 1980s number one in a poll for ITV. And in 2022, Rolling Stone ranked it as one of the “200 Greatest Dance Songs of All Time”.
