Stars: A Canadian Charity Record

Canada was the one country where all three of the national pride charity singles, Do They Know It's Christmas, We Are The World, and Tears Are Not Enough hit number one. Stars went unreleased for more than half a year amid contractual disputes among the rockers' respective labels. When it was finally issued in early 1986, it missed the Hot 100 entirely and managed only a number 39 peak on Billboard's album rock chart. But that's around the time the massively multiplayer mid-80s goodwill single morphed beyond North African famine to embrace an array of other causes.