"I Send a Message" was the second single released by Australian rock band

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from their fourth album '' The Swing''. The music video was directed by Yamamoto San and filmed in

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at the city's oldest Buddhist temple in Main Old City Park. ''

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'' called the song "a powerful dance cut" with a "frenetic

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" and "

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vocal." At the 1984 Countdown Music Awards, the song was nominated for Best Australian Single.

Track listing

7" single Track listing
12"/CD Maxi single Track listing

Charts

The song was released on 12 March 1984 and reached No.3 on the

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. NOTE: Used for Australian Singles and Albums charting until ARIA created their own charts in mid-1988. It also reached No.18 on the New Zealand Singles charts, No. 18 on the US Billboard Dance Music/Club Play Singles and No. 77 on The ''Billboard'' Hot 100.

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

References

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