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Hurts So Good

"Hurts So Good"
Single by John Cougar
from the album American Fool
B-side"Close Enough"
ReleasedApril 1982 (1982-04)
StudioCherokee, Los Angeles[1]
GenrePop rock[2]
Length3:39[1]
LabelRiva
Songwriter(s)John Mellencamp, George Green
Producer(s)John Mellencamp, Don Gehman[1]
John Cougar singles chronology
"Ain't Even Done with the Night"
(1981)
"Hurts So Good"
(1982)
"Jack & Diane"
(1982)
Music video
"Hurts So Good" on YouTube

"Hurts So Good" is a song by American singer-songwriter John Mellencamp, then performing under the stage name "John Cougar". The song was a number two hit on the Billboard Hot 100[3] for the singer/songwriter. It was the first of three major hit singles from his 1982 album American Fool. The others were "Jack & Diane" and "Hand to Hold On To," which were all released in 1982. The song was also a critical success with Mellencamp, winning the Best Rock Vocal Performance, Male at the 25th Grammy Awards on February 23, 1983.

  1. ^ a b c The Best That I Could Do 1978–1988 (CD liner). John Mellencamp. US: Mercury Records. 1997. p. 9. 314 536 738-2.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
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  3. ^ Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits, 8th Edition (Billboard Publications), page 418.