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Personnel

• Neil Finn
  Neil Finn
  Neil Mullane Finn, OBE is a New Zealand Pop recording artist. Along with his brother Tim Finn, he was the co-frontman for Split Enz and is now frontman for Crowded House...
  
  : Vocals and guitar
• Nick Seymour
  Nick Seymour
  Nick Seymour is a musician, painter, and record producer. He is best known for being the bass guitarist in the Australasian rock group Crowded House and brother to Mark Seymour of another successful group; Hunters and Collectors.- Biography :Born in Benalla, Victoria, Australia, Seymour studied...
  
  : Bass guitar
• Paul Hester
  Paul Hester
  Paul Newell Hester was an Australian musician and television personality; he was the drummer for the related bands Split Enz and Crowded House.-The early years:...
  
  : Drums and backing vocals
• Mitchell Froom
  Mitchell Froom
  -Career:Froom began his career as a keyboard player in Sonoma County, California. The band Crossfire featured two keyboards players; Mitchell on one side of the stage and brother David on the other with Gary Pihl on guitar...
  
  : Keyboards

Release history

Region	Date
Australia	October 1986
United Kingdom	January 1987

Charts

Chart (1987)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Hot 100	2
U.S. Billboard Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks	11
Canadian Singles chart	1
UK Singles Chart	27
Irish Singles Chart	19
German Singles Chart	3
Dutch Top 40	7
Norwegian Singles Chart	6
New Zealand Singles Chart	1
Australian Singles Chart	8
Chart (1996)	Peak position
UK Singles Chart	25

Paul Young version

In 1991 Paul Young

Paul Young (singer and guitarist)

Paul Antony Young is an English pop musician. Formerly the frontman of the short-lived bands Kat Kool & The Kool Cats, Streetband and Q-Tips, his following solo success as a solo recording artist turned him into a 1980s teenage pop idol...

 covered "Don't Dream It's Over" on his compilation From Time to Time – The Singles Collection. Young's version featured Paul Carrack

Paul Carrack

Paul Carrack is an English singer, songwriter and musician. Carrack has been a member of several bands including Ace, Squeeze, Mike + The Mechanics, and Roxy Music, been a session and touring musician for several others including Nick Lowe, and has enjoyed success as a solo artist as well...

.

Track listing

Charts

Chart (1991)	Peak position
UK Singles Chart	20
Irish Singles Chart	13
German Singles Chart	71
French Singles Chart	27
Dutch Top 40	67
Norwegian Singles Chart	6
Swedish Singles Chart	25

Sixpence None the Richer version

"Don't Dream It's Over" was the second radio single released in promotion of the album Divine Discontent

Divine Discontent

Divine Discontent is the fourth album by American band Sixpence None the Richer, released in 2002.-Track listing:#"Breathe Your Name" : 3:56#"Tonight" : 3:52#"Down and Out of Time" : 3:28...

by Sixpence None the Richer

Sixpence None the Richer

Sixpence None the Richer is an American rock/pop band that formed in New Braunfels, Texas, eventually settling in Nashville, Tennessee. They are best known for their songs "Kiss Me" and "Breathe Your Name" and their covers of "Don't Dream It's Over" and "There She Goes". The name of the band is...

. The commercial single release features the B-side "Don't Pass Me By", which was recorded during the sessions for Divine Discontent.

Track listing

US Commercial Single

1. "Don't Dream It's Over" (Radio Edit): 3:39
2. "Don't Pass Me By": 3:26

Radio Promo Single

1. "Don't Dream It's Over" (Radio Edit): 3:39
2. "Don't Dream It's Over" (LP Version): 4:04

Charts

Chart (2003)	Peak position
US Billboard Hot 100	78
US Billboard Adult Top 40	9
US Billboard Adult Contemporary	12

Other cover versions/samples

British dance act Less Stress recorded the song in 1990, with Katherine Wood

Katherine Ellis

Katherine Ellis is an English dance music vocalist and songwriter. A mainstay of the genre past and present, she has been making records since 1990.-Background:...

 on lead vocals.
In 2005, Sarah Blasko

Sarah Blasko

Sarah Elizabeth Blaskow , is an Australian singer-songwriter and musician. After fronting Sydney-based band Acquiesce from the mid-1990s, Blasko developed her solo career from 2002. In 2007, she won the 'Best Pop Release' for What the Sea Wants, the Sea Will Have at the ARIA Music Awards, which...

 sang the song during the closing ceremony of the 2006 Commonwealth Games

2006 Commonwealth Games

The 2006 Commonwealth Games were held in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia between 15 March and 26 March 2006. It was the largest sporting event to be staged in Melbourne, eclipsing the 1956 Summer Olympics in terms of the number of teams competing, athletes competing, and events being held.The site...

 in Melbourne; it was also included in the tribute album She Will Have Her Way

She Will Have Her Way

She Will Have Her Way is a compilation album featuring female Australian and New Zealand musicians performing songs written by Neil Finn and Tim Finn , members of Split Enz and Crowded House...

. Other artists who have covered it include Donny Osmond

Donny Osmond

Donald Clark "Donny" Osmond is an American singer, musician, actor, dancer, radio personality, and former teen idol. Osmond has also been a talk and game show host, record producer and author. In the mid 1960s, he and four of his elder brothers gained fame as the Osmond Brothers on the long...

, Teddy Thompson

Teddy Thompson

Teddy Thompson is a British folk and rock musician. He is the son of folk-rock musicians Richard and Linda Thompson and brother of singer Kamila Thompson...

, Faith No More

Faith No More

Faith No More is an American rock band from San Francisco, California, formed originally as Faith No Man in 1981 by bassist Billy Gould, keyboardist Wade Worthington, vocalist Michael Morris and drummer Mike Bordin. A year later when Worthington was replaced by keyboardist Roddy Bottum, and Mike...

, Paul Shaffer

Paul Shaffer

Paul Allen Wood Shaffer, CM is a Canadian musician, actor, voice actor, author, comedian, and composer who has been David Letterman's sidekick since 1982.-Early years:...

, Stacy & The Kid

Rahsaan Patterson

Rahsaan Patterson is an American singer and actor, best known for portraying "The Kid" on the popular 1980s television show Kids Incorporated. He is a native of The Bronx, New York. He was named after '60s jazz saxophonist Rahsaan Roland Kirk...

 on an episode of Kids Incorporated

Kids Incorporated

Kids Incorporated, is an American children's television program that was produced from 1984 to 1993. It was largely a youth-oriented program with musical performances as an integral part of each and every storyline....

, Howie Day

Howie Day

Howard Kern "Howie" Day is an American singer-songwriter. Beginning his career as a solo artist in the late 1990s, Day became known for his extensive touring and in-concert use of samplers and effects pedals in order to accompany himself...

, and most recently Susan Boyle

Susan Boyle

Susan Magdalane Boyle is a Scottish singer who came to international public attention when she appeared as a contestant on the TV programme Britain's Got Talent on 11 April 2009, singing "I Dreamed a Dream" from ...

 and Hitomi Yaida

Hitomi Yaida

born July 28, 1978 in Toyonaka, Osaka, Japan is a Japanese pop/folk rock singer-songwriter and guitarist. She often goes by the nickname Yaiko. Her musical style is often called "heart rock" by her fans. Yaida is an established musical artist in Japan and has also had minor club hits in the United...

.

Rapper Classified

Classified (rapper)

Luke Boyd , professionally known as Classified, is a Canadian rapper and producer from Enfield, Nova Scotia.-Career:...

 has sampled the riff on the song "It Ain't Over", as have Irish R&B trio Dove on their hit "Don't Dream". Italian singer Antonello Venditti

Antonello Venditti

Antonello Venditti is an Italian singer-songwriter who became famous in the 1970s for the social themes of his songs.-Biography:...

 included his own re-written version of "Don't Dream it's Over" – "Alta Marea" – on his 1991 album Benvenuti in Paradiso, which became a hit in Italian charts; Angelina Jolie

Angelina Jolie

Angelina Jolie is an American actress. She has received an Academy Award, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, and three Golden Globe Awards, and was named Hollywood's highest-paid actress by Forbes in 2009 and 2011. Jolie is noted for promoting humanitarian causes as a Goodwill Ambassador for the...

, who was then sixteen, played a seductress in the video.