Hard Habit to Break

~ Recording by Chicago

Appears on releases

#TitleLengthTrack ArtistRelease TitleRelease ArtistRelease Group TypeCountry/DateLabelCatalog#
Official
1.3Hard Habit to Break4:47ChicagoChicago 17ChicagoAlbum
  • US1984-05-14
Warner Bros. Records (1958–2019; “WB” logo, with or without “records” beneath or on banner across)9 25060-1
1.3Hard Habit to Break4:47ChicagoChicago 17 (Club Edition)ChicagoAlbum
  • US1984-05-14
Warner Bros. Records (1958–2019; “WB” logo, with or without “records” beneath or on banner across)9 W1-25060, W1-25060
1.3Hard Habit to Break4:44ChicagoChicago 17ChicagoAlbum
  • DE1984-05-14
Warner Bros. Records (1958–2019; “WB” logo, with or without “records” beneath or on banner across)9 25060-2
1.3Hard Habit to Break4:47ChicagoChicago 17ChicagoAlbum
  • US1984-05-14
Warner Bros. Records (1958–2019; “WB” logo, with or without “records” beneath or on banner across)9 25060-2
1.3Hard Habit to Break4:47ChicagoChicago 17 (made in Japan)ChicagoAlbum
Warner Bros. Records (1958–2019; “WB” logo, with or without “records” beneath or on banner across)9 25060-2
1.3Hard Habit to Break4:43ChicagoChicago 17ChicagoAlbum
Full Moon Records (US rock label, active 1974–1992), Warner Bros. Records (1958–2019; “WB” logo, with or without “records” beneath or on banner across)925 060-1
1.3Hard Habit to Break4:47ChicagoChicago 17 (BMG music club release)ChicagoAlbum
Warner Bros. Records (1958–2019; “WB” logo, with or without “records” beneath or on banner across), BMG Direct Marketing, Inc. (BMG company that owned their direct marketing company/club editions)9 25060‐2, D 120763
1.3Hard Habit to Break4:47ChicagoChicago 17ChicagoAlbum
  • CA1985-05-14
Warner Bros. Records (1958–2019; “WB” logo, with or without “records” beneath or on banner across)CD 25060
1.3Hard Habit to Break4:47ChicagoChicago 17ChicagoAlbum
  • JP1988-08-10
Full Moon Records (US rock label, active 1974–1992), Warner Bros. Records (1958–2019; “WB” logo, with or without “records” beneath or on banner across)20P2-2007
1.7Hard Habit to Break4:44ChicagoThe Heart of ChicagoChicagoAlbum + Compilation
Reprise Records926 107-2
1.9Hard Habit to Break4:44ChicagoGreatest Hits 1982-1989ChicagoAlbum + Compilation
  • US1989-11-21
Reprise Records9 26080-2
1.9Hard Habit to Break4:46ChicagoGreatest Hits 1982-1989ChicagoAlbum + Compilation
  • US1989-11-21
Reprise Records
1.9Hard Habit to Break4:44ChicagoGreatest Hits 1982-1989 (Club Edition)ChicagoAlbum + Compilation
Reprise Records, BMG Direct Marketing, Inc. (BMG company that owned their direct marketing company/club editions)9 26080-2, D 163363
1.7Hard Habit to Break4:44ChicagoThe Heart of ChicagoChicagoAlbum + Compilation
Reprise Records7599-26107-2
1.7Hard Habit to Break4:44ChicagoThe Heart of ChicagoChicagoAlbum + Compilation
1.6Hard Habit to Break4:44ChicagoThe Heart of ChicagoChicagoAlbum + Compilation
WEA International (imprint of WEA International Inc., not likely used since ca. 1990)929107-1
1.9Hard Habit to Break4:46ChicagoThe Heart of Chicago: Greatest Hits 1982-1989ChicagoAlbum + Compilation
Reprise Records9 26080-2
1.3Hard Habit to Break4:47ChicagoChicago 17ChicagoAlbum
Full Moon Records (US rock label, active 1974–1992), Warner Bros. Records (1958–2019; “WB” logo, with or without “records” beneath or on banner across)7599-25060-2
1.6Hard Habit to Break4:42ChicagoThe Best of ChicagoChicagoAlbum + Compilation
wea (has logo with just “wea” on it)7599 26637-2
1.17Hard Habit to Break4:42ChicagoChicago: 25 Years of GoldChicagoAlbum + Compilation
  • -1995
1.4Hard Habit to Break4:44ChicagoThe Heart of Chicago 1967-1997ChicagoAlbum + Compilation
  • GB1997-04-22
Reprise Records9362-46554-2
1.4Hard Habit to Break4:44ChicagoThe Heart of Chicago 1967–1997ChicagoAlbum + Compilation
  • US1997-04-22
Reprise Records9 46554-2
1.4Hard Habit to Break4:44ChicagoThe Heart of Chicago 1967–1997ChicagoAlbum + Compilation
  • US1997-04-22
Reprise Records9362-46554-2
1.13Hard Habit to Break4:46ChicagoNew Millenium Love SongsVarious ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
  • US2001-01-16
Rhino (reissue label), Warner Music (global imprint of Warner Music Group, ‘W’ logo either with “Warner Music” or no text)R2 76699
2.9Hard Habit to Break4:45ChicagoThe Very Best of Chicago: Only the BeginningChicagoAlbum + Compilation
  • US2002-07-02
Rhino (reissue label)R2 76170
1.4Hard Habit to Break4:45ChicagoThe Chicago Story: Complete Greatest HitsChicagoAlbum + Compilation
Rhino (reissue label), Warner Strategic Marketing8122 73606 2
1.6Hard Habit to Break4:45ChicagoThe Chicago Story: The Complete Greatest HitsChicagoAlbum + Compilation
Rhino (reissue label)8122 73630-2
4.13Hard Habit to Break4:44ChicagoThe BoxChicagoAlbum + Compilation
  • US2003-07-22
Rhino (reissue label)R2 73871
4.13Hard Habit to Break4:44ChicagoThe BoxChicagoAlbum + Compilation
  • XE2003-08-25
Rhino (reissue label)8122-73704-2
2.11Hard Habit to Break4:44ChicagoBigger Better Power Ballads II: The Greatest Driving Anthems in the World… Ever!Various ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
  • GB2004-07-07
Virgin TVVTDCD619
2.9Hard Habit to Break4:45ChicagoThe Very Best of Chicago: Only the BeginningChicagoAlbum + Compilation
  • XW2004-11-16
Rhino (reissue label)
1.9Hard Habit to Break4:45ChicagoLove SongsChicagoAlbum + Compilation
  • US2005-01-25
Rhino (reissue label)R2 78451
2.6Hard Habit to Break4:42ChicagoLeather & LaceVarious ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
Sony BMG Music Entertainment (Aug 5, 2004 – Oct 1, 2008)82876695362
1.10Hard Habit to Break4:45ChicagoLove SongsChicagoAlbum + Compilation
1.7Hard Habit to Break4:46ChicagoLove SongsChicagoAlbum + Compilation
Rhino (reissue label), Warner Music IndonesiaWMI 5103
2.5Hard Habit to Break4:46ChicagoSongwriters SpeakVarious ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
Festival Mushroom Records (label has FMR with a little speaker on top)338952
1.3Hard Habit to Break4:45ChicagoChicago 17 (expanded + bonus tracks)ChicagoAlbum
  • XW2006-10-02
Rhino (reissue label)
1.3Hard Habit to Break (2006 remaster)4:44ChicagoChicago 17 (expanded & remastered/bonus track version)ChicagoAlbum
  • -2006-10-02
Rhino (reissue label), Warner Bros. Records (1958–2019; “WB” logo, with or without “records” beneath or on banner across)
1.3Hard Habit to Break4:45ChicagoChicago 17ChicagoAlbum
  • US2006-10-03
Rhino (reissue label)R2 74091
2.4Hard Habit to Break4:45ChicagoWorld’s Best Dad: 60 Ultimate Rock ClassicsVarious ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
  • GB2007-06-04
BMG TV
2.5Hard Habit to Break4:46ChicagoThe Best of Chicago: 40th Anniversary EditionChicagoAlbum + Compilation
  • US2007-10-02
Rhino (reissue label)R2 309116
1.15Hard Habit to Break4:46Chicago100 Hits: LoveVarious ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
  • GB2007-10-08
100 HitsDMG 100 005
1.9Hard Habit to Break4:45ChicagoThe Very Best of Chicago 40th Anniversay CollectionChicagoAlbum + Compilation
Platinum Legends, Rhino Custom Products (retail, mail order and premium use compilations for WMG catalog)37324, OPCD 8076-2
3.18Hard Habit to Break4:44Chicago100 Hits: 80s PopVarious ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
  • GB2008-10-06
100 HitsDMG 100 019
2.4Hard Habit to Break4:43Chicago101 Power BalladsVarious ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
  • GB2008-11-10
Virgin TVVTDCDX 944
3.1Hard Habit to Break4:46ChicagoFour Decades of HitsChicagoAlbum + Compilation
Timeless Media Group, Rhino Custom Products (retail, mail order and premium use compilations for WMG catalog)17890, OPCD-8293
1.9Hard Habit to Break4:45ChicagoThe Very Best of ChicagoChicagoAlbum + Compilation
Hallmark Music (associated with the Hallmark greeting card label)
3.3Hard Habit to Break4:46ChicagoCollector’s EditionChicagoAlbum + Compilation
  • US2009-01-01
Warner Custom Products, Madacy EntertainmentOPCD-8335, TC2 54161
2.4Hard Habit to Break4:43Chicago101 Power BalladsVarious ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
  • -2009-10-09
EMI TV
1.3Hard Habit to Break4:43ChicagoChicago 17ChicagoAlbum
  • JP2010-01-27
Warner Bros. Records (1958–2019; “WB” logo, with or without “records” beneath or on banner across)WPCR 13788
1.14Hard Habit to Break4:45ChicagoThe Ultimate Chicago: Australian Tour EditionChicagoAlbum + Compilation
Rhino (reissue label)8122797908
1.3Hard Habit to Break4:45ChicagoUltimate CollectionChicagoAlbum + Compilation
  • GB2011-09-06
Music Club Deluxe, Rhino (reissue label)MCDLX520
3.1Hard Habit to Break4:46ChicagoFour Decades of HitsChicagoAlbum + Compilation
  • US2012-01-25
Rhino (reissue label)
1.3Hard Habit to Break4:47ChicagoChicago 17ChicagoAlbum
  • US2012-06-19
Mobile Fidelity Sound LabUDCD 789
2.13Hard Habit to Break3:41ChicagoBest of the Breeze 2Various ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
  • NZ2012-08-24
The Breeze (New Zealand radio station), Warner Music New Zealand5310543082
1.17Hard Habit to Break4:45ChicagoAll The… 80sVarious ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
Warner Music Australia (AU subsidiary of Warner Music International since 1988)5310516132
5.3Hard Habit to Break4:47ChicagoOriginal Album Series, Volume 2ChicagoAlbum + Compilation
  • XE2013-08-30
Rhino (reissue label)8122 79648 8
1.3Hard Habit to Break4:45ChicagoChicago 17ChicagoAlbum
Rhino (reissue label)
2.9Hard Habit to Break4:46Chicagosmoothfm: All Time Top 50, Volume 2Various ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
  • AU2015-01-16
Sony Music Publishing Australia88875059702
4.3Hard Habit to Break4:45ChicagoThe Studio Albums 1979-2008ChicagoAlbum + Compilation
  • US2015-10-07
Rhino (reissue label)081227954130
1.15Hard Habit to Break4:46Chicago100 Hits: Love (2015 version with no Al Green)Various ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
Demon Music GroupDMG 100 155
1.48Hard Habit to Break4:45ChicagoNow More Than Ever: The History of ChicagoChicagoAlbum + Compilation
  • US2016-12-30
3.14Hard Habit to Break4:44ChicagoNOW 100 Hits: Power BalladsVarious ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
  • GB2019-03-29
Sony Music (global brand, excluding JP, owned by Sony Music Entertainment), Universal Music on Demand, NOW (bogus label; use the MusicBrainz Series instead)CDNNNOW81
1.47Hard Habit to Break4:44ChicagoNOW 100 Hits: Power BalladsVarious ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
  • IE2019-03-29
  • GB2019-03-29
NOW (bogus label; use the MusicBrainz Series instead)
3.14Hard Habit to Break4:44ChicagoNOW 100 Hits: Power BalladsVarious ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
  • IE2019-03-29
  • GB2019-03-29
NOW (bogus label; use the MusicBrainz Series instead)
3.6Hard Habit to Break4:45ChicagoNOW Yearbook ’80–’84: The Final ChapterVarious ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
  • GB2022-12-02
EMI (EMI Records, since 1972), Sony Music (global brand, excluding JP, owned by Sony Music Entertainment)CDYBXNOW8084
3.6Hard Habit to Break4:45ChicagoNOW Yearbook ’80–’84: The Final ChapterVarious ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
  • GB2022-12-02
EMI (EMI Records, since 1972), Sony Music (global brand, excluding JP, owned by Sony Music Entertainment)0196587511227, CDYBNOW8084
1.9Hard Habit to Break4:46ChicagoGreatest Hits 1982-1989 (club edition)ChicagoAlbum + Compilation
Columbia House (direct‐mailing distributor of club editions of releases), Reprise Records782110T, W2 26080
1.4Hard Habit to Break4:48ChicagoThe Chicago StoryChicagoAlbum + Compilation
2.9Hard Habit to Break4:45ChicagoThe Very Best of Chicago: Only the Beginning (BMG club edition)ChicagoAlbum + Compilation
BMG Direct (BMG’s direct marketing company/club editions), Rhino (reissue label)D244872, R2 76170
Promotion
1.1Hard Habit to Break (LP version)4:43ChicagoHard Habit to BreakChicagoSingle
Warner Bros. Records (1958–2019; “WB” logo, with or without “records” beneath or on banner across)PRO-A-2183
Bootleg
1.16Hard Habit to Break4:44ChicagoKISA, Volume 1: Found an Old FriendVarious ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
  • US2001-07-25
Pseudo-Release
1.3忘れ得ぬ君に?:??シカゴシカゴ17シカゴAlbum

Relationships

engineer and mixer:Humberto Gatica
producer:David Foster (Canadian music producer, arranger and composer)
assistant mixer:Larry Fergusson
lead vocals:Peter Cetera (in 1984)
Bill Champlin (in 1984)
instruments arranger:Jeremy Lubbock
arranger:David Foster (Canadian music producer, arranger and composer)
phonographic copyright (℗) by:Warner Bros. Records (1958–2019; “WB” logo, with or without “records” beneath or on banner across)
Warner Bros. Records Inc. (not for release label use, company behind the “WB Records” imprint) (in 1984, in 2010)
WEA International Inc. (not for release label use! copyrights holder, distributor for the world outside of the US) (in 1984)
recorded at:Sunset Sound in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, United States (in 1984)
The Lighthouse (studio located in N. Hollywood, California) in North Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, United States (in 1984)
The Record Plant (aka “Record Plant” Los Angeles) in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, United States (in 1984)
mixed at:Lion Share Recording Studios in Los Angeles, California, United States
recording of:Hard Habit to Break (in 1984)

Related works

Hard Habit to Break

writer:Steve Kipner (in 1984)
John Lewis Parker (in 1984)
publisher:Bocu Music Ltd.
EMI April Music Inc.
EMI Songs Ltd.
MCA Music Ltd.
Music Corporation of America, Inc. (BMI-affiliated music publisher of MCA Records, Inc.?)
Songs of Universal, Inc.
Universal/MCA Music Ltd. (not for release label use!)
シンコーミュージック・エンタテイメント
ユニバーサル・ミュージック・パブリッシング Synch事業部
イーエムアイ音楽出版 ソニー事業部 (until 2021-06-30)
April Music Inc. (in 1984)
Parker Songs (in 1984)
Stephen A. Kipner Music (in 1984)
ソニー・ミュージックパブリッシング EMI外国事業部 (sub‐publisher for foreign (non‐Japanese) works) (from 2021-07-01 to present)