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Sports is the third album by American rock band Huey Lewis and the News, released in 1983 (see 1983 in music). This was the album that made the band famous, reaching number one on the Billboard 200 on June 30, 1984, and making the band internationally known. The album has been certified 7x Platinum by the RIAA. Sports was ranked number 2 on Billboards 1984 year-end album chart, after Michael Jackson’s Thriller, and spawned four top 10 hits on the Billboard Hot 100 and a fifth that went top 20. It also did very well internationally, with most of its singles reaching chart peaks in various countries. The album’s biggest hit, “I Want a New Drug”, was certified gold with sales of 500,000 copies in 1989, and was also the center of a lawsuit against artist Ray Parker Jr. who was... Read on...