"Blue Monday", released as part of New Order's 1983 album "Power, Corruption & Lies", represents, perhaps, the bands best know work of the 1980's. Heavily influenced by the (revolutionary) electronic/proto-techno German band, "Kraftwerk" and the Urban (Dance) Club music scene , "Blue Monday" marked the transition point from the band's earlier "Joy Division" post-punk style to its definitive Hip-House and Synthpop fused sound (which would, later, be termed Electronica). "Blue Monday" would become the best selling 12-Inch Single in the UK with over a million sales. However, as the publisher, Factory Records, was not properly credentialed with the BPI, its actual sales are not "officially" recognized. At over 7 minutes in duration, it is one of the lengthiest songs to chart in the UK. Oddly, "Blue Monday" was "released" more than once and reached #12 and then #9 on the UK charts in 1983 alone. It was remixed and re-released in 1987 as "Blue Monday 88" and reached #3 in the UK. In 1995 it was once again remixed and re-released where-upon it cracked the UK Top-20 chart. In the US the song and album achieved only moderate success, but generated a strong niche following which would make the band and its music a regular club staple and a bonafide influence on newer artists who would define the Electronica, Techno and Rave movements. the song has been heavily sampled in the works of a multitude of other artist's productions and has been covered on several occasions throughout the years.