Boys Don’t Cry

THE CURE’s 1979 Classic ‘BOYS DON’T CRY’ Has Hit One Billion Streams On Spotify

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24 January 2026


Original single sleeve.

For this considerable accomplishment, the band will have a 12″ EP out in
April, which includes the version that Robert Smith re-recorded in 1986 for
the ‘Standing On A Beach – The Singles’ compilation album, but which has
never been released digitally.

The EP will be available on 12” vinyl, 7” vinyl, CD and on digital formats, and it will also feature remasters of the single’s B-sides: ‘Plastic Passion’, ‘Pillbox Tales’, and ‘Do The Hansa’, as well as the extended 12” mix of ‘Boys Don’t Cry’. You can order a copy here.


12″ artwork

THE CURE – Goth Pop Giants Released Their Masterstroke ‘BOYS DON’T CRY’ 45 Years

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Top singles from the past

16 June 2024

Stand-alone single BOYS DON’T CRY by Goth pop giants THE CURE came
out 45 years ago, on In the US the song was included as title track of the LP
‘Boys Don’t Cry‘, the American equivalent to the band’s debut album ‘Three
Imaginary Boys’. The cracker has over more than 770 million streams on Spotify.

It was written by Michael Dempsey, Robert Smith, and Lol Tolhurst. Later Smith confessed that they wrote this and other poppy earworms to extend their fanbase and make new followers acquainted with their other more album-orientated work.

40 years ago.

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