Never Gonna Give You Up

Appears on releases

#	Title	Length	Track artist	Release title	Country/Date
Official
1.1	Never Gonna Give You Up	3:35	Rick Astley	Artist Collection	2004-09-28 XE
2.16	Never Gonna Give You Up	3:32	Rick Astley	Ultimate Girls Night In	2004-10-18 GB
1.5	Never Gonna Give You Up	3:34	Rick Astley	Best of the 80's	2004-10-29 DE
1.4	Never Gonna Give You Up	3:33	Rick Astley	Ultimate 80’s	2004-11-22 GB
1.9	Never Gonna Give You Up	3:32	Rick Astley	40 Jaar Top 40: 1987-1988	2004 NL
1.5	Never Gonna Give You Up	3:34	Rick Astley	Best of the 80's	2004 DE
3.16	Never Gonna Give You Up	3:31	Rick Astley	Let’s Party	2004 XE
1.7	Never Gonna Give You Up	3:33	Rick Astley	Noon Disco	2004 HK
1.2	Never Gonna Give You Up	3:31	Rick Astley	Then '80s Again, Totally Oldies 7	2004 US
2.10	Never Gonna Give You Up	3:34	Rick Astley	Tjejfest - Girls Just Wanna Have Fun	2004 SE
2.15	Never Gonna Give You Up	3:32	Rick Astley	Tracks 20 år: Dancesamlingen	2004 SE
3.3	Never Gonna Give You Up	3:34	Rick Astley	Best of Disco	2005-04-01 DE
1.3	Never Gonna Give You Up	3:32	Rick Astley	Hits of the 80’s	2005-07-06 DE 2005-07-06 US
3.2	Never Gonna Give You Up	3:30	Rick Astley	The Britpack: 80s UK Innovators of Pop	2005-08-18 NL
1.9	Never Gonna Give You Up	3:33	Rick Astley	Magic 80	2005-10-17 FR
1.4	Never Gonna Give You Up	3:32	Rick Astley	Ultimate Queer as Folk: The Best of and More	2005-11-14 GB
1.16	Never Gonna Give You Up	3:34	Rick Astley	Dance 'til You Drop 2	2005-11-20 AU
2.2	Never Gonna Give You Up	3:33	Rick Astley	The Essential Eighties: 1985–1989	2005-11-20 AU
1.9	Never Gonna Give You Up	3:33	Rick Astley	Die besten Hits der 80er, Volume 1	2005 DE
2.14	Never Gonna Give You Up	3:31	Rick Astley	Foute CD van Deckers en Ornelis, Volume 4	2005 BE
1.14	Never Gonna Give You Up	3:32	Rick Astley	Get Your Party Started!	2005 -
2.6	Never Gonna Give You Up	3:35	Rick Astley	Nachtschicht, Volume 19	2005 AT
1.1	Never Gonna Give You Up	3:32	Rick Astley	Stock, Aitken Waterman: Gold	2005 GB
3.2	Never Gonna Give You Up	3:30	Rick Astley	The Britpack: 80s UK Innovators of Pop	2005 NL
1.18	Never Gonna Give You Up	3:34	Rick Astley	80s Love	2006-01-02 GB
2.1	Never Gonna Give You Up	3:31	Rick Astley	The Best of Absolute Music, Volume 1: 1986–1990	2006-01-25 SE
1.1	Never Gonna Give You Up	3:32	Rick Astley	Collection	2006-01-31 CA
2.16	Never Gonna Give You Up	3:33	Rick Astley	I ❤ 80s	2006-03-20 GB
2.11	Never Gonna Give You Up	3:33	Rick Astley	I Love 80's (disc 2)	2006-03-20 GB
1.16	Never Gonna Give You Up	3:32	Rick Astley	British Hit Singles: Ultimate 80s No.1s	2006-06-05 GB
2.13	Never Gonna Give You Up	3:26	Rick Astley	The Wedding Disco	2006-06-19 GB
1.1	Never Gonna Give You Up	3:35	Rick Astley	Greatest Ever! Eighties: The Definitive Collection	2006-09-18 GB
1.7	Never Gonna Give You Up	3:33	Rick Astley	#1 Super 80s Hits	2006-10-26 US
1.8	Never Gonna Give You Up	3:32	Rick Astley	Now That’s What I Call No.1’s	2006-10-30 GB
3.13	Never Gonna Give You Up	3:35	Rick Astley	Superstars of the 80s (The Time Life Collection)	2006-10-31 US
1.14	Never Gonna Give You Up	3:34	Rick Astley	The Best of the 80s: 54 Original 80s Classics	2006-10-31 GB
2.1	Never Gonna Give You Up	3:32	Rick Astley	The Very Best of School Reunion	2006-11-20 GB
3.8	Never Gonna Give You Up	3:33	Rick Astley	Greatest Ever! Number 1’s: The Definitive Collection	2006-11-27 GB
1.12	Never Gonna Give You Up	3:30	Rick Astley	Number One Party Anthems	2006-11-27 GB
2.10	Never Gonna Give You Up	3:37	Rick Astley	80's Gold: The Hits	2006 US
2.12	Never Gonna Give You Up	3:33	Rick Astley	All #1 Hits ’80s	2006 US
1.17	Never Gonna Give You Up	3:31	Rick Astley	Classic Cuts Presents: 80’s Night: The Ultimate DJ Collection: Special Stereo Wide Edition 16 CD Box	2006 GB
1.17	Never Gonna Give You Up	3:31	Rick Astley	Classic Cuts Presents: 80s Night: The Ultimate DJ Collection: A to B	2006 GB
1.10	Never Gonna Give You Up	3:32	Rick Astley	Fantastic 80s	2006 GB
1.3	Never Gonna Give You Up	3:29	Rick Astley	Floorfillers: The Ultimate Party Album	2006 AU
1.9	Never Gonna Give You Up	3:32	Rick Astley	Los más de la fiesta	2006 ES
1.4	Never Gonna Give You Up	3:34	Rick Astley	One Shot 1987	2006 IT
1.4	Never Gonna Give You Up	3:31	Rick Astley	Remember the 80s	2006 FI
3.6	Never Gonna Give You Up	3:33	Rick Astley	Som livre anos 80, Volume 1	2006 BR
1.11	Never Gonna Give You Up	3:33	Rick Astley	The No.1 DJ Collection: 80's, Volume 9	2006 GB
1.18	Never Gonna Give You Up	3:32	Rick Astley	Foute CD van Q-Music, Volume 3	2007-05-11 BE
2.7	Never Gonna Give You Up	3:31	Rick Astley	Club 80s	2007-07-23 GB
1.1	Never Gonna Give You Up	3:35	Rick Astley	Together Forever: The Best of Rick Astley	2007-07-23 GB
3.15	Never Gonna Give You Up	3:32	Rick Astley	All Night Disco	2007-08-09 PL
2.13	Never Gonna Give You Up	3:33	Rick Astley	Simply the Best 1980s	2007-08-20 AU
2.6	Never Gonna Give You Up	3:34	Rick Astley	Greatest Ever! School Days: The Definitive Collection	2007-09-24 GB
1.1	Never Gonna Give You Up	3:33	Rick Astley	Mastermix Professional Engineered for DJs F: 80s 90s 00s	2007-09-24 GB
4.17	Never Gonna Give You Up	3:31	Rick Astley	Foute CD Box van Deckers & Ornelis: Het leukste uit 5 jaar Foute Uur	2007-11-16 BE
2.5	Never Gonna Give You Up	3:29	Rick Astley	80 Hits of the 80's	2007 NL
1.17	Never Gonna Give You Up	3:33	Rick Astley	100 Nr. 1 Hits, Volume 2	2007 BE
1.3	Never Gonna Give You Up	3:34	Rick Astley	Absolute Hits: 80s Pop	2007 GB
1.16	Never Gonna Give You Up	3:34	Rick Astley	Absolute No 1s	2007 AU
2.18	Never Gonna Give You Up	3:33	Rick Astley	Capital Gold Legendary Labels	2007 GB
2.10	Never Gonna Give You Up	3:34	Rick Astley	Hit Collection	2007 DE
1.13	Never Gonna Give You Up	3:32	Rick Astley	Les tubes en or	2007 BE
1.2	Never Gonna Give You Up	3:33	Rick Astley	Top of the Pops 1987	2008-02-11 GB
3.3	Never Gonna Give You Up	3:32	Rick Astley	Top of the Pops: The 80s	2008-02-25 GB
4.7	Never Gonna Give You Up	3:34	Rick Astley	100 Hits: No. 1s	2008-03-03 GB
2.4	Never Gonna Give You Up	3:33	Rick Astley	Ü30 Fete: 80er Party	2008-04-18 DE
1.1	Never Gonna Give You Up	3:30	Rick Astley	100 80s Hits	2008-06-23 CH
24.2	Never Gonna Give You Up	3:33	Rick Astley	Top of the Pops: Year by Year Collection 1964‒2006	2008-07-07 -
1.10	Never Gonna Give You Up	3:33	Rick Astley	Die Hit-Giganten: Die besten Hits der 80er	2008-08-08 DE
4.18	Never Gonna Give You Up	3:30	Rick Astley	101 80s Hits	2008-10-25 AU
7.5	Never Gonna Give You Up	3:33	Rick Astley	Top 100 anni ’80	2008-11-05 IT
1.11	Never Gonna Give You Up	3:32	Rick Astley	Fantastic 80’s! Greatest Hits	2008-11-28 GB
1.16	Never Gonna Give You Up	3:33	Rick Astley	Fantastic 80s! The Complete Collection	2008-12-01 GB
1.2	Never Gonna Give You Up	3:30	Rick Astley	Absolute 80’s	2008 SE
3.2	Never Gonna Give You Up	3:31	Rick Astley	Alle 50 fout	2008 NL
2.3	Never Gonna Give You Up	3:31	Rick Astley	Alle Hits!: Die 80er	2008 DE
1.1	Never Gonna Give You Up	3:33	Rick Astley	Here and Now: The Very Best of the 80s	2008 GB
3.8	Never Gonna Give You Up	3:29	Rick Astley	Legendary Disco	2008 NL
1.12	Never Gonna Give You Up	3:31	Rick Astley	Nostalgie La Legende: 20ème Anniversaire	2008 FR
3.7	Never Gonna Give You Up	3:34	Rick Astley	Platinum ’80s Hits	2008 CA
1.1	Never Gonna Give You Up	3:33	Rick Astley	Playlist: The Very Best of Rick Astley	2008 US
1.1	Never Gonna Give You Up	3:33	Rick Astley	Playlist: The Very Best of Rick Astley	2008 US
1.14	Never Gonna Give You Up	3:34	Rick Astley	Summer hits 5	2008 SE
1.2	Never Gonna Give You Up	3:33	Rick Astley	The Ultimate Collection: Eighties	2008 GB
1.1	Never Gonna Give You Up	3:34	Rick Astley	Ultimate Collection	2008 GB
1.2	Never Gonna Give You Up	3:34	Rick Astley	Ö3 Zeitreise 1987	2009-01-30 -
1.10	Never Gonna Give You Up	3:31	Rick Astley	Housework Songs III	2009-04-10 AU
1.8	Never Gonna Give You Up	3:32	Rick Astley	Ultimate Collection: 80s School Days	2009-05-05 GB
1.1	Never Gonna Give You Up	3:34	Rick Astley	KulturSPIEGEL - My Generation, CD 17: Goldkettchen & Schulterpolster 1986 (Formel Eins in den Wohnzimmern 1983-1990)	2009-05-08 DE
1.12	Never Gonna Give You Up	3:33	Rick Astley	80s Rewind	2009-05-18 GB
3.4	Never Gonna Give You Up	3:34	Rick Astley	Feel Good 80s	2009-05-19 XE 2009-05-19 GB
Promotion
1.9	Never Gonna Give You Up	3:34	Rick Astley	The Platinum Collection, Volume 2	2004 GB
1.3	Never Gonna Give You Up	3:32	Rick Astley	Flair's Top of the 80's Vol 1	2005 BE
Bootleg
1.1	Never Gonna Give You Up	3:36	Rick Astley	Whenever You Need Somebody	2005 RU
1.22	Never Gonna Give You Up	3:35	Rick Astley	YTMND Soundtrack, Volume 17	2008-04-22 XW
26.11	Never Gonna Give You Up	3:31	Rick Astley	80’s Giga Hits Collection	2008 -
1.2	Never Gonna Give You Up	3:35	Rick Astley	Lulz: A Corruption of LOL #I: Pure Memetics	2008 XW

Relationships

keyboard [Fairlight] programming:	Ian Curnow (in 1986-10)
additional engineer:	Jamie Bromfield Mike Duffy Phil Harding Karen Hewitt
assistant engineer:	Boky Peter Day Gordon Dennis Jonathan King Yoyo
engineer:	Mark McGuire
producer:	Aitken Stock Waterman
mixer:	Mixmasters Pete Hammond (on 1987-01-01)
drums (drum set) [drums]:	A Linn (in 1986-10)
guitar [guitars]:	Matt Aitken (in 1986-10)
keyboard [keyboards]:	Matt Aitken (in 1986-10) Mike Stock (in 1986-10)
background vocals [backing vocals]:	Dee Lewis (in 1986-10) Shirley Lewis (in 1986-10) Mae McKenna (in 1986-10) Suzanne Rhatigan (in 1986-10)
lead vocals:	Rick (in 1986-10)
arranger:	Gordon Jenkins

phonographic copyright (℗) by:	BMG Rights Management (UK) Ltd. (in 1987) Pete Waterman Ltd. (in 1987) PWL (in 1987)
miscellaneous support:	PWL (task: original sound recordings made by)

recorded at:	PWL Studio 1 (in 1986-10) PWL Studio 2 (in 1986-10) PWL Studios in London, England, United Kingdom (in 1986-10)
mixed at:	PWL Studio 1 (on 1987-01-01) PWL Studio 2 (on 1987-01-01)

has remixes:	Never Gonna Give You Up (Baby Diamonds remix) Never Gonna Give You Up (Xam’s trance break) You Got Rickrollerized by Rickrollerz
sampled by:	Betty (Get Money) by Yung Gravy CirnoRHTL by Reizoko Cj Lolicore 2.27 (Pu-erh tea edition) by Reizoko CJ Some Owls Were Harmed During The Making Of This Programme by Kevin Eldon
mash-ups:	A Perfectly Normal Mashup… by Carrots The Rabbi Brightstyle by hujiba Corycore Collection Ⅰ by RosalinaSama Don’t You Ever Give Up Wanting Me (Baby) (Rick Astley vs. Human League) by MadMixMustang EXTREME MEME MUSIC MEGAMASHUP by DaymanOurSavior Get Ur Robo On by Wobble jetpack (svantana rickrollmix) by module 6 Johnny by Neil Cicierega Lulz: A Corruption of Everything by Psycosis Memories by Beefjerky007 Never Gonna Be Me by toonlink Never Gonna Burn Down Our Little Hometown (twentyonepilots vs. Linkin Park vs. Erasure vs. Rick Astley vs. The Prodigy) by Talk Hard Productions Never Gonna Clock You by DJ Tripp Never Gonna Fool Your Gold (Rick Astley vs. The Stone Roses) by DJ Lobsterdust Never Gonna Freak You Out by Divide & Kreate Never Gonna Give Avril 14th Up by Crowded Babes Never Gonna Give the Monado Up by Triple‐Q Never Gonna Give Up the Small Things by G3RSt Never Gonna Give Up the Wrong Club by SmadaLeinad Never Gonna Give You Up in a Heavy Situation by Sugamotor Never Gonna Give Your Teen Spirit Up [Nirvana vs. Rick Astley] by DJ Morgoth Never Gonna Lie From You (2015 Concept) by JV5 Never Gonna Space You Up (Rick Astley vs. Jamiroquai) by Max & Moritz Never Not Unusual (Rick Astley vs. Tom Jones) by YITT Neverending by Mighty Mike Neverending (Rick Astley vs. Mika) by Mighty Mike Perfect Love (Britney Spears vs. Erasure vs. Kylie Minogue vs. Justin Bieber vs. Katy Perry feat. Snoop Dogg vs. Jessie J vs. Beyoncé vs. Calvin Harris vs. Cheryl Cole vs. Donna Summer vs. Modern English vs. David Guetta vs. Rick Astley vs. Maroon 5 feat. Wiz Khalifa vs. Gossip vs. R3hab & Swanky Tunes feat. Max'C vs. Owl City vs. Timbaland vs. One Direction vs. Ke$ha) by DJ Schmolli Radio Rick by DJ Useo Reunite Your World by Triple‐Q Ricksputin by Beefjerky007 Ricky (Rick Astley vs. Bill Conti) by Phil RetroSpector The Jig Is Never Up by Qubic Virturoll Ricksanity (Rick Astley vs. Jamiroquai) by markwahlbird We Don’t Make Meme Mashups (Encanto vs. Quad City DJ’s vs. PSY vs. Santana feat. Rob Thomas vs. Cardi B feat. Megan Thee Stallion vs. Rick Astley vs. Imagine Dragons vs. LazyTown vs. Smash Mouth vs. Bag Raiders vs. Soulja Boy vs. Leviathan vs. Misha vs. Weezer vs. The Legend of Zelda: Wand of Gamelon vs. Reese’s Puffs vs. Among Us vs. Barenaked Ladies) by Psynwav Intro by Ph0ton (order: 2) ryuuseigun mashup by jan Misali (order: 4) Let It Bump by E-603 (order: 7)
music videos:	Never Gonna Give You Up

part of:	Cachitos Nochevieja 2022 (number: 48) (order: 48) Billboard: The 500 Best Pop Songs (number: 244) (order: 244)

stream video for free:	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ [info]
other databases:	https://rateyourmusic.com/song/rick-astley/never-gonna-give-you-up/ [info]

recording of:	Never Gonna Give You Up (in 1986-10)

Never Gonna Give You Up

writer:	Matt Aitken Mike Stock Pete Waterman

publisher:

All Boys Music Ltd.
BMG Music
Copyright Control
Hammer Music
Mike Stock Publishing Limited
Sid’s Songs Limited
Songs of Kobalt Music Publishing
Sony Music Publishing (Japan) Inc.
Universal Music Careers
Universal Music Publishers MGB Australia Pty Ltd
Universal–Songs of PolyGram International, Inc.
シンコーミュージック・エンタテイメント
ヤマハミュージックEH(CM)
ユニバーサル・ミュージック・パブリッシング Synch事業部
Terrace Music (in 1987)

referred to in medleys:	Sawmix 1 R.A. Megamix (order: 2) Horse Race (extended mix) (order: 44)
later parody versions:	Bidoof Day announcement!
is the basis for:	Toujours là pour toi (Never Gonna Give You Up)
arrangements:	Never Gonna Fugue You Up
lyrics quoted in:	Freddy, You're Supposed to Be on Lockdown

Never Gonna Give You Up

Genres: pop, dance-pop, synth-pop, blue-eyed soul, dance

Other tags: adult contemporary, club/dance, beach, dinner, dreamy

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Never Gonna Give You Up

Never Gonna Give You Up

Genres: pop, dance-pop, synth-pop, blue-eyed soul, dance

Other tags: adult contemporary, club/dance, beach, dinner, dreamy

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Never Gonna Give You Up