But there’s so much more beyond “Blue Monday.” Read our list below: — “Dreams Never End” (1981) New Order were still underneath the shadow of Joy Division in 1981, a hard shackle to shake.

New Order's Stephen Morris, Gillian Gilbert, Bernard Sumner, and Peter Hook in the 1980s. (Photo: Steve Rapport/Getty Images) New Order’s “Blue Monday” was released 40 years ago, on March 7 ...

It’s no stretch to say the song “changed music forever,” as NME proclaimed in 2018. Not that New Order went into “Blue Monday” with any such goals.

But Blue Monday, which opened with a now-famous programmed kick drum salvo (shamelessly borrowed from Donna Summer’s 1979 song Our Love), became the biggest-selling 12” single of all time.

New Order released their first new album in a decade in 2015 – reason to celebrate indeed. However, ‘Blue Monday’, a track that 30 years on, remains as powerful as ever, will always be ...

The 30th anniversary of the release of New Order’s ‘Blue Monday’ passed with an odd absence of fanfare last Thursday (7 March). Maybe no one could believe it was quite so ancient because ...

Rhino recently released the definitive edition of Low Life. Post-1994, Blue Monday is by far the biggest New Order track with chart sales of 1,202,345 (Blue Monday 1988 is on 42,262).