On 27 November 1981, The Human League released "Don't You Want Me" - the fourth single from their third studio album “Dare”.
In November 1983, Rolling Stone named it the "breakthrough song" of the Second British Invasion of the US. In 2015, the song was voted by the British public as the nation's seventh-favourite 1980s number one in a poll for ITV. And in 2022, Rolling Stone ranked it one of the 200 Greatest Dance Songs of All Time.