{"id":29955,"date":"2024-07-19T18:03:32","date_gmt":"2024-07-19T18:03:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-july-19-1986-genesis-lands-at-1-with-invisible-touch\/"},"modified":"2024-07-19T18:03:32","modified_gmt":"2024-07-19T18:03:32","slug":"on-this-day-july-19-1986-genesis-lands-at-1-with-invisible-touch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-july-19-1986-genesis-lands-at-1-with-invisible-touch\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day, July 19, 1986: Genesis lands at #1 with \u201cInvisible Touch\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-07-19\/ABCAudio_ThisDayInHistory_v03_ag.jpg\" alt><\/figure>\n<p>On This Day, July 19, 1986 \u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>Genesis\u00a0<\/strong>landed their first and only #1 song on the\u00a0<\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Billboard\u00a0<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">Hot 100 with \u201cInvisible Touch,\u201d the title track of the band\u2019s 13th studio album.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The tune was the first of five consecutive top\u00a0five singles from the album, the others being \u201cLand of Confusion,\u201d and \u201cThrowing it All Away,\u201d which both went to #4, and \u201cIn Too Deep\u201d and \u201cTonight, Tonight, Tonight,\u201d which both went to #3.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em>Invisible Touch\u00a0<\/em>was a hugely successful album for Genesis, with more than 6 million copies sold in the U.S. It peaked at #3 on the\u00a0<em>Billboard\u00a0<\/em>Album chart.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Interestingly, the week \u201cInvisible Touch\u201d was at #1, Genesis\u2019 former frontman\u00a0<strong>Peter Gabriel\u00a0<\/strong>was just behind them at #2 with \u201cSledgehammer,\u201d which eventually went to #1 a week later.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On This Day, July 19, 1986 \u2026 Genesis\u00a0landed their first and only #1 song on the\u00a0Billboard\u00a0Hot 100 with \u201cInvisible Touch,\u201d the title track of the band\u2019s 13th studio album. The tune was the first of five consecutive top\u00a0five singles from the album, the others being \u201cLand of Confusion,\u201d and \u201cThrowing<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-july-19-1986-genesis-lands-at-1-with-invisible-touch\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,43,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29955"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29955\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}