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<div>{{Infobox song<br />
| name = Turn Up the Beat<br />
| cover = Turn_Up_the_Beat_by_Tina_Arena.jpg<br />
| alt =<br />
| type = single<br />
| artist = [[Tina Arena|Tina]]<br />
| album =<br />
| released = 9 September 1985<ref>{{cite web|url=https://i.imgur.com/vltILVF.jpg|title=Kent Music Report No 583 – 9 September 1985 > Singles: New Releases|publisher=[[Kent Music Report]], via Imgur.com|accessdate=21 April 2017}}</ref><br />
| recorded = 1984<br />
| studio = Armstrong Studios, Melbourne<br />
| venue =<br />
| genre = [[Dance-pop]], [[synthpop]]<br />
| length =<br />
| label = Graffiti Records<br />
| writer = Clyde Lieberman, Pam Reswick, Steve Werfel<br />
| producer = [[Brian Cadd]]<br />
| prev_title =<br />
| prev_year =<br />
| next_title = [[I Need Your Body]]<br />
| next_year = 1990<br />
}}<br />
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"'''Turn Up the Beat'''" is the debut [[single (music)|single]] by [[Australia]]n [[pop music|pop]] singer [[Tina Arena]], released under the name of '''Tina'''.<br />
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==Background and release==<br />
From 1977, Arena was a regular on Australian television show ''[[Young Talent Time]]''. She left the show in October 1983, ahead of her 16th birthday. After leaving the show, Tina began playing music with ''Young Talent Time''{{'}}s floor manager Greg Petherick and the pair recorded some demos that were submitted to record labels. Arena was eventually signed as the first artist on [[Brian Cadd]]'s new label Graffiti Records. Cadd bought the rights to a song called "Turn Up the Beat", which Arena liked because "it was up-tempo and fun, a song about how sometimes music is more important that just about anything else".<ref>{{cite book | last1 = Arena |first1 = Tina | last2 = McGee | first2 = Jude | date = 14 October 2013 | title = Now I Can Dance | location = Sydney, NSW | publisher = [[HarperCollins]] | isbn = 978-0-7322-9756-5|page= 41-43 }}</ref><br />
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A music video was released, but with the song peaking at number 92, the planned album was scrapped.<br />
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==Track listings==<br />
===7" single===<br />
*A1. "Turn Up the Beat" <br />
*B1. "Dreamer"<br />
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===12" single===<br />
*A1. "Turn Up the Beat" (Extended Beat Mix) <br />
*B1. "The Chant" <br />
*B2. "Dreamer"<br />
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==Charts==<br />
{|class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center"<br />
|-<br />
!Chart (1986)<br />
!Peak<br>position<br />
|-<br />
! scope="row"| Australia ([[Kent Music Report]])<ref>{{cite book|last=Kent |first=David |authorlink=David Kent (historian)|title=Australian Chart Book 1970–1992|publisher=Australian Chart Book|location = St. Ives, N.S.W.|year=1993|edition=Illustrated|page=310|isbn=0-646-11917-6}}</ref><br />
| 92<br />
|}<br />
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==References==<br />
{{Reflist}}<br />
{{Tina Arena}}<br />
{{Tina Arena songs}}<br />
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Turn Up The Beat}}<br />
[[Category:Tina Arena songs]]<br />
[[Category:1984 songs]]<br />
[[Category:1985 debut singles]]<br />
[[Category:Songs written by Pam Reswick]]<br />
[[Category:Australian synth-pop songs]]<br />
[[Category:Songs written by Steve Werfel]]</div>50.221.22.76