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{{Short description|1986 single by Pet Shop Boys}}
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{{Infobox song
| name       = Opportunities (Let's Make Lots of Money)
| cover      =
| alt        =
| type       = single
| artist     = [[Pet Shop Boys]]
| album      =
| B-side     = In the Night
| released   = 1 July 1985
| recorded   = Late 1984
| studio     =
| genre      = [[Synth-pop]]<ref name="Edwards & Elliott 2023">{{cite web|first1= Luke|last1= Edwards|first2= Mark|last2= Elliott|title= Best Pet Shop Boys Songs: 30 Synth-Pop Hits Always On Our Mind|website= [[Warner Music Group|Dig!]] |date= June 16, 2023|url= https://www.thisisdig.com/feature/best-pet-shop-boys-songs/|accessdate= January 4, 2025}}</ref>
| length     = 3:45 (7″/single version)<br/>6:44 (12″ mix)
| label      = [[Parlophone]]
| writer     =
* [[Neil Tennant]]
* [[Chris Lowe]]
| producer   =
* [[J. J. Jeczalik]]
* Nicholas Froome
| prev_title = [[One More Chance (Pet Shop Boys song)|One More Chance]]
| prev_year  = 1984
| next_title = [[West End Girls]]
| next_year  = 1985
}}
{{Infobox song
| name       = Opportunities (Let's Make Lots of Money)
| cover      = PSB Opportunities.jpg
| alt        =
| caption    = Second release cover
| type       = single
| artist     = [[Pet Shop Boys]]
| album      = [[Please (Pet Shop Boys album)|Please]]
| B-side     = Was That What It Was?
| released   = 19 May 1986
| recorded   = Late 1985
| studio     =
| genre      = [[Synth-pop]]<ref name="Edwards & Elliott 2023"/>
| length     = 3:44 (album version)<br/>3:36 (7″ edit version)
| label      = [[Parlophone]]
| writer     =
* [[Neil Tennant]]
* [[Chris Lowe]]
| producer   = [[Stephen Hague]]
| prev_title = [[Love Comes Quickly]]
| prev_year  = 1986
| next_title = [[Suburbia (song)|Suburbia]]
| next_year  = 1986
}}

"'''Opportunities (Let's Make Lots of Money)'''" is a song by English [[synth-pop]] duo [[Pet Shop Boys]] from their debut studio album, ''[[Please (Pet Shop Boys album)|Please]]'' (1986). It was released as a single in 1985 and re-recorded and reissued in 1986, gaining greater popularity in both the United Kingdom and United States with its second release, reaching number 11 on the [[UK Singles Chart]] and number 10 on the US [[Billboard Hot 100|''Billboard'' Hot 100]].<ref name="UKcharts">{{cite web |url=https://www.officialcharts.com/artist/26802/pet-shop-boys/|title=Pet Shop Boys Songs and Albums: Full Official Chart History|website=Official Charts|access-date=2 November 2024}}</ref><ref name="billboard100">{{cite web |url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/pet-shop-boys/chart-history/hsi/|title=Pet Shop Boys: Chart History|website=Billboard|access-date=2 November 2024}}</ref> After the song was featured in a Super Bowl ad in February 2021, it re-entered the charts, claiming the number one spot on ''Billboard's'' [[Dance/Electronic Digital Song Sales]].<ref name="Billboard25Feb01">{{cite web |url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/business/chart-beat/9531592/pet-shop-boys-top-dance-electronic-digital-song-sales-chart-for-first-time-with-opportunities |title=Pet Shop Boys Top Dance/Electronic Digital Songs Chart for First Time with Opportunities |last=Murray |first=Gordon |date=25 February 2021 |publisher=Billboard |format=website|access-date=13 April 2021}}</ref>

==Background==
The song was written during the Pet Shop Boys' formative years, in 1983. According to Neil Tennant, the main lyrical concept came while in a recording studio in [[Camden Town]] when Chris Lowe asked him to make up a lyric based around the line "Let's make lots of money".<ref name="retro">{{cite web |url=https://www.thisisnotretro.com/interviews/pet-shop-boys-interview-2004/|title=Pet Shop Boys interview|date=March 2004|website=This Is Not Retro|access-date=10 November 2024}}</ref>

===Composition===
The lyrics describe, in Tennant's words, "two losers".<ref name="pleasefurther"/> The song is written from the perspective of a man who describes himself as being intellectual and educated. The lyrics are addressed towards another character, identified as having "looks" and "brawn", and who is invited to join the song's protagonist in a scheme to "make lots of money".<ref>{{Cite book |last=Ashton |first=Bodie A. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CyXsEAAAQBAJ&dq=pet%20shop%20boys%20opportunities&pg=PT97 |title=The Pet Shop Boys and the Political: Queerness, Culture, Identity and Society |date=2024-01-25 |publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing |isbn=978-1-350-33158-7 |language=en}}</ref>

Tennant has made it clear that the schemes are doomed to failure. The protagonist's claimed accreditations, a [[Doctor of Philosophy|PhD]] in [[mathematics]] from the [[University of Paris|Sorbonne]] and knowledge of [[computer programming]], are conceited fabrications.<ref name="retro"/> The punchline of the song is that "the people in it are not going to make any money".<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.petshopboys.co.uk/product/single/opportunities-second-release |title=Opportunities (Second release) |website=petshopboys.co.uk |date=1986-05-19 |access-date=2024-10-31}}</ref>

The lyrics' meaning has been taken at face value by some listeners, who view it as a materialistic anthem. The satirical interpretation, on the other hand, cemented the Pet Shop Boys' reputation as ironists for many, to the band's chagrin since often their more sincere songs are ignored as a result.<ref name="retro"/><ref>{{cite book |last=Heath |first=Chris |year=2020 |title=Pet Shop Boys, Literally |location=London |publisher=William Heinemann |pages=119-20 |isbn=9781473575691}}</ref>

A notable change between the original and re-recorded versions of "Opportunities" is the omission of the spoken [[Conclusion (music)#Outro|outro]], "All the love that we had / And the love that we hide / Who will bury us / When we die?" According to Tennant, the lyrics were removed from the second version of the song as the duo feared the passage would be construed as "too pretentious".<ref name="pleasefurther"/> The first two lines of the outro, however, are sung within the lyrics of "Why Don't We Live Together?" from the ''Please'' album.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.petshopboys.co.uk/lyrics/why-dont-we-live-together |title=Lyrics: Why don't we live together? |website=petshopboys.co.uk |access-date=10 November 2024}}</ref>

==Release==
The first version of the song, recorded with the duo's first producer, [[Bobby Orlando]], was not released; upon signing with record label [[Parlophone]], they re-recorded the song with [[J. J. Jeczalik]] (of [[Art of Noise]]) and Nicholas Froome.<ref name="pleasefurther">{{Cite AV media notes |title=Please: Further Listening 1984-1986 |title-link=Please (Pet Shop Boys album) |last=Heath |first=Chris |author-link=Chris Heath |others=[[Pet Shop Boys]] |year=2018 |type=booklet |publisher=Parlophone Records |id=0190295831745}}</ref> The original single release charted at number 116 in the UK,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.petshopboys.co.uk/product/single/opportunities-first-release |title=Opportunities (First Release)|website=petshopboys.co.uk |date=1 July 1985 |access-date=10 November 2024}}</ref> to be exceedingly outdone by the number-one spectacle of the second release of "[[West End Girls]]" in multiple countries. 

A new single version for the duo's debut album, ''[[Please (Pet Shop Boys album)|Please]]'', was mixed with reprogramming done by producer [[Stephen Hague]] and re-recorded vocals from Tennant.<ref name="pleasefurther"/> The second release of "Opportunities", following the album's release, resulted in better chart performance. It is the only single from the band to chart higher in the US than the UK, becoming the duo's second top 10 single in the US, peaking at number 10, and just missing out at number 11 in the UK.<ref name="billboard100"/><ref name="UKcharts"/> In Australia, the first version was the one to chart (although outside the top 40).<ref name="kent">{{cite book |last=Kent |first=David |author-link=David Kent (historian) |title=Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 |edition=illustrated |location=St Ives, N.S.W. |publisher=Australian Chart Book |year=1993 |page=232 |isbn=0-646-11917-6}}</ref>

''Please'' also included a brief, cacophonic track titled "Opportunities (Reprise)", which was the original middle section to the song proper before it was edited out.<ref name="pleasefurther"/>

For the 1985 release, 12-inch [[remix]]es were produced by Ron Dean Miller of [[Nuance (Dance music act)|Nuance]],<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.discogs.com/release/153351-Pet-Shop-Boys-Opportunities-Lets-Make-Lots-Of-Money |title=Pet Shop Boys - Opportunities (Let's Make Lots of Money) - Parlophone 12 RA 6097 |website=Discogs |access-date=10 November 2024}}</ref> while those for the 1986 release were produced by noted 1980s producer [[Shep Pettibone]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.discogs.com/release/110040-Pet-Shop-Boys-Opportunities-Lets-Make-Lots-Of-Money |title=Pet Shop Boys - Opportunities (Let's Make Lots of Money) - Parlophone 12R6129 |website=Discogs |access-date=10 November 2024}}</ref> Some of Miller's overdubs went on to be incorporated into the 1986 single version. The 1986 7" single version bears the following production credit: "Original Production by J.J. Jeczalik & Nicholas Froome; New York overdubs by Ron Dean Miller; Remix and Additional Production by Stephen Hague."<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.discogs.com/release/99654-Pet-Shop-Boys-Opportunities-Lets-Make-Lots-Of-Money |title=Pet Shop Boys - Opportunities (Let's Make Lots of Money) - Parlophone R6129 |website=Discogs |access-date=10 November 2024}}</ref> Miller is also credited on the album track in the liner notes for ''Please''.<ref name="pleasefurther"/>

The original single version of "Opportunities" was unavailable on compact disc until the 1998 U.S.-only ''[[Essential (Pet Shop Boys album)|Essential]]'' compilation album, and was subsequently published in a longer version on the 2-disc ''Please: Further Listening 1984–1986''.

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==="In the Night"===
The [[A-side and B-side|B-side]] of the 1985 release, "In the Night", is about the [[subculture]] known as the [[Zazou]]s, which appeared in France during the [[German occupation of France in World War II]]; concerned with [[fashion]] and music, and allied with neither the Nazis and [[Vichy France]] nor the [[French Resistance]], they were distrusted by both sides. Tennant, having read about the movement in a book by [[David Pryce-Jones]], asks, in the song, the question of whether this apathy essentially amounted to [[collaborationism]].<ref name="please_inthenight_2001">[[Chris Heath|Heath, Chris]] (2001). "[http://www.petshopboys.net/html/interviews/pleasse012.shtml In the Night] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050914011307/http://www.petshopboys.net/html/interviews/pleasse012.shtml |date=14 September 2005 }}". In ''Please / Further Listening 1984–1986'' [CD liner notes]. London: Pet Shop Boys Partnership.</ref>

The Arthur Baker remix from ''[[Disco (Pet Shop Boys album)|Disco]]'' became the opening [[theme music]] of the [[BBC]] fashion programme ''[[The Clothes Show]]'' from the second season in 1987 (the original 1986 theme was [[Five Star]]'s "[[Find the Time]] (Shep Pettibone Remix)").<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13dI86d8OMc |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/13dI86d8OMc |archive-date=2021-12-21 |url-status=live|title=BBC One - The Clothes Show 1986 - YouTube|website=[[YouTube]] |date=14 March 2015 |access-date=30 March 2016}}{{cbignore}}</ref> This continued for a decade until 1995 saw a fully instrumental re-recording of the song, "In the Night '95", for the purpose of replacing the old theme.<ref name="clothesshow">{{cite web | url = http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/classic/clothesshow/trivia.shtml | title = Trivia | work = Cult - Classic TV - The Clothes Show | publisher = BBC | access-date = 19 June 2006 }}</ref><ref name="bilingualfurther">{{Cite AV media notes |title=Bilingual: Further Listening 1995-1997|title-link=Bilingual (album)|last=Heath|first=Chris|author-link=Chris Heath|others=[[Pet Shop Boys]]|year=2018|page= |pages= |type=booklet|publisher=Parlophone Records|id=0190295788292}}</ref>

== Music videos ==
=== First version ===
The [[music video]] for the first single release was directed by [[Eric Watson (photographer)|Eric Watson]] and [[Andy Morahan]].<ref>{{cite AV media notes|title=Videography: The Singles Collection on Video|type=VHS|year=1991|publisher=[[Capitol Records]]}}</ref> A [[Cadillac de Ville series|Cadillac]] stands in an underground car park, the headlights switching on by themselves as Lowe walks away from it. The cover of a ground-level service hatch in front of the car vanishes, leaving a rectangular hole in which Tennant materialises, standing with only his head and shoulders visible. He is dressed in a hat, eyeglasses, and a suit by British fashion designer Stephen Linard with a dollar-sign pin on the lapel. As he sings amid occasional washes of steam from the car, his face begins to [[jitter]] and his neck inflates in similar fashion to a frog. Lowe appears at intervals, wearing blue jeans and a leather jacket and standing/walking around the garage. At the end of the video, Tennant's body disintegrates to dust within his suit, leaving it upright on a coat hanger and his hat on the pavement. The suit disappears as Lowe drives away in the car.<ref>{{cite AV media |people=Pet Shop Boys (performers), Eric Watson (director)|date=26 February 2009|title=Opportunities (Let's Make Lots of Money) (Original Version)|type=music video|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=di60NYGu03Y|publisher=Parlophone}}</ref>

Watson was partly inspired by the images of preachers in ''[[Wise Blood (film)|Wise Blood]]'', the [[film adaptation]] of the [[Flannery O'Connor]] [[Wise Blood|novel of the same title]], in designing Tennant's appearance.<ref name="literally">{{cite web | date = May 1992 | url = http://www.petshopboys.net/html/literallys/literally_08/literally_08_page_2.shtml | title = Interview with Eric Watson | publisher = Literally (Pet Shop Boys fanclub magazine) | access-date = 19 June 2006 | archive-date = 27 September 2007 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070927195731/http://www.petshopboys.net/html/literallys/literally_08/literally_08_page_2.shtml | url-status = dead }}</ref>

=== Second version ===
For the re-release, Polish director [[Zbigniew Rybczyński]] was recruited.<ref>{{cite AV media notes|title=Pop Art: The Videos|type=DVD|year= 2003|publisher=[[EMI Music]]}}</ref> Tennant wears a suit, hat, and white gloves, while Lowe is dressed as a manual labourer in a dirty shirt, red baseball cap, and jeans with a pair of work gloves stuffed in the back pocket. As Tennant sings, paper money showers onto him and Lowe from above and a background of city skylines and clouds scrolls past, rendered as neon outlines. Duplicates of the two appear repeatedly, passing objects back and forth that represent their characters' respective statuses, such as a brick, sledgehammer, briefcase, stack of books, and top hat.<ref>{{cite AV media |people=Pet Shop Boys (performers), Zbigniew Rybczyński (director)|date=22 April 2009|title=Opportunities (Let's Make Lots of Money) (Version 2)|type=music video|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyeWRd7ZEBs|publisher=Parlophone}}</ref>

==Usage in other media==
The song was the opening theme for the American reality television series ''[[Beauty and the Geek]]'' which premiered in 2005, running for 5 seasons.<ref>{{cite book | ref={{harvid|Brooks & Marsh|2009}}  | title = [[The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows 1946–Present]] |edition=9th | author-first1=Tim  |author-last1=Brooks | author-link1 = Tim Brooks (television historian) | author-first2=Earle F. | author-last2=Marsh | isbn = 9780307483201 | publisher = Random House Publishing Group | year = 2009 | page= 118 }}</ref>

"Opportunities (Let's Make Lots of Money)" was used in a commercial for [[Allstate]] in 2021 that aired during [[Super Bowl LV]]. In the weeks following the Super Bowl, the ad was in heavy rotation and triggered a wave of renewed interest in the Pet Shop Boys. The song re-entered the US charts after 35 years on ''Billboard'''s [[Dance/Electronic Digital Song Sales]] chart at number five.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/business/chart-beat/9527827/super-bowl-pet-shop-boys-opportunities-dance-charts/ |title=Super Bowl Ad Propels Pet Shop Boys' 'Opportunities' on Dance Charts |last=Murray |first=Gordon |date=18 February 2021 |website=Billboard.com |publisher=Billboard |access-date=20 February 2021}}</ref> By the last week of February it had surged to number one.<ref name="Billboard25Feb01"/> The song stayed atop the chart for four straight weeks
and climbed back to the top spot on 17 April,{{Citation needed|date=November 2024}} for a total of five weeks at number one.<ref name="DEDS chart">{{cite web |url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/pet-shop-boys/chart-history/ddt/ |title=Pet Shop Boys: Dance/Electronic Digital Song Sales Chart |publisher=Billboard |format=website|access-date=9 March 2021}}</ref> The song also reached number 12 on the ''Billboard'' [[Dance/Electronic Songs]] chart<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/pet-shop-boys/chart-history/dan/ |title=Pet Shop Boys: Hot Dance/Electronic Songs |publisher=Billboard |format=website|access-date=13 April 2021}}</ref> and number 25 on the [[Digital Songs]] chart.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/pet-shop-boys/chart-history/hds/ |title=Pet Shop Boys: Digital Song Sales Chart |publisher=Billboard |format=website|access-date=9 March 2021}}</ref> The increase in interest also affected other Pet Shop Boys songs, with "[[West End Girls]]" vaulting to number six on the Dance/Electronic Digital Songs chart.<ref name="DEDS chart"/>

A version of the song remixed by Steve Lipson plays over the closing scenes of the film ''[[Tetris (film)|Tetris]]'' (2023).

==Track listings==
===7" (UK) (1985 release) (Parlophone R6097)===
* A. "Opportunities (Let's Make Lots of Money)" – 3:45
* B. "In the Night" – 4:50

===12" #1 (UK) (1985 release) (Parlophone 12R6097)===
* A. "Opportunities (Let's Make Lots of Money)" (Dance Mix) – 6:44
* B. "In the Night" – 4:50

===12" #2 (UK) (1985 release) (Parlophone 12RA6097)===
* A. "Opportunities (Let's Make Lots of Money)" (Version Latina) – 5:29
* B1. "Opportunities" (Dub for Money) – 4:54
* B2. "In the Night" – 4:50

===7" (UK) (1986 release) (Parlophone R6129)===
* A. "Opportunities (Let's Make Lots of Money)" – 3:36
* B. "Was That What It Was?" – 5:18

===12" (UK) (1986 release) Parlophone (12R6129)===
* A1. "Opportunities (Let's Make Lots of Money)" (Shep Pettibone Mastermix) – 7:18
* A2. "Opportunities" (Reprise) – 4:27
* B1. "Opportunities" (Original Dance Mix) – 6:45
* B2. "Was That What It Was?" – 5:18

==Charts==
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===Weekly charts===
{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center"
|+ Weekly chart performance for "Opportunities (Let's Make Lots of Money)" (original release)
! scope="col"| Chart (1985–1986)
! scope="col"| Peak<br/>position
|-
! scope="row"| Australia ([[Kent Music Report]])<ref name="kent"/>
| 63
|-
! scope="row"| [[UK Singles Chart|UK Singles]] ([[Official Charts Company|OCC]])<ref>{{cite book |last=Roberts |first=David |year=2006 |title=British Hit Singles & Albums |title-link=British Hit Singles & Albums |edition=19th |location=London |publisher=[[Guinness World Records Limited]] |isbn=1-904994-10-5}}</ref>
| 116
|}

{| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center"
|+ Weekly chart performance for "Opportunities (Let's Make Lots of Money)" (reissue)
! scope="col"| Chart (1986–1987)
! scope="col"| Peak<br/>position
|-
{{single chart|Canadatopsingles|22|chartid=0673|rowheader=true|access-date=30 April 2020}}
|-
! scope="row"| Europe ([[European Hot 100 Singles]])<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://worldradiohistory.com/UK/Music-and-Media/80s/1986/M&M-1986-07-26.pdf |title=European Hot 100 Singles |magazine=[[Music & Media]] |volume=3 |issue=29 |date=26 July 1986 |page=<!-- 5 in PDF file --> |oclc=29800226 |via=World Radio History}}</ref>
| 29
|-
{{single chart|Ireland2|14|song=Opportunities|rowheader=true|access-date=30 April 2020}}
|-
{{single chart|Dutch40|23|artist=Pet Shop Boys|rowheader=true|access-date=30 April 2020}}
|-
{{single chart|Dutch100|30|artist=Pet Shop Boys|song=Opportunities (Let's Make Lots of Money)|rowheader=true|access-date=23 June 2012}}
|-
{{single chart|New Zealand|2|artist=Pet Shop Boys|song=Opportunities (Let's Make Lots of Money)|rowheader=true|access-date=30 August 2019}}
|-
! scope="row"| Spain ([[Productores de Música de España|AFYVE]])<ref>{{cite book |last=Salaverrie |first=Fernando |date=September 2005 |title=Sólo éxitos: año a año, 1959–2002 |language=es |edition=1st |location=Madrid |publisher=[[Sociedad General de Autores y Editores|Fundación Autor/SGAE]] |isbn=84-8048-639-2}}</ref>
| 14
|-
{{single chart|UKsinglesbyname|11|artist=Pet Shop Boys|artistid=26802|rowheader=true|access-date=9 November 2016}}
|-
{{single chart|Billboardhot100|10|artist=Pet Shop Boys|rowheader=true|access-date=30 April 2020}}
|-
{{single chart|Billboarddanceclubplay|3|artist=Pet Shop Boys|rowheader=true|access-date=30 April 2020}}
|-
{{single chart|Billboarddancesales|16|artist=Pet Shop Boys|rowheader=true|access-date=30 April 2020}}
|-
! scope="row"| US ''[[Cashbox (magazine)|Cash Box]]'' Top 100 Singles<ref>{{cite web |url=https://cashboxmagazine.com/archives/80s_files/19860809.html |title=Cash Box Top 100 Singles – Week ending May 10, 1986 |work=[[Cashbox (magazine)|Cash Box]] |access-date=30 April 2020}}</ref>
| 9
|-
{{single chart|West Germany|25|songid=10328|artist=Pet Shop Boys|song=Opportunities (Let's Make Lots of Money)|rowheader=true|access-date=30 April 2020}}
|}

{| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center"
|+ 2021 weekly chart performance for "Opportunities (Let's Make Lots of Money)"
! scope="col"| Chart (2021)
! scope="col"| Peak<br/>position
|-
! scope="row"| US [[Dance/Electronic Digital Songs|Dance/Electronic Digital Song Sales]] (''[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]'')<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/pet-shop-boys/chart-history/ddt/ |title=Pet Shop Boys Chart History (Dance/Electronic Digital Song Sales) |magazine=Billboard |access-date=8 June 2022}}</ref>
| 1
|-
{{single chart|Billboarddigitalsongs|25|artist=Pet Shop Boys|rowheader=true|access-date=9 March 2021}}
|-
{{single chart|Billboarddanceelectronic|12|artist=Pet Shop Boys|rowheader=true|access-date=13 April 2021}}
|}
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===Year-end charts===
{| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center"
|+ 1986 year-end chart performance for "Opportunities (Let's Make Lots of Money)" (reissue)
! scope="col"| Chart (1986)
! scope="col"| Position
|-
! scope="row"| New Zealand (RIANZ)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://aotearoamusiccharts.co.nz/archive/annual-singles/1986-12-31 |title=Top Selling Singles of 1986 |publisher=[[Recorded Music NZ]] |access-date=30 April 2020}}</ref>
| 30
|-
! scope="row"| US Dance/Disco Club Play (''Billboard'')<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.billboard.com/charts/year-end/1986/dance-club-songs |title=Dance Club Songs – Year-End 1986 |magazine=Billboard |access-date=30 April 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200216223230/https://www.billboard.com/charts/year-end/1986/dance-club-songs |archive-date=16 February 2020}}</ref>
| 47
|-
! scope="row"| US ''Cash Box'' Top 100 Singles<ref>{{cite web |url=https://cashboxmagazine.com/archives/80s_files/1986YESP.html |title=The Cash Box Year-End Charts: 1986 – Top 100 Pop Singles |work=Cash Box |date=27 December 1986 |access-date=30 April 2020 |archive-date=30 January 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200130165601/http://cashboxmagazine.com/archives/80s_files/1986YESP.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>
| 88
|}

{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center"
|+ 2021 year-end chart performance for "Opportunities (Let's Make Lots of Money)" (reissue)
! scope="col"| Chart (2021)
! scope="col"| Position
|-
! scope="row"| US Hot Dance/Electronic Songs (''Billboard'')<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.billboard.com/charts/year-end/2021/hot-dance-electronic-songs/ |title=Hot Dance/Electronic Songs – Year-End 2021 |magazine=Billboard |access-date=3 December 2021}}</ref>
| 56
|}
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==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* {{YouTube|mlLwFwZ2X4A|Pet Shop Boys - Opportunities (Let's Make Lots of Money)}}

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