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{{Infobox album
| name       = Success Hasn't Spoiled Me Yet
| type       = studio
| artist     = [[Rick Springfield]]
| cover      = Succes_Hasn't_Spoiled_Me_Yet_-_CD_album_coverA.jpg
| alt        =
| released   = 23 March 1982
| recorded   = 1981
| studio     =
| genre      = [[Power pop]]<ref name="AllMusic">{{AllMusic |class=album |id= mw0000191950|title= Rick Springfield - ''Success Hasn't Spoiled Me Yet'' (1982): Review |last= Erlewine|first= Stephen Thomas|access-date= January 3, 2024}}</ref>
| length     = 36:37
| label      = [[RCA Records|RCA]]
| producer   = [[Keith Olsen]]
| prev_title = [[Working Class Dog]]
| prev_year  = 1981
| next_title = [[Living in Oz]]
| next_year  = 1983
| misc       = {{Singles
 | name        = Success Hasn't Spoiled Me Yet
 | type        = studio
 | single1     = [[Don't Talk to Strangers (Rick Springfield song)|Don't Talk to Strangers]]
 | single1date = February 1982
 | single2     = [[What Kind of Fool Am I (Rick Springfield song)|What Kind of Fool Am I]]
 | single2date = May 1982
 | single3     = I Get Excited
 | single3date = August 1982
}}
}}
{{Album ratings
|rev1 = [[AllMusic]]
|rev1score = {{Rating|4.5|5}}<ref name="AllMusic"/>
|rev2 = ''[[Rolling Stone]]''
|rev2score = {{Rating|2|5}}<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20090727054939/http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/rickspringfield/albums/album/301523/review/5940685/success_hasnt_spoiled_me_yet Rolling Stone review]</ref>
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'''''Success Hasn't Spoiled Me Yet''''' is the sixth studio album by Australian [[rock music]]ian [[Rick Springfield]], released by [[RCA Records]] in 1982. The album was [[Platinum certification|certified platinum]] in the [[United States]], and produced three [[Billboard Hot 100|top 40]] singles: "[[Don't Talk to Strangers (Rick Springfield song)|Don't Talk to Strangers]]" (No.&nbsp;2 for four weeks), "[[What Kind of Fool Am I (Rick Springfield song)|What Kind of Fool Am I]]" (No.&nbsp;21, not the [[What Kind of Fool Am I?|show tune of the same name]]) and "I Get Excited" (No.&nbsp;32). "Don't Talk to Strangers" and "Calling All Girls" also received considerable [[album rock]] airplay, [[Top Tracks (music chart)|charting]] at No.&nbsp;11 and No.&nbsp;4 respectively.

''[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]'' said of the single "I Get Excited" that it "lacks the irresistible dynamics and killer hook of 'Don't Talk to Strangers'" and that it "rehashes the formulas of Springfield's past hits," such as "the guitar opening of '[[Jessie's Girl]].'"<ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=Billboard|date=September 11, 1982|accessdate=2023-01-29|page=55|title=Top Single Picks|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OiQEAAAAMBAJ}}</ref>

As the follow-up to the breakout album ''[[Working Class Dog]]'', the album features cover art with a return of Springfield's pet Bull Terrier dog, Ronnie, this time enjoying the fruits of success.

{{citation span|text=In an interview with ''Songfacts'', Springfield explained that "Don't Talk to Strangers" was about his paranoia that his girlfriend was being unfaithful when he was away. The song melody is actually from the earlier recording called "Spanish Eyes", found on Rick's ''Sound City Recordings'' from 1978.|date=May 2024}} "Kristina" is a remake of the [[Bachman–Turner Overdrive]] song "[[Jamaica (Bachman–Turner Overdrive song)|Jamaica]]", using different lyrics.<ref>{{cite web | title=Rick Springfield - Kristina | url=http://www.jimvallance.com/01-music-folder/songs-folder-may-27/pg-song-springfield-krist.html | url-status=dead | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20101124143055/http://jimvallance.com/01-music-folder/songs-folder-may-27/pg-song-springfield-krist.html | archivedate=2010-11-24 }}</ref>

==Track listing==
All songs written by Rick Springfield, except where noted.
# "Calling All Girls" – 3:26
# "I Get Excited" – 2:32
# "[[What Kind of Fool Am I (Rick Springfield song)|What Kind of Fool Am I]]" – 3:19
# "[[Jamaica (song)|Kristina]]" (Springfield, [[Jim Vallance]]) – 3:01
# "Tonight" – 3:19
# "[[Black Is Black]]" (Tony Hayes, Michelle Grainger, Steve Wadey) – 2:52
# "[[Don't Talk to Strangers (Rick Springfield song)|Don't Talk to Strangers]]" – 2:59
# "How Do You Talk to Girls" – 3:17
# "Still Crazy for You" (Charles Sanford) – 3:56
# "The American Girl" – 3:09
# "Just One Kiss" ([[Tom Kelly (musician)|Tom Kelly]], [[Billy Steinberg]]) – 3:14
# "April 24, 1981" – 1:33

==Production==
*Produced by [[Keith Olsen]]
*Engineered by Chris Minto at Goodnight LA
*Assistant engineer: Kim Turner
*Mastered by [[Greg Fulginiti]] at Artisan Sound Recorders

==Personnel==
*Rick Springfield - lead vocals, acoustic & electric guitars, backing vocals
*[[Tim Pierce]] - guitars
*Charles Sandford - guitars
*Gabriel Katona, [[Alan Pasqua]] - keyboards
*Dennis Belfield - bass
*[[Mike Baird (musician)|Mike Baird]] - drums
*Tommy Funderburk, [[Tom Kelly (musician)|Tom Kelly]], [[Richard Page (musician)|Richard Page]] - backing vocals

==Charts==
{|class="wikitable 
|-
!scope="col"| Chart (1982)
!Peak<br />position
|-
|Australia ([[Kent Music Report]])<ref name=aus>{{cite book|last=Kent|first=David|author-link=David Kent (historian)|title=Australian Chart Book 1970–1992|edition=illustrated|publisher=Australian Chart Book|location=St Ives, N.S.W.|year=1993|isbn=0-646-11917-6|page=289}}</ref>
| style="text-align:center;"| 28
|-
|Canada ([[Canadian Albums Chart]])
|align="center"|6
|-
|United States ([[Billboard 200]])
| style="text-align:center;"| 2
|}

==Certifications==
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{{Certification Table Entry|region=Canada|type=album|artist=Rick Springfield|title=Hasn't Spoiled Me Yet|award=Platinum|relyear=1982|certyear=1982|access-date=13 September 2022}}
{{Certification Table Entry|region=United States|type=album|artist=Rick Springfield|title=Hasn't Spoiled Me Yet|award=Platinum|relyear=1982|certyear=1982|access-date=13 September 2022}}
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==References==
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{{Rick Springfield}}

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[[Category:1982 albums]]
[[Category:Rick Springfield albums]]
[[Category:Albums produced by Keith Olsen]]
[[Category:RCA Records albums]]