Phil Collins—“I Don’t Care Anymore”

Entered Top 40:  March 26, 1983
 3 weeks 
Peaked at: 39

People sure had patience with Phil Collins working out his divorce issues. Face Value (1980) had largely been about the dissolution of Collins’s marriage, and some of that carried into his next solo record, 1982’s Hello, I Must Be Going!. He did have the sense to keep his leadoff single light; his fluffy cover of “You Can’t Hurry Love” would hit #10 in the States and #1 in the UK, his (and the Genesis family’s) peak in both countries to that point. “I Don’t Care Anymore” was a reasonable-enough song to crank if you were angry or dumped, assuming your town lacked a good punk rock record store.

The third single from Hello, I Must Be Going! was the peppier “I Cannot Believe It’s True,” which didn’t make the Top 40 at all. A new Genesis album would come out in the fall, with “That’s All” (#6) as the big single; then Phil Collins’ chart-topping period would begin with “Against All Odds” in spring 1984, from the film of the same name. We won’t see him here no mo’.