Block Buster!

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{{Infobox song

| name = Block Buster!

| cover = Block Buster! (The Sweet album) coverart.jpg

| alt =

| type = single

| artist = Sweet

| album = The Sweet

| B-side = Need a Lot of Lovin'

| released = 5 January 1973{{cite web|url=https://www.discogs.com/release/8388327-The-Sweet-Blockbuster-/image/SW1hZ2U6MjI3MDMwNDU=|title=Promo disc with release date|website=Discogs }}

| recorded = 1972

| studio =

| venue =

| genre = {{hlist|Glam rock{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rfNzBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA16|title=The Big Book of Hair Metal: The Illustrated Oral History of Heavy Metal?s Debauched Decade|last=Popoff|first=Martin|date=2014|publisher=Voyageur Press|isbn=978-1-62788-375-7|page=16}}{{cite web|url=https://diffuser.fm/underrated-glam-songs/|title=10 Underrated Glam Rock Stompers Worth Getting All Dolled Up For|last=Swanson|first=Dave|date=10 May 2014|website=Diffuser.fm|access-date=8 August 2019}}{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zaMlCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA72|title=Experiencing David Bowie: A Listener's Companion|last=Chapman|first=Ian|date=2015|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|isbn=978-1-44223-752-0|page=72}}|hard rock{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2014/sep/12/blockbuster-nicky-chinn-songs-mud-and-sweet-jukebox-musical|title=That's neat: Chinnichap's blitz of 70s hits become a musical|last=Wroe|first=Nicholas|date=12 September 2014|work=The Guardian|access-date=16 February 2019|issn=0261-3077}}|blues rock{{cite book|first=Christopher|last=Sandford|year=1996|title=Bowie: Loving The Alien|publisher=Da Capo Press|isbn=978-0306808548|pages=400–103}}|bubblegum{{cite book|first=Bob |last=Stanley|title=Yeah Yeah Yeah: The Story of Modern Pop|chapter= Deluxe and Delightful: Glam|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9emZAAAAQBAJ&pg=PT7|date=13 September 2013|publisher=Faber & Faber|isbn=978-0-571-28198-5|page=338}}}}

| length = 3:13

| label = RCA

| writer = Nicky Chinn, Mike Chapman

| producer = Phil Wainman

| prev_title = Wig-Wam Bam

| prev_year = 1972

| next_title = Hell Raiser

| next_year = 1973

| misc = {{External music video|header=Video|{{YouTube|WNXFtVWB47E|"Blockbuster" - Top Of The Pops}}}}

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"Block Buster!" (also sometimes listed as "Blockbuster!") is a 1973 single by The Sweet. Written by Nicky Chinn and Mike Chapman, and produced by Phil Wainman, "Block Buster!" was the band's sole UK No. 1 hit. Released in January 1973, it spent five weeks at the top of the UK Singles Chart,{{cite book

| first= David

| last= Roberts

| year= 2006

| title= British Hit Singles & Albums

| edition= 19th

| publisher= Guinness World Records Limited

| location= London

| isbn= 1-904994-10-5

| pages=282–3}} and also made #1 in the Netherlands, Germany, Austria and Ireland, and #3 in Finland, Switzerland, Denmark and Norway. Outside Europe it peaked at #1 in New Zealand, #29 in Australia and at #73 on the American Billboard Hot 100.