What Price Paradise

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{{Infobox album

| name = What Price Paradise

| type = studio

| artist = China Crisis

| cover = China Crisis - What Price Paradise-cover.jpg

| alt =

| released = {{Start date|1986|11|24|df=yes}}{{cite magazine|date=22 November 1986|title=News Digest|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/UK/Record-Mirror/80s/86/Record-Mirror-1986-11-22.pdf|magazine=Record Mirror|page=18|access-date=15 August 2022}}

| recorded = Summer 1986

| studio = The Manor Studio, Shipton-on-Cherwell, Oxfordshire and Westside Studios, London

| venue =

| genre = New wave

| length = 45:36

| label = Virgin

| producer = Clive Langer, Alan Winstanley

| prev_title = Flaunt the Imperfection

| prev_year = 1985

| next_title = Diary of a Hollow Horse

| next_year = 1989

| misc = {{Singles

| name = What Price Paradise

| type = studio

| single1 = Arizona Sky

| single1date = 13 October 1986{{cite magazine|date=11 October 1986|title=News Digest|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/UK/Record-Mirror/80s/86/Record-Mirror-1986-10-11.pdf|magazine=Record Mirror|page=52|access-date=16 August 2022}}

| single2 = Best Kept Secret

| single2date = 12 January 1987{{cite magazine|date=10 January 1987|title=News Digest|url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/57779449@N02/51804509292/in/album-72177720295788747/|magazine=Record Mirror|page=6|access-date=16 August 2022|via=Flickr}}

}}

}}

{{Music ratings

| rev1 = Allmusic

| rev1Score = {{Rating|4|5}}{{cite web|author=Dan LeRoy |url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/what-price-paradise-mw0000649974 |title=What Price Paradise - China Crisis | Songs, Reviews, Credits |publisher=AllMusic |date= |access-date=2016-04-06}}

| noprose = yes

}}

What Price Paradise is the fourth studio album by English new wave group China Crisis.

The first album to feature new keyboardist Brian McNeil, it included songs that now credited all five bandmembers as songwriters.

Although the album's lead-off single, "Arizona Sky" only saw modest success in the band's homeland and Australia (not reaching the top 40 in either country), it became a breakthrough hit in North America, cracking the top 40 on the U.S. Billboard Adult Contemporary charts (at number 37). Follow-up single "Best Kept Secret" was slightly more successful in the U.K. than its predecessor, reaching number 36 on the British charts, though it did not chart in the U.S.

The album itself peaked at number 114 on the U.S. Billboard 200, becoming the band's highest charting album stateside, while peaking at 63 in the U.K., paling in comparison to the success of their previous album in their native country.

The album was released on CD, LP and Cassette in 1986. The CD version featured one bonus track: "Trading in Gold", originally released on the B-side of the "Arizona Sky" single.

A three CD deluxe edition of the album was released in January 2022. As well as a remaster of the original album, it also featured B-sides, previously unheard four-track demos and a 1987 live performance at the Liverpool Empire.{{cite web | url=https://superdeluxeedition.com/news/china-crisis-what-price-paradise-reissue/ | title=China Crisis / What Price Paradise reissue – SuperDeluxeEdition }}