I Cannot Believe It's True

"I Cannot Believe It's True"
"I Cannot Believe It's True"
Single by Phil Collins
from the album Hello, I Must Be Going!
B-side	"Thru These Walls"
Released	April 1983 (US)
Recorded	1982
Genre	Pop rock
Length	5:14
Label	Atlantic (International)
Songwriter	Phil Collins
Producers	Phil Collins; Hugh Padgham;
Phil Collins singles chronology
Audio
	"Phil Collins - I Cannot Believe It's True (2016 Remaster)" on YouTube

B-side"Thru These Walls"

ReleasedApril 1983 (US)

Recorded1982

GenrePop rock

"I Cannot Believe It's True" is a song by Phil Collins from his second solo album Hello, I Must Be Going!. It was the third US single released from the album and was only released in the US and Canada; internationally it had instead been released as the B-side of "You Can't Hurry Love".

Cash Box noted the "cowbell-like" percussion and "Collins' profound pop tunesmithing."^[1]

The song found moderate success on the Billboard Hot 100, reaching #79.

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Discography
Face Value	"In the Air Tonight" "I Missed Again" "If Leaving Me Is Easy"
Hello, I Must Be Going!	"Thru These Walls" "You Can't Hurry Love" "I Don't Care Anymore" "Don't Let Him Steal Your Heart Away" "Why Can't It Wait 'Til Morning" "I Cannot Believe It's True" "Like China"
No Jacket Required	"Sussudio" "One More Night" "Don't Lose My Number" "Take Me Home" "Who Said I Would"
Buster	"A Groovy Kind of Love" "Two Hearts"
...But Seriously	"Another Day in Paradise" "I Wish It Would Rain Down" "Something Happened on the Way to Heaven" "Do You Remember?" "That's Just the Way It Is" "Hang in Long Enough"
Serious Hits... Live!	"Do You Remember?" (live) "Who Said I Would" (live)
Both Sides	"Both Sides of the Story" "Everyday" "We Wait and We Wonder"
Dance into the Light	"Dance into the Light" "It's in Your Eyes" "No Matter Who" "Wear My Hat" "The Same Moon"
...Hits	"True Colors"
Tarzan	"You'll Be in My Heart" "Two Worlds" "Strangers Like Me" "Son of Man"
Testify	"Can't Stop Loving You" "Wake Up Call"/"The Least You Can Do"
Brother Bear	"Look Through My Eyes" "No Way Out"
Going Back	"(Love Is Like A) Heatwave" "Going Back"
Featured singles	"Do They Know It's Christmas?" "Easy Lover" "Hero" "In the Air Tonite" "Home"
Other singles	"Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now)" "Separate Lives" "Somewhere"
Other songs	"Here We'll Stay" "The Man with the Horn"
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I Cannot Believe It's True

U.S. 7" single (Atlantic)

U.S. 12" promo single (Atlantic)

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