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The album peaked at #18 on the US Billboard 200 chart, making Crazy Nights the highest-charting Kiss album of the 1980s in the United States. The album was certified Platinum on November 18, 1987 in Canada and few months later in the US, on February 18, 1988. All three singles off the album had corresponding music videos which received heavy rotation on MTV, and were also featured on the "Crazy Nights Home Video." The most successful single was "Crazy Crazy Nights", charting in five countries, and the least successful was "Turn On the Night" charting only in the UK, where it reached #41. The highest charting single was "Crazy Crazy Nights", which reached #4 in the UK.
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