The Cure’s Boys Don’t Cry reaches one billion streams on Spotify

The Cure’s Boys Don’t Cry has become the band’s first-ever billion-streamer on Spotify and has also hit the UK and US TikTok Charts.

To celebrate the news, Fiction/Polydor will release limited-edition 7″ vinyl, CD and Digital formats on 30 January with a 12″ vinyl following on 21 April.

Initially released as a standalone single in the summer of 1979, Boys Don’t Cry became the title track of the US edition of the band’s debut album, Three Imaginary Boys. The song went on to become one of the band’s signature tracks and achieved international success in 1986, when Robert Smith re-recorded the vocal and remixed the backing track.

Although this new version was created to promote the best of collection Staring At The Sea – The Singles, the LP itself featured the original recording, and the 7″ version of Boys Don’t Cry (New Voice – New Mix), now retitled Boys Don’t Cry (86 Mix), is being released digitally for the first time.

Boys Don’t Cry (86 Mix), the 12″ mix, and the B-Sides, Plastic Passion, Pillbox Tales and Do The Hansa have been remastered by Matt Colton.

THE CURE – BOYS DON’T CRY (86 MIX)

CD & DIGITAL 

Boys Don’t Cry (86 Mix) [2026 Remaster]
Plastic Passion (79 Mix) [2026 Remaster]
Pillbox Tales (86 Mix) [2026 Remaster]
Do The Hansa (86 Mix) [2026 Remaster]
Boys Don’t Cry (86 12″ Mix) [2026 Remaster]

12″ SINGLE

A-SIDE
Boys Don’t Cry (86 Mix) [2026 Remaster]
Boys Don’t Cry (86 12″ Mix) [2026 Remaster]
B-SIDE
Plastic Passion (79 Mix) [2026 Remaster]
Pillbox Tales (86 Mix) [2026 Remaster]
Do The Hansa (86 Mix) [2026 Remaster]

7″ SINGLE

A-SIDE
Boys Don’t Cry (86 Mix) [2026 Remaster]
B-SIDE
Pillbox Tales (86 Mix) [2026 Remaster]

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