"Back Stabbers" is the second single from the 1979 album Love Explosion

Love Explosion (album)

Love Explosion is Tina Turner's fourth solo album, released in March 1979 on the EMI label in the UK, Ariola Records in West Germany and United Artists in the United States. It was her second solo album to be released after she left husband Ike Turner and the Ike & Tina Turner Revue...

by Tina Turner

Tina Turner

Tina Turner is an American singer and actress whose career has spanned more than 50 years. She has won numerous awards and her achievements in the rock music genre have led many to call her the "Queen of Rock 'n' Roll".Turner started out her music career with husband Ike Turner as a member of the...

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The song, along with the other two singles released from Love Explosion, was largely disco-oriented and was overlooked by audiences both in Europe

Europe

Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...

 and the United States

United States

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 due to the so called "anti-disco backlash" at the time.

"Back Stabbers" was also covered by Stephen Cummings

Stephen Cummings

Stephen Donald Cummings is an Australian rock singer-songwriter and writer. He was lead singer of Melbourne-based rock band, The Sports, during 1976–1981, followed by a solo career which has met with critical acclaim but has had limited commercial success...

 in 1983.

"Wish I Didn't Miss You" by Angie Stone

Angie Stone

Angie Stone is an American R&B and soul singer-songwriter, record producer, and occasional actress. She has been nominated for three Grammy Award. She is more successful on the charts R&B charts, with four Top 10 albums, forms including a number one album and 10 singles on the R&B chart,...

 features an interpolated composition of the song as well as samples.

R&B group TLC

TLC (band)

TLC is an American musical trio whose repertoire spanned R&B, hip-hop, soul, funk, and new jack swing. Originally consisting of singer Tionne "T-Boz" Watkins, rapper-singer Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes and singer Rozonda "Chilli" Thomas it found success in the 1990s while also enduring a series of spats...

 sampled the song on the track, "Case of the Fake People" from their 1994 album CrazySexyCool

CrazySexyCool

CrazySexyCool is the second studio album by American R&B group TLC, released by LaFace Records on November 15, 1994 in North America...

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"Backstabbers" by Project Pat

Project Pat

Patrick Houston, better known as Project Pat is an American rapper originating from Memphis, Tennessee. He is the older brother of Juicy J, co-founder of the Three 6 Mafia....

 featuring Crucial Conflict

Crucial Conflict

Crucial Conflict is a Chicago hip hop group best known for its 1996 single "Hay" and "Scummy" . The members of Crucial Conflict are Coldhard, Wildstyle, Kilo, and Never. They frequently collaborate with fellow Chicago rappers Do or Die and Twista...

 sampled the song heavily; released on the album Ghetty Green

Ghetty Green

Ghetty Green is the debut album by rapper Project Pat, released September 14, 1999, on Hypnotize Minds.-Track listing:# "North Memphis" - 1:38# "Represent It" - 3:58# "Out There" - 4:19...

 in 1999, produced by DJ Paul

DJ Paul

Paul Beauregard, better known by his stage name DJ Paul, is an American rapper and record producer from Memphis, Tennessee. He is one half of the current Memphis-based rap group Three 6 Mafia. He is also the half brother of former Three 6 Mafia member Lord Infamous. He won an Academy Award for Best...

 & Juicy J

Juicy J

Jordan Michael Houston, better known by his stage name Juicy J is an Academy Award winning American rapper and record producer from Memphis, Tennessee and is the co-founder and a member of the duo Three 6 Mafia . He is also the younger brother of Project Pat...

 of Three 6 Mafia

Three 6 Mafia

Three 6 Mafia are an Academy Award-winning, American rap group originating from Memphis, Tennessee. Formed in 1991 as Triple 6 Mafia, by DJ Paul, Juicy J, & Lord Infamous, the group at its most featured six members including; Crunchy Black, Gangsta Boo and Koopsta Knicca...

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B.o.B aka Bobby Ray sampled "Back Stabbers" with his own song of the same name for his mixtape "Who the F#*k is B.o.B".

In 1987, jazz fusion

Jazz fusion

Jazz fusion is a musical fusion genre that developed from mixing funk and R&B rhythms and the amplification and electronic effects of rock, complex time signatures derived from non-Western music and extended, typically instrumental compositions with a jazz approach to lengthy group improvisations,...

/contemporary jazz

Smooth jazz

Smooth jazz is a genre of music that grew out of jazz fusion and is influenced by R&B, funk, rock, and pop music styles ....

 group The Rippingtons

The Rippingtons

The Rippingtons are a contemporary group mainly relating to the genres Smooth jazz, Jazz pop, and Crossover jazz. Formed in 1986 by guitarist and band leader Russ Freeman , their career has spanned two decades...

 covered the song on their 1987 album "Kilimanjaro

Kilimanjaro (Rippingtons album)

Kilimanjaro is The Rippingtons' second album which was released in 1988.-Track listing:#"Morocco" - 4:50#"Northern Lights" - 4:41#"Dream of the Sirens" - 5:38#"Katrina's Dance" - 5:59#"Kilimanjaro" - 4:47#"Back Stabbers" - 4:08#"Love Notes" - 4:15...

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Rock group Barkmarket

Barkmarket

Barkmarket was a rock music group formed in New York City in 1987. Personnel were singer/guitarist and main songwriter Dave Sardy, bass guitarist John Nowlin and drummer Rock Savage....

 covered "Back Stabbers" on their 1991 album Vegas Throat

Vegas Throat

Vegas Throat is the third studio album by the American noise rock band Barkmarket, released in 1991 through Triple X Records. It was reissued in 1992 on Rick Rubin's Def American label.-Reception:...

, employing spoken-word vocals and samples from the original O'Jays cut.

In 2008, Russell Watson covered the song on his album 'People Get Ready'.

Chart positions

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|U.S. Billboard Hot 100

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The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on radio play and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday, while the radio play tracking-week runs from Wednesday...

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|U.S. Billboard Hot Soul Singles
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|U.K 'Official UK Charts Company'
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