Point of No Return (Nu Shooz song)

For the Exposé (group) song, see Point of No Return (Exposé song).

"Point of No Return" is the title of the second single taken from the Nu Shooz album Poolside. The song spent one week at #1 on the Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart in September 1986.^[1] It also peaked at #28 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart^[2] and #36 on the R&B chart^[3] in the U.S., as well as topping out at #48 on the UK singles chart.^[4] The song was mixed by Shep Pettibone.

"Point of No Return"
Single by Nu Shooz
from the album Poolside
B-side	"Goin' Thru the Motions"
Released	September 1986
Recorded	1986
Genre	Freestyle, synthpop
Length	4:23 (album version) 3:34 (video version)
Label	Atlantic
Songwriter(s)	John Smith, Valerie Day
Nu Shooz singles chronology
"I Can't Wait" (1986) "Point of No Return" (1986) "Don't Let Me Be the One" (1986)
Audio sample
"Nu Shooz - Point Of No Return" file help

Music video

The music video features band member Valerie Day walking on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and entering a ballet studio, meeting up with her husband John Smith and opening a closet full of sneakers and dancing shoes animated with stop motion (including pixilation). Valerie and John start dancing themselves as well. The shoes also form the flags of United States, UK, France, and Canada.^{[citation needed]} The video ends with Valerie and John walking in stop motion and pixilation with the shoes. The video was directed by Wayne Isham.^[5]

Charts

Chart (1986-1987)	Peak position
Canada Top Singles (RPM)[6]	23
New Zealand (Recorded Music NZ)[7]	18
Switzerland (Schweizer Hitparade)[8]	23
UK Singles (OCC)[9]	48
US Billboard Hot 100[10]	28
US Dance Club Songs (Billboard)[11]	1
US Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs (Billboard)[12]	36
West Germany (GfK)[13]	24

See also

• List of number-one dance singles of 1986 (U.S.)