Which song made The Police their only Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 in 1983?

“Every Breath You Take” made The Police their only Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 in 1983.

Sting wrote the song during a period of tension in The Police, and he later described it as a dark, possessive song rather than a straightforward romantic love song. The sparse arrangement centers on guitar, bass, drums and Sting’s restrained vocal.

Released as the lead single from Synchronicity, it reached No. 1 on July 9, 1983, and held the position for eight weeks. Its success helped Synchronicity become the band’s most commercially successful album in the United States.

The song is sometimes treated as a conventional wedding or love song, but its lyrics describe obsessive surveillance. It earned Sting the 1983 Ivor Novello Award for songwriting and later became one of The Police’s signature recordings.