In 1985, Benatar released her sixth album, Seven the Hard Way . She

In 1985, Benatar released her sixth album, Seven the Hard Way . She hit the US Top 10 (and number 4 on the US Rock Tracks chart) with the Grammy-nominated rock single ” Invincible ” (the theme from the movie The Legend of Billie Jean ), which was written by Holly Knight (Love Is a Battlefield) and Simon Climie , three full months before the album was released. The track also reached number 6 in Canada. Benatar’s other Grammy-nominated single from the album, the guitar-driven “Sex As a Weapon”, climbed as high as number 28 on the US Hot 100 in January 1986, number 5 on the US Rock Tracks chart, and reached the Top 30 in Canada. Both the Seven and the Hard Way singles were less successful outside North America than the previous two “gentler” singles, generally reaching the Top 30 in Australia, West Germany, the Netherlands, and New Zealand (although Invincible went Top 15 there), but missing the Top 50 in the UK. A third single, the mellow “Le Bel Age”, made it to number 54 on the US Hot 100.