"
Never Let Me Down Again" is
Depeche Mode's nineteenth
UK single, released on 24 August 1987, and the second single for the then upcoming album
Music for the Masses. A relatively moderate hit in the UK at number 22, it was a smash in
West Germany, where it hit number 2, and a Top 10 success in several other European countries (
Sweden,
Switzerland, etc.). The cover art features fragments of a
Soviet map of Russia and Europe, with different fragments used for the different editions of the single.