"When a Heart Beats" is a song by the English singer-songwriter Nik Kershaw. It was released as a single ahead of Kershaw's third solo studio album, Radio Musicola (although the song did not appear on the LP version of that album, only on the cassette and CD editions). Kershaw's eighth single overall, it features the track "Wild Horses"—which was originally released on his previous album, The Riddle—as its B-side.