Dancing in the City

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"Dancing in the City"
Single by Marshall Hain
from the album Free Ride
B-side "Take My Number"
ReleasedMay 1978 [1]
Genre Pop [1]
Length3:47
Label Harvest [1]
Songwriter(s) Julian Marshall
Kit Hain [1]
Producer(s) Christopher Neil [1]
Marshall Hain singles chronology
"Dancing in the City"
(1978)		"Coming Home"
(1978)
Music video
"Dancing in the City" (TopPop, 1978) on YouTube

"Dancing in the City" is a song by the British pop rock duo Marshall Hain, which was a No.3 hit in the UK in 1978. On its first release it spent fifteen weeks in the UK charts. [2] It was a massive hit in South Africa, reaching the No.1 position on 3 November 1978, and holding that position for three weeks on the Springbok Charts. A re-mixed version released in 1987 reached No.81 on the UK charts.

Contents

Charts

Weekly charts

Chart (1978–1979)Peak
position
Australia (Kent Music Report) [3] 3
Austria (Ö3 Austria Top 40) [4] 6
Belgium (Ultratop 50 Flanders) [5] 7
Netherlands (Dutch Top 40) [6] 7
Netherlands (Single Top 100) [7] 14
New Zealand (Recorded Music NZ) [8] 15
Sweden (Sverigetopplistan) [9] 7
Switzerland (Schweizer Hitparade) [10] 4
UK Singles (OCC) [11] 3
US Billboard Hot 100 [12] 43
US Adult Contemporary ( Billboard ) [13] 33
West Germany (GfK) [14] 1

Year-end charts

Chart (1978)Position
Australia (Kent Music Report) [15] 26
Belgium (Ultratop Flanders) [16] 60
Netherlands (Dutch Top 40) [17] 61
Switzerland (Schweizer Hitparade) [18] 29
West Germany (Official German Charts) [19] 29

"Dancin' in the City '87"

Chart (1987)Peak
position
UK Singles (OCC) [20] 81

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "Marshall Hain - Dancing In The City / Take My Number (Vinyl) at Discogs". Discogs.com. 1978. Retrieved 22 April 2021.
  2. ↑ "Dancin' in the city | full Official Chart History | Official Charts Company". Official Charts .
  3. ↑ Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 192. ISBN   0-646-11917-6.
  4. ↑ "Marshall, Hain – Dancing in the City" (in German). Ö3 Austria Top 40. Retrieved 11 October 2021.
  5. ↑ "Marshall, Hain – Dancing in the City" (in Dutch). Ultratop 50. Retrieved 11 October 2021.
  6. ↑ "Nederlandse Top 40 – week 35, 1978" (in Dutch). Dutch Top 40. Retrieved 11 October 2021.
  7. ↑ "Marshall, Hain – Dancing in the City" (in Dutch). Single Top 100. Retrieved 11 October 2021.
  8. ↑ "Marshall, Hain – Dancing in the City". Top 40 Singles. Retrieved 11 October 2021.
  9. ↑ "Marshall, Hain – Dancing in the City". Singles Top 100. Retrieved 11 October 2021.
  10. ↑ "Marshall, Hain – Dancing in the City". Swiss Singles Chart. Retrieved 11 October 2021.
  11. ↑ "Official Singles Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 7 December 2019.
  12. ↑ "Marshall Hain". 21 December 2019. Retrieved 3 May 2022.
  13. ↑ "Marshall Hain Chart History (Adult Contemporary)". Billboard. Retrieved 7 December 2019.
  14. ↑ "Offiziellecharts.de – Dancing in the City" (in German). GfK Entertainment charts. Retrieved 21 January 2021.
  15. ↑ "Kent Music Report No 236 – 1 January 1979 > National Top 100 Singles for 1978". Kent Music Report . Retrieved 8 January 2022– via Imgur.com.
  16. ↑ "Jaaroverzichten 1978". Ultratop. Retrieved 11 October 2021.
  17. ↑ "Top 100-Jaaroverzicht van 1978". Dutch Top 40. Retrieved 11 October 2021.
  18. ↑ "Schweizer Jahreshitparade 1978". hitparade.ch. Retrieved 11 October 2021.
  19. ↑ "Top 100 Single-Jahrescharts". GfK Entertainment (in German). offiziellecharts.de. Retrieved 11 October 2021.
  20. ↑ "Official Singles Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 7 December 2019.
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