“Stayin' Alive” by Bee Gees

"Stayin' Alive" came out in December 1977 on RSO as the second single from the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack, and it's the song that struts under the film's opening credits, which goes a long way toward explaining why nobody has been able to forget it. Barry, Robin and Maurice Gibb wrote it, and the Bee Gees produced it with Albhy Galuten and Karl Richardson.

It went to number one on the Hot 100 in February 1978 and stayed there four weeks, the second of six straight American chart-toppers for the brothers, a run that tied the Beatles' record at the time. It won a Grammy for Best Vocal Arrangement for Two or More Voices, and Rolling Stone later placed it at 99 on its 2021 list of the 500 greatest songs of all time.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.