Every Breath You Take

The Police · 1983

Signature

Ab major · 4B 117.3 BPM 4:16 Deflate · peaks 1:27 Energy 4 of 5 Dark

key confidence high · relative F minor · tempo confidence high · half-time 58.6 · low end 40% · measured from the full recording · 2026-09-12 · how accurate

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Lineage

CoveredDolly Parton with Sting2023-11-17source
CoveredBruce Springsteen & The E Street Band with Sting source
CoveredBruce Springsteen with Sting, Tracy Chapman source
CoveredBruce Springsteen source
CoveredCarolyn Watkinson, Ricky Koole, Karin Bloemen, Adelheid Roosen, Rocq‐E Harrell en Leoni Jansen source
CoveredPhil Collins & Sting source
Sampled byPuff Daddy & Faith Evans featuring 112, I’ll Be Missing You source
Sampled byPuff Daddy & the Family feat. Faith Evans & 112, I’ll Be Missing You source
CoveredRita Lee source
Written bySting source
CoveredSting & Bruce Springsteen source
CoveredSting & Phil Collins source
CoveredSting feat. Bruce Springsteen source
CoveredSting source
On the showStranger Things source
Sampled bySuper Mash Bros., Young Gelt Cash Gelt Billionaires source
On the showThe Blacklist source
CoveredThe Countdown Singers source
Remixed byThe Police, Every Breath You Take source
On the showThe Sopranos source
CoveredThe Zampoñas source
Sampled byTop Jimmy Page, eVerY BreAtH You TAKe 83-11 source

Why it is here

The song spent eight weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1983 and was that year's top-ranked single, giving it permanent catalog standing rather than a new-news standing. source
The song stayed in music news through 2026 as Andy Summers and Stewart Copeland's royalties claim against Sting was heard at London's High Court, with reports in January 2026 that Sting had paid his former Police bandmates more than $800,000 since the suit was filed. source
Sting continued to perform the song live in 2026 on his Sting 3.0 trio tour, with venues billing "Every Breath You Take" among the hits in the set. source

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