Smalltown Boy
Bronski Beat
- Key
- C minor
- Camelot
- 5A
- BPM
- 134.6
Key confidence high · relative Eb major (5B) · BPM confidence high · half-time 67.3 · measured from the full recording · 2026-09-13 · essentia.js@2.1-beta6-dev
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"Smalltown Boy" by Bronski Beat has charted in 45 markets across 3 platforms, peaking at #2 (CZ) on the Rotation chart. Measured from the full recording, it reads C minor (5A) at 134.6 BPM.
- Markets
- 45
- First seen
- 2026-07-20
- Latest chart date
- 2026-09-12
- Peak
- #2 cz
Started in 29 markets, now in 45.
Momentum
This song has not appeared on a Rotation chart, so it has no score and no receipts. The rank history below is the ledger; a score is only published once the momentum run puts it on a chart.
Why it's here
"Smalltown Boy" was Bronski Beat's 1984 debut single, and its narrative of a gay teenager leaving his hometown after homophobic violence — depicted in the video — made it a standing gay anthem that reached No. 3 in the UK and No. 1 in the Netherlands, Belgium and Italy. [1] The song keeps returning through screen placements, including a house-party sequence in season two of HBO's "Euphoria." [2] Its catalogue has also been actively reworked and reissued: a Planningtorock remix was released in July 2024 ahead of a 40th-anniversary edition of the track. [3]
Across markets · earliest pickup first
Every date here is the date the source chart covers, never the date we fetched it. Sources publish on different lags: the Spotify mirror runs about two days behind, TurnTable publishes weekly.
- MarketFirst seenPeak
- Czechiacz · deezer shazam#170#2#170
- Argentinaar · shazam · 1 city#32#12#32
- Chilecl · deezer shazam · 1 city#30#13#30
- Mexicomx · shazam#22#19#22
- Francefr · shazam#21#20#21
- Brazilbr · shazam#76#21#76
- United Kingdomgb · shazam · 6 cities#57#31#57
- Germanyde · shazam · 3 cities#58#33#58
Worldwide feeds · not markets
A source's own worldwide chart. These are feeds, not places, so they are kept out of the market count above.
- MarketFirst seenPeak
- World feedworld · shazam#50#46#50
City pickups
City charts record their parent country as the market, so these do not add to the market count above. One line per country: how many of its rooms picked the song up, and the best of them.
- gb 6 cities · best #31 brighton
- de 3 cities · best #33 berlin
- ar 1 city · best #12 buenos aires
- au 1 city · best #35 adelaide
- cl 1 city · best #26 santiago
- ie 1 city · best #44 dublin
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Editions
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Identity
- ISRC
- GBAAP9500310
- Slug
- bronski-beat__smalltown-boy
- Sources
- deezer, shazam, spotify
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