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Song

Don't Stop Believin'

Journey

Key
E major
Camelot
12B
BPM
121.4

Key confidence high · relative C# minor (12A) · BPM confidence medium · half-time 60.7 · measured from the full recording · 2026-09-13 · essentia.js@2.1-beta6-dev

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As of 2026-09-20, "Don't Stop Believin'" by Journey has charted in 52 markets across 5 platforms, peaking at #1 (CZ) on the Rotation chart. Measured from the full recording, it reads E major (12B) at 121.4 BPM.

Markets
52
First seen
2026-06-17
Latest chart date
2026-09-20
Peak
#1 cz

Started in 9 markets, now in 52.

Why it's moving

  • vault release: registered 1981, first charted 2026-08-12
  • Plays up 20% in Norway, with gains across 14 marketsSep 8–11
  • Shazam's #14 across 19 marketsSep 17
  • Spread from 1 to 16 markets on ShazamSep 9–17
  • Climbed #92 → #70 in Ireland on Apple MusicSep 10–17
  • Climbed #91 → #65 in Malta on Apple MusicSep 10–16
Signal breakdown
Velocity34.4
Play growth88.9
Breadth48.1
Acceleration35.9
Discovery65.0
New entry0.0
Sources moving4

Score 64.6

Why it's here

Journey spent 2026 on its farewell "Final Frontier" tour, and on August 18, 2026 the band was reported preparing for the tour's last leg, which begins in September 2026. [1] The 1981 single, which peaked at No. 9 on the Billboard Hot 100, became a catalog fixture after David Chase used it in the June 2007 series finale of "The Sopranos," with iTunes downloads jumping from about 1,000 the day of the episode to 6,531 the day after. [2] The RIAA has certified "Don't Stop Believin'" 18x Platinum, the highest certification for any song first released before the digital era. [3]

stapleDrafted 2026-09-01Confidence 0.68

In culture

Every place this record has lived. A solid chip states a fact and carries the citation that earns it; a dashed one is a connection somebody drew, and carries their name instead.

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. One recording, one history: this table also counts the rows sources published under 2 other handles of this record (remasters, official videos).

  1. MarketFirst seenPeak
  2. Germanyde · applemusic applemusic_kworb deezer shazam spotify · 10 cities#13
  3. Australiaau · applemusic applemusic_kworb shazam spotify · 5 cities#16
  4. Canadaca · applemusic applemusic_kworb shazam spotify · 4 cities#18
  5. Austriaat · applemusic applemusic_kworb shazam spotify#20
  6. New Zealandnz · applemusic applemusic_kworb shazam spotify#20
  7. Swedense · applemusic applemusic_kworb shazam spotify#20
  8. United Kingdomgb · applemusic applemusic_kworb shazam spotify · 7 cities#25
  9. Irelandie · applemusic applemusic_kworb shazam spotify#25

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.

  1. MarketFirst seenPeak
  2. Global feedglobal · applemusic_kworb spotify#40
  3. World feedworld · shazam#4

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.

  1. us 20 cities · best #10 houston
  2. de 10 cities · best #13 frankfurt am main
  3. gb 7 cities · best #25 brighton
  4. au 5 cities · best #16 adelaide
  5. ca 4 cities · best #25 vancouver
  6. nl 2 cities · best #38 maastricht
  7. no 1 city · best #24 oslo

Listen

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Elsewhere

Editions

  1. 2026-09-17Chart-only edition#42
  2. 2026-09-15Chart-only edition#20
  3. 2026-09-14Chart-only edition#35
  4. 2026-09-13Chart-only edition#29
  5. 2026-07-20Chart-only edition#28

Identity

ISRC
USSM18100116

The cross-platform join key, via Deezer.

Slug
journey__don-t-stop-believin

Crude v0 identity: slug(artist)__slug(title).

Sources
applemusic, applemusic_kworb, deezer, shazam, spotify

Every source whose chart has ever carried this song.

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What moved this week, and why.

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Ranks and positions only. We hold no licensed stream counts and never imply one. Every date on this page is the date the source chart covers.

Data: Spotify, Shazam, Apple Music, YouTube · Chart: Rotation