The Gambler
Kenny Rogers
- Key
- E major
- Camelot
- 12B
- BPM
- 172.3
Key confidence medium · relative C# minor (12A) · BPM confidence medium · half-time 86.1 · measured from the full recording · 2026-09-13
The tempo changes across the track. The BPM above is the strongest single reading.
The recording is tuned near 447 Hz, not A440.
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As of 2026-10-09, "The Gambler" by Kenny Rogers has charted in 9 markets across 4 platforms, peaking at #14 (IE) on the Rotation chart. Measured from the full recording, it reads E major (12B).
- Markets
- 9
- First seen
- 2026-07-20
- Latest chart date
- 2026-10-09
- Peak
- #14 ie
Started in 2 markets, now in 9.
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
Kenny Rogers's version won the Grammy Award for Best Male Country Vocal Performance in 1980. [1] It was one of five consecutive Kenny Rogers songs to hit No. 1 on the Billboard country charts, and became his signature song. [2] In 2018 the song was selected for preservation in the National Recording Registry by the Library of Congress as being culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant. [3]
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.
- Covered Arly Karlsensource
- Covered Billy Stringssource
- Covered Bobby Bare & The Cowboyssource
- Written by Don Schlitzsource
- Covered Elmersource
- Covered Espen Lind, Kurt Nilsen, Alejandro Fuentes & Askil Holmsource
- Covered Johnny Cashsource
- In the film Kenny Rogers as The Gamblersource
- Covered Mike Doughtysource
- Covered Phishsource
- Covered Princesource
- Covered The Chipmunkssource
- On the show The Gamblersource
- Covered The King’s Singerssource
- On the show The Muppet Showsource
- On the show The Officesource
- Covered The Smashing Pumpkinssource
- On the show WWE Rawsource
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
- United Statesus · shazam · 3 cities#66#24#66
- Uruguayuy · shazam#161#161#161
- South Koreakr · deezer#90#90—
- Australiaau · shazam spotify · 1 city#157#49#157
- Micronesiafm · applemusic#22#22—
- New Zealandnz · spotify#190#127#190
- Algeriadz · deezer#94#94—
- Irelandie · deezer#14#14—
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#33#26#33
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.
- us 3 cities · best #24 houston
- au 1 city · best #49 brisbane
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Editions
No published edition carries this song yet. Every edition it appears in will be listed here and stay listed: an edition is immutable, so a citation to one never rots.
Identity
- ISRC
- USCN17800055
- Slug
- kenny-rogers__the-gambler
- Sources
- applemusic, deezer, shazam, spotify
The cross-platform join key, via Deezer.
Crude v0 identity: slug(artist)__slug(title).
Every source whose chart has ever carried this song.
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