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As of 2026-07-20, "Chicago" by Michael Jackson has charted in 79 markets across 5 platforms, peaking at #2 (HN) on the Rotation chart.

Markets
79
First seen
2026-06-17
Latest chart date
2026-09-04
Peak
#2 hn

Started in 27 markets, now in 79.

Why it's moving

  • Plays up 6% in Germany, with gains across 24 markets
  • Shazam's #8 across 8 marketsJul 20
  • Turned around in Brazil: was slipping 6.5 places a day, now climbing 4 places a dayJul 13–17
  • Climbed #152 → #122 in ChileJul 13–17
  • Climbing faster in Chile: 11.5 places a day, up from 3.5 places a dayJul 13–17
  • Climbed #130 → #101 in NorwayJul 13–17
Signal breakdown
Velocity62.8
Play growth9.5
Breadth70.9
Acceleration54.5
Discovery56.3
New entry0.0
Sources moving4

Score 58.9

Why it's here

"Chicago" is a track from Michael Jackson's 2014 posthumous album Xscape, built from a vocal Jackson recorded at New York's Hit Factory in 1999 during the Invincible sessions and reworked by Timbaland; it was never issued as a commercial single. [1] Antoine Fuqua's Jackson biopic "Michael," starring Jaafar Jackson, opened in US theaters on April 24, 2026 after a Berlin premiere on April 10, 2026. [2] Variety reported in 2026 that the biopic's success — past $700 million worldwide — sent Jackson's catalog back up the streaming charts and lifted "Chicago" into the top 30 of US Spotify and the top 100 of YouTube's US Top Songs, even though the song does not appear in the film. [3]

filmDrafted 2026-09-01Confidence 0.78

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 1 other handle of this record (remasters, official videos).

  1. MarketFirst seenPeak
  2. Kazakhstankz · applemusic shazam spotify#11
  3. New Zealandnz · applemusic shazam spotify#13
  4. United Statesus · applemusic shazam spotify#15
  5. Estoniaee · deezer spotify#26
  6. Latvialv · applemusic spotify#26
  7. Costa Ricacr · deezer spotify#28
  8. Perupe · deezer shazam spotify#29
  9. Saudi Arabiasa · applemusic deezer spotify#33

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 · spotify youtube#21
  3. World feedworld · shazam#8

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. ru 1 city · best #48 saint petersburg

Listen

YouTube
Apple Music
Elsewhere

Editions

  1. 2026-07-20Chart-only edition#40
  2. 2026-07-19Chart-only edition#24

Identity

ISRC
USSM11401745

The cross-platform join key, via Deezer.

Slug
michael-jackson__chicago

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

Sources
applemusic, deezer, shazam, spotify, youtube

Every source whose chart has ever carried this song.

The weekly pressing

A new pressing every week.

The records moving and what moved them, plus the occasional note about something we have built.

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