Blue Monday

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

The 12-inch used an Emulator 1 sampler, sampling choir sounds from Kraftwerk's "Uranium" and even the band's own flatulence and sneezes as they learned the machine. [1] Its packaging was a die-cut sleeve designed by Peter Saville and Brett Wickens to resemble a 5.25-inch floppy disk, so expensive to produce that Factory Records lost money on every copy sold. [2] It is cited as the best-selling 12-inch single in history, with UK sales of 1.16 million copies across all formats. [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.

• Written by Bernard Sumnersource
• Remixed by Cosmos, Kylie's New Chickensource
• Sampled by Electroset, How Does It Feel? (Theme From Techno Blues) (original mix)source
• Covered Flipside feat. Liva Akselbosource
• Covered Flipsidesource
• Covered Flunksource
• Covered Franco Saint De Bakkersource
• Written by Gillian Gilbertsource
• Covered Gregoriansource
• Samples Kraftwerk, Uransource
• Remixed by New Order & Richie Hawtin, Blue Monday (Hawtin mix – alternate version 2)source
• Remixed by New Order, Blue Monday (Hardfloor dub)source
• Remixed by New Order, Blue Monday (Indecent Noise remix)source
• Remixed by New Order, Blue Monday (Plutone mix)source
• Remixed by New Order, Blue Monday (Richie Hawtin mix)source
• Remixed by New Order, Blue Monday (Starwash mix)source
• Remixed by New Order, Blue Monday (Virgin Magnetic Material remix)source
• Remixed by New Order, Blue Monday 1988 (12″ mix)source
• Covered Nouvelle Vaguesource
• Covered Orgysource
• Written by Peter Hooksource
• Covered Peter Hook & the Lightsource
• Sampled by Rihanna, Shut Up and Drivesource
• Written by Stephen Morrissource
• Covered Swan Leesource
• Covered The Cascadessource
• Sampled by Trevor Something, Come Back Downsource
• Covered Vitamin String Quartetsource
• Covered Wave in Headsource

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.

1. MarketFirst seenLatestDaysPeakRank path
2. Irelandie · shazam2026-07-272026-10-27#19011#121
   #190
3. New Zealandnz · shazam2026-07-292026-10-24#1934#136
   #193
4. Denmarkdk · shazam · 1 city2026-09-162026-10-28#407#39
   #40
5. Australiaau · shazam2026-09-162026-09-22#837#68
   #83
6. Belgiumbe · shazam2026-09-162026-10-28#18413#89
   #184
7. Argentinaar · shazam2026-09-162026-10-28#1876#155
   #187
8. Croatiahr · shazam2026-09-172026-10-24#13017#83
   #130
9. United Kingdomgb · shazam2026-09-192026-10-15#9821#68
   #98
10. Show all 13 markets

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 seenLatestDaysPeakRank path
2. World feedworld · shazam2026-10-112026-10-28#17714#169
   #177

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. dk 1 city · best #39 copenhagen
2. es 1 city · best #41 barcelona

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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.