Spirit In The Sky

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 song grew out of a home recording experiment—Greenbaum's Telecaster was run through a fuzz-tone circuit powered by a dying 9-volt battery to create its signature distorted guitar sound, backed by the gospel hand percussion and vocals of the Stovall Sisters. [1] It's considered one of the earliest examples of boogie rock, blending blues, gospel and hard rock, and John Lennon told Rolling Stone in his 1970 Lennon Remembers interview that he liked the song. [2] The original recording has since been used in films including Apollo 13, Guardians of the Galaxy, Ocean's Eleven and Suicide Squad, and in television ads for Kellogg's and Nike. [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 Bauhaussource
• Covered Brocket 99source
• Covered dc Talksource
• Covered Doctor and the Medicssource
• Covered Gareth Gates feat. The Kumarssource
• Covered Gareth Gates with special guests The Kumarssource
• Covered Larry Normansource
• Covered Nina Hagensource
• Written by Norman Greenbaumsource
• Covered The Blind Boys of Alabamasource
• Covered The Cheaterssource
• Covered The Loserssource
• Covered The Starlite Orchestrasource

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. United Statesus · shazam · 1 city2026-07-202026-07-23#474#40
   #47
3. Denmarkdk · shazam2026-08-202026-10-07#15214#53
   #152
4. Belgiumbe · shazam2026-09-162026-09-19#1304#95
   #130
5. Netherlandsnl · shazam · 5 cities2026-10-052026-10-12#1468#5
   #146

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. nl 5 cities · best #13 the hague
2. us 1 city · best #40 orlando

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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.