Smooth Operator
Sade
- Key
- D minor
- Camelot
- 7A
- BPM
- 120.2
Key confidence medium · relative F major (7B) · BPM confidence medium · half-time 60.1 · measured from the full recording · 2026-09-13 · essentia.js@2.1-beta6-dev
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"Smooth Operator" by Sade has charted in 35 markets across 3 platforms, peaking at #7 (KE) on the Rotation chart. Measured from the full recording, it reads D minor (7A) at 120.2 BPM.
- Markets
- 35
- First seen
- 2026-07-20
- Latest chart date
- 2026-09-19
- Peak
- #7 ke
Started in 2 markets, now in 35.
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.
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 Sade Adusource
- Written by Raymond St. Johnsource
- Covered Lester Bowie’s Brass Fantasysource
- Covered Joo Kraus & Tales in Tones Triosource
- Covered Girl Crisissource
- Covered Free the Spiritsource
- Covered Sanne Salomonsensource
- Covered Señor Coconut and His Orchestrasource
- Covered baSixsource
- Covered Ten Masked Mensource
- Covered Mongo Santamaríasource
- Covered Señor Coconut & His Orchestrasource
- Covered Laurent Voulzysource
- Covered Gee Gee & Solunasource
- Sampled by Big Dipper Feat. Roy Kinsey, Loverboysource
- Written by Sade Adusource
- Written by Raymond St. Johnsource
- Covered Lester Bowie’s Brass Fantasysource
- Covered Joo Kraus & Tales in Tones Triosource
- Covered Girl Crisissource
- Covered Free the Spiritsource
- Covered Sanne Salomonsensource
- Covered Señor Coconut and His Orchestrasource
- Covered baSixsource
- Covered Ten Masked Mensource
- Covered Mongo Santamaríasource
- Covered Señor Coconut & His Orchestrasource
- Covered Laurent Voulzysource
- Covered Gee Gee & Solunasource
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).
- MarketFirst seenPeak
- Thailandth · deezer#81#47#81
- Armeniaam · applemusic#81#68#81
- Tunisiatn · applemusic deezer#93#22#93
- Lebanonlb · deezer#68#54#68
- Georgiage · applemusic#96#70#96
- Turkmenistantm · applemusic#66#66—
- Costa Ricacr · deezer shazam#63#10#63
- Maldivesmv · applemusic#96#88#96
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#195#187#195
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Editions
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Identity
- ISRC
- GBBBM8400006
- Slug
- sade__smooth-operator
- Sources
- applemusic, deezer, shazam
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Crude v0 identity: slug(artist)__slug(title).
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