Bam Bam

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

Sister Nancy's 1982 track "Bam Bam" is widely cited as the most-sampled reggae record ever, with WhoSampled logging over 150 uses by artists including Beyoncé, Lauryn Hill, Alicia Keys and Ariana Grande, which keeps it in permanent catalog rotation rather than tied to any single new event. [1] Its two highest-profile hip-hop borrowings are Kanye West's "Famous" featuring Rihanna and JAY-Z's "Bam" from 4:44, both of which lift Nancy's chorus directly. [2] Alison Duke's documentary "Bam Bam: The Sister Nancy Story," which premiered at Tribeca in 2024, continued its festival run through 2025 with a screening at the Trinidad+Tobago Film Festival, sustaining press coverage of the song. [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.

• Sampled by Beyoncé, Hold Upsource
• Sampled by DJ Fuzz & Malique, Khayal Bam Bamsource
• Sampled by Groove Armada, Fogmasource
• Sampled by Kanye West, Famoussource
• Sampled by Shādz of Lingo, Different Stylezsource
• Written by Sister Nancysource
• Written by Toots Hibbertsource
• Written by Winston Rileysource
• Sampled by 随喜とゆ〜きゅ〜, ケツメドbambamsource

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. Tunisiatn · shazam2026-07-302026-08-29#1914#185
   #191
3. Costa Ricacr · shazam2026-08-072026-10-26#17848#33
   #178
4. El Salvadorsv · deezer2026-08-092026-08-09#11#1
   —
5. Mexicomx · shazam2026-08-122026-09-02#17511#103
   #175
6. United Statesus · shazam · 48 cities2026-08-142026-10-17#19139#6
   #191
7. Francefr · shazam · 7 cities2026-08-222026-09-26#17921#1
   #179
8. Switzerlandch · shazam2026-08-222026-10-10#18724#5
   #187
9. Hungaryhu · shazam2026-08-222026-10-15#19824#5
   #198
10. Show all 46 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 · shazam2026-07-202026-11-02#192#1
   #1
3. Global feedglobal · tiktok2026-10-092026-10-22#436#38
   #43

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. us 48 cities · best #9 tampa
2. gb 8 cities · best #17 brighton
3. ca 7 cities · best #19 london
4. fr 7 cities · best #28 nantes
5. au 2 cities · best #30 perth
6. br 2 cities · best #17 sao paulo
7. de 2 cities · best #48 munich
8. ar 1 city · best #20 buenos aires
9. il 1 city · best #43 tel aviv
10. no 1 city · best #48 oslo
11. pt 1 city · best #30 lisbon

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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.