Song

Every Breath You Take

Key: Ab major
Camelot: 4B
BPM: 117.3

Key confidence high · relative F minor (4A) · BPM confidence high · half-time 58.6 · measured from the full recording · 2026-09-12 · essentia.js@2.1-beta6-dev

The recording is tuned near 451 Hz, not A440.

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As of 2026-09-20, "Every Breath You Take" by The Police has charted in 67 markets across 5 platforms, peaking at #13 (AT) on the Rotation chart. Measured from the full recording, it reads Ab major (4B) at 117.3 BPM.

Markets: 67
First seen: 2026-06-17
Latest chart date: 2026-09-20
Peak: #13 at

Started in 35 markets, now in 67.

Why it's moving

Plays up 7% in El Salvador, with gains across 3 marketsSep 3–8
Shazam's #60 across 13 marketsSep 9
Climbed #154 → #107 in the USSep 5–8
Climbing faster in the US: 19.5 places a day, up from 8 places a daySep 5–8
Climbed #187 → #166 in BrazilSep 5–8
Climbed #89 → #56 in GermanySep 5–8

Signal breakdown

Velocity59.8

Play growth33.3

Breadth38.4

Acceleration63.1

Discovery57.0

New entry0.0

Sources moving4

Score 49.9

Why it's here

The song spent eight weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1983 and was that year's top-ranked single, giving it permanent catalog standing rather than a new-news standing. [1] The song stayed in music news through 2026 as Andy Summers and Stewart Copeland's royalties claim against Sting was heard at London's High Court, with reports in January 2026 that Sting had paid his former Police bandmates more than $800,000 since the suit was filed. [2] Sting continued to perform the song live in 2026 on his Sting 3.0 trio tour, with venues billing "Every Breath You Take" among the hits in the set. [3]

stapleDrafted 2026-09-01Confidence 0.45

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 Dolly Parton with Sting2023source
On the show The Blacklist source
On the show The Sopranos source
Written by Sting source
Covered Phil Collins & Sting source
Covered Sting & Phil Collins source
Covered Sting source
Covered Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band with Sting source
On the show Stranger Things source
Covered Bruce Springsteen with Sting, Tracy Chapman source
Covered Sting & Bruce Springsteen source
Covered Sting feat. Bruce Springsteen source
Covered Rita Lee source
Covered Carolyn Watkinson, Ricky Koole, Karin Bloemen, Adelheid Roosen, Rocq‐E Harrell en Leoni Jansen source
Covered The Countdown Singers source
Covered The Zampoñas source
Covered Bruce Springsteen source

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 seenLatestDaysPeakRank path
Austriaat · applemusic shazam spotify2026-06-172026-09-20#3593#13
#35
Costa Ricacr · shazam spotify2026-06-172026-09-20#8492#22
#84
Chilecl · deezer shazam spotify2026-06-172026-09-20#10393#27
#103
Perupe · deezer shazam spotify · 1 city2026-06-172026-09-20#4994#29
#49
Argentinaar · deezer shazam spotify · 1 city2026-06-172026-09-20#7594#30
#75
Brazilbr · shazam spotify2026-06-172026-09-20#4586#33
#45
Spaines · shazam spotify2026-06-172026-09-20#4993#33
#49
El Salvadorsv · deezer spotify2026-06-172026-09-18#12588#33
#125

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 seenLatestDaysPeakRank path
Global feedglobal · spotify youtube2026-06-172026-09-20#13096#24
#130
World feedworld · shazam2026-07-202026-09-20#6250#56
#62

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.

us 3 cities · best #41 oklahoma city
ar 1 city · best #43 buenos aires
pe 1 city · best #29 lima

Listen

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Elsewhere

Editions

Identity

ISRC: GBAAM8300001
Slug: the-police__every-breath-you-take
Sources: applemusic, deezer, shazam, spotify, youtube

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