The Boys Are Back In Town
Thin Lizzy
- Key
- Ab major
- Camelot
- 4B
- BPM
- 81.5
Key confidence high · relative F minor (4A) · BPM confidence medium · double-time 162.9 · measured from the full recording · 2026-09-13
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As of 2026-08-22, "The Boys Are Back In Town" by Thin Lizzy has charted in 1 market across 1 platform, peaking at #27 (US) on the Rotation chart. Measured from the full recording, it reads Ab major (4B) at 81.5 BPM.
- Markets
- 1
- First seen
- 2026-08-16
- Latest chart date
- 2026-08-22
- Peak
- #27 us
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 was ranked No. 272 on Rolling Stone's 2021 list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time, and Rolling Stone praised Phil Lynott's 'Gaelic soul' vocal and the twin-guitar lead by Scott Gorham and Brian Robertson as crucial to the song's success. [1] Q magazine placed it at No. 38 on its list of the 100 Greatest Guitar Tracks, and it won a 1976 NME Award for Best Single. [2] Guitarist Scott Gorham credited the song's unexpected radio push in Louisville, Kentucky as what kickstarted sales of the Jailbreak album and, in his view, kept the band from breaking up. [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 Ashsource
- Covered Everclearsource
- Covered Happy Mondayssource
- Covered Iron Maiden feat. Marillionsource
- Covered Mutoid Man + Ben Weinmansource
- Written by Phil Lynottsource
- Covered Phil Lynottsource
- Covered PUP with The Dirty Nil & Pkew Pkew Pkewsource
- Covered The Avett Brotherssource
- Covered The Mountain Goats With Pony Upsource
- Covered The Mountain Goatssource
- Covered Vineyard Soundsource
- Covered Wilcosource
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.
- MarketFirst seenPeak
- United Statesus · shazam · 1 city#41#27#41
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 1 city · best #27 orlando
Listen
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Editions
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Identity
- ISRC
- GBF087600063
- Slug
- thin-lizzy__the-boys-are-back-in-town
- Sources
- shazam
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Every source whose chart has ever carried this song.
What moved this week, and why.
The records that climbed, what broke in one place first, what came back. One email on Friday, assembled from the week's charts, with a pressing when there is one.
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