Rosanna

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 won the Grammy Award for Record of the Year in 1983 and was also nominated for Song of the Year. [1] It is known for the half-time shuffle drum pattern Jeff Porcaro created, which became a staple of drum repertoire known as the 'Rosanna shuffle', and for production widely regarded as among the best-mastered recordings. [2] Its music video, directed by Steve Barron and inspired by West Side Story, featured Cynthia Rhodes as lead dancer, a role that led to her casting in Staying Alive, and included an uncredited appearance by Patrick Swayze, with whom she later co-starred in Dirty Dancing. [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.

• Written by David Paichsource
• Covered Emmerson Nogueirasource
• Covered Shining Furysource
• Covered Bobby Kimballsource
• Covered Munich Symphonic Sound Orchestrasource
• Covered Vocaldentesource
• Covered World Classic Rockerssource
• Covered Weezersource
• Covered Bonfiresource
• Covered 8-Bit Arcadesource
• Covered Alice Leesource
• Covered Dewa 19 feat. Jeff Scott Sotosource
• Covered ARRAsource
• Remixed by Toto, Rosanna (Coyote edit)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 1 other handle of this record (remasters, official videos).

1. MarketFirst seenLatestDaysPeakRank path
2. Ecuadorec · deezer2026-08-072026-09-15#452#45
   #45
3. New Zealandnz · shazam2026-08-132026-10-20#1959#150
   #195
4. Venezuelave · deezer2026-08-302026-08-30#761#76
   —
5. Solomon Islandssb · applemusic2026-09-122026-09-12#441#44
   —
6. United Statesus · shazam · 1 city2026-09-252026-09-30#476#25
   #47
7. Tunisiatn · applemusic2026-09-302026-10-01#302#30
   #30
8. Costa Ricacr · deezer2026-10-082026-10-08#41#4
   —
9. Latvialv · deezer2026-10-122026-10-12#391#39
   —
10. Show all 11 markets

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 1 city · best #25 charlotte

Listen

• Deezer ↗

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.