We're Not Gonna Take It
Twisted Sister
- Key
- E major
- Camelot
- 12B
- BPM
- 149.6
Key confidence high · relative C# minor (12A) · BPM confidence medium · half-time 74.8 · measured from the full recording · 2026-09-13
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As of 2026-10-22, "We're Not Gonna Take It" by Twisted Sister has charted in 5 markets across 2 platforms, peaking at #10 (SG) on the Rotation chart. Measured from the full recording, it reads E major (12B) at 149.6 BPM.
- Markets
- 5
- First seen
- 2026-07-20
- Latest chart date
- 2026-10-22
- Peak
- #10 sg
Started in 1 market, now in 5.
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
It reached No. 21 on the Billboard Hot 100, making it Twisted Sister's only Top 40 single in the US. [1] The Parents Music Resource Center included it on its 'Filthy Fifteen' list in 1985 for alleged violent content, a criticism Dee Snider publicly repudiated. [2] Its music video features Mark Metcalf reprising his Animal House character as the tyrannical father, and the song's ending borrows lines from that same film. [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 Children of Bodomsource
- Written by Dee Snidersource
- Covered Deftonessource
- Covered Disciplinesource
- Remixed by DJ Cummerbund, No Take Itsource
- Covered Donotssource
- Covered Hairstorm 84source
- Covered Less Than Jakesource
- Covered Long Ashton Pantomimesource
- Covered Nancy Vandalsource
- Covered Rebecca Frazier, John Frazier, Travis Book and Chris Pandolfisource
- Covered Russell Brand and Catherine Zeta‐Jonessource
- Covered Scarlet Aurasource
- Covered Sweetpeasource
- Covered The Whosource
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 · 2 cities#50#31#50
- Ecuadorec · deezer#83#64#83
- Czechiacz · deezer#86#86—
- Singaporesg · deezer#21#10#21
- Japanjp · deezer#97#85#97
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 2 cities · best #31 oklahoma city
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Editions
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Identity
- ISRC
- USAT20000548
- Slug
- twisted-sister__we-re-not-gonna-take-it
- Sources
- deezer, shazam
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