Gloria Gaynor - "I Will Survive" (1979)

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So weird and very shocking that I can't find a thread. One of the most memorable, biggest hits to ever come out in the 70s. From the album "Love Tracks", it peaked at #1 Hot   100, #9 A/C, #1 Dance, and #4 R&B.

In 2016, the Library of Congress deemed Gaynor's original recording to be "culturally, historically, or artistically significant" and selected it for preservation in the National Recording Registry.

VH1 ranked "I Will Survive" number one in their list of 100 Greatest Dance Songs in 2000.

Rolling Stone ranked it number 489 in their List of Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time in 2004, number 492 in 2010, and number 251 in 2021.

Billboard placed it at number 97 in their ranking of The Billboard Hot 100 All-Time Top Songs in 2008.

In 2012, "I Will Survive" was ranked number two in Rolling Stone poll of The Best Disco Songs of All Time.

The Daily Telegraph ranked it number 48 in their The 100 Greatest Songs of All Time list in November 2016.

Paste Magazine ranked the song number seven in their The 60 Best Dancefloor Classics list in 2017.

Pitchfork featured it in their list of 50 Songs That Define the Last 50 Years of LGBTQ+ Pride in 2018.

It's been later covered by other singers such as Chantay Savage, Diana Ross, and Selena.

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on Spotify it is among the biggest disco songs from the 70's . the biggest version has reached 500M streams and with other version it is over 1B streams .

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#35 on Billboard's 500 Greatest Pop Songs

If the best revenge is living well, then “I Will Survive” was disco’s Death Wish: the mighty Gloria Gaynor emptying the clip on a guy who tried to hurt her with goodbye by expressing the full force of her post-breakup flourishing. Of course, the magnitude of her response feels too strong for someone who’s really over it; nobody who’s taking that much joy in their victory lap really could be. But “Survive” remains the quintessential moving-on song because it’s not really about moving on, but rather about the moment when you know for sure that moving on is on the horizon. All that Gaynor promises is that she will survive, and delivered atop an mmm-hmming choir of strings and horns, you know she means it. — A.U.