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"Dancing in the City"
Single by Marshall Hain
from the album Free Ride
B-side"Take My Number"
ReleasedMay 1978
GenrePop
Length3:47
LabelHarvest
Songwriter(s)Julian Marshall
Kit Hain
Producer(s)Christopher Neil
Marshall Hain singles chronology
"Dancing in the City"
(1978) 		"Coming Home"
(1978)
Music video
"Dancing in the City" (TopPop, 1978) on YouTube

"Dancing in the City" is a song by British pop-rock duo Marshall Hain, which was a No.3 hit in the UK in 1978. On its first release it spent fifteen weeks in the UK charts. It was a massive hit in South Africa, reaching the No.1 position on 3 November 1978, and holding that position for three weeks on the Springbok Charts. A re-mixed version released in 1987 reached No.81 on the UK charts.

Charts

Weekly charts

Chart (1978–1979) Peak
position
Australia (Kent Music Report) 3
Austria (Ö3 Austria Top 40) 6
Belgium (Ultratop 50 Flanders) 7
Netherlands (Dutch Top 40) 7
Netherlands (Single Top 100) 14
New Zealand (Recorded Music NZ) 15
South Africa (EMA) 1
Sweden (Sverigetopplistan) 7
Switzerland (Schweizer Hitparade) 4
UK Singles (OCC) 3
US Billboard Hot 100 43
US Adult Contemporary (Billboard) 33
West Germany (GfK) 1

Year-end charts

Chart (1978) Position
Australia (Kent Music Report) 26
Belgium (Ultratop Flanders) 60
Netherlands (Dutch Top 40) 61
Switzerland (Schweizer Hitparade) 29
West Germany (Official German Charts) 29

"Dancin' in the City '87"

Chart (1987) Peak
position
UK Singles (OCC) 81

References

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  2. "Dancin' in the city | full Official Chart History | Official Charts Company". Official Charts.
  3. Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 192. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.
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  10. "Marshall, Hain – Dancing in the City". Singles Top 100. Retrieved 11 October 2021.
  11. "Marshall, Hain – Dancing in the City". Swiss Singles Chart. Retrieved 11 October 2021.
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  13. "Marshall Hain". 21 December 2019. Retrieved 3 May 2022.
  14. "Marshall Hain Chart History (Adult Contemporary)". Billboard. Retrieved 7 December 2019.
  15. "Offiziellecharts.de – Dancing in the City" (in German). GfK Entertainment charts. Retrieved 21 January 2021.
  16. "Kent Music Report No 236 – 1 January 1979 > National Top 100 Singles for 1978". Kent Music Report. Retrieved 8 January 2022 – via Imgur.com.
  17. "Jaaroverzichten 1978". Ultratop. Retrieved 11 October 2021.
  18. "Top 100-Jaaroverzicht van 1978". Dutch Top 40. Retrieved 11 October 2021.
  19. "Schweizer Jahreshitparade 1978". hitparade.ch. Retrieved 11 October 2021.
  20. "Top 100 Single-Jahrescharts". GfK Entertainment (in German). offiziellecharts.de. Retrieved 11 October 2021.
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