Stayin' Alive

 

The Bee Gees wrote and performed "Stayin' Alive" for the Saturday Night Fever motion picture soundtrack. The song was released in 1977 as the second single from the soundtrack to the film Saturday Night Fever. Albhy Galuten and Karl Richardson collaborated on the song's production. It's one of the Bee Gees' most well-known tunes. "Stayin' Alive" was ranked No. 189 on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time list in 2004. "Stayin' Alive" was ranked No. 99 on the new Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Songs list in 2021. It was named No. 9 on the AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs poll of top movie songs in 2004. It was rated fifth in "The Nation's Favorite Bee Gees Song" in a UK television poll on ITV in December 2011.

"Stayin' Alive" climbed the charts quickly after its debut, reaching number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for four weeks in a row on February 4, 1978. As a result, it became one of the band's most well-known songs, thanks in part to its inclusion in the opening credits of Saturday Night Fever. It was the second of six consecutive number-one singles in the United States, tying the Beatles for the most consecutive number ones in the country at the time (a record broken by Whitney Houston who achieved seven consecutive number-ones).

"Stayin' Alive" was utilized in a study to teach medical workers how to conduct CPR with the proper number of chest compressions per minute. The music is close to 104 beats per minute, while the British Heart Foundation and the Resuscitation Council recommend 100–120 chest compressions per minute (UK). A study of medical professionals discovered that thinking about "Stayin' Alive" improves the quality of CPR. The song was imitated in the Season 5 episode "Stress Relief" of the comedy series The Office, and it was featured in a season 11 episode of the medical drama Grey's Anatomy in 2015.